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"Killing an Excuse of Virelia and Adrian" begins with a bombing-and everything that survives it. When Solstice War College is attacked, Adrian is forced to transfer to Arcanum, a place known for its silence, structure, and students who don't ask questions. Virelia has always been one of them. Sharp-edged and unreadable, she has no interest in the boy from a broken campus. But the war doesn't care about comfort zones, and neither does the truth. Thrown together by circumstance, Adrian and Virelia slowly circle each other-connected by rumors, duty, and the things they refuse to say. It's not a romance. Not at first. It's the quiet study of two people unlearning what they've been taught to hate-and the excuse that kept them from looking deeper.