When she goes down to the laundry room to pick up some clothes, however, she runs into her 18-year-old stepbrother and his two best friends: Killian Payne, Tristian Mercier,and Dimitri ‘Rath’ Rathbone. So she’s selling pictures of her body to fund her escape. She needs money fast, because she plans to run away – and even though her stepfather is wealthy, he’s the one she’s running from. The book opens with a prologue where 17-year-old Story is on the verge of becoming a sugar baby. (Sorry, not going to do my usual simple pros/cons list for this one. WARNING: this is a dark romance which deals with things like dubious consent, so don’t read further if you aren’t interested. It’s 118k words long, so it’s not a short book, but I TORE through it in less than a day – ignoring the essay which was due the same night, I might add. Maybe it’s because my expectations were so low, but I really bloody liked it. I jumped straight in, fully expecting to be disappointed. I’m not sure why I never picked up another Lawson book, but when I saw that this one was a dark, bully, reverse harem… well. I remember reading an Angel Lawson book a very long time ago, and according to my Goodreads history I gave it 3 stars so it can’t have been terrible, but I remember absolutely nothing about it now.

I think this is my first 5-star read of the year! I can’t stop thinking about it, so I figure it’s only fair to bump the rating up (it was originally four stars).

To be brutally honest, I am SHOCKED at how much I enjoyed this. I might be under their protection, but I’m also at their mercy.Īnd there’s nothing a Lord loves more than taking control. Someone who makes the evil I know feel less dangerous than the evil I don’t.īut being their Lady is more than just fancy clothes and reputation. There’s someone far more dangerous out there who’s been stalking me since I left town the first time. Killian, Rath, and Tristian aren’t the only ones who want me. What could bring me back into their lives, their homes, and ultimately, their beds? But I’m still on the run and there’s another monster chasing me down. They’re more powerful than ever now, having risen to the rank of Lords at Forsyth University. Three years later I’m standing on their doorstep like a stray. While they laughed.īut what happened that night wasn’t my biggest secret. The night everything fell apart, my stepbrother allowed his two best friends to take their rage out on me while he watched. In high school, they knew my secrets and I knew theirs. These three men are a part of my past–one that I’d rather never look in the eye again. I never claimed to be a good girl, but I definitely never asked for this.

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