She transferred to escape the past. He made sure the past found her first.Maya Torres is not her real name. Three weeks ago she was Elena Reyes — until a single night in a parking lot, a phone camera, and a group of boys who thought her body was content destroyed everything. Her mother gave her a new identity, a scholarship, and one rule: keep your head down and never look back.Ravenwood Academy was supposed to be the clean slate. Then Alexander Vale noticed her.The golden boy who owns every hallway, every rumor, every locked door after dark. On her first day he publicly claims her. By the second day he has the photograph someone left on her pillow — proof that the people from that night already know she is here. By the third day he has shown her the evidence folder and given her a choice that isn’t really a choice at all:Help him take down Elias Crowe (the boy who still has the original files), or watch everything her mother sacrificed burn in a group chat by morning.Alexander says this is about justice. He says his cousin never got a second chance. He says he will protect her.But protection from Alexander Vale feels a lot like possession. And the more Maya learns, the less she knows who the real monster is — the boys who already broke her, or the one who is determined to own every shattered piece.Some secrets don’t stay buried. Some bullies don’t let go. And some girls don’t survive senior year the same way they entered it.