Crystal Rodriguez had it all. The perfect reputation. The perfect friends. The perfect boyfriend. As Lockwood High’s cheer captain and the queen of California’s most elite private school, her future looked flawless—until prom night shattered everything. One betrayal was all it took to destroy the life she spent years building. Humiliated, abandoned, and broken, Crystal disappears from the spotlight and leaves California behind, determined to start over at Harvard. But life has a funny way of rewriting stories. Especially when the quiet scholarship boy she never truly noticed in high school becomes the one person who sees every broken piece of her… and loves her anyway. Nicholas Pitcher knows what it means to survive. Crystal knows what it means to lose everything. Together, they learn that sometimes the end of one life is the beginning of another. Because every person—rich or poor—has a story