The Tearsmith

NOW A HIT NETFLIX MOVIE - The bestselling international sensation and viral TikTok phenomenon--a dark, sexy, haunting novel of two aching young adults who are taken in by the same family and forced to reckon with a destructive love that could be the undoing of them both 'Ready for the next Twilight?'--People Growing up in a ghastly orphanage run by an abusive matron, Nica coped in the only way she could--by retreating to her imagination, where she lived out fantastical stories, especially about the Tearsmith, the man who makes tears, a terrifying figure who forges all the fears that dwell in people's hearts. When she's finally taken in by an adoptive family at seventeen, Nica thinks she's leaving the group home, its torments, and her prison of otherworldly tales behind her. That is, until Rigel--a young man raised from birth in the same dreadful orphanage--joins her new family. Rigel is as mesmerizingly handsome as he is troubled, and he and Nica have a long history of distrust and