USA Today bestselling author, Jane Anthony, delivers an emotionally raw & intense tale of passion, heartache, and love. Sit ringside while Jace Wilder-a bad boy MMA Fighter & Hell's Bend High's biggest bully-dukes it out with Ellie Cartwright-a sheltered good girl with nothing left to lose-on their bumpy road to happily ever after.
Brutal bully. Hotter than hell. MMA God.
Jace Wilder owns Hell's Bend High and everyone in it. Everyone except me that is. The girls love him, the guys want to be him . . . I just want to stay away from him.
But when the death of my mother forces me into the Wilder home, I become his latest target. Only, I can't tell if he wants to torment me or take me to bed.
He may think I'm easy prey, a poor little rich girl down on her luck, but looks can be deceiving. I can give as good as I get, and Jace Wilder will never see me coming.
Contains mature themes.
Jesse Dylan was my best friend, my first kiss . . . and my first heartbreak.
Watching him walk out of my life almost ruined me. But years have passed, and the pain of losing him has long since faded. Or so I thought.
One glimpse in his cobalt eyes and those old wounds reopened. Jesse wants a second chance at what might have been, but it's too late. I'm with someone new. Someone safe. Someone who can't break me.
Yet the heart wants what it wants, and mine has only ever beat for the one who got away. I can't deny him. I can't resist him. He consumes my every waking thought and invades my dreams.
After all these years, I find myself wondering if I'll ever truly stop loving the boy who taught my heart to hurt.
Jesse abandoned me when things got too difficult once.I'm about to find out if lightning can strike twice.
Contains mature themes.