Princess-marigold
Olympia "Lola" Cross has spent her entire life learning how not to get attached. With a mother who remarried and moved on, and a father-Dan Scott-who vanished without explanation, Lola grew up drifting between homes, never staying long enough to feel rooted anywhere. Independence became her armor, and sarcasm her shield.
When her mother accepts a long-term overseas job, Lola is sent to Tree Hill to live with her aunt, a no-nonsense nurse at Tree Hill Hospital. What starts as another temporary stop quickly becomes something else entirely. Tree Hill has history in its bones-secrets, legacies, and unresolved scars-and Lola is unknowingly tied to many of them.
At Tree Hill High, Lola crosses paths with Brooke Davis: confident, sharp-tongued, and hiding her own fears behind designer clothes and bravado. What begins as playful tension slowly deepens into something tender and dangerous, forcing Lola to confront her fear of belonging and Brooke to risk opening her heart again.
As Lola navigates friendships, family truths, and the looming shadow of the father who abandoned her, she must decide whether she's willing to stop running-because for the first time, staying might mean everything.