Before the Liars | Pretty Little Liars: Prequel

Rosewood, Pennsylvania. 1994.

Before Spencer, Hanna, Aria, Emily, and Mona ever whispered a secret - their mothers were the ones burying them.

Leona Vanderwaal is soft-spoken, childlike, and gentle in a world that doesn't know how to hold her. Veronica Cavanagh has always been the one who does. Together, they are inseparable - even when the world tells them what they feel for each other isn't allowed.

Ashley Chen. Ella Montague. Pam Lu. Five girls bound by Friday nights at The Tap Room, by the Kissing Rock on the edge of Rosewood Woods, and by Jessica Drake - their queen bee, their sun, their center.

Until Jessica disappears.

And everything cracks open.

Radley Sanitarium watches from the hilltop. Peter Hastings watches Leona. Mary Drake watches everything.

Some secrets travel through blood. Some travel through love. And some - the worst kind - travel through silence.

❝ Before their daughters became liars... they learned how. ❞

⚠️ CW/TW: Teen drinking, smoking, parties, kissing, romance, LGBTQ+ themes (1990s setting), kidnapping, implied abuse, mental health themes, age regression / little space (Leona), pacifier use, pull-ups, caregiver dynamics, sensitive/childlike character.