Crave (Part 2 of 2)

Grace didn't ask to be uprooted from her old life and dropped into Katmere Academy, a remote school perched at the edge of Alaska where the students are anything but ordinary. Surrounded by factions of supernatural beings who make no secret of their contempt for her, she's already an outsider — until Jaxon Vega pulls her into his orbit. A vampire who shut himself off from feeling anything for a century, Jaxon is dangerous in ways Grace can't fully measure, yet the broken parts of him mirror something shattered in her. The closer she gets to understanding him, the more she suspects her arrival at Katmere wasn't accidental — and that she may have been positioned there as a weapon someone else plans to use.

Tracy Wolff writes with the kind of propulsive momentum that makes it genuinely difficult to set the book down. The romance unfolds through charged silences and withheld truths rather than easy declarations, building tension that feels earned. Wolff balances the gothic atmosphere of an isolated, snow-locked academy against a thoroughly contemporary heroine's voice — sharp, self-aware, occasionally funny — giving the supernatural stakes an emotional grounding that keeps the story anchored even when the world around Grace grows increasingly strange.