I fell for Tristan during the Up in the Air series by RK Lilley, one of my favorites. RK Lilley turned it into a Trilogy. The timeline is a little interesting though, so pay attention.
Bad Things (Tristan and Danika 1) by R.K. Lilley
Takes place 5 years before the Up in the Air Series by R.K. Lilley
Danika hasnāt had an easy life. Being insanely attracted to bad boys has never helped make it easier.
One look at Tristan, and every brain cell she possessed went up in smoke. This man was trouble with a capital T. It was a given.
She knew better. Bad boys were bad. Especially for her. Considering her history, it was crazy to think otherwise. So why did crazy have to feel so damn fine?
For as long as she could remember, Danika had been focused on the future with single-minded purpose. Tristan came along and taught her everything there was to know about letting go, and living in the present. She fell, hard and deep. Of course, that only made her impact with the ground that much more devastating.
Bad Things is about Tristan and Danika, and their train wreck of a love story. This series can be read as a standalone, or with the Up in the Air series.
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Rock Bottom (Tristan and Danika 2) by R.K. Lilley
The continuation of Bad Things, still before theĀ Up in the Air Series by R.K. Lilley
Their love had the power of a runaway freight train, and the potential to be just as destructive.
The tempestuous sequel to Bad Things picks up where the first book left off. Reeling from a profound loss, Tristan and Danika struggle to pick up the pieces and build a life together, but the hard habits of a lifetime are not so easy to escape.
Rock Bottom takes us on a dual point of view journey through addiction and desire, through love and agony, and answers the question weāve been asking since these characters were introduced in Grounded: āWhat happened between Tristan and Danika?ā
DANIKA
Even love couldnāt cushion a fall like ours. My love for Tristan was so big that I felt consumed by it, and even so, it was not enough to overpower our combined demons.
I struggled. I yelled and screamed. I scratched and kicked.
I fought like hell, but even the most determined fighters have to stop before they break.
No one could say I didnāt fight for him.
āI love you,ā I spoke softly into his ear.
He gripped me harder. āI canāt ever lose you, Danika. Iām not sure Iād survive it.ā
āYouāve got me. And Iām not going anywhere. Not ever.ā
I meant the words when I said them, but life had other plans for us.
Iād have given my life for that fight. In fact, I very nearly did.
TRISTAN
She was the one.
If Iād ever had a doubt, I didnāt now. She was the one Iād be thinking about, longing for, until I took my last breath. If I lost her tomorrow, Iād pine for her like a lovesick fool.
This was the kind of love that only hit you once in your life.
THE UP IN THE AIR SERIES TAKES PLACE HERE
but does NOT need to be read with this series, they only weave through each other.
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Lovely Trigger Ā (Tristan and Danika 3) by R.K. Lilley
BOOK THREE: TRISTAN & DANIKA
THE IMPACT
Tristan hit rock bottom, and no one felt the impact harder than Danika. She was forced to see, in the most brutal of ways, that love does not conquer all. Bruised, bloody, and broken she had to walk away.
THE AFTERMATH
Picking up the pieces of your life after a tragedy is a daunting prospect, and thatās considering you still own all of the pieces. But what if you donāt? What if someone else owns those pieces, and those pieces are a part of your soul?
You dig deep and work with what youāve got.
Thatās what Danika told herself and believed, every single day, for years.
Tristan and Danikaās love had failed every test that life had thrown at them. She couldnāt forget that, not for one second. And if those tests had been overly harsh, well, she wasnāt one to wallow in self-pity. The failure was the thing she had to focus on. The failure was the lesson. She had no intention of working so hard to make it out of hell without learning that lesson well.
THE REUNION
Over six years after the night that changed everything, Danika finds herself forced to spend the weekend constantly in Tristanās company, as they attend the wedding of two of their dearest friends. Itās been long enough that she feels they can be friendly again without it destroying her peace of mind, but just a small amount of time in his presence has her remembering something she had forced herself to forget: Thereād been a reason sheād gone through hell with this man, for this man, some true good to precede the bad.
She shocks herself by quickly giving in to a hunger that she never imagined could still consume her.
Even the best intentioned denial has a breaking point.
THE HARSH REALITY
After everything thatās happened, the rise and the fall, the pain and the aftermath, can these two navigate the waters of acute regret, survive the trials of coming face to face with all that they have lost, and find the strength to try again?
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