She sings like a weapon. He fractures like control.
Roe Kettler is a dock girl who wasn't supposed to survive Cantara Academy.
Stay quiet. Stay grateful. Perform just enough magic to justify her scholarship—never enough to threaten anyone.
Then the Designating Stone marked her amethyst. The thirteenth in three hundred years. And now everyone wants to know what she is.
Enter Blaise Arcement.
Heir to the family funding her scholarship. Devastatingly composed. Tasked with proving her voice magic can be controlled before the Board decides she's too dangerous to keep.
He's arrogant. Infuriating. And the only person who sees her chaos as something worth protecting—not containing.
But his family has guarded a secret for centuries.
Beneath the academy lies the Vault—a prison where students with magic too wild to tame simply disappear. Eleven amethysts have vanished into the dark.
They say Roe's mother escaped before she could become the twelfth.
They're lying.
Three weeks. That's how long Roe has to prove she's manageable—or become the thirteenth.
"Sing your true song, even if it breaks everything."
A dark academia romantasy for readers who devour Fourth Wing, Zodiac Academy, and The Atlas Six.
Tropes:
- Enemies to lovers
- He falls first
- Mentor tension
- Morally grey hero
- Found family
- Forbidden magic
- Slow burn that satisfies
