You think you know someone, but you don't. The classmate beside you could secretly be one of the most feared gang leaders in Noraxus, and you would have no idea. For Theia Reeves, this duality is her life. A student by day and a gang member by night, she navigates the two worlds in a delicate balance.
Tragedy struck at a young age, leaving her an orphan. Witnessing her parents' tragic demise at the hands of a ruthless gang that terrorised Noraxus, the Reapers, she vowed to avenge them.
Rescued and adopted by the Reeves family, leaders of The Shadows, she trained to become a formidable assassin. Her name whispered in fear and awe throughout the underworld.
Years passed and the Reapers seemingly vanished from the face of the earth. No one knows where they went or if they are dead. Despite their disappearance, Theia continues living for her parents' sake, striving to change the world for the better instead of succumbing to a life of anger and despair.
A series of attacks sweeps the country by storm, targeting the top three gangs in Noraxus and revealing a new and dangerous gang behind them. Faced with a common enemy, the gangs form an alliance to combat the looming threat. When Theia meets Greyson King, the enigmatic and cold-hearted leader of the Phantoms, the most powerful gang in Noraxus, her life is thrown into a whirlwind of secrets and revelations. While navigating this alliance, an ancient prophecy is unveiled, binding their fates and souls together in ways they never expected, much to Greyson's dismay.
Skeletons begin to emerge from long-sealed closets, leading to a shocking revelation that rocks Theia's world. The true nature of her parents' involvement with the Reapers and the hidden motives behind their deaths come to light, forcing Theia to confront painful truths.
How will Theia navigate this newfound knowledge? She doesn't know what's worse-the fact that she has been lied to her entire life or that she's slowly falling for the cold hearted leader.
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.