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Our lives hang in the balance. Just when everything seemed to come together, our lives were damn near torn apart. It doesn’t stop there. We’re dealt blow after blow, and we’re struggling to hold onto each other. But I won’t let anything tear us apart. I won’t. Not Valentina. Not me. And certainly not the brothers. We’re going to survive this one way or another. There are no lines I won’t cross, no one who is safe from my wrath. They’ve taken too much from me and they’ll take no more. I don’t recognize myself anymore, but I’ve never felt more confident in who I am.

My name is Vienna Drew. I was raised with a gun in one hand and a code in the other. My father didn’t teach me how to be soft—he taught me how to survive. Now he’s gone, murdered without a trace, and I’m going to find the person who did it. Then I’m going to burn their world to ash. The problem? I can’t stop collecting men as I go. Merrick is unexpected devotion wrapped in order—a man freshly released from a mental health facility with inescapable devotion in his eye.

This dark, corrupt world threatens to drown me. While the Institution is fracturing, I am certain of only one thing—the brothers. They're mine and I'm theirs. We're going to survive no matter the cost. I won't let it be any other way. I can't… I've learned that it's adapt or die, and I'm embracing it. For them. For me.

I’m Cash Morgan. Special Agent Cash Morgan. They trained me to track killers. To find the cracks in their masks, the patterns in their chaos. I was the quiet voice behind a badge, the profiler with a near-perfect record, the one they called when things got dark and twisted. I didn’t flinch at blood. I didn’t blink at bodies. I just hunted. And then I met her.

I’m not crazy. I’m the product of a schizophrenic mother who seemed more evil than human, and a bipolar father who didn’t love me enough to stay. But I’m not crazy. Now I’m struggling with life and question myself and my decisions every single day. Are these signs? Red flags? I won’t let myself look too close. I refuse to be crazy. Then four men swoop in just when I need them. They’re protective, supportive, and everything I never had, even though we’re unconventional. I want to be the person they need me to be. I need it. But I’m afraid...that I’m crazy.

When forced to make an impossible choice, would you sacrifice your pride or your morals? I’m Amorette Monet Black, and I was abducted. Funny thing, I have a choice. One that most women don’t get. I could stay here and be forced to share my body... Or, I could let four questionable men take me away. Only there’s a price. It doesn't matter how much time I don't have, the choice is slipping through my fingers.

My name is now Rick Drew. Fresh out of a facility they called a hospital and I called a cage, I wasn’t looking for redemption. I wasn’t looking for anything. Then I found her bleeding in an alley, and everything I thought I wanted burned to ash.

Life had always been about right and wrong. No gray area. No exceptions. But my time with the bastard sons of the Institution were slowly changing my mind–forcing me to see that sometimes the only options available to someone were bad and worse. Their justice was different than mine and I struggled with it. Except now, they were gone. Every day I’d fought to leave them, to go home. But… I wanted them back. What did that say about me?

It all started when I was six years old. I was homeless. They were held prisoner. I saved them. Even though it put me in the system. They believed we built an unbreakable bond forged by trauma. These beautiful, damaged boys saw me differently than the rest of the world. As much as I wished I could feel the same. I couldn't. These boys—men—had too much anger. Too much hate.

Vienna doesn’t ask for loyalty. She demands it without a word. And I gave it—freely, stupidly, completely. Even with Rick, her broken guardian angel, breathing down my neck. I should hate him, but the man can cook, clean, and kill with surgical precision. Besides, he loves her too. That’s enough for now.

So close. We were so close to getting free. A few more deals here. A few more nasty secrets there. All in the name of the cause, of course. Then she walked in at the wrong place, wrong time. Should we kill her? Keep her? Making the right decision was critical, but we were literally at a crossroads. That’s how the top tier of Alpha Delta Omega inducted our unofficial fourth member. But we weren’t who we said we were. And danger threatened us on every corner. She should be very afraid of us. Or should we be afraid of her?

How dirty am I willing to get? Accepting the brothers for who they are is one thing. Understanding that they might always commit terrible crimes, is another. That was as far as I ever expected to be pushed into their world. But I’m facing an impossible choice when someone else’s life is on the line… Stain my soul or hold fast to my white-gloved morals? Could I actually let go of who I was? Do I want to? Hero or the villain–Is there even a difference? As the four most infuriatingly possessive men circle me, I’m starting to believe there are no choices. Not really.

Broken isn’t forever. It’s time I worked on myself and my mental health. I won’t give up. Broken can’t be forever. What happened to Eli still haunts my thoughts, no matter what I do to block it out. Broken won’t be forever. I see Lauren in myself, and it hurts. I see Kenzo and Atticus, and it hurts. I run into Saint and Ambrose, and it hurts. Then there’s Drake, so determined to reopen the wounds of the past. Please don’t let broken be forever. It hurts.

Now that I maneuvered my parents into giving me the future I wanted, life seems easy. I finally have some freedom to enjoy my senior year without feeling like I'm slowly suffocating under the twisted morals and warped expectations of my parents. But it's not long until everything starts to fall apart. The pretty lies that kept my world tied up in a pretty red bow? They're starting to unravel.

I'd always idolized them growing up, but since they forced me back, I see them for who they are. My four beautiful, angry boys grew into stubborn, selfish men. Men who take what they want with no regard for anyone or anything. Except maybe me.

When I joined the Imperial Trials, my only goal was revenge. Now, things are more complicated. The first round of trials has ended--not with the fanfare of victory, but with the quiet hush of failure. I'm no closer to overthrowing my brother, the corrupt king of Mador, than I was when I left...

New town. New school. Same lies. This is my senior year, and not only have my parents moved me to a new place where I know nothing and no one, they are determined to make me fall in line with the life they want me to have. Not the life that I want. I'm looking for any possible way to escape this prison and leave them behind. Which has been harder than I thought. An opportunity to escape appears. And I'm going to take it. I'm going to use four so-called perfect guys in this new town to make it happen. The ones that have it all, or so everyone thinks.

Never send a man to do a woman's job. Mulan meets Gladiator in this explosive why-choose romantasy! This beautiful trade paperback edition features a deluxe cover with silver foil on the front and a full-color interior illustration. When I fled from the rotting kingdom of Mador, there was only...