Blake Turner has one goal: survive the next eighteen months, get her diploma, and disappear. Everything else-her boyfriend, her friends, her once-perfect life-is already gone. All that's left is endurance. Eighteen more months of keeping quiet. Of hiding the truth about what happens behind closed doors. Of pretending everything is fine when nothing is. She can make it. She has to. Liam Cole doesn't do attachments. Not when loyalty to his crew is the only thing that's kept him alive these past two years. Dragged into gang life too young, his world is built on violence, loyalty, and nights that end with no names exchanged. His past haunts him. His future? Already decided. His heart? Off-limits. Hardened. Untouchable. But when he crosses paths with the school's most hated outcast-the quiet girl everyone whispers about-everything he thought he knew begins to unravel. But some secrets refuse to stay buried... And when the truth finally breaks free, it leaves no one untouched.

Sequel to "I'm Still Breathing". Luie's back and sober but still fighting the demons of his past. With Ron and his sister Chenelle getting married Luie must face his family for the first time since his last stay in rehab as well as overcome life hurtles that threaten to throw him back down a self-destructive path. Will Payton, Chenelle and Ron be able to keep him on the right path or will he fall victim to his old ways?

Lucian Adler, the youngest of three and the wild child of the family, struggles with alcoholism among other things. When he meets a young girl in a local diner, she completely turns him around. But can his family see the change or will he forever be the family screw up? This book has a sequel "You're the Reason".