Mad Boys (Blue Ivy Prep, #2)
Heather Long
The pop princess with her bright blue hair, pouty lips, haunting eyes, and the voice of a siren… She’s always been too busy for us.
Music seems to be the one language we both speak.
It’s not enough. For her. For them. For anyone.
I’m not enough.
My brothers want her, the world owns her, and everyone else is vying for a piece of her. At the end of the school year, she walked away and didn’t give us a second look. Discarding us like she had her father.
Now, I can’t decide what I want more—for her to come back or to never see her again.
F#ck cancer
Series so Far
Problem Child
Mad Boys
Party Crashers
Foreword
Dear Reader,
Thank you for picking up this book, for taking a chance on a new series. If I’m a new to you author, welcome. If you’ve read my previous works, hello there, it’s good to see you. Mad Boys is book 2 of Blue Ivy Prep, so if you haven’t read Problem Child, I would recommend pausing to grab that first as this series needs to be read in order.
Previously at Blue Ivy Prep, KC and Aubrey kicked off their first year at the school to different experiences. While Aubrey seemed to settle in, KC faced friction from the douchebags three. The first, Jonas, a student in all of her classes who stares, says little, and turned her in for failure to help on an assignment when she was pulled away for an emergency. The second, Lachlan, a guy who follows her on runs and takes to ninja kisses following a heated mistaken identity encounter during a Halloween party. The third, Ramsey, is also TA in one of her classes and he re-arranges her schedule so she has to do tutoring. He also kisses her after calling her nothing.
In the meanwhile, KC struggles with the day to day tasks in her larger than life experience including her mother not wanting to leave her “rehab” center, her mother’s lover sending her dick pics to send to her mother, gossip and innuendo, bullying from other students, and a cancer diagnosis for her baby sister.
When KC learns the douchebag three are all brothers, she wants even less to do with them. At the end of the year, during parents weekend, Johnny Pound, her mother’s aforementioned lover, shows up to support KC and she learned the truth behind some of the douchebags animosity. Not only are they brothers, they are her stepbrothers. Her absent father is married to their mother.
Whew. It’s a lot, but that’s where we were at the end of Problem Child which brings us to Mad Boys.
Triggers to be mindful of: There is some stalking, and I will give a warning for a severe health diagnosis for a side character. An SA is referenced on page and “heard.”
If you have read this far, thank you. Mad Boys is the second in a four book series following Kaitlin Crosse as she attends Blue Ivy Prep, an exclusive boarding, prep, and college school for the wealthy and the privileged.
The series is reverse harem/why choose. This means the female main character will not have to choose between the guys in her life. This series is also slow burn, and begins with bullying, secrets, lies, and complicated family ties.
While the first book was told exclusively from Kaitlin’s viewpoint except for the prologue, this and future books in this series contain multiple points of view.
Thank you again for taking a chance on this series, I can’t wait to hear what you think of KC and the girls. Be sure to join us in my reader group on Facebook where we talk books, book loving, some spoilers, teasers for the future, and bonus scene. Don’t forget to sign up for news and updates on my website to get all the latest news, releases and more emailed right to you.
xoxo
Heather
Prologue
JONAS
“Just fix your tie,” Lachlan snapped at me. Mom hadn’t let us know they were coming. We probably wouldn’t have known if Ramsey hadn’t woken us up with the news. Now, he and Lachlan were both glaring at me to hurry.
All I’d done was back-to-back exams, papers, and projects for the last three weeks. KC and I had nearly been paired on a project, but the teacher decided to make them individual. Probably better.
She hadn’t spoken to me since the day of the fight. She barely even looked at me. When she did—well, it was like I wasn’t there. This morning, however, the music had been posted to my door with the lyrics added. I’d been sitting and reading it, trying to process when Ramsey showed up.
“Jonas,” Ramsey said. Oh good, it was time for big brother to tell me what I was doing wrong. Turning away from both of them, I buttoned up my shirt. We never went to parents’ day or whatever it was. Mom usually had a tour or recording studio. It would be a first for Gibs, too.
Probably because KC was here. I tucked the shirt in mechanically, then retrieved my school tie. It was the last one to survive the school year. The weight of their glares made me take my time. If I hoped they would just go and leave me, I was doomed to disappointment.
Ramsey always seemed to know when I would not show up.
When I slid my feet into my shoes, Lachlan let out an aggrieved sigh. “Finally… let’s get this fucking over with so you can go back to moping.”
I would have lunged at him, but Ramsey stepped right between us and put a hand to my chest to keep me from going after him.