**For mature readers due to explicit sexual content, graphic language, violence for some scenes and some parts may be particularly dark. ** A story of tragic pasts colliding, finding a friendship that turns into searing passion, and a love strong enough to last forever. Courtland spent his childhood watching his mother turn tricks and bow to her abusive pimp. It taught him a lot about relationships and how never to get involved in one... more**For mature readers due to explicit sexual content, graphic language, violence for some scenes and some parts may be particularly dark. ** A story of tragic pasts colliding, finding a friendship that turns into searing passion, and a love strong enough to last forever. Courtland spent his childhood watching his mother turn tricks and bow to her abusive pimp. It taught him a lot about relationships and how never to get involved in one. When he meets sweet Adelaide, his life is forever changed. Her gentle personality has him thinking maybe his vow to never commit is misplaced. Until she disappears out of his life. Adelaide knew the only way to escape the darkness she’s lived her life in, is to go back to the one place that’s haunted her dreams. Home. Reuniting with Courtland is the last thing on her mind until she becomes helpless to his every kiss. Hopeless to his every touch. And no matter how far she tries to run, her heart is irrevocably bound to him. less
