Emery Thompson just wants to finish nursing school. She is tired of surviving just to get through and wants to be able to finally move on so she can start her life. She has made a lot of mistakes that most people couldn't begin to imagine and the effort to keep those dark mysteries secret becomes an impossible task when she meets Colton, who seems determined to break down her walls.
Colton Hayes enters his final year of college hoping to make it a memorable one before he has to grow up and enter the real world. It's his last chance to follow his dream of becoming a professional soccer player and playing in the big leagues. The unknown of the future ways on him as does the pressure from his parents to pick a career that will offer him stability. When Colton gets paired with Emery for a class assignment, their worlds collide and gravitate together, helpless to resist.
She gets under his skin and enters his every waking thought. And for the first time in years, he finds himself passionate about something off the soccer field.
But the closer they get brings back emotions from the past they both had long since tried to bury. Will these two broken souls darken further or will they realize that sometimes two wrongs do make a right?
This book is for mature audiences as it will contain mature content and mature language.
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Book cover credit to @bottle_of_rum
Won first place in The Lavender Awards.
Won first place in The Sunflower Awards.
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57 Kapitel Abgeschlossene Geschichte Erwachseneninhalt
57 Kapitel
Abgeschlossene Geschichte
Erwachseneninhalt
"Every step you take away from me only drives you closer to the brink of my madness. You belong to me, Winter. Any alternative reality or illusion you hope for- I will destroy them until your very existence is entwined with mine."
-𝐈𝐯𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐞
Eighteen-year-old Winter has always been a quiet shadow, a shy spy avoiding the perils of the spotlight. But when she's tasked with stalking five powerful Heirs, her carefully crafted invisibility shatters. Her mission is clear: erase their scandals, track their every move, and never draw attention. Yet, when she crosses paths with Ivan Arcane-the ruthless heir to one of the world's most powerful empires-everything changes.
At first, Ivan saw her as dull and dependent, an insignificant watcher in the crowd. A beautiful doll to be kept locked and safe somewhere- an innocence belonging nowhere near him or his world. But when she makes one fatal mistake, he uncovers the sharp, wild mind she's concealed beneath fragile masks of pink and purples. Now, Ivan is obsessed, determined to dismantle her defenses and claim her as his own.
And In a world where power rules, Winter is no longer the Hunter in the game -she's Ivan's fixation, a prey to a predator and he'll stop at nothing to change the very narrative of the fairy tale so the villain gets the girl in the end.
REVIEWS
This book is so consuming. My heart is unsteady since i read this chapter. I read it trice and i am stil recovering
-neilavni_love
I am blown away. WTF just happend?
-meladeeee
I think i seriously need to go for a check up. Why does my heart race so fast reading every fucking chapter?
-amara_sullivan
IVAN FUCKING ARCANE
I love you so much baby
-googleydodley
So hot for what?
-kookieshopes
•CHECK LIST OF TRIGGER WARNINGS INSIDE•
•4 YEAR AGE GAP•
•DUAL POV•