Scarred

**He never believed monsters could love.**

Kael has spent his entire life perfecting the image everyone expects to see.

A star hockey player.

The heir to a powerful family.

The boy everyone wants but no one truly knows.

Keeping people at a distance has always been easy-until one girl stops making it easy.

Mirella.

She isn't trying to impress him. She isn't chasing him. She barely notices him at all.

For reasons he can't understand, she becomes impossible to ignore.

But some people aren't meant to be loved.

The closer Kael gets to Mirella, the harder it becomes to bury the darkness he's spent years hiding. And when long-buried secrets begin to surface, he'll have to decide whether some monsters deserve redemption... or whether they're destined to destroy everything they touch.

Because the hardest thing Kael has ever faced isn't learning how to kill.

It's learning how to love.