TULIPS tethered

TULIPS tethered

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Natalie Rhodes came to Kingsley with a scholarship, a fresh start, and a secret: while her classmates spend their allowances on campus coffee, she's pulling late shifts at a diner twenty minutes off campus, hoping no one ever finds out. Someone already knows more about her than she realizes. The Student Body President - cold, controlling, worshipped and feared in equal measure - has been watching her since before she even arrived. What Natalie doesn't know is why. As she settles in, two friendships start pulling her in different directions - Samuel, steady and quietly attentive, and Lucas, whose feelings for her arrive right as Samuel starts to feel something too. Meanwhile, whispers are spreading: the ice-cold President seems different around her. Nervous. Lenient. And Audrey, who's fought for every inch of her place at Kingsley, isn't willing to watch the rules bend for a girl who seems to have it all handed to her. Natalie doesn't know yet that the boy in the old photograph hidden in her mother's cupboard has a name. Or that he already knows hers. When the truth finally surfaces, it doesn't just rewrite her family - it pulls her into the middle of a house, a friendship, and a heart she never asked to be responsible for. And through the fallout, one person keeps showing up - not to fix things, but simply to stay. And somewhere in the chaos, Raphael Sinclair - who's always known exactly what he wants and how to get it - realizes he no longer has a plan for her.
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