Ella Valencia, a scholarship student at Crestwood Academy, is the target of relentless bullying by Tiffany Kensington—a senator‘s daughter who rules the school with fear. Humiliated, assaulted, and recorded, Ella stands at the edge of an abandoned rooftop, ready to end it all. But Jace Hartwell pulls her back—a boy with his own scars, who lost his sister Lila to the same cruelty three years ago. Together, they train, gather evidence, and peel back the layers of Tiffany’s perfect facade, uncovering a web of domestic abuse, political corruption, and a cover-up that reaches the highest levels of power. As Ella transforms from prey to predator, she must decide: break the cycle of violence, or become part of it. In the end, she chooses to be the one who stops the wheel—and finds freedom not in revenge, but in reclaiming herself.
