E Lockhart

Welcome back to the Sinclair family. There were always liars. Twenty-seven years before the events of We were liars comes another summer, another generation, and the secrets that will haunt them for decades.

"When eighteen-year-old Mathilda receives a sudden invitation from Kingsley Cello--the estranged father she's never met--she travels to his seaside home, Hidden Beach, hoping for connection and self-discovery. Instead, she encounters her lost brother Meer, troubled ex-actor Brock, and the guarded Tatum, all hiding painful secrets. With Kingsley missing, Matilda must unravel the dark mysteries of Hidden Beach, where lies and blood ties blur beneath...

Sophomore Frankie starts dating senior Matthew Livingston, but when he refuses to talk about the all-male secret society that he and his friends belong to, Frankie infiltrates the society in order to enliven their mediocre pranks.

Sixteen-year-old Willow Zimmerman reconnects with estranged family friend and real estate tycoon E. Nigma, but after he helps her earn enough for medical treatments for her mom she is attacked by the monstrous Killer Croc and upon waking after the fight she gains powers and insight she will need to make the right choices.

Spending their summer at Wildewood Academy, an elite boarding school for the performing arts, tests the bond between teens Sadye and her best friend Demi.