Dark Futures

Against her better judgment she leaned into him. "I'm running no where, Connor. I'm just tired. I have no clue how to restart my life and everyone is shying away from me like I'm carrying the plague and I'm just so tired. So, so tired, Connor." It all spilled out, her frustrations, as they usually did with Connor.
He took her face in his hand and kissed her forehead, "I'm right here, Neene, and if you're tired I'll carry you."

Three years ago Nina Grey was banished from town for killing her brother, a crime she didn't commit.

Welcome to Morrow Heights, a a secluded town with enough danger to scare many away. But Nina knew how to deal with the drama easy. But had grown to resent those who got to stay.

She had been living in fear for years, running from danger and drowning in alcohol in seedy towns. Nina had left.

And she was back.

No, Nina Grey was not a murderer. Nina Grey was cunning for such a young girl. But she left a town hell-bent on self destruction and came back to find it even more confusing. Nina Grey was infamous.

Her old affair wants to take things way more public, her best friend is cold and distant, her brother is suffocating. Her father, a man she'd like to kill, has found his way back in the ranks. And there's a new kid, who's seeing past all Nina's lies.

When the head of the town's social hierarchy is killed, secrets are splayed out.

Nothing is as it seems. And nothing ever was.

Parties, pills, guns, love, ballgowns, tailgate parties. Morrow was its own kind of special. And there was a dark future ahead for everyone.