Manic

In the bowels of hell is where she found me.

Burnaby High is the kind of place where rejects sit on scalding thrones, dreading adulthood, angry at the uncertainty the future holds.
It’s where threats are never empty, and traitors never walk free.
Where respect is everything.

At first, I was her savior.
Until her betrayal turned me into the ruler of her own personal hell.

Arlena sauntered into this furnace, clad in high heels and designer gear, the key to her flashy BMW spinning off her pinky finger. Here, in poverty central, she was a slap to our faces. The shiny smiles she wore, the carefree stench emanating from her pores, the privilege…she was just asking to be devoured.

I should have let it happen.
I should have turned my back while she suffered their wrath.
But hindsight is a hell of a thing. And back then, I didn’t have it.

We found our way to each other by accident. A purposeful accident, on her part. A disastrous one, on mine. A puff of a cigarette later, I was offering her my protection, claiming her, teaching her the ropes around this place. Pulling her close enough to allow her to betray me. And she didn’t blink twice before throwing my life under the bus.

Now that my brother’s behind bars and Arlena’s to blame, it’s not just the vengeance of the Burnaby rejects that can no longer be quelled.

She’s unleashed the demon in them and the monster in me. Unlucky for her, we’re already on my turf.

And now she’s really about to learn what it means to live in hell.

Manic is a dark high school bully romance for of age readers who enjoy steamy, new adult, enemies to lovers romances.


Genre: New Adult Romance