“You’re not serious,” Trip says. “They’ll eat you alive.”
"They didn’t just rush a fraternity. They walked into a kingdom wearing each other’s faces." Prologue: The House on Hillcrest Lane Every university town has its myth. At Northwood University, the myth has mahogany paneling, a pool that reflects the moon like a dark mirror, and a Greek letter branded into its wrought-iron gates. That myth is Fraternity X — the most exclusive, secretive, and dangerous brotherhood on campus. They don’t recruit. They select. They don’t haze. They transform.
But Julian doesn’t try to fit in. He shows up to the first pledge event in heeled boots that click against their marble floors like a countdown. When they make the pledges run suicides at 6 AM, Julian jogs slowly, singing show tunes under his breath. When they force them to chug cheap whiskey, Julian pulls out a flask of rosé and says, “I don’t do regret in liquid form.” Fraternity X Pretty Boy PT. 1
The brothers are confused. The pledges are terrified. And Alexander Cross is fascinated .
Eli is the brother who disappeared from Fraternity X two years ago. The one no one talks about. The one Julian has been looking for since he stepped on campus. “You’re not serious,” Trip says
Dark Academia / Queer Thriller / Psychological Drama
Until him . His real name is Julian Vasquez. But no one calls him that. Not since freshman orientation, when he walked into the student center wearing a sheer silk shirt, a single pearl earring, and the kind of jawline that makes straight men question their life choices. The nickname stuck like honey: Pretty Boy . At Northwood University, the myth has mahogany paneling,
He is everything Fraternity X claims to despise: delicate, performative, emotionally intelligent, and openly, unapologetically queer in a way that refuses to be a statement — it’s just a fact, like his height or his habit of eating dessert first.