Aria_Tarin
When scholarship student Harper Quinn steps into Armitage Academy, a school for New York's elite, she plans to keep her head down, ace her classes, and ignore the cameras at the gates. Then she collides with Holden Vale: heir with a blade for a smile, a temper the tabloids love, and friends who move like a dynasty in motion.
They should orbit different worlds. Instead, gravity happens.
Parties that glitter, rules that bite, a boy who swears he doesn't feel and a girl who keeps proving he does. In the shadow of penthouses and family empires, Harper finds a tight-knit circle she was never meant to enter and a pull she can't outrun.
But in this city, surnames are currency and secrets are sport. To survive the game or change it Harper and Holden will have to decide what their names are worth...and what they're willing to risk for something real.
Welcome to a world of glass penthouses, iron-clad surnames, and gold-leaf lies, where five best friends protect each other like a religion. When scandals detonate, these heirs will have to choose. Dynasty or desire. They were raised to play the game. They're about to rewrite the rules.
A swoony, slow-burn romance about found family, forbidden lines, and the moment love stops being leverage and starts being home.