Hither, Page (Page & Sommers, #1)

by Cat Sebastian

Secrets were the invisible skeleton of society. Everything depended on the strength of secrets, and on not being able to see them; like a skeleton, once the secret was visible to the naked eye, something had gone drastically and irretrievably wrong. That was when people started to die.

Page glanced down at a stray bit of shiny rubbish in his lap with a look James had often seen in field hospitals and the convalescent homes, and even more often in his own mirror. It was the look of a child who was lost at the fair and wanted nothing more than to go home, sometimes to a home that no longer existed, or never had existed in the first place.