For anyone who was told the evidence was lost. It wasn’t. Iris Langley is a brilliant, relentless doctoral candidate who just wrote the most important thesis of her career—a devastating exposé on sixty years of institutional corruption and suppressed legal evidence. Dashiell Severin is a disgraced former archivist, exiled to a hidden warehouse filled with classified documents. He knows exactly how dangerous Iris's research is, because the secret society she is exposing is the same one that destroyed his career. To protect her from a system designed to crush anyone who gets too close, Dashiell makes an unthinkable decision: he steals and buries her thesis in the dead files. When Iris tracks him down in a furious demand for answers, she uncovers a conspiracy much deeper than a stolen manuscript. Forced into a tense, secret collaboration in his dimly lit warehouse, their adversarial relationship morphs into a fierce, protective, and intoxicating attraction. But the Vesper Key Society is watching, and exposing the truth might cost them more than just their careers. The Thesis He Buried Alive is a slow-burn, high-stakes Dark Academia thriller where the most dangerous secrets are the ones buried in the archives—and the ones they keep from each other.