YA/TEEN

The Weight Of Paper Crown

by Dante Katie

Sixteen-year-old Auden "Lora" Jackson is Beverly High’s untouchable queen. She has the perfect grades, the star-athlete boyfriend, and the flawless, wealthy pedigree. But Lora’s entire life is full of lies. In reality, she spent her childhood in the orphanage when she was six and was adopted by the Jackson family, when she was six, before being returned to her biological parents who are currently drowning in debt and on the verge of a bitter divorce.Her house of cards threatens to collapse when Adam Hayes moves in next door. Quiet, dangerously observant, and entirely unimpressed by the school's social hierarchy, Adam knows Lora's secret and he sees right through her plastic smile. They are Forced together for a semester-long biology project, Lora expects an enemy but finds something entirely different: someone who finally lets her exhale.But just as the ice between them begins to thaw, an anonymous hacker known only as The Archivist starts leaking the darkest secrets of Beverly High’s elite. When Lora becomes the main target, she and Adam must team up to unmask the culprit. As the secrets grow darker and the threats become personal, Lora is forced into a corner. To save her future, she must destroy her own perfect image. But the truth behind the hacker is more twisted than she could ever imagine, and the mastermind pulling the strings is someone she trusted with her life.

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