Elena Williams is the perfect student. Raised by overprotective parents, she arrives at college to study forensic science—eager to impress, excel, and follow the rules. But when she catches the eye of Marcus Thorne, her mysterious older neighbor, Elena steps into a world of forbidden obsession and fatal desire.

As young women begin disappearing, Elena realizes the truth: Marcus is a serial killer. But instead of turning him in, she becomes fascinated—then complicit. Drawn deeper into his darkness, Elena uses her forensic training to help cover his tracks. What begins as academic curiosity becomes dangerous erotic fixation.

Haunted by a craving she can’t explain, Elena discovers a chilling truth about herself: she doesn’t just want Marcus.

She wants to be his final victim.

The Perfect Student is a dark psychological thriller with elements of serial killer romance, autassassinophilia, and forensic obsession. Written in intimate first-person present, it is a slow descent into complicity, desire, and the erotic allure of annihilation. Not for the faint of heart.