At Darkwood Academy, the truth always comes out... Emma is still reeling from the events of her junior year at Darkwood. Not only is her best friend, Ollie, shockingly alive, but the boy she loves, his genetic copy, Levi, is still on the island where he grew up, stranded with his deranged guardian. More importantly, she is grappling with who she really is. Emma can't accept the hard truths she learned last year. But as she develops abilities no human should have, it gets harder to hide what she is from Ollie and the Similars. Especially when the other students on campus are determined to get rid of everyone different once and for all. When a new threat comes to the school, genetic copies calling themselves "duplicates", Emmy realizes there is more at stake then she could have ever dreamed of. Emma and her friends will have to try to stop the Similars' creator from putting a plan into motion that could destroy everyone she loves. The Similars duology: The Similars The Pretenders "Plenty of action...the end is a deftly handled twist on a twist that will confound readers in a good way."--Booklist