38 parts Ongoing Mature!!! Sequel to Deceptive !!!
Lily Stone doesn't run from the fire - she walks right into it.
By night, she rules the clubs and rooftops of LA, high on neon, smoke, and the rush of forgetting. By day, she keeps her last piece of sanity alive at Ember & Ink, the tattoo shop she built from nothing. Zayn, the magnetic king of the city's nightlife, feeds her chaos. He gives her everything she thinks she wants - fast nights, faster highs, no questions.
But Lily can't outrun herself.
And when Harry - the man she swore was part of the past - steps out of the shadows, the world she's built starts to crack. He isn't here to save her. He's here because he couldn't stay away.
As old enemies close in and Lily's wild world starts to burn, she'll have to choose: keep losing herself in the night or fight for something real before it's too late.
Defiant is a dark, gritty romance about love that rebuilds, desire that destroys, and what it takes to come home to yourself.
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!!!TRIGGER WARNING!!!
CONTAINS DRUG USE, SEXUAL CONTENT, EMOTIONAL ABUSE, PSYCHOLOGICAL MANIPULATION, TRAUMA THEMES, POWER IMBALANCE, OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE, GRAPHIC CONTENT, VIOLENCE