You and Eren Jaeger went to the same high school but never really spoke. He was the guy everyone knew. Easy-going, loud, reckless and sometimes annoying. You were the girl he barely noticed, staying hidden in plain sight. It stayed that way until college finally came around and both of you ended up attending the same one by some crazy coincidence. Now, thanks to a reckless bet between friends, Eren suddenly has one goal: get you to kiss him. Of course he thinks it'll be simple enough. Except the closer he gets to you, the more complicated everything becomes. The problem? Bets mean that someone always loses. And this time, it might be both of you.

New Orleans isn't just a city-it's a pulse. A rhythm. A hunger. And nobody knows that better than Arielle Washington, a tired single mother grinding just to make rent in the Desire Projects. Love left her a long time ago, replaced with diaper bags, house keys, and survival. That is, until a new housekeeping job drops her into the home-and world-of ICE the most dangerous man in the streets. ICE doesn't do mess. Doesn't do feelings. But there's something about Ari-her fire, her silence, her scars-that draws him in. And when business gets bloody and loyalties are tested, the line between protector and predator blurs. Because in the Dirty South, nothing comes clean... not even love.