40 delen Compleet Voor volwassenenAt 17, Ariana should be living her best life---senior year, prom on the horizon, and just six months away from graduation. But while everyone else is celebrating the countdown to freedom, Ariana is drowning. Her grades in history and math are slipping fast, and school feels more like a burden than a future.
At her side is Dasani, her ride-or-die since elementary school. They're both dreaming of escaping the concrete maze of their city--- graduation gowns, caps in the air, and a new chapter waiting. But Ariana is hiding something darker than missed homework and late-night cram sessions.
Her boyfriend, Juan, is nearly a decade older, slick-talking and street-rich from the game he runs in the shadows. To everyone else, he's a predator. To Ariana, he's love--- or what she thinks love should be. He cheats, he hits, and he controls her every move. Dasani sees him for who he really is, and she doesn't hold back. Juan knows it, and the tension between him and Dasani simmers like a lit fuse.
As Ariana tries to hold it all together---grades, friendship, and a relationship that's tearing apart---she starts to lose more than sleep. The pressure builds, and the secrets unravel. In the end, loyalty means nothing, and betrayal cuts deeper than any blade.
When the dust settles, Ariana's voice is silenced forever---murdered by the man who claimed to love her. And in final twist of cruelty, Juan does the same thing to Dasani; starts abusing her, controlling her. Will she make it out alive? Or will her voice get silenced like Ariana?
