Dark bully romance. Enemies to lovers, high school setting with some OW drama. This story follows Crayton and Rebecca (Bex). She recently moved to NYC and is enrolled to attend a prestigious private school. As soon as he sees her, it doesn’t go well because she reminds him of his mother, who was a horrific person responsible for his deepest and darkest traumas.
Bex attempts to hold her own but the bullying and all the drama from the OW in the story is a lot. She has some supportive friends, the secondary characters in our story, and that’s the only way she gets through this.
Bex is SA’d after a party and that is really the turning point for the MMC when he realizes that his feelings of protectiveness and care for her are a lot stronger than his feelings of hate, and at that point, they become inseparable. The other woman in the story is not happy about this turn of events, and she really ups the ante to hurt the both of them, going so far as to frame Crayton for a crime that he did not commit. Don’t get it twisted, he has done some things in the book, but he actually did not do the thing he was accused of.
Our story ends with him behind bars, essentially doing time for not the original crime, but a lesser degree. But him and Bex are committed to making the relationship work until his release.
This is book 1 in what will be a series of interconnected standalone’s. So we already have a little insight into what book 2 is going to be about at the end of this book. I love the story. The writing is amazing. I literally could not put it down , it kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time. The spice is so, so good. This is a definite must read.