Boys of Brayshaw High

Boys of Brayshaw High opens Meagan Brandy's Brayshaw series. Raven Carver, taken from her chaotic home life with a drug-addicted mother, is placed in a group home for troubled teens and enrolled at Brayshaw High. She's warned on her first day that she doesn't belong — but Raven refuses to fade into the background, and it isn't long before she catches the attention of the Boys of Brayshaw: Maddoc, the brooding, protective leader; Captain, charming and unexpectedly nurturing; and Royce, the group's smooth talker.

What starts as antagonism between Raven and the boys shifts into something closer and more protective, much to the fury of classmates who go to considerable lengths — bribery, blackmail, and worse — to keep them apart. The book leans into found-family and enemies-to-allies dynamics within a bully-romance framework common to the New Adult high-school genre.

As the opening installment of a long-running series, it sets up the group's loyalty and Raven's place within it rather than resolving a single central relationship.