DI Clare Mackay receives a message from her boss DCI Alastair Gibson telling her to meet him in secret.
She does as he
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Lie 1: Im not afraid
Lie 2: Im sure Im doing the right thing
Lie 3: I dont care what they think of me
It’s 1959. The battle for civil rights is raging. & it’s Sarah’s first day of school as one of the first black students at previously all-white Jefferson High.
No one wants Sarah there. Not the Governor. Not the teachers. & certainly not the students – especially Linda, daughter of the town’s most ardent segregationist.
Sarah & Linda are supposed to despise each other. But the more time they spend together, the less their differences matter. & both girls start to feel something they’ve never felt before. Something they’re determined to ignore.
Because it’s one thing to stand up to an unjust world – but another to be terrified of what’s in your own heart.