Stalked to the Altar: Dark Academia, Family Secrets, and the Forbidden Man Watching Her Too Closely.
- authorselenamichae
- 2 days ago
- 3 min read
Some love stories don’t begin with flowers or flirty banter.
They begin in the aftermath of grief, inside lecture halls where eyes linger too long, and in the quiet unraveling of a girl who’s been through too much to be soft anymore.
In Stalked to the Altar, readers meet a heroine who isn’t just carrying books into class—she’s carrying a legacy. A legacy of trauma, silence, and survival. She’s smart, she’s plus-sized, and she’s determined to make something of herself, not because the world told her she could—but because her father died believing she would.
This is a dark romance built on secrets. A story where grief lingers in the walls, and the professor watching her from across the room is hiding more than a curriculum.
A Heroine with Brains, Curves, and Unfinished Grief
She’s not your typical college romance lead.
She’s a second-chance student at an elite HBCU, doing everything she can to outrun the day her sister and father were taken from her—both gone in one violent, unanswered moment.
Now she’s chasing the version of herself her dad always believed in.
Focused. Disciplined. Unshakable.
But she’s also a girl raised in silence.
A girl who knows what it feels like to be watched—closely.
A girl who’s smart enough to recognize when something’s not right.
Especially when that “something” is the professor who won’t stop looking at her like he already knows she doesn’t belong in the light.
A Forbidden Romance Built on Power, Secrets, and Obsession
He’s not just her professor.
He’s a man with a history no résumé could cover. A former mafia heir exiled from the only family he’s ever known. Now, he hides in academia—teaching political theory while pretending his hands are clean.
Until she walks into his class.
She’s the first person in years to make him forget the rules. The first person he can’t control his thoughts around. The first student he’s ever watched this closely—and not because she’s in danger, but because she feels like it.
He doesn’t want to want her.
But obsession never asks permission.
A Family Legacy She Can’t Escape
While she builds her new life, one truth follows her everywhere: something is deeply wrong at home.
Her mother is emotionally unwell. Her uncle is always too close, too calm, too… careful. He was there the day her sister died. He was there when her father was found. And no one has ever looked at him twice.
Except her.
Every instinct she has tells her he’s not innocent. But no one listens to the girl who survived.
No one except the professor who was raised to eliminate threats.
Why This Book Belongs on Your Dark Romance Shelf
Stalked to the Altar blends the slow-burn tension of dark academia with the dangerous heat of a forbidden mafia romance. It’s a love story that unfolds through grief, obsession, secrets, and the unraveling of two people who were never meant to meet—but now can’t let go.
What you’ll find inside:
A fiercely intelligent, plus-sized Black heroine carrying generational trauma
A forbidden romance between a college professor and his student
A hidden mafia heir navigating exile, obsession, and redemption
A campus setting full of secrets, suspicion, and stolen glances
Tension that simmers with danger, longing, and the urge to destroy everything to feel something real
Who This Book Is For
If you’ve searched for:
“Dark academia romance with a Black heroine”
“Professor-student forbidden romance with emotional depth”
“Mafia heir romance with hidden identities”
“College suspense romance with a heroine in survival mode”
“Books like The Sweetest Oblivion or Vicious—but more diverse and psychologically twisted”
Then Stalked to the Altar will leave its mark.
Read the Romance That Never Should Have Happened
Stalked to the Altar is available now on Amazon.
Click below to meet the professor who sees everything she hides—and the woman who makes him want to protect what he’s never been allowed to have.
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