Whisper has been in the foster system since she was a baby, for some reason at eighteen she's being taken in by another foster family and given a chance to go to college. She has to go per a judge, the why is never really explained. Who she is is a major part of the entire story. We get a lot of hints of abuse and trauma from her past but only a little is actually revealed.

Steele Alder and his brothers Knox and Callan rule Alder Academy and their family rules the town. They are bad news and rarely likable. When they are ordered to get information from Whisper they sexually assault her and move on to harassing her at school.

This is a tough read, even with an ugly start I kept hoping the characters would grow or be revealed to be likable and that just didn't happen for me. The story is a bit jumpy and leaves out more details than it gives making it feel incomplete. It's suppose to be a college setting but feels more high school. Maybe the next book in the series will address some of that but for the first book in series I just couldn't get into the story, there was too much missing. There are some great shiny moments when Whisper dances and doesn't take the Alders' crap no matter what they've done to her but then she falls back into their party line and ruins it.

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