17 partes Concluida Contenido adultoSixteen-year-old Noah Marchand lives with his single mother and younger sister in a densely packed concrete block by the sea in Toulon, France. They're poor, like, really poor. He escapes to the water. Swimming is his only peace, his only freedom. One day, his talent is spotted. He's offered a rare scholarship to an elite private school on the hill, the kind of place with tailored uniforms and kids who smell like money and generational power.
There, he meets Julien Moreau, a cold, magnetic rich boy who seems to take an interest in him for reasons Noah can't fully understand. Their connection is tense, confusing, charged. They begin something that neither of them fully names secret, volatile, and often cruel. Julien makes Noah sneak into his house at night. Acts like a stranger at school. It's messy. Intoxicating. Dangerous.
But this book isn't a romance. It's about class, identity, ambition, and loneliness. Noah's world is full of noise his mother's struggle, his sister's needs, the pressure to succeed, and the raw hunger for something more. And maybe it all burns down. Or maybe he swims through it.