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My name is Lilah Calloway, and I was born into a
family that had been building its own world for generations.
The Calloways and the Sinclairs had been intertwined for generations. It all started with our great-great grandmothers, long before any of us were born. They were best friends. The pair studied at Oxford together, graduated together, and eventually bought Beechwood Island together, insisting that their families would grow up side by side for years to come.
And so we did.
Every summer, we returned to our little kingdom in the Martha's Vineyard Sound. Six houses hidden among the trees. Long docks stretching into blue water. Tennis courts, secret paths, late-night swims, and dinners that seemed to last forever. On Beechwood, the rules of the outside world felt very far away.
I was an only child, and the Calloway cousins who came
along after me were still too young to be the companions
I needed. So from the time I was little, I found myself growing especially close to the Sinclair children. Each summer, when our families returned to Beechwood, Johnny, Mirren, and Cadence were there, and year after year, we grew up together, our childhoods unfolding side by side beneath the summer sun.
Summer Eight was when Gat came to Beechwood. After
his father's death, he came to the island with Ed and Carrie,
and by the end of that summer, he had become one of us.
The Liars.