This was beyond amazing. I wasn't sure what to expect going into the story, I knew it was going to be an angst filled bully kind of read, but it blew all my expectations away.
It starts by Hailee and her step brother Jase having words and we find out all he has done to her over the years and we realize he just doesn't hate her, he despises her and lives to torture her. Jase is the football god, in a football town where he can do no wrong, he and his best friends (Cam and Ash) have spent years torturing Hailee but this is their senior year and things are a little different. When we first meet Cam I could tell even though he helped Hailee's step brother torment her there was something different about they way he did it. Cam was the guy you love to hate and hate to love because he just went along with whatever Hailee's step brother said and did, like a puppet. Cam's personal life is going all to crap so he starts to look at life differently, looks at Hailee differently, and even questions if football is his whole world any more. This is where Cam becomes the good villain, he thinks by still doing what Jase says yet doing it less extremely he is protecting Hailee. He soon realizes he doesn't want to be the puppet any more.
Hailee may have spent years enduring this torment from her step brother Jase and his goons but she is the heroine we all love because she doesn't runaway, she doesn't back down, no she plots and plans then gets revenge. She is strong, smart, independent, and knows her worth but all these pranks have kind of hardened her through the years but then Cam starts to show her his other side and she doesn't know what to think. The push and pull, the hate and love between Hailee and Cam is so hot and steamy I could not put the book down. Even the hate between Jase and Hailee becomes so intriguing I found myself wanting to see what happened next. This is my first book by this author and I absolutely loved it and can not wait to get more Rixon Raiders. ( )