!!! 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
"Smoking is bad, you know." The placid voice speaks up from the distant dark corner, nothing to see but a tall silhouette and an orange glow of a cigarette cherry.
"It's the least of my problems," I murmur with my own between my lips, proceeding to feel the stagnant debris valley my throat when I suck delicately.
He exhales a chuckle of cynical amusement, his footsteps getting every step clearer to my eardrums until I eventually sense body heat burning my back.
"And why is that?" He whispers over my shoulder, hands inviting themselves to grip the railing in front of me so I become a prisoner between his inked arms.
I swallow.
"Because you'll be the one to kill me first."
// Aven Brooks is hired to take pictures for the world-renown punk rock band known today as Duplicity; hoping the experience gets her into her most elite-dreamed university. However, when her lenses accidentally capture more than just cheeky sound checks and performances, she comes to a horrifying discovery that Duplicity is anything but a band.
Appalled and frightened, she's trapped.
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CONTAINS VULGAR LANGUAGE / DRUG ABUSE / SEXUAL CONTENT / DESCRIPTIVE VIOLENCE / MENTAL HEALTH
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