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\n \nI was told that dreams were our heart’s desires. My nightmares, however, became my obsession. \n \nHis name is Michael Crist. \n \nMy boyfriend’s older brother is like that scary movie that you peek through your hand to watch. He is handsome, strong, and completely terrifying. The star of his college’s basketball team and now gone pro, he’s more concerned with the dirt on his shoe than me. \n \nBut I noticed him. \n \nI saw him. I heard him. The things that he did, and the deeds that he hid…For years, I bit my nails, unable to look away. \n \nNow, I’ve graduated high school and moved on to college, but I haven’t stopped watching Michael. He’s bad, and the dirt I’ve seen isn’t content to stay in my head anymore. \n \nBecause he’s finally noticed me. \n \nMichael \n \nHer name is Erika Fane, but everyone calls her Rika. \n \nMy brother’s girlfriend grew up hanging around my house and is always at our dinner table. She looks down when I enter a room and stills when I am close. I can always feel the fear rolling off of her, and while I haven’t had her body, I know that I have her mind. That’s all I really want anyway. \n \nUntil my brother leaves for the military, and I find Rika alone at college. \n \nIn my city. \n \nUnprotected. \n \nThe opportunity is too good to be true as well as the timing. Because you see, three years ago she put a few of my high school friends in prison, and now they’re out. \n \nWe’ve waited. We’ve been patient. And now every last one of her nightmares will come true. \n \n \n***Corrupt can be read as a stand-alone. No cliffhanger.+

\nHe took me in when I had nowhere else to go. He doesn’t use me, hurt me, or forget about me. He listens to me, protects me, and sees me. I can feel his eyes on me over the breakfast table, and my heart pumps so hard when I hear him pull in the driveway after work. \n \nI have to stop this. It can’t happen. \n \nMy sister once told me there are no good men, and if you find one, he’s probably unavailable. Only Pike Lawson isn’t the unavailable one. \nI am. \n \nPIKE \n \nI took her in, because I thought I was helping. As the days go by, though, it’s becoming anything but easy. I have to stop my mind from drifting to her and stop holding my breath every time I bump into her in the house. I can’t touch her, and I shouldn’t want to. \n \nBut we’re not free to give into this. She’s nineteen, and I’m thirty-eight. \n \nAnd her boyfriend’s father. \n \nUnfortunately, they both just moved into my house.+

Tiernan de Haas doesn’t care about anything anymore. The only child of a film producer and his starlet wife, she’s grown up with wealth and privilege but not love or guidance. Shipped off to boarding schools from an early age, it was still impossible to escape the loneliness and carve out a life of her own. The shadow of her parents’ fame followed her everywhere. \n \nAnd when they suddenly pass away, she knows she should be devastated. But has anything really changed? She’s always been alone, hasn’t she? \n \nJake Van der Berg, her father’s stepbrother and her only living relative, assumes guardianship of Tiernan who is still two months shy of eighteen. Sent to live with him and his two sons, Noah and Kaleb, in the mountains of Colorado, Tiernan soon learns that these men now have a say in what she chooses to care and not care about anymore. As the three of them take her under their wing, teach her to work and survive in the remote woods far away from the rest of the world, she slowly finds her place among them. \n \nAnd as a part of them. \n \nShe also realizes that lines blur and rules become easy to break when no one else is watching. \n \nOne of them has her. \n \nThe other one wants her. \n \nBut he… \n \nHe’s going to keep her. \n \n*Credence is a new adult standalone novel suitable for readers 18