Due to a custody dispute Charlie Summers moved from her New York penthouse while only living with her mother to a house in the lovely suberbs of lake shores, in Grosse Pointe, Michigan with her dad, a respected member of the community, and a local football coach.
Charlie soon attends Arden Rose high school as a jr. where her dad coaches the Vikings Varsity football team. Smart, funny, beautiful, every guy finds themselves falling for her and wanting her. She may have made friends but shes also made enemy's. Olivia Blake is among those enemy's. As Arden's Queen Bea she's use to all the attention, she's used to being the heartbreaker, the one everyone wants, she sees it as her world and everyone else just gets to live in it. Also as her step sisters best friend the two conspire against her planning to send her running back to New York. But things don't always go as planned.
With a new life, which she quickly adjusts to, comes new friends and even old ones, she finds herself happy. But when she learns secrets no one intended her to find out things take a turn for the worst?
Ella is falling apart trying to live a "perfect" high school life. Then she meets Ren, who can see past her scars. Suddenly perfection isn't her only option.
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Ella Volkov is a gifted music student, but she's depressed and starting to crack under the pressure of high school. Her overbearing father won't even let her choose what instrument she plays. Then she finds herself alone at a party with Ren, her best friend's crush. She'd always thought he was rude, but after that night he's all Ella can think about. Now she's trapped. If Ella dates Ren, it will ruin her friendship with Jenny. But if she stays true to Jenny, she's losing the one person who can see past her scars. It's up to Ella to decide if she will forge her own path, or stay in the "perfect" box designed for her...
Content and/or Trigger Warning: depression, anxiety, self-harm, violence, sexual assault.
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