Like an afternoon special on bullying gone impossibly dark, Raeder's (Unteachable) dizzyingly intense, drug-addicted queer teenage revenge fantasy takes its reader on a sexy, bloody journey of pure emotion that's by turns expressed, denied, and turned back in on itself. And Laney is going to show them just how true. When a ghost from her past resurfaces-the bully who broke her down completely-she decides it’s time to live up to her own legend. 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.īut Laney knows nothing good ever lasts.

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 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, praised for its “lush, haunting prose, deft storytelling, and scorching sensuality” (M.

Black Iris by Leah Raeder