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Seventeen-year-old Ashley Delaney Hale-McCall has never wanted to live in her father’s shadow. When her family moves from San Francisco back to Beacon Hills, Ashley believes she’s finally getting the fresh start she’s always wanted. Her father, Scott Hale-McCall, is a famous lacrosse player who has stepped away from the spotlight to return to the hometown he shares with his husband, Derek Hale-McCall. For Ashley, Beacon Hills is supposed to mean a normal school, new friends, parties, and finally getting to experience life as an ordinary teenager. But the moment she arrives at Beacon Hills High, everyone knows exactly who she is. She’s Scott Hale-McCall’s daughter. Suddenly, everyone wants to be her friend. She’s invited to parties, offered seats at the most popular tables, and surrounded by people who are fascinated by her father’s fame. Ashley can’t help wondering if anyone actually cares about the girl behind the famous name. Then she meets Brett Talbot. Along with his friends Liam Dunbar and Mason Hewitt, Brett is one of the few people who doesn’t care who Ashley’s father is. He sees her for who she really is, and for the first time since arriving in Beacon Hills, Ashley feels like she can simply be herself. But just when Ashley begins to feel like she might finally belong, strange things start happening around town. Students disappear. Unexplained incidents begin piling up. People start acting strangely. And Ashley notices that her dads seem to know far more about Beacon Hills than they’re willing to tell her. Ashley came to Beacon Hills looking for a normal life. Instead, she’s about to uncover secrets that could change everything she thought she knew about her family, her new friends, and the town she now calls home. Because in Beacon Hills, everyone has a secret. And Ashley may be the biggest secret of them all.