Death of a Star

Raine Antares should be dead. However, she was rescued and healed-- at least physically. She knows that she's only alive because her intelligence is valued in a world where intellect and skill is all that matters. To her parents and everyone else, Raine is just a resource to be used. Soon after she's fully recovered, Raine's shipped off to an elite academy. There, she finally finds people she can trust, who truly care about her and like her for who she is, something she never imagined would happen. Raine realizes that there might be things worth living for in the broken society she was born in, and that change needs to happen.

Chess prodigy Callen Vega has always been at the top of the hierarchy. He's intelligent, famous, and attractive. He has the life that people would kill for, but he's not satisfied with it. His life is dull and mundane and he's constantly craving a challenge, one he'll never get. But when the intriguing new transfer student arrives, his life starts to change in ways he never would've expected, and he knows he can never go back to the way things were before.