She takes the world in through wide eyes. Eyes that don't blink nearly enough, stained the color of twilight. People look at her, look at her eyes, smile because they're "cool", and she sees them. She sees them for who they are, watches the tiniest shift in posture, the slightest flicker of the eyes, and pieces it together before they can even give her the once over. Knows all their secrets, what they try desperately to hide, she sees through their web of lies, their shield of quiet.
She knows all, sees everything, and says nothing.
Until she meets Clover.
After enduring years of neglect and cruelty from her mother and stepfather, Ariana's life changes drastically when tragedy brings her under the guardianship of five brothers she's never met and they never even knew they had a sister.
For her brothers, learning they have a sister is an unwelcome surprise. Suspicious and reluctant, her brothers see Aria as an outsider, a stranger disrupting the fragile balance of their lives.
For Aria, their home is both a new beginning and a constant reminder of the family that left her behind.
Haunted by the pain of her past, Aria struggles to adjust, her every action guarded and her trust hard to earn.
As her brothers try to understand her, they begin to glimpse the scars she hides and the strength she carries. Little by little, resentment turns to empathy, and the walls between them start to crumble. But just as the siblings begin to find common ground, the secrets and trauma of Aria's old life threaten to tear them apart. Together, they must decide whether they can overcome the shadows of the past to forge a family and whether Aria can finally find a place to belong.