《 The Bloodline Gamble | Hla Elhalfawee 》

| "A sister lost, a truth buried, but the past always demands its due"

"Meave Cormac and Liam Wood have spent years at each others throat-grades, clubs, leadership, and pure ego. They don't talk unless it's to gloat, and their only real relationship is stealing Student of the month from each other.

But then, Meave stops fighting.

Her grades slip, she skips clubs, and Liam-winning too easily hates it. he corners Meave multiple times, who finally snaps: her sister is missing, the police won't help, and she's out of options. But she has to wait.

Until she realizes she can't.

She starts digging-and, of course, Liam shows up.

From there, it's chaos. Clues, dead ends, breaking rules, dragging in unexpected help.

Tensions rise, secrets unravel, and the deeper they go, the worse it gets.

But one thing is clear: they can't stop now.

And somewhere along the way, they stop being just rivals."