Amor// James Hunter

Mary Floyd isn't the sort of girl who breaks easily. After three years spent in the magnetic and dangerous orbit of James Hunter, she has learnt to fight fire with fire. Their relationship was a battlefield: shouting, kissing, obsessive jealousy and a passion that consumed them both. They broke up because being together meant destroying each other, but the problem is that, even as 'strangers', their souls continue to seek each other out in the school corridors and the shadows of their secrets.

Mary believes she has everything under control, protected too by the watchful eye of her older brother Asper, who knows all too well the damage James can do. But the precarious balance is shattered by the arrival of June White.

June is the opposite of Mary: she appears pure, new, a blank page on which James seems intent on writing a new story. When Mary sees James's attention shift to her, something inside her explodes. It is not just jealousy; it is the terror of finally having been replaced, or worse, forgotten.

But in a toxic love affair, who really wins? And how far is Mary willing to go to destroy herself rather than let James belong to another?