True Dedication

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>With families like these who needs enemies?</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Note</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>: </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>True Dedication</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> was originally published as a part of the megabook </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Hawthorn Academy: Year Three</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>My friends know it's not true and they want toturn things around. Too bad they're all walking wounded.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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! - </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Michael Anderle Best-Selling Author of <em>The Kurtherian Gambit series</em></strong></p><p></p><p></p>