The Other Crown #3 He spent his whole life learning how to move through water. He never learned how to stay still long enough to be found. Erikson Vance is the fastest butterfly swimmer in his batch-or he's supposed to be. He has a coach with a laminated chart, a father who calls every three days for the number, and a championship in December that has been the organizing fact of his entire life for as long as he can remember. Then he goes under during a solo night practice and someone pulls him out, and when he gets his head up she's already gone. There was no name. Just dark hair and two hands and the faint smell of salt in a building nowhere near the ocean. He tells himself he's looking for her to say thank you. He's not just looking to say thank you. Songs of the Silence is a Little Mermaid retelling told from the prince's journal-starting from the campus pool, and the slow and humbling education of a young man who thought he understood water, until someone showed him what was happening underneath the surface. She never said a word. He's never been more heard in his life.

The Other Crown #1 He found what she lost. She found what he didn't know he was missing. Kit Charmont has never had to look for anything. He is the Dean's son. Doors open for him, the future arrives in his life in an instant, and everything arranged with love and certainty by a man who never thought to ask. Then a girl in a plain white mask talks to him for three hours at his father's masquerade, and at midnight she runs, and all she leaves behind is a silver USB drive engraved with three initials that aren't his. He tells himself he's returning it. He's not just returning it. After Midnight is a Cinderella story told from the prince's journal in seven days within one campus, and the quiet, uncomfortable process of a young man learning to see the world he thought he already knew. The clock struck midnight. He's been catching up ever since.

The Other Crown #2 He noticed her before he knew her name. He knew her name before he ever spoke to her. Florian Alcott has been sitting on the same bench since first year while his sketchbook is open. In the Fine Arts courtyard in front of him, the world arranged at a comfortable, observable distance. He is not hiding. He simply has not been asked to step forward. Then a woman he unconsciously observes and has never spoken to collapses on campus, a locked door goes up around her, and seven strangers arrive at his life with a single question: What did you see? It turns out he saw everything. It turns out that is only the beginning. Fairest Poison is a Snow White story told from the painter's journal. Everything happened in one campus: an investigation, and the long, overdue reckoning of a young man who has spent three years watching the world and calling it enough. He has been looking since August. He is only now beginning to see.