Worth Surviving -The Fourth Wing

Tessa Arden has spent most of her life surviving people who never wanted her.

Orphaned during the Tyrrish Rebellion and raised by a foster family that never let her forget she was a burden, Tessa is given a single dagger, no training, and one final parting gift on Conscription Day: a place in Basgiath War College's Riders Quadrant.

They expect her to die.

Tessa isn't entirely convinced she cares if they're right.

Armed with nothing but an irritating amount of confidence, a talent for saying exactly the wrong thing at exactly the right time, and the unfortunate instinct to throw herself into danger for anyone she cares about, Tessa steps onto the Parapet prepared to survive for as long as she can.

What she isn't prepared for is Liam Mairi.

Or the squad that slowly draws her out of her silence. The marked riders who understand more about losing everything to the rebellion than anyone she's ever known. The friends who teach her that the girl handed one useless dagger can learn to wield almost anything.

And certainly not Bodhi Durran.

For the first time in Tessa's life, survival begins to mean more than simply making it to tomorrow.

Because Basgiath might kill her.

But first, it might give her something worth surviving for.