by Paige Weaver
First published 2013
She follows every rule. She studies hard, chooses safe friends, and dates only respectable boys. Her life runs on a predictable track toward a promising future. Then there's Ryder Delaney. Covered in tattoos and wrapped in trouble, he represents everything she should avoid. He lives by one principle: never fall in love. They've been best friends since childhood, an unlikely pair who somehow fit together. She sees past his rebellious exterior to the real person underneath. He knows her deepest secrets and biggest dreams. What he doesn't know is that she wants him more than anything else in her carefully ordered world. When war breaks out, everything changes. Their safe existence crumbles overnight. Forced to flee together, they focus on one thing: staying alive. Running for their lives, they try to ignore the feelings that have always simmered between them. But love refuses to stay buried, even when darkness threatens to consume everything they once knew.
Genres: romance, young-adult, contemporary-romance, new-adult-romance
Vibes: dark, emotional, fast-paced, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
MP3 CD · Tantor Media Inc
Content warnings: violence, war