Hidden among the mist-veiled cliffs of coastal British Columbia lies Saint Dominic's Preparatory Academy - a place that one does not apply to, but is summoned to. Beneath its facade of holy devotion and elite academia, the school is a crucible where privilege is stripped bare, and only those who master risk, deception, and control survive. Here, every student is both predator and prey. They gamble not for grades but for power - reputation, influence, and survival within a hierarchy ruled by the Student Council, ten prodigies who govern through cunning and fear. At their apex sits Kira Timurov, the president whose icy brilliance and uncanny intuition have made her untouchable - a queen among serpents. When Yumeko Kawamoto, an exchange student from Tokyo, arrives after years of giref, her curiosity awakens something the school had long buried - a chain of games, betrayals, and obsessions that will pit her against Kira herself. Every encounter with Kira, whose green-bluish eyes seem to pierce straight through her, carries a dangerous, unspoken tension - a silent battle of wits and wills before a word is even spoken. As alliances fracture and the boundaries between play and cruelty dissolve, Yumeko must decide whether to survive Saint Dominic's games... or burn its hierarchy to ash. Because at Saint Dominic, power is not earned - it is taken. And once you wager your soul, there's no folding out.

A kiss can change everything. One kiss with your best friend, and it changes the whole dynamic. What will you do when you get to know that your best friend has been in love with you? What will you do when she doesn't want to be friends anymore and wants more instead? * "Everytime I see you with a guy, my skin fucking burns" Millie hisses, pinning me with an intense look that makes my belly flip. I am pinned to the wall with her caging me. "Do you know how hard it is to pretend that you are only my friend, and nothing more? That I love you but cannot have you?" Her words spin inside my head, and the thundering beating of my heart echoes in my ear. How do we come to this situation? I pant as she leans closer, her eyes averting to my parted lips. I am having thoughts of kissing her. Hell, I see her in my dreams so often now that I am not sure what she means to me now. Millie caresses my cheeks and a shiver runs down my spine. "I can't pretend anymore, Grace. It's getting really hard" she whispers in my ear and I squirm. When she meets my eyes, I say something that surprises her. "Then don't." I crash my lips on hers, crossing whatever lines we had.