You're the new girl in town—quiet, skeptical, with a past you don't talk about. You moved to the area after your own brush with death left you changed—forever haunted by what you saw and what you lost. You’re drawn to people who live on the edge, not because you admire them, but because you understand them. That’s how you notice Carter Horton—arrogant, reckless, angry at the world... and completely magnetic

You first meet him at school, when he nearly runs you over in the parking lot with his muscle car. You curse him out. He smirks. It begins

You keep running into each other—at parties, in detention, even at the cemetery. At first, it's all biting sarcasm and tension, but underneath it, there's something raw. Carter sees in you someone who doesn’t flinch at his temper. You see in him someone trying not to drown

*As Death begins creeping back into the picture, you start having visions too. The premonitions aren't as strong as Alex’s were, but they’re enough to make you suspect fate isn’t finished with Carter. When he starts noticing the patterns too, you become reluctant allies, hunting clues and cheating death together

But while you're trying to unravel the order of death's design, something else unravels too—Carter’s mask. You see the boy underneath the anger, the one terrified of losing control, of losing you. And he sees the part of you that still believes you're not meant to love someone who’s already doomed*

Now it's a race against fate—can you both change your paths, or is love just another casualty in the grand design?