(STORY IS 18+ AND CONTAINS MATURE CONTENT) While helping her brother, John B Routledge, search for the missing gold from The Royal Merchant ship, Alana Routledge finds herself on the side of the road, face down with her friends while a masked man points the barrel of a gun down her face. Fear should strike her but instead... This mysterious masked man piques her interest. Every dark romance novel she has ever read has led her right to this moment with Kildare's biggest drug dealer. How will she balance the good girl image she's maintained, finding the gold with her brother, and sneaking around with Barry? Especially after she agrees to be his fake girlfriend to attend his mother's gala in New York City. (ALL CHARACTERS ARE AGED UP DUE TO CONTENT PURSPOSES AND SOME STORYLINES HAVE BEEN ALTERED TO FIT THE STORYLINE)

𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇, 𝐀𝐲𝐚𝐧𝐚 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭 avoids boys like 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐃𝐢 𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐬 who are arrogant, charming, reckless, and far too used to getting whatever he wants. But when 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐧 makes a bet that he can get 𝐀𝐲𝐚𝐧𝐚, the coldest girl at Briars, to go on a date with him, she finds out before he even gets the chance to play her. So she decides to play him first. --------------- [Dean Di Laurentis x female OC] [Enemies to lovers] [Read at the bottom of the introduction for TW!]