𝐃𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐋 Mirabelle Ashby slips through Winterhart University like a specter stitched from moonlight; soft, untouchable, haunting. Her ribbon-bound hair falls like ink against her pale neck, a quiet rebellion against the world that once tried to break her. She studies the human mind not out of idle curiosity but because she craves understanding of the fractures that live inside her own skin. But curiosity can be fatal. The day she turns her attention to the asylum's most dangerous secret, the careful silence of her life begins to splinter. The world grows sharp, shadowed, and she feels it, a presence circling her like a predator, pulling her toward something she has no name for. 𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐒𝐄𝐃 𝐅𝐋𝐀𝐌𝐄 Ronan Deverux wears his madness like a crown; defiant, unyielding, untouchable. He is not just a patient of Winterhart Asylum; he is its storm, its teeth. The walls hold him, but barely. His silence speaks louder than any scream, his stare enough to strip a person to bone. When Mirabelle steps into his orbit, he feels it like a strike to the ribs; that dangerous recognition, that sense that she might be the only one who could ever drag him out of the dark. Or maybe deeper into it? And for the first time in years, he wants to follow.

❛ 𝙨𝙡𝙞𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙡𝙮 𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙛𝙪𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙧𝙨. ❜ 𝟒 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐓𝐖𝐈𝐒𝐓. ╰╮ . . . 𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐓𝐀 𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐈'𝐒 life is perfect. or so it seems. but she's fine with the perfect on paper life, because appearances are all that matter at monte hill academy. she's at the top of the school, with the perfect boyfriend and the perfect life. ★ . . . That is, until 𝐀𝐋𝐕𝐈𝐍𝐀 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 shows up. the effortlessly smart and curious girl who threatens to disrupt everything anita has worked on until that very moment. With everything going on, she wonders if it's finally the time to let go of the anita she's made everyone believe she is and give into the feelings bubbling inside her for her rival. ୨୧ . . . 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐀 𝐑𝐄𝐃𝐌𝐀𝐘𝐍𝐄 is the epitome of the person an outsider would hate. She seems to have everything just handed out to her. Or does she? No one quite knows what goes on behind the doors of the redmayne mansion and when the girls notice her late night disappearances, they wonder, what is she onto? 🗝 . . . No one knows a lot about 𝐃𝐎𝐑𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐀 𝐂𝐀𝐙𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐓 except for the fact that her name rhymes with capulet. seems appropriate, since her life is not too dissimilar from the Shakespearean tragedies.