NIGHTSHADE: Book One (Ash & Ember)
They didn't take Rin in to keep her safe. They took her in to make her lethal.
Six years after magic came through her family's floor and left her the only one breathing, Rin is the sharpest blade in a school that grades in bodies. Nineteen students entered the Rookery. Far fewer will leave. The teachers are worn, cruel, and honest about exactly one thing: the students who feel too much don't survive the winter.
Kai makes surviving easier. Golden, grinning, always there when she's bleeding-until the charm curdles, and she learns that some cages smile.
The gilded magician the school keeps on retainer makes nothing easier. He watches her too long. His eyes won't hold a color. And every time she's hurt, something in him fractures, like he can barely keep his hands at his sides.
Rin has been taught that softness is death and that the powerful are the enemy. She's about to learn how wrong she can be about both-on the night the school burns, the culling turns lethal, and the one person she swore was a threat walks through fire to stand between her and the dark.
A dark-fantasy romance of blades, poison, one toxic boy, one dangerous magician, and a girl deciding-for the first time in her life-what she gets to keep.
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