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Alexi, youngest daughter of the perfect Littrell family, is hiding a secret behind a good-girl façade. With the support of an exceptionally sensitive boy with pain of his own, Alexi finds the strength to admit her trauma, even if it might damage her reputation. Alexi's interior turmoil exposes the gray spaces between sexual assault and consent in this uneven but affirming debut novel.