Violent Grace

Some battles aren't fought for victory, only for survival.

At Northwood High, intelligence is currency, popularity is power, and weakness is punished.

Leo Martinez is a prodigy with no allies, carrying secrets no one wants to see. Daniel Vance has everything-status, admiration, control-and he intends to keep it. When rivalry turns into obsession, Leo becomes the target of a cruelty that goes far beyond the classroom.

As the school watches and does nothing, a boy is slowly erased, not by one act of violence, but by many acts of silence.

Dark, harrowing, and emotionally unflinching, this story explores the devastating consequences of unchecked power, the normalization of abuse, and the haunting truth that the worst wounds are often the ones no one sees.

A psychological tragedy about survival, guilt, and the moment when cruelty finally looks back at itself.