Tristan (The Ruins of Emblem #1)

RELEASING APRIL 9th!!!! This town. It wasn’t a place people dreamed of moving to. It was a place people escaped from. Surrounded by barren desert and home to the the state’s largest prison, Emblem had been my family’s hometown for generations. Now the town’s name is a curse to them. And yet I’ve always wondered about it. By the time I finished college I had big plans. I was going to Emblem. I would teach at Emblem High. I would see past the crime and poverty that the town was infamous for. I would make a difference in the lives of the kids who lived there. Tristan Mulligan never figured into those plans at all. He was a small time criminal with a bad attitude who never bothered to graduate from high school. He didn’t seem interested in changing any of that. He was also the sexiest guy I’d ever laid eyes on. I knew better than to start something with him. I did it anyway. Tristan might shatter my heart. He might destroy my future. And there’s something dangerously explosive about the way we are together. You can warn me about him all you want. Everyone else has. I haven’t listened yet. Whether I’m ready to admit it or not, I’m already his.