Paper Crowns

Aria and Rafe.
Two struggling and self-destructive teens.
Caught between a feuding of two families, they remain best friends despite all odds.
A strong, damaged girl with hair like the sun; a calm, contemplative boy with the smile of an angel.

Together, the two belong to a group of four friends. Four kings. Because despite all their differences, they were the same. Four disappointments. But when oddly charming new kid, Malachi Hunter becomes the unspoken fifth member, the two learn to question a friendship turned distant, the secrets that continuously pile up, and their own feelings.

With people around them constantly getting hurt, everything they've so carefully hidden seems to come spilling out. And the heads that wear the crowns may just have to learn to bow down.

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