TRY HARD
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Last published Tue, Jul 1, 2025
Brielle Stewards is top of her class, laser-focused on becoming the next breakout journalist. With stellar grades, relentless drive, and her sights set on NYU, she's almost out of her small Georgia town for good. But when burnout hits, her grades drop, and the fear of failure grows louder than her ambition, Brielle starts to wonder if all her trying is enough.
Ezekiel Hayes didn't choose to move to Georgia. Uprooted from New York for his father's research, raising his little sister, and chasing an internship at NASA-all while suffocating under the pressure to be perfect. No matter how hard he tries, it never seems to be enough for his father... or himself.
Two teens. One shot at freedom. And a world that keeps asking them to try harder, even when they're running on empty.
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