BT

Y/N trusts fictional characters more than real people. At nineteen, the Briar University English and Creative Writing student spends her life surrounded by books, notebooks, ballet shoes, and her spoiled calico cat, Snickers. Three years earlier, a trusted teacher sexually assaulted her. Nobody knows. Books became her escape. Writing became her voice. Ballet became a way to reclaim her body. And self-harm became a harmful way of coping with everything she couldn’t say. Then Grace starts dating John Logan, pulling Y/N into the orbit of the Hawk House. Suddenly she’s surrounded by Garrett and Hannah, Logan and Grace, Tucker and Sabrina, Allie, Beau, Summer—and Dean Heyward-Di Laurentis. Dean is confident, flirtatious, experienced, loud, beautiful, and exactly the kind of man Y/N assumes she could never trust. Except Dean listens. He asks. He remembers. He accepts no. He accepts changed minds. He doesn’t read things that aren’t his to read. And when Y/N retreats behind a book, he gradually learns when she wants somebody to coax her back out—and when she simply needs someone willing to sit beside her. Dean can’t rewrite what happened. Grace can’t erase it. Cameron can’t go backward and protect his little sister. Rebecca and Michael can’t fix what they never knew about. Her friends can’t heal her for her. But Y/N can slowly begin reclaiming everything that was always supposed to belong to her. Her body. Her voice. Her choices. Her future. And somewhere between the pages, the girl who always wants to know the ending first begins to realize that maybe not knowing what happens next doesn’t always have to be terrifying.