He was raised to be perfect—controlled, polished, and untouched by chaos. Alistair Valemont has always lived under legacy and expectation until he’s sent to a quiet college town under a hidden identity. There, he meets Y/N Hawthorne—loud, warm, and completely unlike his world. She doesn’t try to change him… she just pulls him into a life that feels real. And slowly, everything he was becomes something else.