Aria Vale is finally beginning to understand the rules of Eclipse Academy.
Unfortunately, every rule seems designed to make her bleed.
Her powers are awakening, but the answers only create more questions. Evander’s bond has changed him from tormentor to obsessive romantic. Cassian still holds a blood debt over her. The Crimson Stone around Aria’s neck feeds on misery. And somewhere behind the Academy’s lethal classes and supernatural politics, Cataclysm is drawing closer.
Aria is supposed to be the Champion who stops it.
First, she has to survive the men fate keeps tying to her.
Each potential Virtue carries a different danger: a Dark Mage who wants control, a Hunter who does not know when to let go, an Alpha with secrets, a demigod whose devotion may be as destructive as his cruelty, and allies who know pieces of Aria’s identity that she still cannot remember.
The more bonds she unlocks, the more powerful—and complicated—she becomes.
Worse, someone inside Eclipse Academy is manipulating events from the shadows. If Aria cannot work out who to trust, the same people training her to save the world may deliver her directly to the force meant to destroy it.
Blood can create debts.
Blood can seal bonds.
And for Aria, the difference between the two may decide whether her Virtues become her salvation—or the chains that drag her into Cataclysm.