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When a guarded senior with dangerous secrets becomes stepbrothers with the town's golden boy—a perfect athlete hiding a truth of his own—their collision course becomes intensely complicated. Our narrator is determined to protect his carefully constructed facade and execute plans no one can know about, but the infuriatingly good-hearted newcomer keeps getting in the way... until a revelation about Josh flips everything upside down. What starts as a twisted game of leverage and retaliation transforms into something neither of them expected, forcing them both to confront what they're really willing to risk for each other.
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Dark, intense, and dripping with forbidden tension. Build from brooding indie and moody R&B into scorching electronic and sensual hip-hop. Think arctic coldness melting into heat—Nine Inch Nails energy meets The Weeknd's obsession. Raw vulnerability colliding with dangerous desire.
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