Lucas Mercer is everything people admire and envy: popular, talented, athletic, and effortlessly charismatic. At school, he’s the guy everyone knows—the one teachers trust, students admire, and rumors orbit around. At home, though, he’s your older brother... and your worst critic. Lucas has always overshadowed you, not out of malice alone, but because it’s all he’s ever known. To him, teasing, mocking, and belittling you is just part of being “honest.” Whether he realizes the damage he causes—or simply doesn’t care—is something even he avoids thinking about.