About This Book
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE PRETTY LITTLE LIARS SERIES COMES A NEW ADULT NOVEL SET OUTSIDE PHILADELPHIA IN WHICH ONE PHONE CALL ABOUT A SCANDAL CAUSES A RIPPLE EFFECT THROUGH A FAMILY, UNLOCKING YEARS OF SECRETS
One phone call can change everything ...
When Sylvie Bates-McAllister, a recently widowed mother of two, receives a late-night phone call from the headmaster of the prestigious school founded by her grandfather, her family is thrown into chaos. Her adopted son Scott may have been involved in a hazing scandal—and it may have led to the death of one of the boys he coaches on the school wrestling team.
For Charles, Sylvie's biological son, the call dredges up a ghost from the past—his high school girlfriend who has been off the map for years. Scott, haunted by years of first impressions and assumptions, is drawn into a new understanding of a world he has never felt a part of.
For all the Bates-McAllisters, the phone call awakens questions lain dormant for years, revealing a tangled web of secrets that ties the family together: the mystery of the school hazing, the event that tore Charles and Scott apart the night of their high school graduation, and the intended recipient of a certain bracelet. The quest to push past a legacy of resentment and judgments to unravel the truth takes the family on individual journeys across state lines, into hospitals, through the Pennsylvania woods, and face-to-face with the question: what if the life you always planned for and dreamed of isn't what you want at all?
