BEFORE THE BELL RINGS

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At Hawthorne High, secrets don’t stay buried. Every morning before the first bell rings, an anonymous notes appears in a student’s locker, exposing truths people would do anything to keep hidden. Affairs, Betrayals, Crimes, Lies. The notes have haunted the school for years, and they’ve never been wrong.
Seventeen-year-old Figure skater, Isla Bennett has spent her entire life believing her father abandoned her. Senior year is supposed to be her escape route… a skating scholarship, a future far away from Hawthorne, and no more questions about the man who disappeared when she was six. Until she finds a note inside her locker.
You have thirty days before the truth about your father destroys everything.
Determined to uncover who sent it, Isla reluctantly teams up with Kai Mercer, Hawthorne’s hockey captain and resident bad boy. The same boy everyone blames for every scandal that hits the school and the first student to ever receive one of the mysterious notes. To keep suspicion away while they investigate the dangerous truth behind the notes, Isla and Kai agree to fake a relationship for the school’s watching eyes.
As secrets unravel both on and off the ice, Isla discovers that the mystery surrounding her father’s disappearance is tied to Hawthorne High, the rink beneath it, and the boy she never should have trusted. Because some secrets ruin lives while others rewrite them.
And before the final bell rings, Isla will have to decide whether the truth is worth losing everything she loves.

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