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Sing your true song, even if it breaks everything.

A dark academia romantasy

Roe Kettler wasn’t supposed to survive Cantara Academy. She was supposed to stay quiet, stay grateful, and stay invisible.

But the Designating Stone had other plans.

Marked as the thirteenth amethyst in three hundred years, Roe finds herself under the watchful eye of Blaise Arcement—heir to the family funding her scholarship, devastatingly composed, and the mentor tasked with proving her magic can be controlled. He’s arrogant. Infuriating. And the only person who looks at her chaos like it’s something worth protecting.

His family has guarded the Vault for generations—a prison beneath the academy where students with magic too wild to tame simply disappear. Eleven amethysts have vanished into the Vault. They say her mother escaped before she could become the twelfth. Roe isn’t so sure anymore.

With three weeks to prove she’s manageable or vanish like the rest, Roe must decide: wear their masks and survive, or tear them off and set everyone free.

Releases February 13, 2026

Tropes: Enemies to lovers ᛇ He falls first ᛇ Mentor tension ᛇ Found family ᛇ Slow burn