The Quarterback's Cruel Obsession

Everyone at Wethersfield worships Trace Kincaid. Sloane Carter knows what they don't: her brother's ruined knee is Trace's fault, and Trace has never once said sorry — not in two years, not in the hospital, not at the hearing. What Sloane doesn't know is that Trace has been writing about her the whole time. Dates. Photographs. The hours her light is on. The name of her childhood cat. He keeps it in a folder he has convinced himself is love. When Sloane finds the folder, she does the smart thing and takes it to the school. Trace does the unimaginable thing and reads it out loud in the gym, then hands it in and asks to be punished. He quits the team. He gives up the scholarships. He does not ask her to stay. Months later, at a gas station, with a stranger's arm against her throat, it's his truck at the edge of the light — and Sloane has to decide what a girl does when the boy who watched her becomes the boy who waits for her. A dark bully stalker romance with a heroine who chooses on her own terms.