elite private school · high school setting · mean girls · social hierarchy · romance · drama · popular clique · us academy · new student · teenage rivalry
The rain-slicked road, the screech of tires, the crushing silence after—my world ended at four years old. My father was gone. My legs were gone. Life narrowed to the confines of a wheelchair and the vast, echoing halls of my mother's estate. Years passed in a blur of private tutors and solitary afternoons. That isolation shattered today when she announced my enrollment at Crestwood Academy, the nation's most prestigious and socially brutal private school. The gilded cage door has swung open, and I'm rolling straight into the heart of a glittering, cutthroat world.