Meet Mackenzi Aldrich, known as West Lake's top student, shy, nearly friendless, and very careful. Some people call her the only good-girl in the entire town, but she doesn't care she just needs to survive her senior year. Once she does that, she's off to college, away from all her high-school tormentors, and a life full of bad memories. Everything's great.
That is until Landon Swanchi is introduced. He's the bad-boy, nearly the exact opposite of Mackenzi. He's made of mediocre grades, loud voices, big groups of people, and recklessness. Everyone knows he's trouble, but he's trying to lay low for the year. Then he's off to college, away from a life full of bad memories. Everything's going to be great.
Now, add the young and brilliant Ms.Lindsay, every senior's favorite teacher, and her end of the year partner projects. Everything's going to get interesting.
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After enduring years of neglect and cruelty from her mother and stepfather, Ariana's life changes drastically when tragedy brings her under the guardianship of five brothers she's never met and they never even knew they had a sister.
For her brothers, learning they have a sister is an unwelcome surprise. Suspicious and reluctant, her brothers see Aria as an outsider, a stranger disrupting the fragile balance of their lives.
For Aria, their home is both a new beginning and a constant reminder of the family that left her behind.
Haunted by the pain of her past, Aria struggles to adjust, her every action guarded and her trust hard to earn.
As her brothers try to understand her, they begin to glimpse the scars she hides and the strength she carries. Little by little, resentment turns to empathy, and the walls between them start to crumble. But just as the siblings begin to find common ground, the secrets and trauma of Aria's old life threaten to tear them apart. Together, they must decide whether they can overcome the shadows of the past to forge a family and whether Aria can finally find a place to belong.