When Nia, a quiet, misunderstood girl from New York with a grunge edge and a complicated past, is kicked out of her parents' home, she moves in with her cousin Charlotte in the small, deceptively quiet town of Swellview. Nia doesn't smile easily, doesn't trust quickly, and carries the weight of things she doesn't say. She's all chipped black nails, oversized band tees, and combat boots-blending rebellion and silence like armor.
Charlotte's world is bright and orderly. Nia's? Chaotic and heavy. But when Nia meets Henry Hart-golden boy, walking tension, constantly disappearing-something clicks. Not in a soft way. In a slow, aching, what-the-hell-is-this kind of way.
Jasper, with his awkward charm and surprising depth, is the first to get close. He sees something in Nia no one else ever tried to see. They start something real. But Henry... Henry sees through her.
And she sees through him, too.
Why does he vanish so much? Why does he show up bleeding, breathless, lying? Why does Kid Danger-a masked hero Nia once crushed on like a fairytale-feel so familiar?
While relationships burn and unravel, secrets ignite a slow fall into chaos. Nia's mother is hiding something dark. Missions are getting more dangerous. And someone on the inside wants Nia gone.
With heartbreak, lust, danger, betrayal, and messy, human love, Static Hearts is a slow-burning, spiraling descent into the lives of heroes who are barely holding it together-and the girl who just might tear it all apart.
He was born to rule. She was forged in fire. But falling in love might be their undoing.
I know how to survive. I've been doing it since the day my mother taught me to hide in closets and wait for the monsters to pass.
Trusting people? Loving them? That's how you get broken.
So when Shane Montgomery-Mr. Golden Boy with his perfect smile and world of privilege-offered to help me, I didn't believe him. Why would someone like him care about someone like me? I'm barely holding my life together-working double shifts, sleeping too little, chasing a future no one thinks I deserve.
But Shane is relentless. Not just with tutoring or grades, but with me. With seeing me. Touching the parts of me I've kept buried because needing someone is dangerous. And wanting him? That's a cliff I can't afford to fall from.
Still... I'm slipping.
Because when he looks at me like I'm his everything-like I'm the only thing he needs, like our love is fated, written into the very fabric of the universe-I almost believe him.
And if I allow myself to fall-really fall-it won't just be into his arms.
It'll be straight into the wreckage of everything I've fought so hard to survive.
In the first installment of the Twisted Path Series, opposites collide, secrets unravel, and two star-crossed lovers cling to each other in a world determined to tear them apart.