❝She looked down at her shoes and said, "You know, I can't wait 'till I turn 18. I can finally leave this fake life behind."❞ For quite some time, she had gotten used to hiding behind the sorry excuse of a life she lived. With a jealous sister, an overprotective mother, and a felon for a father, moving away once she graduated was the best idea she came up with. But then she met a certain man and fell head over heels in love with him, ending their cliche love story, right? Well, what happened after she found out who she really was? What happened when she's given the choice to submit or dominate? The story that she called her own wasn't a love tale. It was something much darker and challenging - something more domestic. Sooner or later, she'll find that even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.

Adeline May is an ordinary teenaged girl. She has a mom-who is dead. She has a brother-who hates her. She has a father-who doesn't know her. She has a step-mom-who is a ray of sunlight. And she has a step-brother-who is her twin flame. Not to mention a boy named Kristian-a happy secret hiding under the rug. Well, Adeline May's life has gotten a little too much, if you'd ask her. But she's just an ordinary teen-aged girl, living her ordinary teen-aged life, right?