All the Ways We Begin
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She had the perfect life-until grief shattered everything. Now London is her second chance... even if she doesn't want it.
Aria Staci had it all: daughter of Seattle's mayor, top of her class, the perfect family. But when her mother dies suddenly at the end of junior year, everything unravels. One reckless summer later, Aria's father ships her across the ocean to London to finish her senior year at a Barrington Academy-hoping discipline and distance will fix what's broken.
But London isn't what Aria expects. Neither is Malik Evans-the quiet, guarded musician with shadows in his past and a fire in his voice that stirs something in her. Thrown into a world of fierce competition, late-night rehearsals, and girls who smile with knives behind their backs, Aria must find her place again-through music, through dance, and through a boy everyone warns her to stay away from.
In a city where no one knows her name, Aria learns what it means to be seen-for who she really is. And in Malik, she just might find the kind of love she never thought she deserved.
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