She came to Chicago to disappear. After her older brother's sudden death, Katherine leaves behind the only life she's ever known, hoping distance will bury the past. But when a hidden box of letters begins to unravel everything she thought she knew about her family, her quiet new life starts to fracture. Then there's the man who visits her café every morning. He doesn't recognise her. She doesn't recognise him. But some connections are made long before two people ever meet.

Seventeen-year-old Aria Castellano thought she knew who she was - a scholarship student, a good daughter, a girl with simple dreams and a mother who made the world feel safe. But when her mother dies in a car accident, the life Aria knew unravels overnight. A letter. A name. A father she's never met. Now she's flying across the country to New York - to a mansion with guards at every gate, brothers who don't know what to make of her, and a father still struggling to accept the daughter he didn't know existed. Her stepmother is kind, her new home beautiful... but nothing about it feels right. At St. Augustine's Academy, power hums beneath every smile and secret. The students there were born into legacies - families bound by alliances older than the school itself, until betrayal tore them apart. Those old rivalries still live on in the halls she walks now, and Aria's arrival is stirring them all back to life. One boy in particular seems to hate her most. He's untouchable, cruel in that effortless way only someone raised in power can be. But behind the sharp words and colder eyes is something else - something that pulls her closer even when she knows she shouldn't look twice. As Aria begins to uncover the truth her mother died protecting, she learns that some secrets were buried for a reason... and that even in a world built on bloodlines and betrayal, the most dangerous thing of all might be the way he looks at her. "Some secrets don't stay buried forever. And Aria Castellano's name might be the one that brings them all back to the light"

16 year old Juliet has been on her own for 11 months. Then she messes up. That slip up has the courts desiding she should be shipped off to Blackwood Academy, a boarding school in Massachusetts. Across the entire country. As she tries to escape her problems more grow after she was assigned a project for history class. She meets new people some who become her new family and some who she cant stand including a boy who she is forced to be around.