“In the late 1980’s, the aristocrats of education gathered to harvest a school so elite that it would only cater for the beautiful, rich and talented. A school where status was everything and intelligence was overlooked. A school where the silverware was rare edition and the floors were imported from China. A school for perfection.
On that day, Ashfield Academy was created.
It was every student’s dream.
Every student’s but mine.”
Mia Bow is a commoner, hailing from the outskirts of town. It had been a year or so since the accident which gave her brief amnesia, causing her to lose years of her memory. She had a pretty ordinary life after that, until Ashfield Academy found her. Being selected to attend the most exclusive, high-class school in the country would be an honour for anyone offered, everyone except Mia. It’s hard to start off at a new school, let alone being the only average girl in a stack of rich delicacies.
Along the way, she finds comfort in some friends willing to oversee her previous tuition, friends she thinks she can trust. But also along the way picks up a few enemies, including the incredibly handsome, incredibly famous Christian Ashfield, the son of the principal and the king of the school; who she hopelessly falls for despite his snarky arrogance towards her. As she deals with her social life, she can’t escape the fear that someone is always watching her and the alarm that something dark is arising from her lost memories.
When someone dies mysteriously during a Psych experiment, Rhiannon becomes enmeshed in a conspiracy that includes both the survivors and the killer.
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Short on cash, Rhiannon Ford signs up to take part in a social psychology experiment based on group think. But when a participant dies under mysterious circumstances, and the story surrounding that death seems mired in conflicting lies, she's quickly drawn into a web of conspiracies that merge urban legends, rivalries, and the very psychological principle the test was about. When everyone is lying, how can Rhiannon find the truth?
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