One accident ruined everything. It was an act of self defense. But it ended up with a classmate in the hospital and Thea's parents looking at her like she was a stranger. The punishment? Everthorne Academy. A boarding school in the middle of nowhere, where troubled kids get buried and secrets gets kept. She thought she could keep her head down. Serve her time. Graduate and disappear. Then she met Caden. Then the first body turned up. Everthorne has its own rules: Don't ask about the past. Don't walk alone after dark. Don't trust anyone. But Thea didn't come to follow rules. She came because of an accident. She'll leave because of a killer. If she leaves at all. At Evergreen Academy, the only thing more dangerous than your past... is someone else's.

After her parents separate, a shy and antisocial girl moves to Los Angeles with her mom on a scholarship and starts a new school. She doesn't expect to get close to anyone, but she ends up falling for a boy who already has a girlfriend. Stuck in a love triangle, she has to navigate school life in LA while facing jealousy, friendship struggle, and hard choices about love.