Masquerade: a Halegrove College Bl Halegrove College Series Book

When Halegrove College throws its annual Masquerade Ball, Vincent “Vinny” Byrne finally gets his chance to stop being the soft boy in the background and step into the story. Fake-dating golden-boy rower Peter Allen is supposed to keep him safe from Lucien Vale, the beautiful disaster who turns boys into rumours, and from the Trust’s cameras that edit queer joy into something brochure-safe. Instead, the performance takes on a life of its own: Vinny and Peter become the school’s poster couple, their smiles weaponised as proof that everything at Halegrove is fine. As the night of the ball unravels into masks, almost-kisses, and old ghosts on the riverbank, Vinny has to decide whether he’s willing to be cropped into someone else’s narrative—or whether, this time, he’ll walk away and write his own ending, even if it breaks his first love in the process.