Senior year was not going how I planned.

It was supposed to be an amazing year—the perfect year.

And it started out that way… until my mom remarried, and I found myself in a new town, at a new school, and living with quite possibly the most conniving person I had ever met.

But my horrible stepbrother wasn’t even the worst part.

It was his best friend.

Zayden Michaels.

Gorgeous. Unpredictable. Treacherous.

The kind of guy who sends most sane people running in the opposite direction.

He hated me from the first moment he saw me.

He made it his mission to make sure I knew it too.

I became the target—the bullied.

Until suddenly I wasn’t anymore.

But in a world of rumors, games, and deceit, you never really know who you can trust.

Sometimes the best deceptions are the ones you never see coming.