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At a school where popularity can open doors and money can make problems disappear, Cory Windslow has learned not to depend on either.
Quietly working at a local bookstore while keeping up her grades and spending her free time in photography club, Cory is perfectly content staying out of the spotlight. She knows where she stands: far from the popular crowd, far from wealthy, and far from interested in playing their games. With her best friend Maddy by her side, she has built a small life that feels safe enough-until the people she has spent years avoiding begin paying attention to her.
Knox Foster is everything Cory tells herself she should stay away from. He is charming, popular, competitive, and accustomed to getting what he wants. As one of the school's hockey stars, Knox seems to have no trouble attracting attention, and his growing interest in Cory quickly complicates the quiet routine she has carefully built for herself.
Then there's Everett Rosewood.
Hockey captain, heir to a powerful family business, and one of the most untouchable people at school, Everett has always seemed to exist in a world completely separate from Cory's. He is confident, competitive, and used to solving problems with money or influence. Cory has no reason to cross paths with him-until circumstances begin pulling them into the same orbit.
What starts as an uncomfortable collision between two very different worlds soon becomes impossible to ignore. Between school rivalries, complicated friendships, hidden tensions, and feelings that refuse to stay simple, Cory finds herself caught somewhere she never expected to be.
Because sometimes the people who seem to have everything are hiding more than anyone realizes-and sometimes getting close to someone means risking the life you worked so hard to keep your own.
For Cory, the hardest part may not be figuring out who she can trust. It may be figuring out whether she can trust herself.