"I can always count on Tijan to write an action-packed, intense, emotional story that will have me invested until the very last page."—Helena Hunting, New York Times bestselling authorNo longer an outsider, Bailey has a family and love that she never could've imagined. Used to living in the shadows, Kash will now do anything to protect his family and his woman. They will take on the world together...In the meantime, stunning motives, lies, and explosive secrets continue to unfold. 1. Quinn is in jail, awaiting trial.2. Friends might actually be enemies.3. And what is Calhoun plotting? More importantly, will Kash discover it before it's too late?Everything will come to a head as passion and danger ignite in The Damaged."Obsessed from page one! The Insiders is yet another addicting read from Tijan."—Jennifer L. Armentrout, #1 New York Times bestselling author

I watched him in high school. Knew his reputation. Knew he was wealthy, privileged, and mean.He ran the show back then, a partier and a player.Then he came back from college, back to the town I never left. He's different now.He comes into the bar, and I know his routine.I know which stool he'll pick.I know his favorite drink. I know which sports team he'll want on the television screen.And I watch as he gets hit on.Sometimes he leaves the bar with a woman. Sometimes he doesn't.But I'm always there, tending to his drinks. He gives me a smile and a polite nod back.Then one night, after a long appraising stare, he asked, "Ava, why are you single?"I leaned in, told him a lie, knowing the truth.What I didn't know was that my world was about to shatter after that night.Something else I didn't know: would the man I watched all those years help put my heart back together... or smash it into pieces?** A 42k novella written as...

There were always whispers about my roommate at Hillcrest Academy. The wealthiest of the wealthy sent their kids to our boarding school, and Brooke Bennett had been at the top, though I never quite knew why. She was fun and outgoing, but she kept quiet about her family. The only things she showed me were photographs of her brothers. I became fascinated with her second-oldest brother. Kai Bennett. He was the most of them all. Smoldering. Hypnotic. Alluring. Kai had eyes that pulled me in and a face that haunted my dreams. Then I met him. He came to our school with their father, and that's when I learned what kind of family Brooke came from. They were mafia, and Brooke's oldest brother was dead. Her father said accident, but Brooke said murder. Three months later, her father died, and Kai became the head of the Bennett Family. Brooke left Hillcrest for good, and that was the last time I saw her. Fourteen years later, I'm staring at her face on the television. Brooke is missing. Two days later, Kai Bennett kidnaps me. ** This is a 120k full-length standalone.