Seventeen-year-old Aly Bennett has been in love with her friend Luke for years. She hasn't told him how she feels for two reasons. 1) She's the girl with HIV. 2) She lied about how she got it.
Aly never meant to lie. The words just slipped out on her first day of a support group for kids living with life-threatening conditions. It was the day she met Luke and Caroline, who would become her best friends and the closest thing she has to a family. After so many years, Aly doesnโt know how to tell her friends the truth. So she paints and she runs and she tries not to think about the future she canโt have.
But when a Boston prosecutor asks Aly to testify in a trialโand her relationship with Luke intensifiesโthings become complicated. If she testifies, Luke and Caroline will learn the truthโthat Aly has been lying to them for most of a decade. If she doesnโt, a monster could go free, again.
Heather Mullaly is a passionate believer in the power of story. When she isnโt writing them, reading them, or listening to them, she can usually be found baking something that involves chocolate, thinking up new story ideas before sheโs finished the two sheโs currently writing, or hanging out with her family, who happen to be even more fantastic than the characters in her head. She lives in Virginia with her husband and their three teenagers.