TORRENTIAL LIES: A DARK BULLY ROMANCE OBSESSION by Claire Tucci

She ran from his fire once. Now he’s the one burning for her.

Elara Kane thought Ravenwood Academy would be her escape—a fresh start, a clean slate. She was wrong.

The moment Jax Thornwood sees her across the quad, the past ignites. Two years ago she fled his family’s burning mansion after the hottest, most forbidden night of their lives. He blamed her for the scandal that followed. She vanished to survive. Now she’s back in his world—and he’s not letting her disappear again.

What starts as cruel payback quickly spirals into something vicious and addictive. Public humiliations. Private punishments. Stolen kisses that taste like revenge and ruin. Every touch is a weapon, every word a dare, every glance a promise of destruction.

But the fire that night wasn’t an accident. And the truth buried in the ashes could destroy them both—or bind them forever.

He’ll break her to keep her. She’ll burn him to set them free.

In a world of masks, money, and merciless legacies, love isn’t soft. It’s torrential. It’s lies. It’s the kind of obsession that only ends one way: Together. Or in flames.

Torrential Lies is a standalone dark bully romance packed with intense enemies-to-lovers tension, forced proximity, possessive anti-heroes, explicit scenes, heavy emotional triggers, and a hard-won HEA. For readers who crave the knife-edge between hate and hunger, where redemption feels like surrender and love feels like war.