Lovely Strangers The Glided Cage

What if the story you told yourself about your future was a lie someone else wrote?Remy Sot had one plan: graduate, confess his love, and begin the life he'd always imagined. Instead, he gets a front-row seat to his own humiliation when the girl of his dreams reveals she's been with someone else for months.Mika Jabari had a different strategy: smile, charm, and avoid his father's expectations at all costs. But graduation doesn't bring freedom-it brings a mansion in Porta Valley, courtesy of two families who've been keeping secrets longer than either son has been alive.Now Remy and Mika are stepping into a world their fathers built on buried truths and a twenty-year-old death that was never an accident. While Mika reconnects with a girl he's loved from afar, Remy finds himself across the table from Adanna-a woman whose gaze sees straight through him, whose smile promises danger, and whose family name could unravel everything.Set against the backdrop of two warring counties and a conspiracy that spans generations, Lovely Strangers is a 90,000-word coming-of-age novel about friendship, betrayal, and the moment you realize the person you're becoming was never your choice to make. For readers who love character-driven suspense with the emotional weight of literary fiction.Some doors aren't meant to be opened. But Remy was born on the other side.