Afflicted — Sophie Monroe

Afflicted is the second book in the Battlescars: a rock & roll romance series and picks up where Battlescars left off with different characters. Fresh off tour Blake Potter, the sexy bassist for Battlescars, is in Smithville, Ohio to work on their next album ‘Coming Clean'. Still pining after Aubrey's best friend, Piper, it's going to be harder than he expected to see her back with her long-term boyfriend, Cole. He's trying his hardest to forget her, but no matter how hard he tries to stay away circumstances keep bringing them together. Being burned before, he refuses to let it happen again. He's still struggling to let go of Rowan, the girl that made him the way he is. Piper is fighting an uphill battle of her own. She's working her ass off trying to make a name for herself as a tattoo artist. Her long-term boyfriend, Cole, was recently discharged from the Marines turning her world in a way that she never expected. When he begins leaving for days at a time Piper starts struggling to help him pick up the pieces. She calls the one person that might be able to help, Blake. He becomes the friend that she needs no matter how much it's killing him. What will happen when one phone call changes everything for both of them leading them in a path that neither anticipated and pasts come out of the shadows and threaten to ruin everything?