THE ART OF BREAKING US

THE ART OF BREAKING US

"I paint the light. He welds the chaos."

They say an artist and their work are inseparable. I believed that too... until I met Kaelen Thorne.

*Elara Vance* is the Golden Girl of Blackwood Academy. She paints landscapes that look like paradise because she's terrified of painting the nightmares inside her head. She lives in a glass house, perfectly curated, suffocatingly clean.

*Kaelen Thorne* is the school's darkest secret. He welds jagged monsters out of scrap metal and doesn't care if he burns himself in the process. He's rude, reckless, and sees right through Elara's porcelain façade.

When a forced assignment throws them into the same studio, the air between them ignites. He calls her a fraud. She calls him a disaster.

But then, he forces her to look at the dark parts of herself she's been hiding from. And for the first time, Elara doesn't want to look away.

*"Perfection is a polite word for suffocation."* - Kaelen

Elara is dangerously close to crossing the line between admiration and obsession. But falling for the boy who destroys everything he touches isn't just risky-it's fatal.

Her family is threatening to disown her. Her ex-fiancé is plotting to ruin her. And Kaelen has one rule: *Don't fall in love.*

"You're the only thing I've ever created that I don't want to break." - Kaelen

Now, standing on the edge of everything she's ever known, Elara has to make a choice.

Keep painting the lies... or pick up the blowtorch and burn it all down.

One wrong move, and everything shatters.

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