Claimed by the Headmaster

Blackfriars Academy does not welcome scholarship girls. Cordelia Wren knows that the day she walks through the gates — three weeks after burying her father, with one trunk and no allies. What she doesn't know is that the new Headmaster is watching her. Sebastian Vaughn has run this school for eleven years and buried every scandal it's produced. He should not notice a seventeen-year-old girl. He does. He assigns her punishment after punishment, as if cruelty were the only language he has left. Then she stops showing up for detention and the punishments become something else. When the school's most dangerous society threatens to expose them, Sebastian chooses her over his career. His whole life. Cordelia chooses him back — and drives them both off campus, into a future no one at Blackfriars would have written for either of them.