✯ ❝Before something great happens, everything falls apart.❞ ✯
After her beloved mother's death, Ravenna, the only daughter of the Italian mafia, is forced to go live with her grandparents outside of the crime world. What she didn't expect was for the opposite to happen.
After four years of training, adventures, chaos and enduring the horrors life put her through, Ravenna Caruso has made a name for herself in business- and underworld and returns for her senior year.
Her four older brothers try to bring back the carefree girl that once was, but all that's left is a woman with a cold exterior, even though recent scars still linger.
Enter the callous heir to the French mafia who tries to break down her walls while being wrapped up in his own demons. With Ravenna's arrival he might have finally found his match, the one person to pull him back from the darkness he's been trying to escape.
For a girl trained to see everything, she certainly never saw him coming.
New friendships become everything when a common enemy and people from her past unite to ruin her and everything she has built for herself.
Lies are told, secrets exposed and betrayals committed.
What does she do? She survives, because that's what she is best at.
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.
*****
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.
[[word count: 50,000-100,000 words]]