• they show their truth one single time, but they lie, and they lie, and they lie a million little times • Ella Everett steps onto her college campus ready to leave her past behind and start a new life. But before she can even comprehend what that life might have in store for her, she meets the irresistible yet intoxicating Hayden Pate. Despite everything inside of her demanding that he's a bad idea, she fails to resist the fire he ignites within her, a feeling she's never felt before. She's longed for change, to become something more than the boring, scared girl she was in high school, and Hayden is everything she's never been, everything she was afraid of becoming. His enigmatic presence draws her in, and she can't resist. And even as she becomes entangled in a web of secrets and desires, she finds herself pulled to the wrong things time and time again. • RANKINGS • #1 in almostlovers #1 in collegeparty #10 in illicitaffairs #11 in toxicromance #15 in toxicrelationship #25 in situationship