Kyler Three weeks before my sixteenth birthday, I was sexually assaulted by three of the most popular boys in school. Within two days of my attack, people I thought were my friends were spreading baseless rumors about me. Maybe I should have told someone the truth, but who were they going to believe? Me, or the school’s star quarterback, whose father was made of money? For two years, I kept my head down and my mouth shut. And then Ian happened. When the new running back from out of town asked me to tutor him, something made me say yes, even though all of my survival instincts were screaming at me to run. But were my survival instincts always right? Or was Ian the person who would finally help me heal from the horrors of my past? Ian Within the first hour I spent conjugating Spanish verbs with Kyler, I knew that none of the rumors I’d heard about her were true. And when I saw how guarded she was, I could tell that she’d been hurt. Finding out just how badly she’d been hurt broke me. Learning that it was at the hands of people I’d called friends? I wanted to bury those animals so deep that no amount of their families’ money would be able to dig them out. Soon, we found ourselves playing a dangerous game that we didn’t know the rules to, and our opponents were holding all the cards. How could I help Kyler get the justice she deserved? And how could I show her that I would never hurt her the way my teammates did? Trigger Warning: This book deals with the topic of sexual assault of a minor, including the victim’s detailed description of the incident.

Dating him was just an act…so why was he getting under my skin? After the untimely death of my sister, I was left with custody of her newborn son. Despite trying my best, I was barely able to care for myself, much less an infant. Things were looking bleak…until the opportunity of a lifetime fell into my lap, courtesy of my bestie. She told me about a friend of hers, a pro football player, who was looking for someone to pose as his girlfriend to help restore his public image, and that he was willing to pay generously for their time. It almost sounded too good to be true. In a way, it was, because the man offering the help I so desperately needed was none other than my nephew's father, Braden Hicks. The one person in the world I truly despised. Trigger Warning: This book deals with the postpartum death of a loved one in a hospital setting.