Falls Boys

Aro Marquez has had to fight for every meal, and Hawke Trent, the polite, upstanding golden boy of Shelburne Falls, keeps stepping in to protect the people she takes money from. He calls her a bully and a criminal. She calls him a rich, clean schoolboy who has never had to fight for anything.

Then a crime goes wrong, the police show up, and the two of them run, down High Street and into Quinn's bake shop, through a door to an old speakeasy that everyone forgot was there. The door locks, the cops circle the building, and they are stuck inside together, hidden in plain sight.

Lost in the maze of rooms, Hawke and Aro stop seeing each other as the villain, and something in the place starts to change them. Told in dual points of view, Falls Boys is the first book of the Hellbent series, a spin-off of Penelope Douglas's Fall Away series.

It is a standalone New Adult romance for readers 18 and over, and reading Fall Away first is helpful but not necessary.