Blood and Roses
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Last published Thu, Feb 13, 2025
Stella Rossi, smartest girl in her school and carrying the deepest secrets that not even she knows of. She wants to find a way to make her mother smile again and finds a mysterious letter the day of her seventeenth birthday, addressed to just her last name "Rossi".
While uncovering the cryptic letter, two rather contrasting boys also tag along and their fates were supposedly intertwined with hers since the start. Alexander Taylor, the rich popular boy just wants to make Stella notice him while the infamous violinist Maximillian Whitlock just wants this mess to get done with and for some reason he won't tell her the reason why he's helping her.. however both boys seem to be very suspicious.
On her journey to uncover the letter, it seems it gives her answers that she did not even ask for and intrudes on a tragic love story which may also explain all the weird stuff happening since her birthday.. especially her random headaches.. who is claudius? And why is he so important to her? Is he the reason of her newfound sickness?
Who is Elaine and Claudius? What's with the rose significance? Why is Stella feeling so strange since she turned seventeen? Who are Maximillian and Alexander really? Does her given answers truly satisfy her in the end?
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