The Crease -- The Ironvale Legacy Book 3

Witch of Hellridge 22 stories

Story Notes

Summary

Lex Keane doesn’t do feelings. Not for herself, not for anyone — except Theo Beckett, the Wolves’ captain and the only person who’s ever earned her loyalty. So when a vicious post exposes Theo’s girlfriend — Cam Reeds — to the whole damn campus, Lex is ready to burn the world down. Mason Reeds doesn’t usually plot revenge. He’s the golden boy goalie, the coach’s son, the guy who’d rather defuse tension with a dumb joke than throw a punch. But when someone weaponizes his sister’s deepest secret for online humiliation, the gloves are off. Lex and Mason aren’t friends. They’re opposing forces, pressed together by circumstance and a shared need to protect the people they love. But as they dig into who really leaked Cam’s story, they find more than a cruel joke — they find a rot at the heart of Fairfax University that’s been growing for years. What starts as a mission for justice turns into a descent into a world neither of them expected — where power protects monsters, silence costs lives, and the only way out is through each other. Sharp-witted and ice-cold, guarded Lex. Golden-hearted and relentless, Mason. They weren’t supposed to care. They weren’t supposed to burn for each other. But secrets have a way of pulling people under. And some things? You don’t walk away from clean.