Something is coming.
I can feel it.
After everything that happened last year, I thought the worst was behind me. I was wrong.
The past isn’t finished with me — and its return threatens everything I’ve fought to rebuild. My family is shifting. Alliances are changing. The ground beneath us isn’t steady anymore.
And the dreams…
They’re not just nightmares.
They feel like warnings.
If they’re right, what’s coming won’t just test me — it could break us all.
But I am Montana Stanford.
I don’t run.
I don’t fold.
And if this tide thinks it’s taking me under, it’s going to learn the hard way —
Content Warning
This installment includes depictions of violence, escalating threats, stalking, substance use, and psychological distress. Themes of trauma, fear, and intensifying conflict are present throughout.
Reader discretion is advised.
The Publishing Note
Previously published as West End Brat under the pen name N.M. McGregor. This edition has been revised, re-edited, and expanded.
Series Blurb:
Reputation is everything where Montana Stanford comes from.
Loyalty is earned. Enemies are remembered. And weakness is never forgiven.
Growing up in the West End meant learning fast — who to trust, who to fear, and how to survive when the rules were written by people twice your age. Montana has her brothers at her back and her circle beside her, but survival has never been simple.
When a dangerous nemesis enters her life, what begins as rivalry spirals into something far darker — threats, betrayal, organized crime ties, and a war that stretches far beyond the streets she knows.
As the years pass, the stakes rise.
Friendship turns into allegiance.
Power attracts attention.
And every choice carries consequences.
From reckless teenage survival to calculated confrontation, Montana must decide who she is willing to become — and what she’s willing to lose — when the tide finally turns into all-out war.
Because some battles aren’t about winning.
They’re about refusing to drown.
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