Beautiful Fiend

The narrator ran from the North Shore the day she knew she was no longer safe there. She had grown up inside the Kings, the most powerful gang in town, and counted its members as family, friends and crew. Now she carries the label of traitor, and in a place where loyalty to the gang is all that counts, that is a dangerous thing to be.

The Kings do not let anyone leave, and they track her down. They take her back to the town she fled, where her darkest secrets and most haunting memories wait. People who once stood beside her now hate her.

She is left in the hands of two brothers, Elliot and Ethan, whom she has known since childhood. One is a master manipulator, the other antisocial. She betrayed them in more than one way, though she would rather they believe a simpler version than learn why they should truly want her dead. They intend to make her pay for her sins before they let her go.

The story is told in first person by the woman at its center. It is a dark romance built on captivity and revenge, set among gang loyalties, with a hostile, tense mood and a heroine who is hiding the real reason for her betrayal.