Not What You Seem

My mother kidnapped and tortured his father.

She called it the echo—a darkness that runs in her veins… and mine. That was before she went to prison for torture and attempted murder. Since then, I’ve lived a quiet life in a quiet town and sworn off dating or doing anything that could awaken that darkness. Until I see him...

Dean Archer. A boy with bright blue eyes I thought I would never see again. And son of the man my mother so brutally tortured.

He doesn’t remember me, and I don’t want to get too close. I just need to know if he’s haunted by the past like I am.

But circumstances bring us together—just like they did the first time—and he instantly captivates me. His fluid ease, his teasing humor, his love of sailing. He pursues me. Opens up to me. Makes it so easy to get to know him. I fall for him. Deep into those bright blue eyes.

Every day is one step closer to him discovering the truth.

My mother's reach extends from her prison cell, and the past will eventually catch up with us. And that darkness? It might be awakening in me.

With all the forces against us, we’re at the center of a brewing storm. Will it bring us together? Or rip us apart?

Fans of Colleen Hoover, Mia Sheridan, and K. A. Tucker won’t be able to put down this web of love and lies, history and choice, freedom and restraint.

Buy Not What You Seem and settle in for electrifying romance, dark secrets, and pasts that won’t stay in the past…