“I didn’t fall for him. I fell on my knees… and forgot how to get up.” -Aria Hale Nineteen-year-old Aria Hale doesn’t belong here. Not in the mansion-lined dorms. Not in the chandelier-lit dining halls. Not in the silent wars waged between silk skirts and s*x tapes. She’s not legacy. Not blood. Not even rich. Just a forged name and a faked background, smuggled into high society by a mother who married up, then murdered her way into old money. Saint Ivy was supposed to be her clean start. Instead, it becomes her undoing. Because then there’s Jasper Blackwell.. twenty-four, dominant, feral in a black coat. Her stepbrother’s best friend. The school's unspoken king. He doesn't flirt. He hunts. And from the moment he looks at Aria, he doesn’t want to kiss her. He wants to ruin her. He’s part of the Lucien Circle.. a secret society of heirs, professors, and predators who trade in s*x, blackmail, and blood. And now, they want Aria. She should run. But instead? She falls… Into Jasper’s voice. Into his threats. Into his rules: Obey. Beg. Be good. Or get punished. But there’s more. Her stepbrother Leo is in love with Jasper. Aria knows. She caught him. Watching. Wanting. Hating himself so much he f****d her just to prove he was straight. Now he’s spiraling. And the tape’s about to leak. As masked rituals unfold, recordings surface, and the truth about Aria’s real father unravels… she’s forced to face what she’s always feared: She wasn’t sent here to escape.She was sent here to disappear. To survive, Aria must become the dirtiest, most dangerous version of herself because at Saint Ivy, you don’t graduate clean. You crawl out bloodied, bruised… and filthy enough to rule. The girl is already bad and the boy? Worse.