Sixteen-year-old Ivey CarriΓ³n has always felt like a ticking time bomb, she craves intensity, the kind that burns through her veins and makes life feel worth living. In her suffocating big city life, too many people to please... until Jude Tatro skates into her life. He's reckless, charming, and just detached enough to make her feel seen in a way no one else ever has. Their love is intoxicating, dangerous-like a secret no one else deserves to touch. But when a night of mischief spirals into something far bloodier, Ivey and Jude find themselves on the run. The first kill was an accident. The second was a choice. With every crime, their names become whispered in fear, their love cemented in infamy. As the law closes in and Ivey's mind fractures under the weight of their sins, she begins to wonder: Is this the ultimate love story, or are they writing their own doomed obituary?
A twisted tale of passion, chaos, and self-destruction, how far two lost souls will go to carve their names into history, before it's too late?
Henley agrees to pretend to date millionaire Bennett Calloway for a fee, falling in love as she wonders - how is he involved in her brother's false conviction?
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Henley Linden's brother is in jail for a crime he didn't commit, and she'll take any job to raise the money needed to free him. Soon, she's agreed to pretend to date millionaire Bennett Calloway for ten thousand dollars, so his mother will ease up the pressure on him to find a wife. But once Henley is enmeshed in Bennett's world, he falls for her, and she starts to have feelings for him as well. Despite her romance with Bennett, as she grows closer to the Calloways, Henley realizes they are somehow involved in her brother's conviction. Journeying deeper into a world of wealth and conspiracies, Henley is forced to rely on Bennett, though doing so could cost her everything.
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