Carved in Scars - Elle Mitchell

This was a heavy, but heartbreakingly beautiful story. Of young love, tragedy, grief and rage. So complex and it makes you really evaluate things as you go through the story.

It’s a high school bully romance, revolving around Ally her best friend Darci, and Darci’s step brother Devon. Just not in the way you think it involves him.

Ally’s mom is in prison for murder and she is sent to live with her overly conservative and abusive aunt and uncle. The only friend she seems to make is Darci, a popular cheerleader who seems to have taken on Ally as a project but developed a genuine friendship with her as well. That is of course until she realizes that Ally and Devon have been seeing each other in secret. After blackmailing Devon, he snaps and threatens Darci at a party. Less than 12 hours later Darci is dead.

The only one who can set him free is Ally, since she spent the night with him that night. But too afraid of the repercussions from her aunt and uncle, she denies that he was with her.

Less than a year later Devon is free’d due to insufficient evidence against him. He is on a quest to get revenge against the one girl he ever loved…

Definitely check your triggers on this one. It hurts so bad.