Killing the gray-eyed, dark haired boy across the street in her minuscule town was closure to Lacey Strauss that evening, even when she'd never killed anything in her life, even when her past was just a broken record of leaving, leaving, and left, even when the whole world seemed dead set on working against her. And it would've been achieved if her victim hadn't been Asher Malloy: an avid smoker and commissioned killer at seventeen, working for the regional drug lord alongside his amiable alcoholic of an older brother, Alex. Because when Asher turns the situation around and takes Lacey captive for five months, closure's a long time coming -- if she doesn't die first. SMOLDER tells of an intense and unlikely relationship between Lacey Strauss, an unstable teenager with violence in her blood, and Asher Malloy, a smoking, knife-throwing, incredibly cold and temperamental killer. But as tensions swell and fade between the two, anywhere from lethal hatred to headstrong intimacy, suddenly Asher finds himself valuing the very girl who tried to kill him while Lacey starts realizing the value of human life the more she must take it.

Danny Orchard wrote a bestselling memoir about his near-death experience in a fire that claimed the life of his twin sister, Ashleigh, but despite the resulting fame and fortune he’s never been able to enjoy his second chance at life. Ash won’t let him. In life, Danny’s charming and magnetic twin had been a budding psychopath who privately terrorized her family—and death hasn’t changed her wicked ways. Ash has haunted Danny for twenty years and now, just when he’s met the love of his life and has a chance at real happiness, she wants more than ever to punish him for being alive—so she sets her sights on Danny’s new wife and stepson. Danny knows what Ash really wants is him, and he’s prepared to sacrifice himself in order to save the ones he loves. The question is: will he make it back this time? Check out this exclusive sneak peek of Chapter 2. THE DAMNED is out February 2015.

There's this girl. She spends every day tearing paper, as if nothing she writes ever makes sense. There's this guy. He spends every day watching her, although he knows he isn't ready to love again. When he finally dares himself to make a move, they seem to need each other more than they think they do.