In a sprint, every millisecond counts. 
When you’re waiting for love, those milliseconds can feel like eons. 

High school senior Lucas Preston has it all: star of the track team, a scholarship waiting for him, an apartment to himself and a revolving door of girlfriends. He also has an older sister, five younger brothers and a father who relies on him to make sure those brothers don’t kill each other. 
His saving grace? Lois “Laney” Sanders, a girl he started to fall in like with when he was just eleven.
A girl who became his best friend, his confidant, his courage. 

It took only sixteen clicks and eight seconds for Lucas to realize that his like for Laney had turned into love.  
Eight life-changing seconds. 
It’s also the exact length of time it took to lose her.

As a kid, Logan Preston was a brat. 
Through his teens, he became the bad boy. 
Now, at nineteen, no one knows what the hell to expect.

High school dropout, Logan Preston is a
good-for-nothing stoner. 
A black sheep. 
A disappointment. 
The worst Preston Punk of the lot.
At least that’s how everyone in his small town
makes him feel. 
But Logan Preston has secrets. 
Secrets so dark and so deep below the surface that the only way he can fight them is to stay high, high, high. 
He wears cockiness as a mask. 
Arrogance as his armor. 
Until one girl, one night, asks one life-changing question: 
What's beneath the bravado, Logan Preston?

One single summer changed them forever, and one moment of devastating silence destroyed it all. 

Growing up with six siblings, Leo Preston has always struggled to find his voice.
While his brothers are loud, greedy, and somewhat obnoxious, Leo is forever the quiet one.
The thinker. 
The listener. 
He watches his life pass by as an outsider in his own world, absent and alone. 
Lost.
Until he finds her. 

For Leo, Mia Kovács is like a prize, a gift wrapped in passion and devotion.
And she’s his—his very own secret he doesn’t have to share. 
Together, they can overcome anything…
heartache and destruction, guilt and regret. 

Mia gives Leo everything he didn’t know he needed, 
including her fragile heart. 
The only thing she doesn’t give him... 
are secrets of her own. 

Hatred comes in waves.

But love? Love is a tsunami.

—

Liam Preston was five the first time he laid eyes on Adelaide Baker. 

Eight by the time he found the courage to actually speak to her. 

By ten, she’d ruined his entire existence. 

And at fourteen, he got his revenge—a single decision that drove her out of town for good. 

Or so he thought. 

Five years later, she’s back.

Not just back in town, but back in his life—and forced into close proximity.

Now, there’s no escaping the past. 

No avoiding the memories, the damage they caused, or the secrets they tried to bury.

And worse? No hiding the desire that clouds their disdain. 

Uncovering the truth could bring them closer together…

If it doesn’t first tear them apart.

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***Trigger/Content Warning***
This book contains themes that may be sensitive or triggering for some readers.

• Severe anxiety and panic attacks

• Parental neglect and physical/emotional abandonment

• Parental substance abuse (drug use)

• Mentions of emotional trauma and complex PTSD

• Non-graphic references to child sexual exploitation (CSE)

• Car accident resulting in off-page death

• Food insecurity