Between Bruises and Butterflies
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St. Augustine Academy is no ordinary school. It's a playground for the rich, a battlefield for the broken, and a maze of friendships laced with betrayal.
When a new transfer student steps through its gates, she carries more than just her sketchbook - she carries the weight of a past she's desperate to forget. But survival in this school isn't as simple as staying quiet. Not when the class is full of people with sharp tongues, hidden scars, and hearts that bruise as easily as they fall.
Between rival sections, chaotic school events, and dangerous old ghosts creeping closer, she'll have to decide:
Fight, fall, or run.
Because in St. Augustine, love isn't gentle.
And some enemies wear the face of someone you once loved.
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