After the tragic death of her parents, Valerie moves halfway across the country to attend an elite school. She takes a new identity to prevent herself from getting picked on at school. With makeup, she's seen as beautiful but without it, she feels ugly. When she's told to spy on Atlas Ace, the richest kid at school, her life begins to take a drastic turn as she finds herself mixed in with past friendships, heartbreaks and drama. Things go out of control when the school's pretty boy, Zenith Easton, discovers who Valerie is under her makeup. Join Valerie as she discovers that to be truly beautiful is to be beautiful on the inside, not the outside. 𝐍𝐄𝟎𝐁𝐎𝐒𝐒

TWO LONELY HEARTS CAUGHT IN THE RAIN-- Verona Wang doesn't believe in wishing on stars. She also doesn't believe in third chances. So why is she so inclined to give Roman Cavaliere all the stars and chances she can? [#1SS]

"He looked like an angel. Not like those people who call their lovers angel because they wanna be sweet, but in a way where if I met God today, Ryder, holy and good, would be standing right there. By God's right-hand side, obliged to give me a tender kiss. It's quite funny though, Ryder can never be holy." Aiko, the second child, has sealed the most important deal of her life. To be the next heir of the Rockefeller empire, Aiko has to complete the ten difficult tasks her brother, the supposed-heir, wrote on a leather-bound notebook and return it to him with proof before her graduation. Including a task of making a certain rich boy fall deeply in love with her. In Venisde Academy, she was a girl with a bleeding crevice tucked in her mind to which all hope for some sort of blithe burned to ice. But she could thank it, she would've been much more timid, if not for Zachary Vildan, until the boy left without a word one morning. Unmistakably, wordlessly, severing all ties with the girl. Every single thing was checked off on her list, yet for the past 2 years, she's been stuck on the tenth. 10) Make Ryder Peterson fall for you. It was the most difficult one of all, and approaching her senior year, she has lost all hope of Ryder ever falling for her. Just as she was about to give up on an empire that she once dreamed she would have in her hands, one night of chaos filled with mafias, blades, and four of the most powerful rich boys of Venisde Academy promising a contract with her would make her lost dreams reappear and tumble back onto her fast as she could ever imagine it to be. [If you like angst, and the joy and rebellion of shipping the protagonist with other main characters, then this book is meant for you.] tags: dark academia, rich boys, mafia, billionaires, bad boy, highschool, teen, elite, private school, friendship contracts, deals, heartbreak, jealousy, yearning, diversity The entirety of the language in this book is in English.

Crystal Lake Preparatory was a school for the wealthy and powerful. Like every other group, it was divided into houses. SEVEN HOUSES. SEVEN LEADERS. Ruby, Sapphire, Topaz, Emerald, Opal, Amethyst & Onyx. Every year these seven leaders and their members have to compete in several tournaments to make their house win. However, this year, something dreadful was happening. The house leaders were vanishing, one by one, until there were two leaders left. Now, only two houses were standing. Ruby & Onyx the houses symbolic of blood & death Yara Azaran & Ares Blackburn have been archenemies since the beginning of high school and now they only have two choices. Work together or die together.

with blood on their hands, they're all villains

murder has never been sweeter. kill your darlings and meet your maker.

Chi Cheng and Chi Shen-cold, powerful identical twins-should never have wanted him. Wu Suowei, innocent yet impossible to resist, becomes the center of a forbidden obsession that could destroy them all. Desire, danger, and a love they were never meant to claim collide in shadows too deep to escape." "Two cold twin brothers, one fragile boy... and a forbidden desire that could destroy them all." --- Chi Cheng: "You were never meant to exist in my world... yet here you are, and I cannot let go." Chi Shen: "Every breath you take belongs to me. Don't pretend you can escape me." Wu Suowei: "I am not yours to claim. I never was, and I never will be." A story of possession, obsession, and the fine line between hate and desire-where love is forbidden, and danger lurks in every shadow." --- Genre : "Dark, forbidden romance entwined with obsession, power, and the dangerous bond of twin heirs." --- Main characters: ChiCheng and Wusowei story. Side characters: Guo chengyu and Xiaoshuai.