With Lyle's house brunt to ashes and Ricky Malcolm's blood on Riley's hands; the secret is out and Chris is furious and looking for revenge. Dylan, Tina, Lyle, and Riley are all on the run with nothing but the cloths on their backs and each other. Lyle has lost everything his home, his family, and most likely his job. Dylan is sick of the life of a Gangster and fed up with losing the people he cares about. Tina is just here for the ride. It's a strange group but they all have one thing in common, they all care just a little too much about Riley-Anne Elliot Swanson who's heart is hardened with the murder of her first love on her conscious and is just once stray straw away from cracking. This sequel to A Dangerous Life picks up right where it left off. In the backseat of Dylan's car headed to nowhere. These four eventually find a nice place called Helmsdale Arizona a little town just off the coast of an oddly placed beach, a town that is all too familiar to Riley. There Lyle finds another teaching job and Riley goes back to school. They all try their best to seem normal and adapt to this new life, but it's defiantly harder than it looks. Helmsdale has its own friends and foes waiting to test the strength of Lyle and Riley's new relationship and the limits these four are willing to go to maintain their safety. With an angry ruthless gangster on their trail who isn't willing to give up until he takes down Riley personally, enemies disguised as friends, all while trying to keep their past lives under wraps these four find out how hard it really is living Life on the Edge.

After an incident three months ago and her parent's divorce, Reina Caverly finds a way to cope: cutting herself. Her mother's a workaholic, her sister is an out of control teenage girl, and her dad disappeared from the face of the planet. She can't even tell her two best friends, Joshua and Megan, about her problems. Then she meets young and mysterious Calvin Young about to commit suicide by jumping from her school's rooftop which surprised Reina. He's rich; he's handsome for his age, and does well at school, so why? Why would someone who has everything want to kill himself? Everyone has a dark secret, even Calvin who seems to have the world. Can Reina and Calvin learn to speak up about their issues? Can they find their reasons to live? ______ "One day you'll leave me. You don't want a girl with a rape story," I said as I desperately tried to stop my sobs and hiccups. "You deserve someone who is prettier and more stable then me." "Mon ange ," he whispered to me lightly as he held my tear-stained face. I looked at him and my breath shortened as I met his intense look. "I don't want anyone else," he said, "because I just want you." ______ WARNING: Story contains rape, self-harm, and suicidal ideation.