She shouldn't want her new college classmate—a bad boy with a dark side who kisses as rough as he fights—yet, she can't seem to stay away in this angsty new adult romance for fans of Penelope Douglas, L.J. Shen, and the After series.?There is no rose without a thorn. There is no passion without torment.Vanessa Clark, a second-year college student, has a visceral love of books and rainy days and an unbreakable bond with her best friends. Marked by her parents' difficult divorce, she found comfort in Travis, apparently the good guy that all mothers—including hers—would like next to their daughter. With him she hopes to be able to build a happiness that she has been missing for too long now. After two years, however, even that love seems to have cracked and only rubble remains in Vanessa's heart. At least until, in class, she meets new classmate Thomas Collins for the first time.With a body covered in tattoos, green eyes in which it is all too easy to get lost, and a troubled past, Thomas