Kayla Ashford has three things she can count on: her grades, her crown, and the crumbling silence of a house that's falling apart behind closed doors. Being first — smartest, prettiest, most wanted — is the only proof she has that she isn't as broken as everything around her.Then Sienna Reyes transfers in. Quiet, guarded, brilliant without even trying — and suddenly Kayla isn't first anymore.What starts as jealousy curdles into something crueler. A rumor. A torn sketchbook. A promposal built entirely as bait. By the time the trap closes at Homecoming, in front of the entire school and a phone camera that won't stop recording, there's no version of "it was just a joke" that survives the fallout.Some mistakes you apologize for. Some you have to spend a lifetime becoming someone new to deserve forgiving.Sunflower Girl is a story about the quiet violence of high school hierarchies, the wounds that turn us into people we don't recognize, and the long, unglamorous work of finding your way back to yourself when the worst thing you've ever done is also the thing that finally makes you look