Hazel Miller is a senior at Blue Ridge high school, she is a stuck-up rich kid that has everything anyone could ever want. Shes the caption of the cheer team and all the guys want to be with her and all the girls want to be her. Alexander(Alex) Young is also a senior at Blue Ridge High School but other than that her and Hazel are almost the complete opposite. She comes from a poor family but she makes the most out of it. Everyone loves Alex because she is friendly to almost everyone and on top of that she is the basketball captain and has carried the team to state 3 years in a row. Hazel hates Alex and can't stand to be around her and she makes it very clear anytime Alex is around. Alex, on the other hand, gets a kick out of this hatred, she constantly does things to make Hazel mad which makes Hazel hate her more. All they want to do is leave this town and never see each other again but they still have their senior year and a lot can happen in one year.

BOOK 1 in the Drowning/Bully Standalone Series. WARNING: This book contains intense bullying, explicit scenes, triggering language, violence, and psychological content. I told Caden to cancel his stupid party. He told me, with that infuriating smirk, "Why? Planning to be my snack tonight?" Caden has made my life hell for four years, ever since our parents got married. He's gorgeous, arrogant, and the kind of boy Stanford girls trip over themselves for. Me? I'm the only one who sees right through him. He's a blatant bully, the devil who turned me into a surreptitious one. And now we're stuck sharing the same off-campus apartment for our entire freshman year. Living together means new rules, no boundaries... and a tension I never expected. The closer we get, the harder it becomes to remember why we ever hated each other in the first place- and nothing threatens our pride more than that. *** Step into an adventure of passion, forgiveness, and second chances. This is Caden and Madison's story.