At Blackwood Academy, everything is polished—expensive uniforms, powerful families, perfect grades, and carefully guarded reputations. For Y/N, senior year should have been about surviving exams and making it to graduation. Then there's Mr. Whitmore, the school's brilliant 38-year-old English teacher who has somehow become the most talked-about man on campus. Between academic rivalries, school politics, friendships, rumors, parties, and secrets hiding behind Blackwood's perfect image, senior year is about to become far more complicated than Y/N ever expected. At Blackwood, everyone has something to hide. The question is what happens when the perfect image finally cracks.
You go work a side job with you're older sister but what happens when her boss starts to notice you but the thing is you're sister has a massive crush on him
Her parents call it an attitude problem. Simon Baker calls it something else. He's one of the most sought-after therapists in the city—brilliant, charming, and unnervingly observant. He's spent years reading people who walk into his office believing they can hide behind money, lies, and carefully constructed personalities. Then Y/N becomes his newest patient. Her wealthy parents want him to fix their difficult daughter. Simon isn't convinced she needs fixing. At first, she's simply another case. Another person to understand. Another story waiting to be uncovered. But the longer their sessions continue, the more complicated things become. Because Simon has always been exceptionally good at reading people. And eventually, he meets someone he can't.
After years of war, 27-year-old Elias Carter returns home and is taken in by Y/N’s family while he adjusts to civilian life. He looks like an intimidating monster—but behind the soldier is a man unfamiliar with ordinary family life, romance, and everything outside the battlefield. As Elias becomes part of the household, slow-burning connections, family drama, unexpected feelings, and secrets from his past begin to unfold.
Every Halloween, someone disappears from Blackwood. This year, y/n meets a mysterious stranger at a college Halloween party—charming, playful, and impossible to forget. She doesn't know he's the man behind the mask. The Jester. And as their slow-burning connection grows, y/n begins to realize that the most dangerous person she's ever met might also be the one she can't stay away from. Some masks hide faces. His hides a killer.
