HAILEY

One evening, two years' worth of memories lost.

Under the pretense of recovery, my father sends me to an elite boarding college, but soon, my memories start rushing back, and it's obvious I'm not at Lakeside to heal.
I'm here to hide.
Navigating the scattered past to decipher the threat lurking in the shadows is hard while I'm kept in the dark and even harder when he steals my focus. Crude, arrogant, and threatening, he draws me in, and the closer I get, the less I understand.

Waking up without memories is terrifying, but remembering the time I lost is infinitely worse.

CARTER

Guilty by association, Hailey Scarlett Vaughn deserves pain.

The moment I see her, I want to wrap my fingers around her neck and squeeze...
No matter how big the temptation, I need to extract a key hidden in the depths of her mind first.
A key to my father's freedom.
Hailey's a pawn in a complex game of revenge. A tool in my hands, but as she starts to remember, I realize we're both tangled in an intricate web of lies that tightens every day.

The harder I push to break her, the faster she breaks me.

TRIGGERS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER: 

_{Abusive relationship (not with MC)
Alcohol
Amnesia
Anxiety
Asylum Setting
Attempted Murder
Betrayal
Blood
Body Hatred
Cancer
Car Accident
Dark Themes
Death
Degradation
Dub-Con
Emotional Abuse (not by MC)
Explicit Sexual Content
Gore
Grieving
Grooming (not by MC)
Guns
Hospitalization
Kidnapping
Kink Unlocking
Losing Virginity
Misogyny
Murder
Off-Page Suicide
Praise
PTSD
Rape (not by MC)
Rope-Play
Sexual Assault (not by MC)
Sleep Paralysis
Terminal illness (not MMC or FMC)
Torture
Violence}