At Blackthorne University, four families sit at the top of everything—wealth, politics, admissions, and reputation itself. The Sterlings, Vales, Sinclairs, and Saint Jameses are known publicly as America’s most powerful dynasties. Privately, they’re known as The Crown. Y/N Sterling, daughter of the most influential family of them all, has spent her entire life as the nation’s golden girl—untouchable, curated, and watched by everyone. But when an anonymous account called IVY//LEAKED begins exposing the darkest secrets of Blackthorne’s elite, the perfect world around her starts to fracture. Whispers turn into evidence. Friendships turn into strategy. Love turns into leverage. And as scandals surface across the four families, Y/N is pulled into a hidden world beneath the university known only as The Hall—a secret society where power is traded in secrets, and nothing stays buried for long. With rival heirs, dangerous alliances, and a truth that threatens to rewrite everything she knows about her family, Y/N quickly realizes one thing: At Blackthorne, reputation isn’t protection. It’s a countdown.