Secrets of Alkrose (Alkrose Academy, #2)

by K.M. Moronova

“Okay,” I mumble as I press a kiss on her shoulder, fully intending to break that promise.

Midas. Camil. Acadi. Serina. “Hello, old friends.”

“You want in? The dark isn’t for pretty little things like you, babe.”

Raine, Elias, Finn, Arthur.

“Because I think they’re going to send you here with me after the exam. The Blood Crowns is an extermination, and they want the Novas to be broken and whole, ready to deploy.

“If you can overthrow the headmaster and empress of Fernestia, then that’s a great start. Oh, and Dr. Cein, the master of the Shadows. Him too.”

Only we can see the hearts. Emerai cannot hide anything from time. We see all the moments of a Shadow's past, what they’ve taken and tried to discard.

It’s always the quiet ones that are hung.