Kings of Lockdown: Brutal Boys of Everlake Prep, Book 2

They locked her inside their world—and now they can't get her out of their heads.

Everlake Prep was never supposed to be a prison, but behind its iron gates, the rules are written by the cruelest boys in the school, and survival means playing their game. She refuses. That refusal is what makes her dangerous—and it's exactly what makes them obsessed.

The kings of this place built their thrones on fear and secrets. She's uncovering both. Every confrontation crackles with something neither side wants to name, a pull that runs deeper than hatred and cuts sharper than any insult they've thrown at her. They want her broken. Instead, she's breaking *them*.

But Everlake Prep is hiding something darker than social warfare, and the boys who torment her by day are becoming something else entirely in the shadows—something that feels terrifyingly like protection. Like need. Like a confession no one has the courage to say out loud.

When the walls close in and the lockdown tightens, the lines between enemy and ally dissolve fast. Choosing sides was easy before feelings made everything complicated. Before hate started feeling indistinguishable from want.

Some cages are built from cruelty. Others are built from chemistry you can't walk away from.

She should run. She can't. And somewhere between the war and the wanting, neither can they.