WC

Banished to a strict English boarding school by her fed-up father after a massive public scandal back home, a wealthy, ultra-spoiled international girl plots to get expelled as quickly as possible. She arrives at Abbey Mount in the autumn of 2008 with a mountain of custom luggage, a fierce chip on her shoulder, and a foolproof plan: she will break every single rule, terrorize the faculty, and force the school to send her back to her lavish life of luxury. However, her chaotic mission hits an immediate, towering roadblock in the form of Sam Winchester, the school’s brilliant and impeccably organized Head Boy. Standing tall in a sharply tailored school blazer, Sam is the ultimate embodiment of academic discipline and quiet authority. While the rest of the faculty struggles to handle her rich-girl tantrums and biting sarcasm, Sam is completely unbothered. He matches her sharp wit with a frustratingly calm, protective presence, refusing to let her pull rank or manipulate the system. Instead of reporting her to get her kicked out, Sam makes it his personal project to keep her in line, forcing her to adapt to early morning chapel, strict uniform inspections, and mandatory study hours. The more she tries to sabotage the school, the more she finds herself trapped in close proximity with Sam—sharing intense, lingering glances across the crowded dining hall, brushing hands over textbooks in the ancient library stacks, and engaging in hushed, breathless arguments in empty classrooms past curfew. Sam's steady, unyielding nature slowly breaks down her defensive, haughty outer shell, forcing her to confront the vulnerability she hides beneath her pride. As she schemes to survive the semester, she realizes that the biggest threat to her escape plan isn't the prison-like boarding school—it’s the fact that she is secretly, desperately craving the one boy whose job it is to keep her trapped.