Sometimes it's sweeter to surrender. I thought I was good at hiding from monsters. I was wrong. After being lost and abused in the foster system, I refuse to let my past break me. I enroll in college, change my name, and build a new life for myself. I’m finally free. Until the night I see him again and my world falls apart. Layne Garrison. The guy who made high school a living hell. He was more than a stormy-grey-eyed bully. He was cruel in ways I can never understand. Now he’s back. After a devastating attack, my sworn enemy becomes my savior. When I learn his dark secrets, I can’t shake him. But the past has a way of hunting me down, and what I believe is real is horribly wrong. As the darkness rises and comes for me I have to face the truth and the lies I tried to leave behind. Will I lose the only man I’ve ever loved, or will my past ruin my future as well? From international bestselling author, J.A. Owenby, comes a heart-stopping, angsty, new adult romantic suspense standalone with an HEA that will keep you on the edge of our seat until the end.