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Magnolia has a system. Georgetown doesn't get her real name, her real family, or her real attention. It's worked for two years. Then she fails a calc test she should've aced and gets stuck next to Avery Stokes: 6'2", nationally ranked, permanently surrounded, and completely unbothered by the fact that Magnolia wants nothing to do with her. Avery finds that hilarious. Then she finds it interesting. Then one bad game and one badly timed joke blow the whole thing up before it's even started. What happens after isn't clean. There's a girl on the team with an old score to settle and a screenshot with just enough truth in it to work. There's a semester of Avery trying to fix something she doesn't fully understand she broke. There's Magnolia relearning, slowly and against her better judgment, how to stay in a room instead of leaving it. By the time either of them says anything true out loud, it's already too late to walk it back. Georgetown's calc placement exam has a 95% pass rate. This is a story about the other 5%.

Skarlett Conti has everything others dream of fame, acclaim, and a life that looks perfect from the outside. Every day, she dazzles audiences on stage, and her smile graces magazine covers. Isabella Vane has spent years directing plays and believes she can read the emotions hidden between the lines. When Skarlett joins her company, she spots something no one else sees an unease that cannot be acted. With each passing day, the line between a professional relationship and a deep bond begins to blur. Yet there are secrets that cannot be revealed in a single sentence, and homes that are far harder to leave than to enter.