The novel follows Sophia (Sophie) Lane and Leo, childhood friends who met at age three in a fairy-tale snowfall and have been inseparable ever since. Now sixteen and starting at Saint Alden High School, their dynamic remains unchanged—Sophia is chaotic, perpetually late, food-obsessed, and academically challenged, while Leo is disciplined, academically gifted, popular, and endlessly patient with her.

I lied to get into Hawthorne Academy. He caught me — then invited me to learn how to get away with murder. Sebastian Vane runs a secret society in the burned chapel beneath our school. They trade in favors. Permanent favors. When his sister drowned last spring, everyone called it an accident. He called it murder. And now he wants me — scholarship girl, expert liar, nobody — to prove it.The problem? I can't tell if he wants justice, revenge, or a scapegoat. The bigger problem? I'm not sure I care.Dark academia. Secret societies. The kind of boy your mother warned you about — and the kind of girl who never listens.New chapters weekly.