The Fake Heiress

"Under the name Ivy Taylor, the true Winters heiress walks into Winters High—not to claim her throne, but to earn friendship on her own merit. Yet within weeks, her quiet plan shatters. Blair, a bleached-fur black cat flaunting counterfeit red fox ears and a fake tail, swipes the identity Ivy left behind and declares herself the family's only heiress. What follows is war disguised as high school. Corridor ambushes. Locker-room traps. Cafeteria humiliations. A truth-or-dare party rigged against her. A dance staged to destroy her. Blair douses Ivy in paint, crushes her mother's heirloom necklace, rigs dodgeball against her, frames her before the whole class, and drags Lucy into the crossfire. Even Walter—Ivy's own father, the Winters family driver—is fooled into unlocking Winters Manor for a party, then used as a weapon: Blair brands Ivy his daughter and has her thrown from her own home. One confession would end it all. Ivy refuses. A name bought by blood buys sycophants, not friends. So she fights differently—with wit, with nerve, with fierce loyalty to Lucy. Slowly, Blake Carter sees through the masquerade. A black wolf who values the girl beneath the title, he stands at her side through dodged balls, a party rescue, and the family sigil she never had to explain. Their bond deepens as Blair's empire of lies—luxury, injuries, heiress privileges—crumbles, Katie and Samantha trailing her to the very end. The centennial charity gala is Blair's final act: a feigne