Batter My Heart

“One of your friends dared you to go a few rounds with me, right? I throw you around, make you buck and scream, and for one night, you get to feel like a bad girl. I've heard the rumors. Some of them are even true.”

Two brothers.

One mistake.

Dahlia Blackwell is a good girl. Or, at least, she tries to be. But after rejecting the advances of the most dangerous boy in town, Audric Dubourdieu, she finds herself the target of a vicious harassment campaign that unburies secrets about her family that she never knew. When she gets accepted to the local college on scholarship, the bullying only gets worse: in a hothouse full of gilded lilies, there's no room for stubborn weeds.

Theo Dubourdieu lives his life like it's a stick of dynamite burning at both ends. Fraternity president, prominent medieval scholar, heir to the family fortune: on paper, he looks perfect. But beneath the surface, his life is a chaotic maelstrom of dark desires and bad decisions. Which is why, when he encounters the strangely intense girl walking along his family's private beach, his first impulse is to kiss first and ask questions later.

Dahlia despises Theo and everything he represents, but he makes her feel things she knows she shouldn't—and he'll let her keep her thorns if she's willing to bleed for them. She's a wildflower. He's a storm. Together, they'll find either salvation or destruction as they batter each other's hearts.

Romance