The only girl he ever saw

Aaliyah Brooks never expected her new school to be a centuries-old academy filled with secrets, strict rules... and six hundred boys who don't know what to do with her.

When she becomes the first girl ever allowed into Blackthorn Academy, she quickly learns that standing out comes with a price.

Especially when everyone warns her about Nikolai Volkov.

The mysterious Russian fencing captain with a dangerous reputation, a cold heart, and secrets buried deeper than anyone knows.

He's everything she's been told to avoid.

She's everything he's never understood.

But when the only person who sees the good in him refuses to walk away... Nikolai starts to wonder if some rules were made to be broken.

She was never supposed to belong there.
He was never supposed to care.