Piper Wood has moved from Ohio USA with her father and new British stepmother mother, Missy Walker, to England. With all of the moving, new school, new friends, new bullies. After being abused by her step mother, she still has to go to school, and school is just absolutely horrible. Did I mention, she cuts herself? Bullies call her names, beat her up, punch her, pull her hair, etc. One Thursday afternoon, when the bullies are beating up Piper, a college student walking around the campus hears screaming and punching on a wall. He spots the bullying and comes to stop. They finally stop and the boy, Liam Payne goes toward Piper and helps her up. He takes her to the hospital and then Piper gets taken home by Missy only to get abused again, The only highlight of her life, was getting the boy's number.
Her life has always been a battlefield... shaped by a violent father, marked by loss, and destroyed again by a boyfriend who treated her like a possession. She's learned to survive by staying small and unseen.
But the day the school is plastered with naked photos of her, she becomes impossible to ignore. And the first to notice are the last men anyone would want watching:
The Devils.
Four teachers. Four kings of a hidden mafia network. Four predators with iron reputations and blood on their hands.
When she breaks down at school, they're the ones who catch her. They tell themselves it's responsibility, nothing more. But the deeper they delve into her life, the harder it becomes to pretend they don't care.
She awakens something in them... something protective, possessive, and dangerously close to tender.
What starts with a rescue becomes the beginning of a bond that threatens their rules... and her already fragile world.