Secret in 173: A Clean YA Mystery-Romance

A hidden locker. A buried school promise. When Celia and Darian uncover the truth behind 173, a clue trail through old records and guarded memories pulls them toward justice and toward each other.A note with a number. A locker no one was meant to open. A truth a school tried to file out of sight.Celia trusts records, patterns, and things that stay where they belong. Darian trusts almost nothing that comes from official rooms. When both of them are pulled toward locker 173 on the eve of a hallway renovation, they uncover far more than an old school secret. Hidden letters, altered yearbook pages, a buried family promise, and a missing acknowledgment begin to point toward something the adults around them hoped time would erase.The deeper Celia and Darian dig, the more dangerous the silence around the truth becomes. What started as a clue trail through old files turns into a fight over memory, dignity, and who gets to be named in the room. And as they follow the record where it was never supposed to lead, the bond growing between them becomes harder to ignore.Set in the charged quiet of a high-school corridor full of locked doors and unfinished history, The Secret in 173 is a clean YA mystery-romance about hidden paper trails, family truth, and the kind of love that begins when someone believes you before the proof is complete.