Sadie Caster has spent three weeks in despair but she keeps it hidden. As an unofficial member of the Tribe, her gang is her family and they look to her for guidance in this dark time of loss. And if there is one thing Sadie has learned, it's that dancing with the devil teaches you how to spit in the face of death and smile at the sight of hellfire But her charades come to an abrupt end when a stranger from the past - back from the dead nearly five years in the making - tells her something so unbelievable that the very foundations of reality begin to unravel. Now on a wild ride to save what has already been lost, Sadie finds that her new family has been keeping secrets of the life she has embraced so fully. Secrets surrounding an age old war that everyone is desperate to forget and a hellish surveillance from superiors that would sooner commit genocide than show mercy. Enter, the Council of Kings; a group of nine members who control the criminal world with devastating precision and ruthless bloodlust. All gangs obey the Council without question; loyalty is expected, subordination is required. The Council hasn't been seen for decades but tales of their brutal executions still circulate and haunt those who lived through the terror of their reign some twenty years prior when the Council swept across the land like the plague; wiping out every man, woman, and child they deemed unworthy. It wasn't punishment, it was extinction. Although that nightmare is distant, the Council is much more than a mere ghost story. They are indeed very real and they are out for blood - specific blood, of the same man Sadie now races to find before the Council can carry out their plan. Love of mythical proportions meets laws beyond the realm of mortality, and a century old destiny that may prove to be too formidable to dispute. In this epic tale of danger and heartache, fate takes her toll by payment of blood. And everyone knows it takes the death of a king to grant the rise of a queen.

[Sequel to The Merciless Black List Of Highland High] Secrets and lies. The very flesh and bone of the infamous Shameless Foursome guys. Collin Adamms, the supposed creator of The Shameless Virginity Games, knows what it's like to make mistakes that have greater consequences than others. He's been carrying the biggest mistake of his life burried deep inside for the past two years and tried everything he possibly could to deal with the events haunting his worst nightmares, but there's nothing that would help him redeem himself in eyes of the others. Aspen Cornwell is determined to finally find out the truth about what happened to Courtney Chapel, and what's behind the whole Virginity Games charade, and she wants to help Collin see things for what they really are. But she doesn't know that there's much more Collin, and the rest of The Shameless Foursome is hiding, and that even the smallest lies can have a terrible impact on every single one of their lives once the secrets and lies become too much. #23 in SS 26032018