At Camelot University, legends and monsters are built under stadium lights.
Merlin doesn’t belong here. He’s the scholarship kid in a world ruled by legacy bloodlines, where survival means staying quiet, useful, and unseen. Dating Lancelot, Camelot’s golden boy, was supposed to keep him safe. It wasn’t protection. It was a cage.
Arthur Pendragon has never questioned his place—quarterback, captain, campus royalty. Control is second nature to him until he notices Merlin. The flinches. The bruises. The fear everyone else ignores.
Watching becomes fixation. Protection curdles into possession.
When power shifts, and lines are crossed, Merlin must choose between the cage that breaks him and the one that keeps him.
In this dark, modern Camelot retelling, knights don’t rescue. They claim. And kings don’t ask for what they want—they take it.
Short author bio
MC Perry is a romance author, professional overthinker, and unapologetic sucker for morally grey men with too many issues and not nearly enough boundaries. She writes stories that bring the heat—and heroines who can throw a punch and a punchline. If you’re into brooding alphas, sharp-tongued leads, emotional chaos, and spice that flirts with recklessness, you’ve just found your next obsession.
MC lives on the East Coast with her high school sweetheart and their two wildly wonderful kids, who keep life delightfully chaotic. When she’s not writing, she’s probably dodging responsibilities with a book in one hand and a glass of wine in the other, plotting the next story guaranteed to wreck you in all the right ways.
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