It's senior year at Monte Carlston Prep and it's famous students are fighting for the coveted eight positions of SOAR: Seniors Overseas Achievers Retreat, a glamorous and respected semester abroad filled with the most enviable opportunities available in Europe.
There's Kiara Satusky, rich and beautiful, a party girl haunted by a devastating tragedy. Then, her old best friend Astrid Flores, the sweet one, stifled by her demons of perfection and her past loves. The infamously intelligent Maya Singh, a no-bullshit girl who knows what she wants, suffocating under the sins of her father. And senator daughter Lola Westwood, the very definition of elegance but at a steep cost too that few people know and even fewer can stomach.
As for the other four spots? Marco Wolfe, notoriously disgraced playboy who attracts trouble, and his best friend Noah Hermés, fashion royalty plagued by dark trauma and addicted to his vices. Perceptive, talented Gabriel Rubio, putting pieces together about his disappeared father. Lastly, new incomer from LA, Jaden Woods, an uprising athlete with a checkered story.
SOAR brought them together. But as some of the richest teenagers in the world jet off, how will SOAR tear them apart? What will happen? Who will fall first? And most importantly, what will be revealed?
Attraction, money, and secrets are a dangerous mix, bound for chaos...
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Inspired by: All Eyes on Us by Harpiche
#9 in Abroad!
Some love stories begin with a kiss. Others begin with a lie.
Elisa Kai never meant to fall for the golden boy next door.
Damien Jackson was everything she wasn't-effortless smile, easy confidence, and the kind of charm that made the whole world orbit around him.
Elisa? She was the quiet girl everyone whispered about-the one who stared at the Jacksons' perfect life from her window, convinced she didn't belong in their world.
Convinced she didn't belong at all.
But then, she crossed a line. And Damien chose her.
For a while, it felt like a dream. Like she was finally more than just the rumors. But every fairytale has a shadow.
Drake Jackson is that shadow.
Damien's younger brother is sharp where Damien is soft, chaotic where he's calm-and he watches Elisa like he knows exactly what she's hiding.
He's arrogant. Infuriating. Always one step too close with a smirk that drives her insane. And worse? He never goes away.
When Damien leaves for college, everything changes.
Drake becomes the new king of the school while Elisa is fighting to make a name for herself in fashion.
And what was once teasing turns into something darker. Something magnetic.
Then Damien comes back.
Now Elisa is caught between the boy who made her feel seen-and the one who never stopped watching.
Old sparks reignite. New tensions boil over.
What started as a simple love story begins to unravel into something far messier, far more dangerous. Secrets simmer beneath the surface-about the past, about what's real, and about the Jackson brothers themselves.
And then...tragedy shatters everything.
What follows is heartbreak, silence, and blame.
As the rumors grow louder, the whispers get crueler, and her world spins further out of control, Elisa must face one truth:
Sometimes, the person who saves you... is also the one who could destroy you.
And not every love story survives the truth.