SEQUEL TO DUPLICITY. Complicity- to be involved with others in illegal activity or wrongdoing. After sacrificing herself for Harry's freedom, Aven Brooks is no longer the innocent photographer with big dreams and a bigger heart. Now under the notorious control of Malikai, she becomes brainwashed into being the perfect asset for his organized crime. Harry, a fugitive, spends his days trying to find his angel and reap her out the path he once walked. When that stroke of luck comes his way, he smacks into the harsh reality to what she's actually become. Needless to say, she's no longer an angel. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TO @HAPPYDAYS1D ALLOWING NO TRANSLATIONS. CONTAINS MATURE LANGUAGE, SEXUAL CONTENT, DRUG USE, VIOLENCE, AND MENTAL HEALTH. READ AT OWN RISK!

Athiliah Verns spends her days alone, talking to her cat Nyx to pass the time. She works for a designer company traveling the world for different clients, or just staying at the building across town. Or does she? She's worked there since, well who remembers? It seems like forever and she can't bother to try to remember a time from before. A time where things weren't as simple. In a spur of a decision trip she meets a group of new friends, faces events that may flip her world upside down, (or maybe right side up) and uncovers things she didn't even know that she had forgotten in the first place. Was she the only one who didn't remember? Her new friends are promising but not all of them get along with her so well. The two boys can't stand her. And she can't stand them either. They leave it at that, only socializing when needed. But when things start to make sense again, and secrets are revealed to them. There's new tasks at hand. Guess what two narcissistic and self centered guys have to follow along with her to complete them. They were there all along weren't they? She just hadn't remembered. Agent 6 has joined the call. "Has anyone seen Four?"

. ❝everything is more beautiful because we are doomed. you will never be lovelier than you are now. we will never be here again.❞ -homer, the lliad delaney gets caught up in the dangerous workings of four boys who start to grow on her despite her resistance. one more so than the others. there are a lot of open ended questions in life that cause hurt the longer they go unanswered, and finding answers can consume some people. at least it can lead you to the people you're meant to be with.

"Smoking is bad, you know." The placid voice speaks up from the distant dark corner, nothing to see but a tall silhouette and an orange glow of a cigarette cherry. "It's the least of my problems," I murmur with my own between my lips, proceeding to feel the stagnant debris valley my throat when I suck delicately. He exhales a chuckle of cynical amusement, his footsteps getting every step clearer to my eardrums until I eventually sense body heat burning my back. "And why is that?" He whispers over my shoulder, hands inviting themselves to grip the railing in front of me so I become a prisoner between his inked arms. I swallow. "Because you'll be the one to kill me first." // Aven Brooks is hired to take pictures for the world-renown punk rock band known today as Duplicity; hoping the experience gets her into her most elite-dreamed university. However, when her lenses accidentally capture more than just cheeky sound checks and performances, she comes to a horrifying discovery that Duplicity is anything but a band. Appalled and frightened, she's trapped. *HIGHEST RANKINGS* #1 IN HARRYSTYLES #1 IN ONEDIRECTION ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TO @happydays1d NOT ALLOWING TRANSLATIONS! CONTAINS VULGAR LANGUAGE / DRUG ABUSE / SEXUAL CONTENT / DESCRIPTIVE VIOLENCE / MENTAL HEALTH READ AT OWN RISK!

*Story containes MATURE & EXPLICIT CONTENT* THIS IS A SEQUEL / PART 2. Read "Stall" before this book, unless you just like spoiling things for yourself. If that's the case, you do you boo. "Something can be both delicate and violent" *** Harry lowers his eyes at me as he backs me up against the wall, the red lighting only making him look more menacing "You wanted the bad guy Abby? Wanted the villain?" My heart his running a hundred mile an hour when my breathing hitches in my throat as his hand comes up to wrap his long fingers tight around my jaw forcing me to look him in the eye. "Well now you've got him" He leans his face close to mine, his voice dropping to a low warning murmur that has my stomach hitting the floor. "...Run little mouse" *** BOOK STARTED JULY 1 2019 COMPLETED JULY 2021