spotlight: a sbg story

WARNING: this includes loads of oc x canon!!
-> Max x Ben - friends, to lovers, to exes
-> Max x Celeste - childhood friends, to strangers, to friends, to lovers
-> Briella x Logan - enemies, to lovers

Briella Garner's life is a whirlwind of flashing cameras, designer brands, and perfectly curated social media posts. As a rising model, she's learned to balance the chaos, finding solace in quiet moments with her brother, Noah, and her closest friends, Aiden and Ben Clark. But beneath the glamour lies a world of shadows-one she can't ignore.

When Briella meets Max, an enigmatic girl with midnight-blue eyes, something shifts. There's something about Max, something magnetic, something... familiar. And Briella, always one to trust her gut, knows this girl is meant to be in her life. As they grow closer, forging a bond deeper than friendship, the world around them darkens. Phantoms-creatures that lurk in the unseen-are rising, threatening everything Briella holds dear.

Briella and her friends are thrown into a battle they never asked for, witnessing horrors they never could have imagined. Blood stains the sidewalks, the whispers of the dead cling to their skin, and trust becomes a fragile thing in a world where betrayal waits in the shadows.

But in the end, it's not the phantoms that will break Briella. It's the one person she never saw coming.