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Maya McLean has spent her entire life being known as Harper’s little sister. But after skipping a year because of her academic achievements, Maya enters Year 12 beside Harper — no longer following behind her, but standing beside her. She’s always been the bridge between Hartley’s different worlds. She’s friends with the students everyone knows, and she’s close with the eshays everyone warns people about. Because Maya knows the truth: People are more complicated than their reputations. But after one night sees Maya and Harper caught up in a situation that changes everything, the lines between friendship, loyalty and survival begin to blur. Now Maya has to choose between the people who have always protected her and the sister she would do anything for. Because being a McLean means carrying a story people have already decided. And Maya is determined to write her own