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Sixteen-year-old Ashley Delaney Hale-McCall has always been the quiet girl at Beacon Hills High School. Beautiful, timid, and shy, Ashley lives with her two fathers, Scott Hale-McCall and Derek Hale-McCall, and her twin brother, Isaac Hale-McCall. While Isaac quickly finds his place on the lacrosse team, Ashley is still trying to figure out where she belongs. Then mysterious roses and handwritten poems begin appearing in her locker. Every envelope bears her name in beautiful handwriting, but there is never a signature. Ashley becomes determined to discover who her secret admirer is. But after a frightening encounter in the preserve leaves her unconscious, Ashley wakes up on the doorstep of her home with no memory of how she got there. Unbeknownst to her, someone saved her. Someone who has been watching over her from the shadows. Brett Talbot is seventeen, mysterious, and covered by a scar that has made him the target of cruel rumors. At school, people call him a freak. A monster. Someone to stay away from. But Brett has a secret. He is the boy behind the roses and poems. As Ashley slowly begins to notice the mysterious boy who always seems to be somewhere nearby, she discovers that Brett may not be the monster everyone believes him to be. And Brett soon realizes that Ashley may be the only person capable of seeing the real him. In a town filled with secrets, danger, and things that aren’t always what they seem, Ashley must uncover the truth behind the roses—and the scarred boy who has quietly fallen in love with her. Because sometimes the person everyone calls a monster is simply the person who has never been given a chance to be loved.