TOXIC

At twenty-eight, Britney's life is nothing but a slow-motion wreck. She's jobless, broke, angry at the world, and living a life she's far from proud of. Her temper has become her trademark - the reason she has seen the inside of a courtroom more times than her own reflection. She's not living, just surviving - dragging herself through days that all feel the same, with nothing good to show for the years gone by.

Things take a darker turn, however, when she's arrested for beating her best friend senseless after discovering she'd been sleeping with her fiancé. The fine alone is enough to bury her. Yet somehow, she walks free - only to find the devil waiting on her couch.

Her brother.

The same brother she'd last seen twelve years ago.

He claims he's back to help her start over. His entry into her life, however, only brings more doom rather than intended redemption; as he pulls her into a world of crime wrapped in luxury and painted in blood - a world that slowly consumes her.

Then she meets him - the dark, devilishly handsome stranger her brother shouldn't have brought to her table. The kind of man who burns quietly but fatally, whose touch feels like sin, and whose world is soaked in danger. One look and her fate was sealed. The deeper Britney sinks into him, the closer she drifts toward the edge - where love, crime, and death blur into one.

Between the brother who believes he's protecting her and the man who's slowly corrupting her, Britney is caught in a storm she can't escape.

Her life was already a mess.

Now, it's a masterpiece of chaos, temptation, and ruin.

She thought she'd hit rock bottom-until they showed her how far there still was to fall...