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There are rules to surviving St. Jude's Private Academy: keep your head down, protect your peace, and under no circumstances cross paths with the elite upper-crust who run the hallways.
Oscar Piastri doesn't care about the rules. He doesn't care about the elite, the parties, or the suffocating social hierarchy. Freshly transferred to the sprawling, gothic campus, Oscar is navigating a world that demands noise while living entirely in silence. Selectively mute, he prefers the quiet corners of the library, sketching in the margins of notebooks, and keeping the entire world at arm's length.
Except for one person.
Max Verstappen-loud, boisterous, dangerously popular, and the undisputed king of St. Jude's social scene-is the absolute polar opposite of Oscar. He's a hurricane wrapped in designer blazers, a guy who commands every room he enters. But Max is harboring a heavy, volatile secret: he's diagnosed with Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED). Beneath his magnetic, larger-than-life exterior lies a constant, simmering pressure cooker waiting to blow.
When the white noise of the world becomes too deafening, Oscar is the only person who can ground him. Just the steady presence of his childhood best friend is enough to talk Max back from the ledge. It's the primary reason Oscar packed up his life and enrolled at St. Jude's-to be Max's anchor.
But playing anchor gets a lot more complicated when Oscar is suddenly thrust directly into Max's inner circle. Surrounded by a close-knit group of fiercely loyal, equally loud, and hyper-competitive jocks, Oscar can't stay invisible forever. As old boundaries blur, tempers flare, and unspoken tensions rise, Oscar is about to find out just how hot it gets when you're standing too close to the fire.