The Everhart Effect
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The Everhart Effect
She was born to rule. But what happens when the crown starts to crack?
Seventeen year old Sloane Everhart is the epitome of curated perfection - heir to a tech empire, president of every committee that matters, and queen of Harvard-Westlake's elite. From the outside, she's untouchable: commanding, cold, immaculate. The kind of girl whose approval is currency... and whose disapproval is a death sentence.
But behind the gilded walls of The Sand Castle, Sloane's flawless life is a carefully choreographed illusion. Underneath the designer labels and power plays is a girl suffocating under legacy, loneliness, and the crushing fear of being truly seen.
Then comes Alaric Torres - the scholarship soccer star with nothing to lose and eyes that see too much. He doesn't bow to her world. He challenges it. And her.
She's not falling. She's evolving.
And she's rewriting the rules - one calculated move at a time.
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