She’s trying to move past her issues, but Kody is always there to remind her of her weaknesses. Now in college, she’s slowly gettin out of her shell but it’s hard to do when her biggest tormentor was once her best friend and confidant. Lavender grew up immensely sheltered and in the shadow of her brothers’ over protective nature.

Kody and Lavender went from the best of friends, to being nothing.

And then when they were teens, something happened that set their friendship on fire. Something traumatic happened when they were children that drove them to their own particular neuroses that each of them dealt with in a very different way. They were each other’s everything and no one was closer than the two of them, not even Lavender and her twin. Lavender and Kody’s story was deliciously angsty and heart wrenchingly emotional, touching on some very real issues that just endeared you to these characters that much more. I’m also a sucker for a good spin-off, so the fact that these are the kids from Pucked and A Lie for a Lie was just icing on the cake. So when I saw she’s realizing an angsty New Adult under a different pen name, well I’m pretty sure I left dust tracks in my rush to sign up for this book. I love Helena’s contemporary romances, but I’m a sucker for some angst. No matter how hard we try to outrun them. I want to save her from her demons, and me from mine.

I just want to pretend the lies are still the truth. Even her name is the thing fairy tales are made of. Lavender Waters is the princess in the tower. Years later, I’m faced with all the little lies, the untruths, the false realities, the damage I inflicted, when all I wanted was to indulge my obsession. And her.Shoved the blade in and watched her fall. It’s been weeks and weeks of fighting the need of being an asshole because the alternative is to dive right back into that fixation-and if I do, I’m very worried it’s going to consume me. Everyone has an opinion on what’s good for me-how I have to manage all the impulses, how I can’t let the obsessions rule me the way they often do. The frustration over not being able to have what I want is wearing me down. I’m pretty sure her ass cheek is pressed up against his leg, and his fingers dangle perilously close to her boob. We’re good.” He slings his arm over her shoulder and pulls her into his side. I don’t need a bodyguard or a babysitter.”Ĭlarke laughs and smirks at me. “You can go back to your bunnies, Kodiak.

Shoved the blade in and watched her fall.

Helena hunting little lies