Paper Crown：Ivy&Ashes

There are exactly three stages of social death on the Upper East Side. I know, because I survived them all in the span of a single Tuesday. For eighteen years, Wren Calloway was a beautifully kept secret—the illegitimate daughter of a New York real estate titan, living a funded, invisible life of luxury. But when a perfectly orchestrated scandal rips her world apart, her "paper crown" goes up in flames. Banished from her penthouse to a rented clapboard house in the suffocatingly small town of Millhaven, Connecticut, Wren is determined to treat her exile exactly as it is: a temporary prison sentence. Keep her head down, keep her sharp eyeliner perfect, and trust no one. Enter Hayes Callahan. He is Millhaven’s golden boy. The star quarterback with pale blue eyes, a charismatic smile, and the weight of the entire town’s expectations resting heavily on his broad shoulders. He is everything Wren despises about her new reality—a cliché she wants nothing to do with. But Hayes isn't just a jock. When he looks at the aloof, defensive new girl with storm-cloud eyes, he doesn't see a broken socialite or a problem to be solved. He sees someone who understands what it's like to perform a role you didn't choose. What starts as a hostile standoff by the blue lockers soon turns into an intoxicating, magnetic pull that neither can resist. In a town where everyone is watching, Wren must decide if she’s willing to let her guard down for a boy who threatens to shatter every rule she’s ever written to protect herself... or if the ghosts of her past will drag them both under. Sometimes, losing your crown is the only way to find out who you really are.