Maya Bennett gave the best audition of the three, yet her place at New York’s Hudson Conservatory was somehow deferred a year. Her boyfriend Julian and her best friend Sienna, whose tuition Maya’s family pays, held her hand through it all and sent her off to study in Vienna. A year later, she flies home to surprise them, peonies in her arms, and overhears the truth from behind a tree: they have been together the whole time, and they were the ones who stole her future. They think she still doesn’t know. They have no idea what’s coming.
