Callie Hart

You think you know me, but you're wrong.You look at me and see Carrie, the girl with the wild hair and the wild clothes.Reliable Carrie. Friendly. Quirky. Perhaps a little strange.What do you really know about me, though?The details of my past are up for debate.I've been careful to hide my sins, and even more careful to follow the rules.I do as I'm told. I keep to myself. I don't mess around with boys, and I'm always ready to run.At least that's what I tell myself, anyway.Since I met him, I've broken every single rule in the book.He's impossible. Arrogant. Terrifying.If I'm not careful, Wolf Hall's golden boy will do more than make me break the rules. He'll wind up breaking me.DASHFirst, they hate me, then they hate themselves for wanting me. That's how it always goes.I'm the smart one. The charming one. The guy with the accent that makes girls go weak at the knees. As a resident of Riot House, I'm destined to rule Wolf Hall. Doesn't matter where you come from. How much money you have. What your future holds. Cross the path of a Riot House Boy and you're guaranteed to pay the price.The girl isn't special. She's just another cog, turning in the wheel. So why, then, am I protecting her? And why am I keeping her a secret?Call me a monster.Call me a fiend.Call me reprehensible.Call me Lord Dashiell Lovett IV.*Riot Rules is book two in the Crooked Sinners Series. It is a complete 145,000-word story that can be read as a standalone, or in conjunction with the other books in the series.

Riot Rules

“Stop trying to save me, for fuck’s sake. Just… I want you to be real with me. That’s all I’ve wanted from the beginning. Everything’s a front with you. An argument. A game. A lie. I’m so sick of it. I just want the truth. I just want…I just want you.”

“If the girls here are foolish enough to call me Sun God, then you are the goddess of the moon. Diana. Selene. Artemis. Luna. My pale and ethereal queen.”

“It’s okay, Stella. We’ll be a permanent eclipse. That way, we’ll always be together.” 

“That way, the world will always be in darkness,” I argue.

 He shrugs, flicking my lip with the tip of his tongue. “Who gives a flying fuck about the rest of the world. I only care about you and me.”

Pax and I look down at our beers and then look at each other. “Beating the shit out of that dude is gonna be really difficult,” Pax says, cracking open his beer. “Like, he is a dog trapped in a man’s body.” 

“I know,” I say morosely. “I was thinking the exact same thing.”

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