When a broke scholarship student and a ruthless campus playboy collide in the worst possible way, what begins as a war becomes the most dangerous thing either of them has ever faced ,each other. At Eastwood University, there are rules. Unspoken. Unwritten. Absolute. Don't cross Zade Calloway. Don't touch his things. And never look at him like you aren't afraid. Sera Hollins breaks all three in her first week. She didn’t mean to start a war. She just refused to lose one. Now the most dangerous boy on campus isn’t angry at her. He's interested. And that’s so much worse. Zade Calloway has spent his entire life becoming untouchable ,surviving a cruel father, a house full of ghosts, and a world that taught him early that caring about anything is just giving someone else a weapon. He doesn’t fall. He doesn’t feel. He wins. Until her. Sera is everything he doesn't understand ,a girl with nothing who stands like she has everything. She doesn’t flinch. She doesn’t bow. And when he pushes… She pushes back. He tells himself it’s just a game. He tells himself he wants to break her. He's lying. And Sera? She tells herself she isn't affected. She’s lying too. Because while Alicia Quinn sharpens her claws, Zade’s past begins to bleed into the present, and Sera is one bad week away from losing everything she fought to build… The most terrifying thing isn’t the war between them. It’s what happens when the war starts to feel like the safest place either of them has ever been. Two people built from damage. One collision that changes everything. And one question neither of them can escape: What do you do when the person who could destroy you… …is the only one who makes you feel alive? BEAUTIFUL DAMAGE Some scars are worth keeping.