Heavy (Heavy Hearts #1) by Sarah Jane Duncan/Sarah JD

Book #1 in the Heavy Hearts Series

Tropes: Dark Romance, Blackmail, Revenge, Found Family

If I don't get away from my toxic family, I'm going to end up dead!

The shame of the dark depravity haunting my life is becoming too much to bear, yet I continue to keep my mouth shut, hold my chin high, and offer the world my best fake smile.

What's the alternative? Telling someone about what happens behind closed doors?

No way. Not even an option.

When my nightmare escalates, my attempts at keeping my secrets are threatened by the arrival of a new guy in town that has all the girls swooning. With his penetrating gaze and intuitive instinct, Ayden Mitchell makes it his mission to insert himself into my life, seeing through the cracks in my façade.

He knows my secrets now. Knows the vile reality I live. So when the danger increases, and the one person I thought I could trust turns out to be the biggest monster of them all, I have no choice but to trust the blue-eye boy that I've only just met, with my secrets, and my heart.

That is, if we live long enough to survive.