The Thirteenth Cagebreaker: A Cantara Academy Novel - Paperback

by Melissa Jean Vallejos (Author)

Sing your true song, even if it breaks everything.

Roe Kettler wasn't supposed to survive Cantara Academy. She was supposed to stay quiet, stay grateful, and stay invisible-a dock girl on scholarship, tolerated but never belonging.

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.

A YA dark academia romantasy featuring a fierce heroine, slow-burn forbidden romance, found family, and the kind of love that burns slow and hits hard. Perfect for readers who loved A Deadly Education and These Hollow Vows.