Ally thought saying yes to Josh would make things simple. Instead, everything gets dangerous fast. -- Ally comes home from vacation torn between two boys: Chris, the one she's secretly wanted for over a year... and Josh, her childhood best friend who asked her out first. Wanting to stop the back-and-forth and finally choose someone, Ally says yes to Josh - hoping it'll lead to everything she's always imagined. At first, it does. Until it doesn't. Josh has a baby on the way with another girl - the result of cheating and choices he can't outrun. Tension rises fast, and just as Ally starts questioning everything... she discovers she's pregnant too. Now Josh is facing the pressure of two children before he's even seventeen, and the stress sends him spiraling into drugs. The boy Ally grew up loving disappears into someone unpredictable, angry, and dangerous. One night, when he's high, Josh crosses a line Ally never saw coming. And suddenly she's sixteen, pregnant, and trapped in a reality she never chose. She thought she was choosing love. She didn't realize she was stepping into danger. Book 1 of the Rebel Heart series Trigger Warnings: physical abuse, verbal abuse, drug use, teen pregnancy

She escaped the danger. Now she has to survive everything it left behind. -- After the fight that changed everything, sixteen-year-old Ally loses her baby and Josh is sent to jail for the summer. Ben gives her a rental house so she can finally feel safe, and Chris moves in with her immediately-the boy she originally wanted, the boy who refuses to let her heal alone. But safety doesn't erase trauma. Leaving the Smith house breaks her heart. It was the safest place she ever lived, and she misses Mr. Jason every day. Still, the memories and nightmares make it impossible to stay in the neighborhood where everything happened. Then comes the secret she never meant to share. Chris has been coping in his own dangerous ways for years, and when Ally catches him, hurting and desperate to numb her grief, she pressures him into letting her try it too. What starts as a way to escape becomes a private struggle they face together-one that no one else sees when they look at their seemingly perfect relationship. Meanwhile, Ally's mother files for custody out of spite, convinced getting remarried will fix everything. Mrs. Kim refuses to accept who Josh has become. Ally files for emancipation and Ben steps in without blinking. Nobody expects him to win-but he does. For the first time, Ally has people choosing her. For the first time, she isn't alone. But Josh's obsession doesn't fade, even from jail. And healing gets harder when the past refuses to stay quiet. She survived the danger. Now she has to survive the aftermath. Book 2 of the Rebel Heart series Trigger Warnings: abuse, trauma, child loss, addiction, toxic family dynamics