Alexa Hannah enjoys three things in life: wearing pajamas, designing book covers, and drooling over her favorite actor, Ayden Vaughn. An introvert by nature, Alex is relieved when her blind date doesn’t show, but her plans to enjoy the buffet solo are disrupted when a gorgeous, irritating man invites himself not only to her table, but into her life. She can’t seem to get away from the mysterious man she’s nicknamed “Eight” for his place on the hotness scale. Over time, and despite Eight’s resistance to tell her what he does for a living, Alex realizes she’s not only physically attracted to Eight, but she’s also falling in like with him. Alex will stop at nothing to find out more about him, including snooping inside his apartment and pulling fire alarms to flush out his hidden guest. She soon discovers that some secrets aren’t meant for her to unravel.**

Tucked in the pine-covered hills of the rural South lie two small towns and two feuding families divided by a dirty river and a mutual desire: to reign supreme in the land of drug lords. Eighteen-year-old Rue Monroe has no interest in her family’s drug business. Thanks to the heartbreaking loss of her father and the abrupt abandonment of her mother, Rue’s left alone to care for her flighty little sister and make sure the bills get paid on time. Life can’t get any more complicated. That is, until Rue is reunited with Tanner Montgomery, the son of her family’s sworn enemy. Threatened by her own kin, Rue tries to fight her attraction for the boy she first met at the age of twelve, but Tanner doesn’t give in so easily. Tanner’s tireless persistence forces Rue to question everything she thought she knew about the Montgomery family. The two work together, unearthing old family secrets—secrets which might get them both killed.**