This PMO

 Zodiac Academy: Cursed Fates by Susanne Valenti and Caroline Peckham 

I had hoped to get this book read before school started, but no such luck. Instead, it took me basically the entire month of August to read. And it RUINED MY LIFE for the entire month.  Tory and Darius are feeling the effects of her rejecting the mating bond and are pining after each other. And worse than that, they finally talk out their issues. He stops being horrible to her and he actually realizes what he did, and just how bad it was. One way that he tries to make it up to her is by going to the mortal realm and finding her ex-boyfriend who left her to drown and beating him up and forcing him to apologize. Then, he and the other heirs find their apartment and get their stuff; he realizes just how bad their lives were before and hits him like a train the stark differences and what he was doing and trying to take away. Tory realizes she can remove dark coercion when she helps his mom, then she is able to help Xavier, twice. First, she removes his dark coercion, then she records herself pushing him out of a window and posts it, outing him as a Pegasus, so Lionel can't keep him locked up anymore. And, he can't hurt him either. Darius is done for; he is so in love with her. Then there's Darcy and Lance. They are happy as can be. But, Kylie still thinks she is sleeping with Seth so she tries to prove it, but instead catches the two of them, and Lance gets arrested. Darius gets him a fabulous lawyer and they have a great plan, then Lance burns it all down to try to protect her and gets himself sent to Darkmore Penitentiary for 25 years. The one time Darius is able to sneak her in to visit him, he's a jerk to her so she can move on with her life, except that's not working. The book ends with Lionel and Clara trying to force the twins to be on his side, but Darcy is able to break away from the shadows after Clara has been using her to attack the heirs; she burns away the shadows with her phoenix fire. But Tory is forced to become Lionel's Guardian and has to protect him against her will. And the book ends with Darius and Tory on opposite sides. Oh, and we find out Diego is a nymph and he dies trying to protect Darcy. I need a break from this series because I am so mad at it. I still like it, but this is too much and I can't look at these characters any more. They keep doing the dumbest things. Max and Geraldine are the only characters behaving in a way that makes sense. I need a break from all of them and their nonsense.