His back was towards me, hunched over in defeat, I didn't want to bother him but I've been worrying all day and I needed to know if he was okay. I took hesitant steps towards him, the hardwood ramp creaked beneath my feet and I winced at each sound that emitted from it. But it didn't matter to me at the moment, because as soon as I lowered myself next to his cold and stiff body, his arms wrapped around my waist, his face buried in the crook of my neck. . . and he cried. Arabella Smith, not your typical college student, she was not perfect, far from it actually and it was all her fault, all for validation and popularity she degraded herself in the eyes of her past high school peers, she held a reputation that kept her balanced at the top of the schools food chain. A reputation that all stemmed from one particular person and grew into a whirlpool of so called many. A reputation that deemed her as a high school slut. She struggles to find real love after her days of high school. But how can a girl possibly break such a reputation that she built herself? The answer was the root of the problem that Arabella could never possibly get over reunited with the one who started it all.... Tyler Hart. Another heart throb who sets out to break her heart...Again. But what Bella doesn't know is that he's always loved her. In the midst of trying to reconstruct their broken love will they be able to conquer the obstacles hauled their way?

Ivianna 'Ivy' Morganstern never understood the saying that children belonging to notorious families were to always inherit their parents enemies. At the tender age of nine it was only folklore among her 'community' but never did she expect to see her nightmare come to past right before her eyes as her parents were slaughtered merciless. And then she finally understood what it meant to inherit those enemies, and they became hers. For years Ivy trained to become the ruthless leader that she is in order to finally become the sole heir of her fathers mafia at the age of eighteen. For the years that she prepared there was only one thing clogging her heart and that was revenge on the people who ripped her family straight from her arms. The Kingman's, one of the most notorious families to have walked the streets of Italy, feared by most, hailed by others and Ivianna had swore on her life that she would end their bloodline before she perishes, starting with Alejandro Kingman the man that was imprinted in her memories on the day she lost everything. And she swore to take him off the face of the earth. Even if it was the last thing she did. Alejandro Kingman, the monstrosity that is the sly devil himself. He's handsome, dangerous and has the smile and hiss of a serpent. Alejandro was a man of family, the only people who meant something to him, the only people who he would actually die and kill for. And that is why he must end Ivianna Morganstern, the woman hell bent on taking everything he loves. Will the two succeed in destroying one another's lives? Or will they overcome their hatred and let lust drive all their decisions.