“You’re a good girl on the outside, but no one knows who the hell you are on the inside, do they?” Desperate to run away from all that is expected of her and to finally learn what she is made of, Erika dreams of paving her own future ahead of her, but her newly found freedom is short-lived as she finds herself living one floor below the very man she’s been in love with all her young life-the brother of the man everyone expects her to marry-in a building owned by his family. I wanted to catch some rain, find something that made my heart pump again, and I wanted to know what it was like to not have anyone to grab onto.”Įrika “Rika” Fane was born into privilege, raised in a sheltered coastal community run by its wealthy and well-connected residents, but we meet her as she is about to leave the safety of her hometown and move to a new city where she would be on her own for the very first time in her life.

Fast-paced, vicious, daring in its approach, and so delectably naughty at times that you’ll never look at another steam room the same way-this is a book that kept me at the edge of my seat cover to cover, unable to put it down even for a moment, and the more twisted and unpredictable the story became, the more I found myself devouring each word. There is nothing as mouth-watering as a book that keeps shocking you page after page, keeping you in a constant state of bewilderment and exhilaration with the mere volatility of its plotline, but when you add explosive sexual tension into that mix, you’ve got yourself nothing less than a tantalizingly wicked read. And now every last one of her nightmares will come true. Because you see, three years ago she put a few of my high school friends in prison, and now they’re out. The opportunity is too good to be true, as well as the timing. Until my brother leaves for the military, and I find Rika alone at college.

I can always feel the fear rolling off of her, and while I haven’t had her body, I know that I have her mind. She looks down when I enter a room and stills when I am close. My brother’s girlfriend grew up hanging around my house and is always at our dinner table. Her name is Erika Fane, but everyone calls her Rika. He’s bad, and the dirt I’ve seen isn’t content to stay in my head anymore. Now, I’ve graduated high school and moved on to college, but I haven’t stopped watching Michael. The things that he did, and the deeds that he hid…For years, I bit my nails, unable to look away. The star of his college’s basketball team and now gone pro, he’s more concerned with the dirt on his shoe than me. He’s handsome, strong, and completely terrifying. My boyfriend’s older brother is like that scary movie that you peek through your hand to watch. My nightmares, however, became my obsession.

I was told that dreams were our heart’s desires.

Corrupt by penelope douglas summary