18 year old Emily Stone's life is far from perfect. Between having been beaten to the ground by her extremely abusive ex and cruel backstabbing friends having shunned her for hiding her scars from the public eye. She wants nothing more than to feel beautiful and confident and forget about her dim and gruesome past. But she is haunted by the scars of the past. Her ex is still lurking sabotaging and terrorizing her and the friends she thought she could count on have made her life hell as well. The only solace in this is her only true friend, her brother, Nick.... Until she meets....
26 year old Evan King has been searching relentlessly for his mate for 5 years. He is devout in his claim on his future love and will do anything to make her the happiest woman in the world. When he finds her however, he finds a fragile child terrified of her past as well as her future. His plan is now to set his mate free from the chains of her past and he will do whatever it takes to make her feel safe with him. Even if that means killing those who hurt her very deeply, so deeply she can't stand the idea of him looking at her.
(Nick Bateman as Evan King)
Charred; there are few better words to describe Adrienne King. She certainly didn't escape her childhood unscathed but if you scrape off enough of the blackened bits there's something worth saving. Adrienne has spent the past eight years attempting to move beyond the torment she survived, but it turns out you can't hide from who you are-or who you've been.
History comes knocking in the form of one nosy investigator determined to find the answers to a murder that took place eight years ago, an investigator who has his crosshairs on Adrienne's brother. In order to protect her brother, she'll have to find him. In order to do that she'll need to dive into their mutual past. It won't be easy digging up all that she's buried but if there's one thing she can never forget, it's that she owes him that much.