This was so HOT! Hotter than I expected actually. 
 I suppose most readers became familiar with All Saints High and the four Hotholes after reading the book "Vicious". The four ruthless teenagers and rulers of the Todos Santos are: our infamous Vicious, the team captain Trent, Emilia's ex boyfriend Dean and Jaime the son of the principal. 
 So, if you have read "Vicious" you will know that Jaime is the quieter out of the four and that he has a huge crush on his Literature teacher. And that makes our boy Vicious really really angry. 
 Our main female character is Melody Greene and she is the one who is telling her story. She is 26 years old (8 years older than Jamie), ex ballerina (she lost her chance to shine when she was 18 and she broke her leg) and a very bad teacher. She hates teaching and she knows it. According to her she lacks motivation, compassion and authority. 
 Melody has a great sense of humor and a spot-on self-knowledge. She starts her affair with Jaime wholeheartedly and she has no regrets: 
 "My name is Melody Greene, and I did something bad because it made me feel good. 
 Here is why it was totally worth it." 
 Melody and Jaime together are smoking HOT. I was feeling that the pages I was reading with the scenes of them together could burst into flames any time now. 
 Yes, I ADORE Jaime! 
 I absolutely LOVED the way he is trying to seduce Ms. Greene. 
 I was LAUGHING SO HARD with her attempts to resist and with the way she falls into his trap. 
 I FOUND IRRESISTIBLE the way he orders her around and treats her like an adorable little girl who is messing with the bad boy of the town. 
 I was absolutely STUNNED when he is describing the ways he is stalking her. We are talking about reaching a new high in stalking business. 
 Another additional benefit of this story is that we get to see Vicious and Emilia from another person's perspective. Vicious the sociopath and Emilia the sensitive girl. 
 Look at the way the two of them are described by Melody: 
 Vicious: cold, sullen, expressionless eyes, rebellious anger that could electrify you to the point of goose skin, scary, he made girls wet their panties from fear and lust. 
 Emilia: Delicate, artistic, a diamond in the rough. 
 Of course it is a highly recommended story, if you loved Vicious. 
 But it is also a great short length standalone, if you love forbidden relationships which end up with a Happily Ever After and nobody really gets hurt in the process. 
 In other words Vicious was a dark book, but Defy is pure sunshine! 
 (I read it as part for "Hot for the Teacher anthology", but it definitely needs to be released as a standalone novel.) 
 SHINY NEW BOOK COVER AND THE BOOK IS FINALLY A STANDALONE ON 3RD OF FEBRUARY 2017.