Kyla is the typical good girl, you know, the one that walks around in a giant sweater and yoga pants and her school books, no high heels, but she's not a geek or a nerd, she's not good at school, but she still tries her best.
Lincon is the bad boy, skips basically every class, somehow still gets A's in nearly every class, is feared by everyone, hates his parents, gets into fights because he wants to.
The one thing about these two is that they're best friends, before Lincon became a bad boy and before Kyla's grades started slipping they met, on the monkey bars.
Nothing can separate them, except boarding school...
When Kyla's parents decide to ship her off to the most prestigious boarding school in the country she has to leave her best friend back at home, because it's an all girls school, and Lincoln is definitely not female.
But like at typical clique books there is an exception to this, the son of the headmaster lives at the school. Being the only male at the school that is the same age as the other students, you can probably guess what's going through everyone's minds...
But what people do with those thoughts, you'll have to click the orange 'read' button to find out.
Ella is falling apart trying to live a "perfect" high school life. Then she meets Ren, who can see past her scars. Suddenly perfection isn't her only option.
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Ella Volkov is a gifted music student, but she's depressed and starting to crack under the pressure of high school. Her overbearing father won't even let her choose what instrument she plays. Then she finds herself alone at a party with Ren, her best friend's crush. She'd always thought he was rude, but after that night he's all Ella can think about. Now she's trapped. If Ella dates Ren, it will ruin her friendship with Jenny. But if she stays true to Jenny, she's losing the one person who can see past her scars. It's up to Ella to decide if she will forge her own path, or stay in the "perfect" box designed for her...
Content and/or Trigger Warning: depression, anxiety, self-harm, violence, sexual assault.
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