DOUBLE TAKE

Maryam 1 story

Summary

Sloane Sinclair has spent years trying to escape her family name. Three years ago, her older sister disappeared without a trace. Not long after, Sloane's mother died, and her father became convinced that both tragedies were somehow her fault. What began as suspicion turned into years of blame, control, and cruelty. Home became a place Sloane learned to endure rather than belong to, and the name *Sinclair* became something she wished she could erase entirely. So, at nineteen, she leaves. Ravenscourt University is supposed to be a beginning—a prestigious world of marble towers, immaculate halls, sprawling gardens, and families whose names have been engraved into its history for generations. Here, Sloane can become someone separate from the girl her father blamed. Until Julian Voss gets in her way. Twenty-year-old Julian is brilliant, infuriating, and the last person Sloane wants anywhere near her carefully controlled life. Their history is complicated, their rivalry bitter, and neither has any intention of calling a truce. But Julian notices things other people don't. The way Sloane goes silent whenever someone calls her *Sinclair*. The questions she refuses to answer. The pieces of her past that never quite fit together. And when Julian accidentally uncovers a connection between Ravenscourt and the disappearance of Sloane's sister, the past Sloane has spent years running from begins to surface again. Because the truth about that night was never as simple as Sloane was led to believe. And someone has spent three years making sure she never finds out why. Now Sloane must decide what frightens her more: discovering what happened to her sister—or discovering who wanted her to forget. "I thought you hated me" "I did" "And now?" "Now youre making that extremely difficult."