Zodiac Academy: Cursed Fates

Book five is where Zodiac Academy stops playing nice—the last 200 pages are non-stop chaos and the authors will lull you into false security before destroying everything you love. Tory finally lets her walls crack open in ways earlier books only hinted at, which makes the gut-punch moments hit harder than they have any right to. There is a menage scene, Orion gets arrested, and Lionel weaponizes the Guardian bond in ways that are genuinely hard to read. You have been warned about the cliffhanger.