"Your hair is full of snow," He chuckled as he looked at her, reaching out to push a strand of hair behind her ear. Some snow successfully fell off her, but he didn't withdraw his hand. He cupped her cheek, wiping away a few snowflakes from it. She was frozen, staring at him like a deer caught in headlights, her heart pounding in her chest. Then, raising his other hand, he cupped her cheeks fully. His eyes began to trace every inch of her face; her eyes, her cheeks, her nose, before his gaze dropped to her lips. Her heart skipped a beat as she tried to keep herself together. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Seventeen-year-old Valentina Barron doesn't have the most ideal home life. Her family has financial problems, her mother is hospitalized, they had to move to a small apartment from their decent-sized family home... You get the point. She thinks life is unfair and horrible. Due to certain conditions, Valentina gets a scholarship at the most prestigious school in her hometown, but it doesn't make things easier, maybe even the opposite. She has to keep her grades high to satisfy her parents while attempting to scrape some money for breakfast since all of it goes to pay rent and hospital bills. Then one day, she has enough and tries to steal from the school's wealthiest girl, Odette Wraith, to make life simpler. It obviously doesn't go according to her plans, and she ends up tangled in some shady answer sheet-selling business at the school, where she meets the bane of her existence, who shows her that life isn't all about sadness; Luca Lennox.

"Nervous?" Oliver cocked his head to the side, clearly enjoying the situation. "We don't have to, I mean a peck on the cheek is enough. I'm sure Angelina won't catch on with those prying eyes she keeps on you." "Oh, my god. Are you really coaxing me into kissing you right now?" Daphne rolled her eyes despite feeling her heartbeat skyrocket. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daphne Hester is forced to change schools to upkeep her family's reputation after her parents find out about her brother's drug addiction. After kicking him out onto the streets, Daphne ends up in the prestigious Silver High, a private school where everything is unnecessarily complicated. Daphne is eager to fit into a group, but no ordinary one, as her eyes are only set on the populars, a pack of perfect, wealthy people who are treated like royalty on school grounds. What's nice in theory turns out to be the very thing that could ruin the sixteen-year-old girl's life in a heartbeat. After all, Oliver Mars, her newest arch-enemy, warned her about that. If only she listened... Watch Daphne find friends, go through despair, meet up with her brother in secret, live up to her mother's expectations, and most importantly...find love in her complicated life.