Publisher's Synopsis
Quintavius has made one of the biggest mistakes of his life, allowing a temporary emotion to have possibly altered the rest of his life. He is still completely and totally in love with Dreeka, but after finding out that she's been lying to him for the past few weeks, he's no longer sure that love is enough. Finding out that his best friend since childhood and younger sister were also lying to him has his head messed up and him questioning everything and everyone around him. He finds himself looking at all of the relationships he's involved with and questioning whether any of them are even worth fighting for anymore.Dreeka feels like her life is falling apart. She's a pregnant sophomore in college with an ex-boyfriend that wants nothing to do with her. She's lost her father, watched Booker get shot and even killed two people of her own. She's struggling to stay above water in her classes and knows that working her two dead end jobs aren't enough to take care of a child as a single parent, but has no one to blame but herself. Dreeka finds herself fighting to figure her life out so that she can make ends meet and be the best mother she can be, with or without Quintavius, but everything is always easier said than done and with Lexus battling her own demons, Dreeka finds out relatively quickly that she has no one to depend on but herself.Camilla is finally free of her abusive boyfriend. The problem? She still sees him everywhere she goes. His years of mental and emotional abuse has caused lasting damage and she finds herself ducking a man that is no longer living. She finds herself missing meetings, forgetting to bathe and charge her phone and even eat for days at a time. She spent a majority of her time hiding from the man that hit her mercilessly and now she finds herself hiding from his memories. As her mental health demises, Camilla finds herself constantly worn out from running from ghosts and shadows that don't actually exist. Can she finally find the strength to the face all of her memories of pain or will she be crushed beneath their weight?Tristian wants nothing more than to help Cam, but with her closing herself off from everyone and Quintavius refusing to speak to him, he finds himself on the outside looking in. Somewhere between protecting Camilla and making sure Q stayed out of trouble, he let his business slip and because of that money starts missing by the grand. When he's forced to choose between sticking around to watch out for Lathanell's family and heading back home to make sure he actually has some sort of home to return to, does he follow his heart or protect his respect at all cost?Lexus has just lost her father... and now, she's lost her best friend too. With pain comes anger and taking two losses so extreme back to back pushes her further than anything she's ever faced. Lexus finds herself looking for solace in the bottom of a bottle and lashing out at everyone around her. She finds herself heading down a destructive path that not even Trell or Dreeka can save her from. The only person who can pull her from the emptiness she's feeling is herself but even she ends up wondering if life is even worth living when the people you love are ripped from you.Trell finds himself pulled in several different directions. He finds himself attempting to help the people he looks at like family along with the girl he's quickly fallen in love with. With everyone around him suffering from some sort of loss, he quickly realizes that he hasn't dealt with the loss he experienced of his own. But, with constant drama around every corner, mourning the child he and Paris decided not to have seems to be something he has to make the least of his priorities.
