Blake Turner has one goal: survive the next eighteen months, get her diploma, and disappear. Everything else-her boyfriend, her friends, her once-perfect life-is already gone. All that's left is endurance. Eighteen more months of keeping quiet. Of hiding the truth about what happens behind closed doors. Of pretending everything is fine when nothing is. She can make it. She has to. Liam Cole doesn't do attachments. Not when loyalty to his crew is the only thing that's kept him alive these past two years. Dragged into gang life too young, his world is built on violence, loyalty, and nights that end with no names exchanged. His past haunts him. His future? Already decided. His heart? Off-limits. Hardened. Untouchable. But when he crosses paths with the school's most hated outcast-the quiet girl everyone whispers about-everything he thought he knew begins to unravel. But some secrets refuse to stay buried... And when the truth finally breaks free, it leaves no one untouched.

Skylar, a junior at Welmont High isn't your normal girl. Being abused both physically and mentally by almost her entire school..let alone going home to an abusive father. Her mother left years ago and she hasn't seen her since. One of the most amazing things happen when she runs into a popular boy, Austin. With his anger issues and the title of a player..Skylar doesn't know if she can trust him. What will happen? Will the anger take over and will anything bad come of this or will they possibly make something work? Read to find out. Just a note, this is a slow moving book. It does have mature content and bad parts. I advise a higher age.