| "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."
In a small town, when it comes to the truth, who would believe the unpopular new girl over the police chief's popular son?
Paige Clearwater's secret is ready to bubble over, and she's barely holding it together. But coming forward about what happened means confronting the last person she ever wanted to see again. That is, until he sits behind her in homeroom, reveling in her fear of him.
Every chance he gets, he reminds her she will never escape him, and she wonders if she ever will. Crippled by this fear, when Paige meets Anna and her brother Seth, she struggles to let herself be happy again. How can she move on and find love when she hasn't confronted the boy who ruined her life?
Will she go on living in fear or find the strength to stand up for herself and do what it takes to make sure he never hurts another girl again?