If you like your romances light and sweet, this is NOT for you. This is a tough and gritty story of heartbreak, rejection, and hard love. You’ve been warned. Life isn’t easy. Nor is it fair. And you don’t get to choose who you fall in love with. Sometimes love chooses you. Skylina...Her story is not pretty. Discarded like trash by her father. Forced into prostitution by her mother. Used and abused, she learns to cope. And survives. Because she has to. What other choice is there? Ryder...His story is every bit as ugly. Beaten and left for dead. A star whose light was extinguished long before it should have been. Now a he’s drug addict who wrestles with the demons that try to destroy him. Two broken people... Extraordinary circumstances... Pasts that could tear them apart. Attention: This book is also published as the Dirty Nights Novella Series under A.M. Hargrove’s pen name of Emerson St. Clair. Content Warning: Due to the explicit sexual content this is not intended for younger readers.