The Phantom's Bird

"In the gilded halls of Blackwood Prep, silence isn't just golden. It's a survival tactic."

For Faith, escaping into the quiet sanctuary of her own mind is the only way to survive. Her mother expects her to be the perfect, silent trophy daughter. Her new stepbrother, Mike-the golden boy leader of the school's most elite faction-looks at her with nothing but cold, hidden resentment, viewing her as a parasite in his mother's home.

Trapped in a gilded cage of family secrets and school rivalries, Faith just wants to remain invisible.

But Zayden is watching.

As the calculative, tattooed leader of the rival faction, Zayden reads people like a book. He sees right through the perfect family facade. He notices the tiny cracks. He notices her flinch. And the more she tries to fade into the background, the more obsessed he becomes with pulling her out of her own head.

He is a storm of thorns. She is a fragile bird. And in a school ruled by monsters, some cages are made to be broken.

Zayden: "I like to know exactly what's inside the cages I break."