After the Dust Settles / Stratton Press (ePub)

Sean

I'm not your average seventeen-year-old boy. What other teenage boy do you know of who is working alongside their father in a top-secret government agency and has been since they were fifteen? Unheard of? Yes, probably. After spending years searching for my place in this world, I jumped at the opportunity to help my father. What I didn't expect was the possibility that our work could flow over and harm our family. Yet that's exactly what happened. I thought I'd found and then lost the girl who would forever hold my heart-until a sexy-ass stranger crossed my path under the Brooklyn Bridge. I want this girl like I've never wanted anyone. She makes me feel things that I should feel guilty about, that I shouldn't be needing as desperately as I do. Only there's a catch-she has secrets, ones that could have a devastating impact.

Hadley

He was supposed to be a job. A target that needed to be eliminated. A message that we weren't a family to mess with. When my chance came, I couldn't do it. There was a presence about him that drew me in. I went from wanting to kill him to wanting him in my arms. From that moment on, he became my obsession. I'm no good for him, which is why I should stay away from him. I will only destroy him because I'm broken, a girl with a dark past, the daughter of an Italian mobster. Our family is one of the largest in Brooklyn. I need to escape my father and this life. I need someone to swoop in and save me, but I'm scared because bad things happen to me and the people I love.

WARNING: This is not intended for those under eighteen. Scenes from this series may be a trigger for certain readers.