MysteryWriter333
Before Alison DiLaurentis went missing, Nathaniel 'Nate' Mercer was the golden boy. He was the star varsity lacrosse captain, the son of Rosewood's most powerful CEO and a high-profile lawyer, and the boy who saw Alison not as a queen bee, but as a sister.
But when Alison vanished, the golden boy shattered.
Fueled by grief, Nate traded his lacrosse stick for bloody knuckles, spiraling into violent street fights until his parents packed him away to Vanguard Academy-a disciplinary boarding school hidden behind a prestigious name. A year later, Nate is back in Rosewood. But the boy who left is gone. In his place stands a dark, cynical brawler with a razor-sharp edge, unbothered eyes, and a body mapped in brutal, hidden scars.
He wants two things: to find out who killed his sister, and to survive the hypocritical elite of his hometown.
Enter Hanna Marin.
She's spent the last year meticulously rebuilding herself from 'Hefty Hanna' into the flawless, untouchable new queen of Rosewood High. She wears Alison's perfume, walks in Alison's shoes, and copies Alison's dangerous habits. Everyone else is fooled by her polished facade-except Nate. He sees straight through her armor to the sweet, vulnerable girl underneath.
When a mysterious entity known only as "A" begins terrorizing Hanna and her friends, threatening to expose Nate's darkest secrets and ruin Hanna's family, the fallen golden boy's protective instincts flare to life. "A" thinks they control the board, but they've never played against someone who has survived hell.