Jeremiah Quick

When Jeremiah Quick finds Pretty Loberg at Walmart twenty years after high school, she gets into his car even though she knows he'll disrupt her marriage and her life.
Behind those sharp blue eyes is a man with a quick brain, a cynical outlook, and a penchant for the subversive. He's kinky, controlling, and more than a little broken.
Pretty wants to fix him, but Jeremiah won't be fixed. Instead, he'll break her, remake her, and talk her into doing something terrible.

Only one will live to drive away.

Back in school, Jeremiah Quick was Other and he fascinated Pretty Loberg with his Otherness. He didn't give a fuck about society, or middle class values, or following the crowd.

To pampered, middle class good-girl Pretty Loberg, Jeremiah was terrifying. And she couldn't stay away.

She'd been trained since her earliest years to follow the crowd, not stand out, don't embarrass the family. Stick to the status quo and not only will everything be fine, but everyone will like you.

Jeremiah didn't like her. In fact, sometimes she thought he hated her.

In one sense she was wrong about that, but she was also dead right.