Axel

[Thornton Boys - Book 4]

Princesses don't end up with thieves, and thieves don't deserve princesses. Read any old children's fairy tale, they all end the same; the princess marries the prince and they live happily ever after. The thief is forgotten, as he should be. He's nothing more than a plot twist, a forgettable bad guy complicating an otherwise perfect love story. ...Right?

So what happens when the thief realises he's still what the princess needs, he just isn't who she thinks he is? What happens when you forget what you learned in the fairy tales and decide to trust your heart with what it truly wants, rather than what it thinks it's supposed to want?

Axel's getting out of jail, and he wants nothing to do with Maya fucking Phillips. But she's too close to the people he wronged; she's too god damn involved to be ignored. And when Axel discovers that Maya is, in fact, his beloved prisoner pen-pal; he decides he no longer wants to ignore her.

Maya's been in her own personal jail, inside her head, for almost five years now. Ever since he left her. He's back now, but he's not the same person she once knew; he's reckless, dangerous, lawless, despicable. She could never feel for him now, how she did when they were kids. But when someone close to both Maya and Axel goes missing, she's forced to put her feelings - old and new - to one side and come together with her old flame, for the greater good. That is, you know, if he's even capable of anything good. Only time will tell, but someone's life is on the line, and time happens to be running the fuck out.

** This is the FOURTH book in a five-book series. Please don't waste your time reading this if you haven't read the first three already :) **