Roseheart Ballet Academy is back, and this year, the dancers' secrets are darker than ever
Seventeen-year-old Bella Sotheby dreams of one day being a principal ballerina at the Roseheart Romantic Dance Company, but right now, her struggle with addiction and paranoid psychosis is only getting worse, threatening her place on the academy's prestigious Ballet Diploma course.
Trent Mason has been a Roseheart company danseur for five years, along with partner Li Hua Zhao, but his mental health has been suffering amid the competitive and toxic environment. When he tells his sponsor he wants to leave professional ballet, Trent's faced with his biggest choice: stick to a career that's destroying him or watch Li Hua suffer.
Allessia Vincenzi never wanted anything to do with the ballet world. But when you come from a family of principal dancers, you don't get a choice. Now Allessia's reluctantly enrolling as a choreography student at the very school where her eldest sister disappeared ten years agoand with the threat of the past repeating itself, Allessia must toe the line or face deadly consequences.
Swans in the Dark is the highly anticipated sequel to Madeline Dyer's The Rhythm of My Soul.