For two years, Elena Hart and Adrian Blackwood have been locked in an endless battle for first place.The entire school knows them as academic enemies. Teachers compare them. Students bet on them. Neither has ever accepted second place.Then the National Science Innovation Competition launch ends in an explosion. A student is hurt. The competition is nearly shut down before it begins. Elena and Adrian are the only ones who noticed something was wrong with the lab before it happened, and when they speak up, they stop being witnesses and become suspects instead.Forced to team up to clear their names and finish what they started, they find something neither was prepared for. The boy Elena has spent two years trying to defeat is the only person who has ever looked past her grades and seen her. And the girl Adrian has resented since freshman year understands his loneliness better than anyone in his own house ever has. But underneath the sabotage is a truth neither of them knows yet. A signature on an old document. A fund that vanished the same year Elena's father got sick. A family name that keeps surfacing in places it should not. And for one unbearable stretch, Elena's own father's name on paperwork that makes her question everything she believed about him.As the truth gets closer, so does the cost of telling it. When Elena is finally offered a way to have everything back, the scholarship, the future, even Adrian's inheritance, in exchange for burying what she knows, she has to decide who she wants to be when nobody is watching.