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The Boy I Was Never Supposed to Notice

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Hazel Adeyemi has spent most of her life knowing exactly how to survive around the Ashfords. See nothing. Hear nothing. And never, ever notice the boy. Theo Ashford is everything Hazel has been taught to avoid. He is rich, reckless, infamous, and suspected of pushing his own mother from the balcony of Ashford House. Hazel knows the story everyone at Ashgrove Academy believes. She also knows it is not the whole truth. Nine months ago, hidden inside the servants’ staircase, Hazel witnessed the moment before Celeste Ashford fell. She saw a man’s hand gripping Celeste’s arm. And on that hand was the Ashford signet ring. Now Theo has returned for senior year, and Hazel has been chosen as the peer mentor responsible for keeping him out of trouble. The closer she gets to the boy everyone calls guilty, the harder it becomes to believe he is the monster they say he is. But Theo is searching for the truth too. And Hazel is hiding the one thing that could change everything. Because in the Ashford family, secrets do not stay buried without a price. And falling for the boy she was never supposed to notice may cost Hazel everything she has spent her whole life trying to protect.

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Episode 1: Episode 1: The Girl Nobody Sees9 min read / Block 1CurrentEpisode 2: Episode 2: The Condition9 min read / Block 1Episode 3: Episode 3: Silence Is a Verb9 min read / Block 1Episode 4: Episode 4: The Lake Party9 min read / Block 1Episode 5: Episode 5: Accidents Happen9 min read / Block 1Episode 6: Episode 6: The East Balcony9 min read / Block 1Episode 7: Episode 7: The Gap9 min read / Block 1Episode 8: Episode 8: The Honest Report9 min read / Block 1Episode 9: Episode 9: The Photograph9 min read / Block 1Episode 10: Episode 10: The Nomination9 min read / Block 1Episode 11: Episode 11: The Price of Returning10 min read / Block 1Episode 12: Episode 12: Terms of Observation9 min read / Block 1Episode 13: Episode 13: The Empty Chair10 min read / Block 1Episode 14: Episode 14: What Sloane Wants9 min read / Block 1Episode 15: Episode 15: The Wrong Kind of Help9 min read / Block 1Episode 16: Episode 16: The Pact9 min read / Block 1Episode 17: Episode 17: Rules for Keeping Quiet9 min read / Block 1Episode 18: Episode 18: The Quiet Test9 min read / Block 1Episode 19: Episode 19: The Report Between the Lines9 min read / Block 1Episode 20: Episode 20: Forwarded9 min read / Block 1Episode 21: Episode 21: The First False Report9 min read / Block 1Episode 22: Episode 22: The Better Lie9 min read / Block 1Episode 23: Episode 23: Two Knocks and One9 min read / Block 1Episode 24: Episode 24: Good Work, Hazel9 min read / Block 1Episode 25: Episode 25: What Protection Costs9 min read / Block 1Episode 26: Episode 26: The East Fountain9 min read / Block 1Episode 27: Episode 27: The Formal Committee9 min read / Block 1Episode 28: Episode 28: Borrowed Silk9 min read / Block 1Episode 29: Episode 29: One Dance9 min read / Block 1Episode 30: Episode 30: Almost9 min read / Block 1Episode 31: Episode 31: After the Stairs9 min read / Block 1Episode 32: Episode 32: The Safe Choice9 min read / Block 1Episode 33: Episode 33: Civic Duty9 min read / Block 1Episode 34: Episode 34: Things We Leave Out9 min read / Block 1Episode 35: Episode 35: A Better Version9 min read / Block 1Episode 36: Episode 36: The Photograph He Kept9 min read / Block 1Episode 37: Episode 37: The Price of Being Useful9 min read / Block 1Episode 38: Episode 38: The Door Behind the Study9 min read / Block 1Episode 39: Episode 39: What Celeste Knew9 min read / Block 1Episode 40: Episode 40: The Hand on Her Arm9 min read / Block 1Episode 41: Episode 41: The Story They Want9 min read / Block 1Episode 42: Episode 42: The Foundation Display9 min read / Block 1Episode 43: Episode 43: The Locked Room9 min read / Block 1Episode 44: Episode 44: The Silver Envelope9 min read / Block 1Episode 45: Episode 45: The Wrong Reasons9 min read / Block 1Episode 46: Episode 46: What the Cameras Missed9 min read / Block 1Episode 47: Episode 47: The Fountain Record9 min read / Block 1Episode 48: Episode 48: The Safe Answer9 min read / Block 1Episode 49: Episode 49: The Green Dress9 min read / Block 1Episode 50: Episode 50: One Year Later10 min read / Block 1Episode 51: Episode 51: After Midnight10 min read / Block 1Episode 52: Episode 52: Rules for Being Secret9 min read / Block 1Episode 53: Episode 53: The Space Between Classes9 min read / Block 1Episode 54: Episode 54: What Marcus Sees9 min read / Block 1Episode 55: Episode 55: The Things We Do Not Write9 min read / Block 1Episode 56: Episode 56: A Blurred Photograph9 min read / Block 1Episode 57: Episode 57: Questions With Teeth9 min read / Block 1Episode 58: Episode 58: The Question Lu Finally Asks9 min read / Block 1Episode 59: Episode 59: One Night Left9 min read / Block 1Episode 60: Episode 60: Everything You Did Not Tell Me9 min read / Block 1Episode 61: Episode 61: The Morning After9 min read / Block 1Episode 62: Episode 62: Public Damage9 min read / Block 1Episode 63: Episode 63: The