Stars Take What Stars Want

Meridian Academy charts the sky and sells the constellations to the highest bidder. Eliora Vance was born under no stars at all. Three students orbit her the first week: a star-witch whose family owns the observatory, an exiled moon-touched prince, and a scribe who reads her better than the charts do. Each of them gives her a constellation. Each of them ties her to a world she was meant to leave. The faculty wants to use her as a lock—a living seal to hold the sky shut. On star-fall night, Eliora chooses to break it open instead. Now there are three constellations burning under her skin, three anchors keeping her here, and no lock. Just a girl who became the sky, and the men who won't let her drift.