InkAndIron
In the small town of Oakhaven, sixteen-year-old Phoebe knows exactly where she belongs.
After losing her parents, she and her brother, Gabriel, helped build the Children of Eden-part community center, part family, part refuge for people who have nowhere else to go. With Gabriel's heart, Eddie's numbers, and Leyton's connections, the three founders run The Garden like a promise: work hard, take care of each other, and stay safe.
Phoebe takes that promise seriously. She organizes records, manages projects, and keeps things running. Being useful is how she protects the people she loves.
Then a routine permission request exposes a system she was never meant to see.
As Phoebe starts tracing the numbers behind Eden's success, she finds debts, contracts, and hidden accounts that don't match the story she's been told. The more she learns, the more she realizes that loyalty has a cost-and someone has been collecting.
To save her family, Phoebe will have to decide whether keeping the Garden alive is worth what it's doing to everyone inside it.