Princess-marigold
Brielle Covington-Hewett's life looks like a highlight reel from the outside-popular, wanted, always at the center of attention-but inside, everything is slipping through her fingers.
Her relationship with Jason Kingston has become the kind of love story people whisper about in hallways. It's intense, addictive, and unstable-an on-and-off cycle of breakups and makeups fueled by jealousy, mistrust, and control. Jason can't stand the idea of Brielle around other men, and what starts as arguments slowly reveals a pattern of emotional manipulation and toxicity that Brielle keeps confusing for passion. Every time she leaves, she comes back. Every time she comes back, she loses a little more of herself.
But Brielle is starting to notice the cracks.
When a "sex map" of the school circulates-tracking hookups, rumors, and tangled histories-Brielle is forced to see her own story laid out like evidence. Not just Jason. Not just the chaos. But the pattern she keeps repeating: love that burns too fast, breaks too hard, and leaves her questioning her worth.
Behind the noise, someone else has been watching her differently.
Anthony Vaughn, one of Jason's closest friends, has been quietly in love with Brielle for a long time. Unlike everything else in her life, he doesn't demand pieces of her-he just notices them. But Brielle is too caught in her storm with Jason to see what's been right in front of her.
And then there's Spider.
Spencer "Spider" White, the brother she never knew she had, is suddenly part of her world-bringing secrets, family truths, and a mirror she isn't ready to look into. As Brielle's life unravels, Spider becomes one of the only people who refuses to let her keep repeating the same cycles.