Landon & Shay: Part One

Shay Gable hated Landon's guts, and he hated hers. They went out of their way to avoid one another: when she came his direction, he went the other; when they locked eyes, she turned and walked away. It was a functioning arrangement, and neither of them wanted it changed.

Then Landon was presented with a challenge, and it started out as a stupid bet — make Shay fall in love with him before he fell in love with her first. It was an easy bet for him to win. He did not love. He hardly even liked.

Except the game began to shift. Shay made him want things he had never let himself want: love, happiness, her. The closer they grew, the more she pressed against his darkness and the parts of himself he kept locked away — the hurts, the pains, the truth. By the time the feelings were real, the risk of hurting each other had grown to match. All is fair in the game of love and war, especially the heartbreaks.

Landon and Shay: Part One is the first half of Brittainy C. Cherry's L&S Duet, told in alternating perspectives. It is an enemies-to-lovers romance that deals seriously and at length with depression, addiction, domestic abuse and self-harm.