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She was the one who noticed everything. Now she's the one hiding something.
Kylie Vargas has spent her life on the edges of Manhattan's most exclusive rooms - watching, listening, filing it all away. Daughter of a ruthless dealmaker, best friend to the queen of the Upper East Side, and the quiet shadow beside Chuck Bass since before either of them had a reputation, Kylie knows every secret this world tries to bury.
She knows how to read a room. She knows how to keep her mouth shut. She knows how to smile when she's falling apart inside.
But nothing prepared her for the morning Nate Archibald sat on her bed, pinky outstretched, and confessed he'd slept with Serena Van Der Woodsen.
Now Serena is back, Blair is blissfully unaware, and Kylie is trapped between the two people she loves most - carrying a secret that could detonate their entire world. And as the old hierarchy begins to crack and Gossip Girl turns her omniscient eye toward the cracks in the armor, Kylie is about to learn the hard way that on the Upper East Side, the quiet ones are always the most dangerous.
Because everyone underestimates the girl who stands beside the throne.
Until she decides to take it.
A Gossip Girl story you thought you knew - told from the eyes of the one person you never thought to watch.