At seventeen years old, Jasper Wilde has always been a model child on the surface, with his big blue eyes and blonde hair, he's every parents dream, except his own. Life had always been comfortable, steady, the same but in a turn of events, Jasper is told that he's going to boarding school, the boarding school his Uncle owns. An Uncle he hasn't seen nor heard off in over ten years. His worst nightmare is about to come true as he's plummeted head first into a strange new world of prestige and the perfection of his two cousins, Lillian and Oliver who set the bar so high that people are surprised even they meet it. Not only are they smart, amazingly talented and top of the class but they're drop dead gorgeous, but beneath the beauty lurks a more dark and sinister truth. Slowly Jasper is beginning to realize that he is just the pawn in a larger game, a game that going to leave him fighting with his sanity, conscience and the lines between right and wrong.
Ella is falling apart trying to live a "perfect" high school life. Then she meets Ren, who can see past her scars. Suddenly perfection isn't her only option.
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Ella Volkov is a gifted music student, but she's depressed and starting to crack under the pressure of high school. Her overbearing father won't even let her choose what instrument she plays. Then she finds herself alone at a party with Ren, her best friend's crush. She'd always thought he was rude, but after that night he's all Ella can think about. Now she's trapped. If Ella dates Ren, it will ruin her friendship with Jenny. But if she stays true to Jenny, she's losing the one person who can see past her scars. It's up to Ella to decide if she will forge her own path, or stay in the "perfect" box designed for her...
Content and/or Trigger Warning: depression, anxiety, self-harm, violence, sexual assault.
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