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After dying from cancer, Hadley wakes up at an afterlife academy where souls train under supernatural mentors. When students begin turning up permanently dead, she must rely on her four guides to uncover the conspiracy threatening them all.

You'll like it if you enjoy

  • A sarcastic, humorously crude heroine
  • A reverse harem of supernatural guardians
  • Afterlife academy worldbuilding
  • High-steam romance mixed with mystery

Good to know

  • Reverse harem romance and explicit sexual scenes
  • Book one ends on a major cliffhanger
  • A few unresolved plot holes remain

How it ends: Readers appreciate the unhurried finale and its romantic payoff, though a few point out lingering plot holes.

Tags

  • Female Lead
  • Harem
  • Fast Paced
  • Academy
  • Unique Magic System
  • Explicit Content

Reading order

  1. Cover for Dearly Departed: A Reverse Harem Academy Romance (Afterworld Academy Book 1)

    Book 1: Dearly Departed: A Reverse Harem Academy Romance

    308 pages2019

    Dying was only the beginning. In Dearly Departed, passing away earns a ticket straight to Afterworld Academy, an elite boarding school where freshly departed souls train to manage the afterlife. Between flight classes, weaponry, and field trips to Hell, things turn lethal when souls start turning up truly dead. To uncover the sinister truth threatening her new existence, she must team up with four wickedly alluring mentors—a demon, an angel, a reaper, and a ghost who make eternity dangerously tempting.

  2. Cover for Darkness Deceives: A Reverse Harem Academy Romance (Afterworld Academy Book 2)

    Book 2: Darkness Deceives: A Reverse Harem Academy Romance

    302 pages2020

    Dying was terrifying, but what comes next is worse. In Darkness Deceives, a malevolent entity known as the Darkness claims her as an unwilling vessel, draining the essence from innocent souls while twisting reality inside her mind. As the sinister power within her surges, she struggles to tell truth from illusion. Her devoted mentors—Braxton, Karston, Auston, and Preston—fight fiercely to rescue her, but breaking the grip of an ancient evil might require a price higher than any of them can bear.

  3. Cover for Defying Destiny : A Reverse Harem Academy Romance (Afterworld Academy Book 3)

    Book 3: Defying Destiny : A Reverse Harem Academy Romance

    262 pages2021

    Some fates are far worse than death. In Defying Destiny, chaos reigns after a brutal attack leaves her soul shattered and her essence locked in a cage deep within the underworld. To reclaim what was stolen, she must journey alongside her fierce protectors through the seven treacherous layers of Hell. Facing lethal trials and Caius’s insidious prison, she and her lovers must fight against impossible odds to save her existence and defy their ultimate fate before everything crumbles to dust.

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