Enchanted auditions at a singing competition and fails to advance, but catches the attention of superstar Korey Fields in the audience.

Korey finds Enchanted backstage after her failed audition, gives her a voice lesson, and invites her and her family to his concert.

Korey distracts Enchanted's parents with other celebrities at his VIP concert while secretly flirting with Enchanted and getting her phone number.

Korey takes Enchanted to his private recording studio and demands secrecy, telling her no one can know what happens inside.

Korey and Enchanted share their first kiss during a swimming lesson at his building, then secretly record a Disney duet together.

Korey posts a video of himself and Enchanted singing together online without her family's permission, sparking public speculation about their relationship.

Korey surprises the entire school by performing at Enchanted's homecoming dance and asks her to meet him outside.

Korey meets with Enchanted's parents and formally requests permission to take her on his national concert tour.

Korey locks Enchanted in a hotel room for sixteen hours and forces her to use an ice bucket instead of the bathroom.

After taking Enchanted to Disneyland, Korey manipulates her into sex for the first time while she mentally escapes to the ocean.

Korey takes away Enchanted's phone and moves her into his Atlanta home, where he begins drugging her with a codeine-laced drink.

On Enchanted's eighteenth birthday, flight attendant Nicole ignores Korey's attempts to interfere and helps Enchanted escape his control.

Enchanted returns home and suffers through codeine withdrawals, tormented by nightmares and triggering memories of Korey's abuse.

Enchanted agrees to give Korey one more night, and he drugs and violently attacks her in his penthouse until she loses consciousness.

Hidden camera footage from inside Enchanted's stuffed Flounder toy reveals Richie stabbed Korey, and both Richie and Jessica are arrested.

Pool 1 follows the headline events of Enchanted's story, beginning with her failed singing audition where superstar Korey Fields notices her and begins his careful pursuit. Their secret courtship escalates as Korey uses charm, celebrity access, and secrecy to draw Enchanted away from her family and onto his tour. Once isolated from everyone who loves her, Korey's abuse intensifies through confinement, drugging, and sexual coercion until a flight attendant helps Enchanted escape on her eighteenth birthday. Desperate to silence the harassment following her return home, Enchanted agrees to give Korey one final night, which ends in violence and Korey's death. Hidden camera footage ultimately clears Enchanted's name, exposes the real killers, and brings the novel's central mystery to a close.

The rise and fall of Enchanted's nightmare with Korey Fields.

Enchanted tells her best friend Gabriela about meeting Korey Fields, and Gabriela immediately warns that Korey is far too old for her.

Enchanted's father warns her during a haircut that a singing career is too risky and declines to pay for singing lessons.

Korey asks Enchanted to read an erotic adult novel while they exchange romantic songs over text, making her deeply uncomfortable.

Creighton follows Enchanted to her room and sexually harasses her at a Will and Willow party until she threatens to scream.

Korey takes Enchanted to the Beacon Theatre where they first met, and she sings there feeling fully alive for the first time.

Korey gives Enchanted a long dark wig he names Melissa and demands she wear it to help build her brand.

Enchanted meets Derrick, the son of Korey's associate Richie, at a concert afterparty and tells him she is eighteen.

News breaks that a woman named Candy Cole accuses Korey of raping and assaulting her when she was fourteen years old.

Enchanted's parents leave over forty frantic voicemails begging her to come home, but she ignores every one of them.

Police visit Korey's Atlanta home for a welfare check, but Enchanted is too afraid and disoriented to ask them for help.

Enchanted escapes Korey's house and reaches a nearby Waffle House but cannot find her voice to ask anyone for help.

Music manager Louie visits the Jones family and warns that reporting Korey to the police will destroy Enchanted's career.

Enchanted and her mother meet formally with detectives to report Korey for assault, battery, rape, and stalking.

The Will and Willow mothers debate whether to suspend the Jones sisters from the group after the sex tape scandal.

Enchanted visits her grandmother at the beach in Far Rockaway and leaves feeling empowered to save herself like Ariel.

Pool 2 traces the secondary events and relationships that define Enchanted's world before, during, and after Korey's abuse. From Gabriela's early warnings and her father's skepticism about a singing career to the welfare check Enchanted could not respond to and the desperate voicemails she chose to ignore, these moments reveal the full scope of her entrapment and the support systems Korey methodically dismantled. As allegations against Korey from Candy Cole emerge mid-tour, readers witness the public pattern of disbelief that Enchanted will later face herself. After returning home, Enchanted encounters a music industry pressuring her to stay silent and a community uncertain whose side to take. Her visit to her grandmother ultimately restores her sense of self and the resolve she needs to fight back.

The people and moments that shaped Enchanted's story from the margins.

Enchanted convinces her reluctant mother to take her to a singing audition instead of dropping her off at a swim meet.

Korey turns hostile and accuses Enchanted of lying when her father unexpectedly returns early to pick her up from the recording studio.

Enchanted asks Gabriela to cover for her so she can secretly meet Korey, without telling Gab the truth about where she is going.

Gabriela confronts Enchanted in the school bathroom, accuses her of hiding a relationship with Korey, and threatens to tell her mother.

Enchanted pleads with her mother to let her go on tour with Korey, accusing her of holding her back from her dream.

Korey promises to marry Enchanted and shows her the diamonds from his late grandmother's ring set into his one-of-a-kind watch.

Korey reveals to Enchanted that he was sexually exploited by an adult woman when he was only fourteen years old.

Enchanted secretly talks with the other girl Korey is keeping and discovers she is only fifteen years old.

When Korey suggests recruiting Enchanted's younger sister Shea for his group, Enchanted has a sudden epiphany that Korey is a monster.

Enchanted's father sets down the clippers during a haircut and holds her, telling her none of the abuse was her fault.

Korey confronts Enchanted outside the Will and Willow conference and warns her she will regret it if she does not return to him.

Detectives reveal there is no student named Gabriela Garcia on record at Enchanted's school, making her question her own sanity.

At Korey's funeral, Enchanted spots his rare one-of-a-kind watch on the wrist of his associate Richie.

Gabriela reappears and reveals that Korey had threatened to kill her in order to keep her away from Enchanted.

Enchanted stabs open her stuffed Flounder toy at the crime scene and discovers a hidden camera concealed inside.

Pool 3 traces the pivotal turning points and revelations that define the novel's emotional and narrative arc. Beginning with the small but consequential decision that started everything — a mother agreeing to drive her daughter to an audition — the pool moves through the cracks in Korey's facade, including his violent reaction when caught alone with Enchanted and his admission of his own childhood abuse. The abuse Enchanted witnesses Korey inflicting on fifteen-year-old Amber, followed by her birthday epiphany, mark the moment she finally sees him clearly. After returning home, her father's healing words and the shattering revelation that Gabriela may not exist push Enchanted to the edge. The recovery of Korey's missing watch and Gabriela's dramatic reappearance ultimately unlock the truth, setting Enchanted free.