Beautiful Fiend

She wants one thing, to escape their ruined town, while he wants only her. If you’re born on the North Shore of the Falls, you don’t leave; there are no miracle endings or hidden exits, just a lifetime trapped in a place that’s always at war, two gangs tearing it apart while everyone else gives up on dreaming of something more. Everyone except me. I’ve always been a North Shore girl, tough, relentless, built to survive, but two years ago, Caden King broke me, and he made sure to keep proof. Now he’s using it to blackmail me into doing a job that could destroy my only chance of escape, a job that means betraying my own crew.

He’s always there, watching, calculating, finding new ways to push me, his mind as dangerous as the reputation that made the North Shore Kings carry his name, his family’s power carved in blood. People say there’s no point in fighting him, that he’s the kind of man who’s already crossed the line between right and wrong and doesn’t care what’s left of it. Now I’m caught in his grip with no one to save me, no way out, no way to win, just one choice left: do exactly what he says.