Staged: (Oliana Mercer series Book 2)

Oliana Mercer's year can't get much worse. Her biological grandmother wants her forgiveness, and a charred body is found during her high school graduation...

It's been two weeks since Oliana Mercer learned a horrible family secret and witnessed the death of her best friend. Two weeks of heartache, secrets, and lies. While Oliana wants to move on, graduation day is a turning point for her, but for the worse.

Austin wants Oliana to stay and not attend Reyersen Drama Academy, a relative from the past wants her forgiveness, the custody battle for her little brother moves forward...and then there's James whose recent drug habit landed him in trouble. Now he's missing. After a charred body, believed to be James is found in an alley a few blocks from the high school, Oliana receives a text from James' phone.

When Oliana turns to the police for help, she is pulled into a conflict that makes her question whether to obey the law while fighting with the family who abandoned her.