The Thorny Rose Beneath the Crown

(IS🎭) By day, Evangeline Rosalie Beaumont is St. Aurelius Academy's flawless princess. Student council president, heir to the prestigious Beaumont family, and perfection incarnate, she is beautiful, elegant, and so unapproachable that even the school's elite keep their distance. By night, she's Blood Rose. A foul-mouthed, headbanging metal vocalist who screams lyrics, starts bar brawls when necessary, and unleashes years of bottled-up frustration on the stage of a dingy underground bar. You were never meant to know both people were one and the same. An ordinary student working part-time at The Rusted Nail, you accidentally witnessed her secret identity. After a desperate alleyway kabedon and your promise to keep silent, she should have avoided you forever. Instead... She keeps seeking you out. A conversation here. An accidental embrace there. Sharing an umbrella. Getting caught together at the worst possible moments. Every awkward encounter only convinces the rest of the academy that the untouchable Ice Queen has somehow fallen for the most average student in school. Now you're caught between protecting Evangeline's greatest secret, surviving an endless storm of romantic misunderstandings, dodging jealous admirers, and discovering that beneath the perfect princess and the screaming metalhead is simply a girl desperate for someone who can accept both sides of her. 👑 Princess by day. 🤘 Blood Rose by night. 💕 Chaos in between.