Six years ago, Elena Marsh told a courtroom the truth about Kiril Volkov, and he went away for it. Now she is back for her mother's funeral, and the boy she testified against owns this town - the docks, the cops, and every door she needs to walk through to bury her mother and leave. He does not want her gone. He wants her enrolled at Thornbury U, living in a house he pays for, in a debt he says she will never finish paying. She plans to hate him until she can escape him. Then she finds her mother's things in his garage, and a forged signature on a death certificate, and a boy under the monster who has been keeping a promise for six years that nobody ever asked him to make. He is going to burn everything he built to keep her safe. She is going to let him.

Sloane Adair did not come to Halden University to be noticed. She came to disappear. Then she saw Dean Kovalenko take a payment in the arena tunnels, and the enforcer of the Halden hockey program saw her back. Now she is the girl on his arm. Untouchable by everyone else. Kept - and she let it happen, because his name is the only wall between her and the men her father put in prison. What Sloane does not know: Dean has been looking for her for two years. His family burned in the same trial that made hers. He did not find a victim. He found a girl already building a case, and she is not going to stop just because she is falling for him. A dark hockey bully romance about a debt that turns into a claim and a claim that turns into a choice.