𝐴 𝑅𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑁𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑎 𝐛𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐬 ~ ~ ~ Nerida Spade lived a blissfully naive life. Locked in a tiny NY apartment for her entire life, all she knew about the outside world came from television. Nothing could've prepared her for the fire that ruined everything she'd ever come to know. Her redemption comes in the form of the firefighter who saved her life. Jackson Colt didn't care about anything on this abominable planet. He had no friends, no wife, no kids and not a damn to give. His daily routine included sleep, go down to the station, save a life and back to square one the next day. He was perfectly content with his mundane lifestyle until the day he rescued a wide-eyed angel. Nothing else would ever be the same. ~ ~ ~ 『 © 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏 | 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐃𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐬𝟒 』

Madelyn Waters, eighteen, is not your typical high schooler. With a secret manipulative ability, as well as being charismatic and extremely promiscuous, she finds herself lost in a never-ending infatuation with older men. All of that stays in tact until her eyes fall upon a man with a daughter near her age, one in which she befriends to get closer to her main goal. She is willing to test her morals to no extent in order to have this man, while unintentionally discovering that buried deep within her soul is a girl who simply wants to be loved. She learns of love, rejection, and most of all, she discovers herself, while also igniting an illicit affair.

**SOUTHERN SECRETS SOCIETY: THE SEDUCTION** *Some secrets don't stay buried. Some desires should.* In Loveall, Arkansas, everybody knows how to smile, how to pray, how to keep quiet, and how to bury a truth before it has time to breath. Jolie Alise Betancourt is a gifted young Black artist with a scholarship dream to free her from her sleepy town, strict parents, and one rule drilled into her bones: never trust a man with a devilish smile, too much money, and too much power. Then she meets Stephen Benjamin Collier. Ben is a respected white attorney with a beautiful brown brick house, a broken past, and a conscience that knows better than to want the teenage artist who steps onto his porch looking for yard work and leaves with his attention. He tells himself he is helping her. Guiding her. Protecting her. But desire has a way of dressing itself up like salvation. As Jolie's talent pulls her closer to the future she deserves, Ben's world begins wrapping around her like velvet and barbed wire. Every stolen glance becomes a warning. Every quiet conversation becomes a confession. Every rule Jolie was raised to obey starts cracking under the weight of what she feels for a man who knows he should walk away. But Loveall is watching. Behind church smiles, kitchen gossip, old money, racial lines, and Southern manners, something darker has been moving for years. Young women have vanished and malice continues to lurk around for its next victim. When Jolie's eighteenth birthday opens a door neither she nor Ben can close, their secret calls maliciousness by her name. Their feelings become Evidence. Leverage. Dangerous. Because in the Southern Secrets Society, love is never just love. It is power. It is scandal. It is a trap waiting for the wrong person to tell the story first. **A Southern Gothic romantic suspense filled with forbidden desire, small-town secrets, interracial tension, buried murders, and a love story that could ruin everyone it