Falling Offside.

Aria Voss YA&Teenfiction

Coming back to Ashbourne was never part of Isla White's plan.Two years ago, she left town with a shattered knee, a broken dream, and a heart full of anger. She was once a promising figure skater with a future she had spent her entire life working toward and now, she lost everything after an accident on the ice changed her life forever.Now she's back. Back in the town she tried to forget.Back in the halls of Ashbourne Academy. And worst of all, back in the same place as Mason Ryder.Mason was there the night her life fell apart. Ever since, Isla has blamed him for everything she lost. While she spent the last two years trying to rebuild herself, Mason stayed behind and became exactly what everyone expected him to be—the hockey captain, the hometown hero, the boy everyone loves.Everyone except her.But when anonymous messages begin appearing on Isla's phone, the certainty she's clung to for years starts to crack."You still blame the wrong person."At first, she ignores them. Then more messages arrive. Each one pushing her closer to a truth someone desperately wants hidden.As Isla and Mason are forced together by school projects, shared memories, and secrets neither of them can escape, she begins to see pieces of him she never expected. The guilt in his eyes. The things he never says. The pain he seems to carry.And for the first time, she starts to wonder if she ever knew the full story.But Ashbourne is a town built on secrets, and some people will do anything to keep the past buried.The truth could change everything Including the boy she's spent two years hating. And maybe... the boy she never really stopped caring about.

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