The Aftermath of Smoke

"I told you I'd rock his shit, Bella. I don't make promises I can't keep."

Bella Larson is used to being invisible. She's the quiet girl, the "hassle daughter" who causes too much trouble, the sister of a soldier deployed thousands of miles away. But after one disastrous party and a pair of bruises that won't let her forget it, her silence is starting to feel like a cage.

She expected to fade back into the background. She didn't expect Tucker Rhodes.

Tucker is everything a girl in a small Minnesota town should stay away from: the star hockey player with a cocky smirk and a lethal slap shot. But when he sees the marks on Bella's skin, he can't stay away.

Now, Bella is caught between an ex-boyfriend who won't let go, parents who want her to be perfect, a predator who thinks he's untouchable, a trio of dangerous guys she meets on a gloomy night, and a boy with busted knuckles and sparkling blue eyes who calls her "sweetheart" and walks her to class.

In the aftermath of the smoke, Bella has to decide: is she worth the trouble these boys are willing to stir up?

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