NOT FOR GLORY

She was the quiet girl nobody noticed.

Until she won.

At sixteen, Liora Bennett is Ashmore Academy's brilliant, invisible chemistry prodigy-until one victory puts her in the path of three girls who were never meant to be challenged.

They are beautiful, rich, untouchable, and far more dangerous than they seem.

What begins with whispers and isolation turns into something darker: cruelty hidden behind perfect smiles, power protected by reputation, and pain no one sees until it's far too late.

Liora could speak.

But at Ashmore, the wrong people are always believed. And when she realizes how deeply their world reaches into her own, silence becomes the only price she can afford to pay.

So she endures.

And enduring changes her.

Because some girls are broken quietly.

And some come back colder, sharper, and far more dangerous than the people who destroyed them.

They should have left her alone.