Manhattan is a city divided by much more than social classes, it is torn between light and darkness.
On the Low Side, full of injustices, survival is synonymous with blood, where rival gangs, Shadow Ravens and Blood Hunts dictate the rules in the shadows.
Kylie, feared leader of the Ravens, spent a year behind bars after a death that changed everything, and is ready to regain what she lost... and destroy those who dared to betray her.
Next to her, Ruby, her half-sister, marked by scars from that night, tries to resist the abyss that pulls her back. But running away from the ghosts of the Low is impossible when you are born among them.
Meanwhile, In Alto, live the privileged, luxury, influence and a seemingly untouchable life.
Malia has always lived on the right side of the city, wealth, clean name and hatred for the Low side. Daughter of one of the most influential families in Manhattan, she learned to despise the underworld.
But nothing prepared her for Kylie, insolent, dangerous, provocative, who crosses her path and turns her world upside down.
Jenna, Malia's cousin, returns to the city after two years away. Free, unpredictable and indifferent to the rules of the High, she never cared about status or appearance.
When she meets Ruby, she sees someone who tries to hide from the world and from herself. And Jenna is willing to cross each wall that Ruby built, even though she is warned that the path to her is too dangerous.
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On the night of Malia Baker's 18th birthday party, heiress to one of Manhattan's most influential families, the Shadow Ravens, invade the territory without anyone noticing.
Between luxury clothes, discreetly stolen jewelry and looks that burn more than alcohol, four lives intertwine, and nothing else is the same as before.
Four girls. Two worlds. An encounter that lights a flame impossible to extinguish.
Because in Manhattan, everything that starts with a look... can end with blood.
Original Author @phanywatt
Kylie Cantrall and Malia Baker were once inseparable - childhood best friends with matching bracelets and late-night video calls that never ended in goodbyes. But everything changed the day Malia disappeared without a word. No texts. No explanations. Just silence.
Two years later, Malia's back - colder, sharper, and with a mysterious edge that Kylie doesn't recognize... or trust. The betrayal still burns in Kylie's chest, and it doesn't help that Malia acts like she never cared in the first place.
Tension sparks the moment they reunite. The hallway stares. The biting remarks. The undeniable chemistry.
What neither of them wants to admit is that under the bitterness lies something unspoken. Something real. But with old wounds, buried secrets, and their tight-knit friend group caught in the crossfire, Kylie and Malia must decide: will they let the past define them, or risk everything for what might still be burning between them?
Enemies by fate. Lovers by choice... if they can survive each other first.