Red Ink

By Lisa Briley

She found the error Hes the only one who believes her

Clare Halsey has always been the girl who does everything right Shes a second year chemistry PhD student at Haddon College and shes working in the lab of a celebrated scientist whose new painkiller is about to make history The last thing she wants is to spend her fall semester as a teaching assistant for Professor Martin Hale

Hale grades in red ink makes premeds cry and keeps his office in the basement of the oldest building on campus Everyone says hes bitter Everyone says hes cruel Everyone says he has a grudge

Then Clare finds five numbers that dont fit Five rats Five damaged livers Five sets of slides that disappeared before anyone could read them

The only person who doesnt tell her shes imagining it is the man she was warned about

As the leaves fall and the evidence mounts Clare learns that the truth has a cost and that Martin Hale has been paying it for twenty years But he signs her evaluations and he wont let himself want her Not while he holds her future in his hands

Some data is buried Some people dig

A slow burn grumpy professor romance full of autumn secrets and second chances for fans of dark academia and forbidden love.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HPBTPC6Q
• ISBN13: 9798165498725
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"