Behind Closed Doors

Sixteen-year-old Jade Andrews has spent her entire life in Fairview - a town where everyone knows your name, but nobody knows the truth.

Behind the quiet streets and perfect houses, Jade's world has never been safe. At home, she lives under the control of her abusive stepfather, learning to keep her head down, stay quiet, and never give anyone a reason to look too closely.

At school, she has become invisible.

Small, only 4'10", with long brown hair and dark eyes that have learned to avoid attention, Jade has spent years being the girl people whisper about, laugh at, and walk past. Fairview High has never been kind to her, and she has never expected it to be.

Until Hunter Lockwood arrives at the centre of her world.

Six foot five, captain of the rugby team, with blonde hair, piercing blue eyes, and a surname that carries as much power as his family's historic estate, Hunter is everything Jade is not. He is admired. Feared. Untouchable.

The Lockwood family has always owned the biggest house, the most land, and the most influence in Fairview. Hunter is the golden son, surrounded by his four younger siblings and a legacy he is expected to protect.

Alongside Noah, Xavier, Zach, and Luke, Hunter rules the halls of Fairview High.

And for years, Jade has been one of their favourite targets.

But when Hunter begins noticing the things everyone else ignores - the fear behind Jade's silence, the cracks in the perfect image she tries to maintain - he starts questioning everything he thought he knew.

Because Fairview has always had secrets.

And Jade Andrews might be the one person brave enough to expose them.