"You have no power over me," I said, but my voice trembled at the end, betraying me.
He smiled, so beautiful it would bring anyone to its knees. "You sure about that?"
***
There were no prison's anymore. No punishments and no death sentences.
Just the Islands.
All nine of them.
And they were those three things all at once.
***
When fifteen-year-old Anna loses both her parents, the heavy job of taking care of her younger sister falls on her shoulders.
Too young to find a job she starts to steal money, the only way she finds to get enough food on the table and to pay for her sister's school.
But one night, six years later, she gets caught and send to one of the Islands; Island Three. A place full with murders, rapists and criminals, walking freely while they can do whatever they want whenever they want. Completely alone, she wouldn't survive a week.
But that's when she meets him; one of the criminals, as dangerous as death and devastating beautiful. The son of Island Three's leader.
And everything changes. But nothing, nothing, is as it seems.
After his father's death, Davyn thought he'd found his solace in artsy Millie, but when the mysterious future he was promised comes calling, he could lose much more than love. He could lose himself.
***
In the beginning of 1992 the Cold War was finally over and hope was in the air. It was no different for Davyn who couldn't wait to follow in his father's footsteps and seize the bright, mysterious future he'd been promised.
But everything comes crashing down the night his father dies. As the rest of his family becomes estranged and toxic, Davyn fights to find some form of control over his life.
Enter Millie, the epitome of boring overachiever who happens to be the only person in his corner. The game of cat and mouse Davyn enters with her soon morphs from outright fights to something a lot more fiery.
But the shadows of the past are restless, and there are dues to be paid. Davyn's family as well as the school's resident drug dealer seem hell-bent on not letting him have his peace. Or Millie.
Davyn's mysterious future might not be so far off, except the brightness of it could very well be a lie.
Broken and betrayed, the only way to escape it all could be to leave himself behind and become someone else.
Someone everyone who ever wronged him would fear.
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Prequel to the Jewel Project Series.
The story is Complete!