With families like these, who needs enemies?Note: True Dedication was originally published as a part of the megabook, Hawthorn Academy: Year Three.Mr. Fairbanks blames me for his daughter's defiance. Mrs. Onassis says I poisoned her son's mind. And Mr. Pierce thinks I'm taking advantage of his children.My friends know it's not true and they want toturn things around. Too bad they're all walking wounded.Everyone else in my year is plagued by their past, shackled by obligation, or deathly ill. I can't stand back and watch them get hurt anymore. But our one potential ally on the trustee board has his own secret agenda.It'll take every ounce of resolve I've got to stand up for what's right. But can I do it without my friends?"I spent more than a couple of late nights reading through these stories to find out what was going to happen to my new friends!" - Michael Anderle, Best-Selling Author of The Kurtherian Gambit series