La stessa mela

At eighteen, Verenice has already learned what it means to feel invisible. Marginalized, friendless, and weighed down by a grief that has taken away even her only true love—her father—she begins to wonder if there is any reason to keep living in a world that seems determined to leave her no escape.

Then Derek arrives. An older, charming boy with a gaze that seems to see straight through her. With him, Verenice experiences love, desire, and the feeling of belonging for the first time. But love, as everyone knows, can be as sweet as it is dangerous. And Derek is not what he seems.

Meanwhile, new friendships pull her into a whirlwind of excess, passion, and increasingly blurred boundaries between what is real and what is not. Something—or someone—begins to torment her, digging into her mind and her deepest fears. Verenice will have to navigate a labyrinth of distorted truths and perfect illusions. But how do you survive when the greatest deception lies within yourself?