Our Deceptive Heat by Tea Ravine

When it Raines it pours and I’m running while I still can

Fate’s Choice are not just an escape, but a chance of living out my dream seeing my music sung by them to thousands of adoring fans. But as fast as I fell for them, they made it perfectly clear that I am basically the poster child for friend zoned. A year ago, I ran, I couldn’t take it anymore. I cut contact. But now they’re back, demanding the song I promised them. Furious at my betrayal.

They don’t know how many secrets I keep and the clock is ticking. My father, Typhor Raines, is going to trade me the minute he finds a lucrative merger and all my dreams will be ash. No more music. No more Fate’s Choice. I’d rather risk it all than submit myself to that life.

I need their help.

But how can I trust them when they can’t trust me?

Ryn Raines is beautiful, a lyrical genius with the voice of an angel. She belongs on the stage. She belongs with us, except that can never happen. Setting her into the friend zone is easy, keeping her there is not. And when her secrets start tumbling out into the open, we’re left with a choice.

We can save ourselves or save her.

She might have a secret she’s dying to keep hidden and a family she’s desperate to escape.

But there’s a reason it will never work between us.

Our secret would burn our worlds to the ground, destroying all five of us.

And we can’t bear to see her fall.