First published 2014
Nova Reed cannot stop thinking about Quinton Carter and his honey-brown eyes. He showed her she deserved better than emptiness, and she recognized her own pain reflected in his. While Nova has worked through her past trauma and started healing, Quinton has disappeared somewhere into deeper darkness. She refuses to give up on him and sets out to find him before he destroys himself completely. For nearly a year, Quinton has dreamed of Nova but never believed someone so sweet and caring would waste time on someone like him. He thinks his dark and dangerous existence is exactly what he has earned as punishment for terrible things he has done. Nova belongs nowhere near his world. When she tracks him down in Las Vegas, Quinton does everything possible to push her away and protect his self-imposed exile. He believes he must maintain distance to keep paying for his unforgivable actions. But Nova refuses to abandon him, no matter how hard he tries to drive her off.
Genres: romance, young-adult, contemporary-romance, new-adult
Vibes: dark, emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family, second-chance
Setting: Las Vegas
407 pages · Kindle Edition · Grand Central Publishing
Content warnings: addiction, depression, mental-illness, suicide