Maibee
At Ravencrest Academy, names, money, and secrets mean everything.
Zoey Holloway never belonged in places like this.
Not in the polished hallways filled with expensive perfume and whispered rumors. Not in a world where people smile like they have never been afraid of anything. And definitely not in a house that feels too warm, too safe, too good to be real.
After years of surviving a life no one was supposed to see, Zoey is sent to a foster family in Bryn Mawr and transferred to one of the most elite private schools in the country. Everything around her feels wrong in the worst possible way - the quiet mornings, the soft voices, the people who knock before entering her room.
Especially Noah Bennett.
Calm. Patient. Dangerous in the way kindness always is when you've spent your whole life waiting for it to disappear.
But Ravencrest hides more than privilege behind its perfect walls. There are rumors about a boy untouchable enough to get away with anything. Secrets that everyone pretends not to see. And a darkness Zoey recognizes far too easily.
Because healing was never supposed to feel this terrifying.
And for the first time in her life, Zoey starts wondering what hurts more:
being abandoned... or finally being loved.