"You don't have to be someone else for people to like you. The real Sophie is enough."
When Sophie started at her new school, Zoey was her escape from loneliness. But being friends with Zoey came with a price-endless parties, constant pressure, and always doing things she didn't want to do. Breaking free wasn't easy, but with Bryant's quiet guidance, she found the strength to walk away.
That's when Stephanie and Finn entered her life. At first, they were everything she needed-supportive, fun, and exactly the kind of friends she thought she deserved. But things began to change. Stephanie's charm hid a manipulative streak, and Finn's wild unpredictability became exhausting. Slowly, Sophie found herself tangled in yet another toxic web, unable to escape.
When Stephanie betrays her in the most devastating way, Sophie is forced to confront the truth about her choices and the people she surrounds herself with. Haunted by the past, with Bryant reappearing in her life, Sophie must decide: will she continue sacrificing herself for friendships that drain her, or will she finally put herself first?
Tangled Ties is a powerful coming-of-age story about the struggle to break free, the courage to set boundaries, and the messy journey of finding yourself. Perfect for readers who love heartfelt, emotional stories of growth and resilience.
In the day-to-day trenches of high school, it is almost the default-setting to believe we are the main character of our own coming-of-age story.
This is not wrong. It's just ours isn't the only story there is.
The jocks, the nerds, the cheerleaders, the losers, the stoners, the fangirls, the skaters. Everyone's the realest most important person in existence, all of them, at the same time, first-person narrators to their own stories, stumbling into each other's plot lines, defying the status-quo, catalysts to ups and downs.
A deconstruction of all the high school tropes and cliches written over the years, a deep-dive into the psyche of students trying to finish high school while going through irrevocable self-discovery, the most improbable of connections, and the insufferable pains of growing up.