Conduct Clause9 min read / Block 1Episode 64: Episode 64: The Shape of Silence9 min read / Block 1Episode 65: Episode 65: The Villain Everyone Wanted9 min read / Block 1Episode 66: Episode 66: Family Values9 min read / Block 1Episode 67: Episode 67: The File With Her Name9 min read / Block 1Episode 68: Episode 68: Two Weeks After the Gala9 min read / Block 1Episode 69: Episode 69: What the Scholarship Cost9 min read / Block 1Episode 70: Episode 70: Nothing Owed9 min read / Block 1Episode 71: Episode 71: The Tin on the Shelf10 min read / Block 1Episode 72: Episode 72: What Grace Hid9 min read / Block 1Episode 73: Episode 73: The Mark Inside the Gold9 min read / Block 1Episode 74: Episode 74: The Fountain Ledger9 min read / Block 1Episode 75: Episode 75: The Cost of Silence9 min read / Block 1Episode 76: Episode 76: The Bargain9 min read / Block 1Episode 77: Episode 77: Proof Before Mercy9 min read / Block 1Episode 78: Episode 78: The Photograph Before Midnight9 min read / Block 1Episode 79: Episode 79: What He Could Not Believe9 min read / Block 1Episode 80: Episode 80: It Was Never Your Hand9 min read / Block 1Episode 81: Episode 81: The Evidence Between Us11 min read / Block 1Episode 82: Episode 82: A Name in the Ledger9 min read / Block 1Episode 83: Episode 83: Sloane Mercer Stops Laughing9 min read / Block 1Episode 84: Episode 84: Northbound9 min read / Block 1Episode 85: Episode 85: The House in Maine10 min read / Block 1Episode 86: Episode 86: What Celeste Would Not Say9 min read / Block 1Episode 87: Episode 87: The Cost of Standing Beside Me10 min read / Block 1Episode 88: Episode 88: Say It Plainly9 min read / Block 1Episode 89: Episode 89: No More Back Stairs9 min read / Block 1Episode 90: Episode 90: In Front of Everyone10 min read / Block 1Episode 91: Episode 91: The Board Dinner9 min read / Block 1Episode 92: Episode 92: His Father's Son10 min read / Block 1Episode 93: Episode 93: What Graham Heard9 min read / Block 1Episode 94: Episode 94: Visible Costs9 min read / Block 1Episode 95: Episode 95: The Last Warning9 min read / Block 1Episode 96: Episode 96: Revoked9 min read / Block 1Episode 97: Episode 97: No More Quiet Deals9 min read / Block 1Episode 98: Episode 98: The Invitation9 min read / Block 1Episode 99: Episode 99: Before the Doors Open9 min read / Block 1Episode 100: Episode 100: The Front Door9 min read / Block 1Episode 101: Episode 101: After the Truth11 min read / Block 1Episode 102: Episode 102: The Child in the Boathouse10 min read / Block 1Episode 103: Episode 103: The Interim Order9 min read / Block 1Episode 104: Episode 104: The Withdrawal9 min read / Block 1Episode 105: Episode 105: The Prize Committee9 min read / Block 1Episode 106: Episode 106: The Terms of Family9 min read / Block 1Episode 107: Episode 107: The Ring in the Safe9 min read / Block 1Episode 108: Episode 108: The Board Vote9 min read / Block 1Episode 109: Episode 109: The Name We Keep9 min read / Block 1Episode 110: Episode 110: The Next Statement10 min read / Block 1Episode 111: Episode 111: The Room Before9 min read / Block 1Episode 112: Episode 112: What I Saw9 min read / Block 1Episode 113: Episode 113: Temporary Orders9 min read / Block 1Episode 114: Episode 114: A Dress That Is Mine9 min read / Block 1Episode 115: Episode 115: The Last Test9 min read / Block 1Episode 116: Episode 116: Grace Adeyemi, Owner9 min read / Block 1Episode 117: Episode 117: The Prize I Refused9 min read / Block 1Episode 118: Episode 118: The City Ahead9 min read / Block 1Episode 119: Episode 119: The Night Before9 min read / Block 1Episode 120: Episode 120: The Front Door9 min read / Block 1

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The Boy I Was Never Supposed to Notice

Hazel Adeyemi has spent most of her life knowing exactly how to survive around the Ashfords. See nothing. Hear nothing. And never, ever notice the boy. Theo Ashford is everything Hazel has been taught to avoid. He is rich, reckless, infamous, and suspected of pushing his own mother from the balcony of Ashford House. Hazel knows the story everyone at Ashgrove Academy believes. She also knows it is not the whole truth. Nine months ago, hidden inside the servants’ staircase, Hazel witnessed the moment before Celeste Ashford fell. She saw a man’s hand gripping Celeste’s arm. And on that hand was the Ashford signet ring. Now Theo has returned for senior year, and Hazel has been chosen as the peer mentor responsible for keeping him out of trouble. The closer she gets to the boy everyone calls guilty, the harder it becomes to believe he is the monster they say he is. But Theo is searching for the truth too. And Hazel is hiding the one thing that could change everything. Because in the Ashford family, secrets do not stay buried without a price. And falling for the boy she was never supposed to notice may cost Hazel everything she has spent her whole life trying to protect.

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mysterious, cinematic, emotionally direct · serial escalation

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external mystery
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Young Adult Romance
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