Predator: one that preys, destroys, or devours. He was always the predator, always the one stalking and preparing to strike. Failure was not an option to him, not achieving what he desired was not an option. He spent his whole life with this mentality, that he was the predator. In the wild it was the survival of the fittest, and life was no different. Those were the rules he lived by. And everything and everyone could be prey in his eyes. Including her. Prey: one that is helpless or unable to resist attack. She had lived on her own for years, taking care of herself. She had survived even against the odds, with her dignity still intact in the process. Maybe her life wasn't what others expected or would want, it wasn't even what she wanted. But it was hers and she made the best of it, surviving on her own and under her terms. Until she meets him and turns her life upside down. She is no longer surviving on her own terms, but his. And there is nothing she can do. *The story will have underplays of power dynamics. Teasing, taunting. He is the predator and she his prey, but who is really going to be captured by who?*

Robin is a 18 year old girl that usually visits her elderly grandmother deep inside the woods to bring her baked goods/gifts and keep her company. Her life isn't that great, her grandmother is the only person she can actually talk to. So every day she walks a mile through the dark woods, with moving shadows and scary noises wherever she doesn't look. And she will soon learn the one thing she prayed wouldn't happen: she realized that she is not alone when she walks through those woods. There is a shadow that follows her, it's intentions unknown. Wherever she goes, it closely follows. She doesn't know whether to feel safe or scared, but it doesn't want to to hurt her, but instead HAVE her. And things take a turn for the worse when Robin discovers her grandma is in a cult-like circle called R.E.D. But she isn't just in it, she was the founder. And as her grandma passes down the crown to Robin, she suddenly has to choose between family expectations and the thrill of having forbidden love.

The passionate story of Tessa and Hardin continues as family secrets, deep betrayals, and career opportunities threaten to tear them apart.

This is the sequel (continuation) of After. Hardin and Tessa's relationship will be tested in ways she never expected, but he knew of all along.