She’s not looking for new friends, but they find her: charming, handsome Armin, the only guy patient enough to work through her thorny defenses-and fiery, filterless Blythe, the bad girl and partner in crime who has thorns of her own. College is her chance to start with a clean slate. If Laney could erase that whole year, she would. Mentally ill, messed up, so messed up even her own mother decided she wasn’t worth sticking around for. It’s an undoing.” It only took one moment of weakness for Laney Keating’s world to fall apart. Pierce, bestselling author of the Night Owl trilogy), and called “one of the best forbidden romances” (Lauren Blakely, New York Times bestselling author). The next dark and sexy romantic suspense novel from the USA TODAY bestselling author of Unteachable, which was praised for its “lush, haunting prose, deft storytelling, and scorching sensuality” (M. A past full of devastating secrets-those of others and those she’s been keeping from herself… Read online Now Vada must confront what she’s been running from. A condition that will bring back a ghost from her past. So Vada pops the question: Can we meet IRL? Blue agrees, on one condition. But the steamier it gets, the more she craves the real man behind the keyboard.

It’s an easy decision: she’s starting to fall for him. And he pays well, but he wants her all to himself. “Blue” is mysterious, alluring, and more interested in Vada’s life than her body. It’s just a kinky escape from reality until a client gets serious. All Vada has to do is spend a couple hours each night stripping on webcam, and the “tips” come pouring in.

So when she meets some smooth-talking entrepreneurs who offer to set her up as a cam girl, she can’t say no. And Ellis pulls away, unwilling to talk about that night. Her once-promising art career is cut short. Vada is left deeply scarred, both emotionally and physically.

Until an accident on an icy winter road changes everything. Ellis and Vada have a friendship so consuming it’s hard to tell where one girl ends and the other begins. Vada Bergen is broke, the black sheep of her family, and moving a thousand miles away from home for grad school, but she’s got the two things she loves most: her art and her best friend-and sometimes more-Ellis Carraway. From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Unteachable and Black Iris comes a new, sexy romantic suspense novel about two best friends who are torn apart by a life-shattering accident…and the secrets left behind.

Black iris by leah raeder