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At Loyola International High School, privilege is everything - and those without it are invisible.
Mara Daniels, a scholarship student from the wrong side of San Diego, enters a world of luxury cars, designer uniforms, and unspoken hierarchies. Her quiet resilience catches the reluctant attention of Alex Vale - the golden boy of Loyola, adored by everyone and untouched by consequence.
But as their worlds begin to collide, Alex discovers that the perfection surrounding him is nothing more than a fragile illusion. And in the quiet defiance of the girl he was taught to ignore, he starts to question the meaning of everything he's ever known.
A story of class, cruelty, and connection - Gilded Walls explores what happens when two lives built on opposite sides of privilege begin to unravel each other.