Whispers of the Tearsmith

Seventeen-year-old Nica has spent her whole life in The Grave, a crumbling orphanage where hope goes to die. No one adopts older children, and she has long accepted that she'll age out alone. Until the Milligan's arrive warm, kind, and ready to offer her a home. For the first time, Nica dares to dream of belonging.

But her fragile new life is shadowed by Rigel Wilde, the boy of midnight eyes and haunting beauty. Abandoned as an infant, raised within the same walls, Rigel is adored by everyon...