Rock star Ryder Matthews is on guard now more than ever following a tragic death of someone close to his girlfriend Everleigh Stone. Her ex boyfriend had become more of a threat than anyone had realized and with the help of his band, Bad Blooded Rebel, he is trying to keep Everleigh and everyone else he cares about safe until Scott Adams is brought down. After a tragic event in her hometown by her ex boyfriend, Everleigh Stone is terrified not just for her life, but that of everyone she loves. She feels guilt over what is happening and feels powerless to stop any of it. When Scott finally makes his move, it is a desperate race against the clock to find Everleigh before the unthinkable happens. Will Ryder be able to save the woman he loves from danger and have the happily ever after they both deserve? **THIS IS THE CONCLUSION TO THE BAD BLOODED REBEL SERIES OF NOVELLAS AND IS NOT A STAND ALONE NOVELLA. YOU MUST READ REBEL, ROGUE, AND RENEGADE FIRST!**

Jessie Monroe had loved Kris Engle since the first time she saw him playing with his friends Ryder, Beau, and Jude when she was just five years old. After he'd stepped in and saved her from bullies on her first day of kindergarten, they quickly struck up a friendship and were inseparable from then on. Having both been raised in abusive homes, Kris was always Jessie's escape from her nightmare of a mother.Kris Engle had loved Jessie Monroe as a friend since he was seven years old, but after a simple brush of the hips backstage at one of Bad Blooded Rebel's concerts everything changed. In an instant his entire world shifted off its axis and he suddenly found himself craving more than friendship from her. They instantly fall into a romantic relationship and things just seem to fall into place...until fate made their lives take a sharp left turn.For the first time, go back and know what really happened in the early days of the band, the first moments in their relationship, and the tragic event that tore their lives completely apart.True love can conquer all, but no one ever said the fight was easy.

Rory Shaw has spend the past four years struggling to come to terms with her fiancé's sudden violent death and had forgotten how to live. She went through life a virtual zombie and had fallen into a robotic daily rhythm that allowed herself to numb to the pain of a terrible loss and shot down anyone that tried to get her to move on and meet someone new. Liam Tanner has just returned to New York after being away for more than a decade after a huge falling out with his rich, high society family. He has a job working as a homicide detective with his best friend as a partner, a great new studio apartment in Greenwich Village, and no needy woman around to complicate his life. He thought his life was just great...until he met a certain redheaded tattooed bombshell. Will Rory and Liam find happiness and be able to move forward together, or will the ghosts of Rory's tragic past come back and end their love for good?