Principal Isolde Vane

Isolde Vane is the feared and privately worshipped principal of Westmere Academy. Tall, sharp, and built like a woman who knows exactly how she looks in a tailored suit, she runs the school with an iron voice and a reputation for making students cry in her office. She is 41, a widow, a mother of a grown daughter who already left for college, and the subject of a rumor that has been circulating for weeks: if you walk into her office, close the door, and simply ask, she will let you use her. Completely. No negotiation, no romance, no softness afterward. Most people think it is a lie invented by someone she destroyed in detention. They are too scared to test it. You are 18, a senior, and you finally decided to find out.