("The Great Gatsby" but on crack, and then make it YA and wlw)
Sixteen-year-old Sawyer Murphy's life has been stitched together with loss. The latest blow-her mother's death-leaves Sawyer and her sisters, Hazel and Stella, leaning on their uncle Jacob and his husband Levi for stability. But shadows loom, and one of them, Uncle Anthony, carries cruelty wherever he goes.
The Murpheys belong to "Society" , a charity group of elite, high-class wealthy families. Sawyer's best friend, Cassie McKay, was born into this world as well. Sawyer's home becomes her escape, but their friendship bleeds into something deeper, messier.
Choosing to stay home from boarding school, Sawyer searches for normalcy among the cracks of her shattered family. But everything shifts when a sudden disappearance leaves only a cryptic letter behind.
Sawyer and Cassie push into the unknown, untangling secrets that lie buried beneath the weight of loyalty and betrayal . Each revelation unravels corruption in the only world they've ever known, and details a love they can't quite name but can't turn away from either.
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.