Tessa Young is an 18 year old college student with a simple life, excellent grades, and a sweet boyfriend. She always has things planned out ahead of time, until she meets a rude boy named Hardin, with too many tattoos and piercings who shatters her plans.

Some truths are meant to stay hidden. Some people refuse to let them. Jade has spent years perfecting the art of disappearing in plain sight. With a past she refuses to unpack and a future hanging by a thread, she keeps to herself - until Harry steps into her life like a carefully constructed lie she wants to believe. He's reckless charm and quiet contradictions, the kind of trouble she's spent her whole life avoiding. But Harry sees too much. And when he looks at her, it feels dangerously close to being seen. What starts as a collision of bad timing and worse decisions turns into something neither of them expected. But secrets have a way of surfacing, and the closer they get, the more Jade wonders if Harry's presence in her life is fate... or a beautifully disguised threat. Because some people leave. Some people stay. And some are just searching for the cracks to slip through. A story of love, heartbreak, and the weight of the past, Secrets is a slow-burning, emotionally charged romance that will leave you breathless.

Harry was tired of it. He was tired of being the "lead singer" of the band. He was tired of being "the flirty, filthy manwhore". He hated the fame. He hated the attention. He hated everything. Scarlett was tired of breathing. She just got out of rehab but still struggling. Her whole life she'd been known as "the quiet girl". She was always in everyone else's shadow. She was constantly put down, overlooked, and constantly change so she'd "be good enough". "Tired" couldn't even explain her pain. The two seem to be completely different, but are they really? When they finally meet they realize one thing: They're just what they needed. // book one of the strings series //