Bancroft University Chronicles: Book 1
Publication Date: November 7, 2025
You know that guy you fell for at sixteen—the one who vanished without explanation, leaving behind enough damage to last years? Now imagine being forced into an engagement with him because your parents decided you’re more useful as leverage than as a daughter.
And the part he forgot to mention? He’s heir to a Bratva empire with blood on its hands.
That’s Emilia’s life. Her future is not her own, and her fiancé, Nikolai Volkov, is a man whose silence is more dangerous than his words. Their past is a wound. Their engagement is a threat. And what grows between them is something neither of them should let happen.
The Arrangement is a dark, slow-burn story of buried truths, political corruption, and a connection that pulls two damaged people toward a collision neither may survive unscathed.
Emilia Langford knows just how far outside the lines she can go while maintaining her family’s expectations. An arranged marriage doesn’t remotely fit into her plans.
Author S.D. Lettie serves up a main character who finds her carefully crafted life thrown into chaos in The Arrangement.
Leading the Chi Omega sorority, along with making appearances as the daughter of the Vice President, means high expectations. Marrying the Bratva heir means sacrificing her plans.
As the first installment in the Bancroft University Chronicles, the story takes readers into the world of sorority life, where image is everything. And when secrets are revealed, it changes everything.
The Arrangement kicks off a duet full of dark romance and a confrontation between duty and desire.
Before she ever had “author” next to her name, S.D. Lettie was—and still is—an avid reader first; the kind who would finish a book in a day and beg her parents to take her back to the bookstore. Reading started as a hobby and, as she got older, became her source of entertainment, escape, and comfort. Over the years, she found herself wanting to write the kind of worlds readers could get excited about—a world that could grow into a fandom of its own.
Today, Lettie writes slow-burn romances—stories about characters who are imperfectly perfect, the hard moments that shape them, and the plot twists that leave readers reeling. Outside her writing life, she’s a wife and mom of two, roles that influence both her time and perspective. She’s also a dedicated soccer fan, the kind who will plan her day around a match and openly admit she’ll yell at the TV when things get heated.
Through all of it, her goal as an author is simple: she wants her characters to stay with readers long after the book ends.
