The Choosing (The Wardens #1)

He watches. He waits. He claims.

She never agreed to be protected. He was never supposed to want her back.

Josie Calloway has spent three years at Ashgrave University staying careful, quiet, and grateful for a scholarship she’s terrified someone will decide she doesn’t deserve.

Then the Covenant, the secret society that actually runs this university, reads her name into a four hundred year old ledger and assigns her a guardian she never asked for.

Declan Ravenscroft didn’t want the assignment either. Legacy blood, three centuries of family standing, a duty he’s supposed to perform without ever letting it become personal. He breaks that rule in the first week.

Someone doesn’t want Josie looking too closely at her own mother’s history at this university.

They’re willing to forge a crime to make her disappear before she finds it.

The provost who signed her name into that ledger wants her gone for reasons of his own.

Every step closer to the truth costs Declan more of the standing his family spent three centuries protecting.

Josie has spent her whole life treating everything good as borrowed. She’s done being careful with the one thing she’s finally decided is hers.

A dark, jealous, over the top college romance with a heroine who fights for herself, a secret society that watches everything, and a claiming neither of them saw coming.

Book 1 of The Wardens, standalone in a shared world, best enjoyed in order.