Ella Sterling, 18, returns to Notting Hill Academy after five years in exile, only to be bound by the mysterious Crown System. She has 90 days to make four Crown Candidates—childhood friend Noah, rival’s son Lucas, mafia heir Diego, and the enigmatic Sebastian—truly confess their love, or be erased from existence. But as she uncovers her mother’s suspicious death, Ella learns their families forced her mother into a fateful agreement. With the system controlling her body and assassins closing in, she turns the game into a deadly alliance: five against four powerful families.