book 1 of the faultline quartet.
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This was meant to be a clean slate-a chance to escape the ghosts of her past and the exhausting weight of always having something to prove. But that illusion fractured the moment she stepped onto campus.
There, in the flickering light of the main hall, surrounded by unfamiliar faces and noise that felt too loud to be real, stood Leon S. Kennedy. Her childhood rival. The boy who had always known exactly where to press until she cracked. The one presence she hadn't anticipated-and couldn't seem to outrun.
It wasn't just coincidence. It never was with him.
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lockstep - a state where two people move through life in an unshakable rhythm, whether they mean to or not - tied by history, rivalry, obsession, or something messier.
lockstep isn't about love or hate.
it's about that gray, electric space in between, where everything unsaid lives.