The Blood Price: A dark academy rebellion where pain is power, and love costs blood
At fifteen, River Ashcroft buries her mother and receives an invitation - not to grieve, but to serve the place that killed her.
Graythorne Academy trains the ruling elite of the Vein Council. Here, magic isn't talent. It's currency. Every spell demands a price in pain, age, memory, or bone. The powerful never pay it. They push the suffering into living conduits called Anchors - and River grew up watching one of them die for other people's comfort.
She arrives at Graythorne as the first Anchor's daughter ever admitted, determined to expose the system and burn it from the inside. But the Academy is a machine stacked on bodies and secrets, and even revolution has a bill.
Every lesson hurts.
Every victory stains.
Every choice carves her future into her skin.
And the boy the school gave her as an enemy - veined, reckless, deadly by fifteen - becomes the only person who stands between her mission and the grave. Their bond is sharp, unwanted, and terrifying. Not romance, not yet - but something that feels like survival, and maybe one day, something worth bleeding for.
To save a world built on stolen pain, River must decide which lives she can carry - and whether mercy is a luxury she can no longer afford.
Because Graythorne doesn't ruin you by mistake.
It ruins you on purpose.
Perfect for fans of Fourth Wing, The Poppy War, and These Violent Delights - fierce girls, dangerous magic systems, slow-burn loyalty, and rebellions that come with teeth.
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