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THE SCHOLARSHIP GIRL'S LIE

Name: THE SCHOLARSHIP GIRL'S LIE
Author: Aliya Inam

This story contains themes of: depression, extreme violence gore, extremist content, self-harm, suicide, torture, violent death

Romance/Drama Dark

Story Notes

This story was written for the Lessons in Longing: A Back-to-School Romance Contest 2026. It's a love letter to dark academia, forbidden romance, and the idea that the most dangerous thing in a school full of secrets is two people who choose each other anyway.

If you enjoy slow burns, morally gray love interests, heroines who refuse to break, and the occasional Gothic tower full of conspiracies, this one is for you. Thank you for reading, voting, and adding to your reading lists. Every comment keeps the lights on in Aldridge (and helps me keep writing).

Summary

Elara Chen didn't come to Aldridge Preparatory Academy for the ivy-covered towers or the elite education. She came because a stranger promised to pay for her little sister's life-saving surgery, if she infiltrates the Order of the Ivory Tower and exposes its secrets. But the Order isn't just a literary society. It's a century-old machine designed to identify brilliant, vulnerable students and break them into something useful. And its president, Sebastian Vane, is either Elara's greatest enemy or her only ally. As she descends into a world of midnight rituals, buried files, and blackmail that reaches the highest offices in the land, Elara discovers that Sebastian is hunting the same monster she is: the people who killed his sister. Bound by lies and a forbidden romance that could destroy them both, they must survive the Order's psychological trials before the new moon, or become the next names erased from Aldridge's history. Some lessons aren't on the syllabus. The best ones are worth burning the whole school down for.

Genre: Romance,Thriller

Author: Aliya Inam

Status: Complete

Chapters: 25

Rating: n/a

Age Rating: 16+

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THE SCHOLARSHIP GIRL’S LIE

By Aliya Inam

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the author.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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