Lola Toivennen, a fiercely independent billionaire who has spent years building her own empire after being alienated from her family's oil fortune, wants to protect the life and success she created for herself, but her resolve is threatened when the high school sweetheart who shattered her heart returns seeking a second chance, forcing her to confront the past she has spent a decade outrunning in the glittering world of modern wealth and power.

Freya Arsov sits on top of a world of diamonds and sports cars. Her father is a billionaire, head of a world-renown company, her mother, an esteemed lawyer. She attends the most prestigious boarding school in England. She has four amazing best friends and a dreamy boy who was in love with her. Except, none of these things make up for what happened last summer. Matthew al Nassar has fallen far. After the death of his father, he finds himself involved in a world of gangs and guns and has no way out. When these childhood neighbours clash, bullets fly. Love is a girl pointing a gun at the boy who owns her heart. Or at least, in this story, it is. [Book #1 in the Bulletproof Series] [loosely inspired by the myth of Persephone and Hades] © archeronta 2019