kthvorig
sixteen-year-old Jessica blain has spent her whole life under the glare of the mirror. Every day, her mother drills perfection into her-every step, every turn, every flaw reflected back until it's all she can see. Dance is supposed to be her way out, her mother's dream made flesh, but lately, the routines feel more like chains than choreography.
At home, things are no easier. Her brothers-the one part of her world that's always felt solid-start acting strange: late nights, hushed voices, secrets traded behind closed doors. When a small mistake at the studio spirals into something much darker at home, she starts to see the cracks in the life she thought she knew.
Now she's caught between two kinds of control-her mother's relentless pursuit of perfection and whatever shadow her brothers are hiding in. As she digs for answers, she'll have to decide which truth is worse: the one that's being kept from her, or the one she's been trained not to see.