Whispers of the heart

In the shadowed halls of Gravemoor Academy—an elite and eerie art school built atop a cliff—Riley Wren arrives with nothing but her talent, a fractured past, and a chip on her shoulder. As a scholarship student from a life of survival, she walks into a world of wealth, manipulation, and carefully curated madness.

There, she meets Jiles Thorne—a privileged, untouchable prodigy with a hollow gaze and a reputation for cruelty cloaked in brilliance. Their first encounter is instant war: words like blades, glances that cut deeper, and disdain laced with intrigue.

Forced into a joint project titled Emotion Through Ruin, Riley and Jiles become unwilling partners in a brutal, emotional art collaboration. In a world that praises suffering for aesthetic, their personal wounds begin to surface through brushstrokes and confrontation.

As public humiliation, veiled threats, and creative rivalry mount, Riley makes a silent vow: she will expose Jiles Thorne on canvas—not as a muse, but as a target. Even if it means unraveling herself in the process.

But beneath the venom, something else stirs. Something dark, magnetic... and dangerously hard to resist.