Chapter 6

A ten-foot banner stood outside the Westbridge Academy auditorium.

MEET EVELYN HART

Ivy’s photograph appeared beneath my pen name. She held my mother’s fountain pen, surrounded by the covers of my ten novels.

Sophie paused in front of it, then kept walking.

We entered through the main doors with the other families. Two reserved signs waited in the center of the front row: Daniel Bennett and Ivy Blake.

A third bore my name.

Daniel was speaking with the head of school near the stage. When he saw us, he crossed the aisle quickly.

“You shouldn’t be here.”

He kept his…