Episodes
- 1The Girl Nobody SeesRead free
- 2The ConditionRead free
- 3Silence Is a VerbRead free
- 4The Lake Party In the app
- 5Accidents Happen In the app
- 6The East Balcony In the app
- 7The Gap In the app
- 8The Honest Report In the app
- 9The Photograph In the app
- 10The Nomination In the app
- 11The Price of Returning In the app
- 12Terms of Observation In the app
- 13The Empty Chair In the app
- 14What Sloane Wants In the app
- 15The Wrong Kind of Help In the app
- 16The Pact In the app
- 17Rules for Keeping Quiet In the app
- 18The Quiet Test In the app
- 19The Report Between the Lines In the app
- 20Forwarded In the app
- 21The First False Report In the app
- 22The Better Lie In the app
- 23Two Knocks and One In the app
- 24Good Work, Hazel In the app
- 25What Protection Costs In the app
- 26The East Fountain In the app
- 27The Formal Committee In the app
- 28Borrowed Silk In the app
- 29One Dance In the app
- 30Almost In the app
- 31After the Stairs In the app
- 32The Safe Choice In the app
- 33Civic Duty In the app
- 34Things We Leave Out In the app
- 35A Better Version In the app
- 36The Photograph He Kept In the app
- 37The Price of Being Useful In the app
- 38The Door Behind the Study In the app
- 39What Celeste Knew In the app
- 40The Hand on Her Arm In the app
- 41The Story They Want In the app
- 42The Foundation Display In the app
- 43The Locked Room In the app
- 44The Silver Envelope In the app
- 45The Wrong Reasons In the app
- 46What the Cameras Missed In the app
- 47The Fountain Record In the app
- 48The Safe Answer In the app
- 49The Green Dress In the app
- 50One Year Later In the app
About this story
Hazel Adeyemi has spent most of her life knowing exactly how to survive around the Ashfords. See nothing. Hear nothing. And never, ever notice the boy. Theo Ashford is everything Hazel has been taught to avoid. He is rich, reckless, infamous, and suspected of pushing his own mother from the balcony of Ashford House. Hazel knows the story everyone at Ashgrove Academy believes. She also knows it is not the whole truth. Nine months ago, hidden inside the servants’ staircase, Hazel witnessed the moment before Celeste Ashford fell. She saw a man’s hand gripping Celeste’s arm. And on that hand was the Ashford signet ring. Now Theo has returned for senior year, and Hazel has been chosen as the peer mentor responsible for keeping him out of trouble. The closer she gets to the boy everyone calls guilty, the harder it becomes to believe he is the monster they say he is. But Theo is searching for the truth too. And Hazel is hiding the one thing that could change everything. Because in the Ashford family, secrets do not stay buried without a price. And falling for the boy she was never supposed to notice may cost Hazel everything she has spent her whole life trying to protect.
Story genome
What kind of ride this is, before you start.
- Tone
- mysterious, cinematic, emotionally direct · serial escalation
- Relationship
- dynamic ensemble
- Conflict
- external mystery
- Setting
- Young Adult Romance
- Rules of the world
- story-specific rules
- Ending style
- serial payoff
- Cliffhanger4/5
- Violence2/5
- Romance1/5
- Comedy1/5
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