The Patient Hand

NINE OATHS. ONE DROWNED CROWN. AND EVERY GENERATION, A GIRL THE SEA TAKES BACK.At Blackthorne, on an island the tide seals shut twice a day, the oldest families do not send their sons to be educated. They send them to be crowned.I was never meant to reach for anything. I am a scholarship girl. A liar. A botanist with a dead sister and one reason for crossing that flooding causeway: the Crown drowned her and called it an accident, and I came to make every last one of them watch me prove it.Then Cassius Vane put his cold, beautiful hand on me and called me his.He thinks he claimed me. He has no idea I let him.SILENCE IS THE ONLY THING THIS ISLAND KEEPS.I crossed the sea to bury them. I did not plan on being kept. And I never, ever planned on all four.⸻DARK ACADEMIA - SECRET SOCIETY WHY-CHOOSE - ENEMIES TO LOVERS FORCED PROXIMITY - SLOW BURN TO HIGH STEAM FOUND FAMILY - MORALLY GREY KINGS