Manipulative and calculating, those were what the "ROYALS" were, a group of insanely rich teenagers, who didn't have a care for anyone else but themselves. They were the artists, and the rest of the world their paintbrushes, they got away with anything and everything. Their only loyalty was to themselves and no one else, every other person was simply to pass time. Keira Adams learns this the hard way when she moves from New York City back to London, in order to attend their preparatory school in Oxford. Immediately captivated, she is drawn into a world of cruelty, lies, callousness, and betrayal.