withinthequiet
Emma Brooke had probably been one of the happiest children every summer of her life. For as long as she could remember, her mom had worked as the cook for the Sinclairs, a popular family who spent every summer on Beechwood Island.
As it happened, Emma was around the same age as the oldest children of the three Sinclair daughters, and they quickly became her best friends.
Mirren, Cadence, and Johnny had welcomed the brown-haired, green-eyed girl when they were all about four years old, and the kids had been inseparable ever since.
Later, when they called themselves the Liars, they welcomed another boy into the group: Gat, the nephew of Johnny's mother's new boyfriend. From then on, the group was tightly knit, spending every minute of every day together.
Emma hoped her life would never change.
Until it did.
Until nothing was ever the same after Summer Sixteen.