Masked
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Is the person that you show the world the person that you really are?
Sixteen-year-old Layla Young is the perfect teenager every parent wishes that they had. She does well in school, is hardly ever spotted outside of a classroom, and would never be caught dead at a party. With her goody-two-shoes personality, everyone thinks that they've gotten her all figured out. She plans to keep it that way.
Layla keeps the world at a distance so that no one can learn the truth, that she's wearing a mask.
That is until one day Layla slips up and lets the mysterious Daniel Walsh catch a glimpse of the real her in one rooftop meeting. Now suddenly Daniel is determined to find out what exactly is underneath that mask of hers and secrets that Layla promised to herself that she would never share with anyone are now at risk of coming to the surface.
Will she let him in enough to figure them out? With one unexpected bet, Layla's mask might just be starting to crack.
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*Winner of Best Teen Fiction courtesy of The Star Awards
*Winner of Most Promising Relationship/Friendship in Teen Fiction courtesy of The Bookworm Awards*
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