Crushed (A New Adult Romance) by Julie Reign
Broken by a cruel world and a devastating secret, sometimes it takes help to pick up the pieces…
One fateful night and Jessica Benton shattered. Unable to face her own tragedy her secret stayed locked inside, a ball of barbed wire inside her chest. Love is off the table—a look, a touch, is all it takes to break the fragile peace she’s worked so hard for. Now, in college and on her own for the first time, the ghost of her past won’t let go until it’s ground her to dust.
On the run from a nightmare, sparks fly.
Heir to a fortune, Tristan Blackwell weaves music in a coffee shop on the edge of campus. His scars are the remnants of the life he ran away from and the father he could never please. As long as he hides, he’s free. It doesn’t stop his terror that he’ll have to go back to the life that almost killed him, after he fled into the night with nothing more than his guitar and the clothes on his back.
When chance and spilled drinks bring them smashing together, things get explosive. As secrets come to the surface and tension builds, they may not be able to mend themselves… But together, they’re almost whole.