Poisoned Ivy

16 year old Ivy Emerson is just trying to navigate life while finding herself. Struggling with the pressures of life in the gang infested streets of the Clifton Courts, she commits to being the Phoenix, rising above the stereotypes and showing the world that The Courts have all of the potential as it's counterpart Crestview. While embracing her "hood" it forces her to see the cruelty and unjust nature of society starting with the elite rich white kids of Crestview. She sees all of them like the police that have bullied her and her friends. She has vowed to keep her distance-

That is until she's pulled into their world in more ways than one.

Roman never planned on falling in love. A quiet and mysterious Crestview Prep Junior, Romans life is crashing down around him. Then he catches Ivy's attention and reluctantly her heart. He understands Ivy's world more than she thought possible and forces her to see it too.

Ivy will learn that the dark secrets from her family's past could make her more like her enemy than she could have ever thought- destroying her in the process.