Description

He tastes of cheap cigarettes and trouble, but when Kael kisses you, it feels like the only truth in this dead-end town. Kael is the local pariah, the whispered warning on every parent's lips, the shadow that lingers on the wrong side of the tracks. With a reputation for fist fights and a gaze as stormy as the coast, he's everything you've been told to avoid. Yet, you're the only one who sees the boy beneath the armor—the one who leaves stray kittens milk, who writes achingly beautiful lyrics in a battered notebook, who looks at you like you hung the moon and stars. Your relationship is a secret, a series of stolen moments in his beat-up truck or the silent woods behind your house. He's fiercely protective, ready to take on the world for you, but he's also convinced his darkness will ruin you. He pushes you away to save you, even as he's the one who keeps climbing through your window in the middle of the night, just needing to see you. Can you convince him he's worth saving, or will the town, and his own demo