BW

Ashlee transfers to Olympeius hoping to leave her old reputation behind. Unfortunately, rumors travel faster than she does. To everyone else, she’s the violent new girl who’s always covered in bruises, bandages, and injuries she refuses to explain. The truth is stranger: Ashlee can feel other people’s pain, hear the thoughts buried inside it, and—sometimes without meaning to—take their injuries onto herself. Olympeius is already divided by status, bullying, grudges, secrets, and relationships complicated long before Ashlee arrived. Jericho carries more than he’ll ever admit. Hyugo disappears often enough that nobody knows what he’s really doing. Solivan and Jericho hate each other for reasons that may reach further back than either of them understands. And Solivan is already tangled up with Emily. Ashlee was never supposed to become part of any of it. But the closer she gets to them, the harder it becomes to ignore what they’re hiding—because pain has a way of speaking to her. And sometimes, all Ashlee has to think is I wish I could help. Then the wound becomes hers.