Bullets and Bell Towers

St. Orsino College has been washing mafia money for ninety years. It calls this an endowment. Kit Aurelio rings the chapel bell for family funerals to pay off his mother's debt. Ori Castellan is here because his family buried his brother and needed somewhere to put him. They meet at 2 a.m. in the bell tower, both trespassing, both lying. The Dean catches them and offers a deal: keep the bell ringing, keep the Castellans calm, keep the Delanes off campus. Neither of them has a choice. By winter they are sharing a room, sharing a bed, and lying to their own families about it. Then Ori's uncle orders Kit to pull a trigger, and Kit has to decide which betrayal he can live with. A dark MM college mafia romance about bullets, bells, and the tuition nobody pays.