It's been a while since the Angels managed to save Nix and Riv and dealt with the aftermath of what happened. All moving on with their lives as much as possible. All but Ari, where she remains mentally trapped, grieving for her lost twin, blaming herself for his death and avoiding all the normal obstacles of college along the way. Including feelings for the one person she can never have. Her brother's best friend, who's been off limits since she can remember, but who she has loved ever since she was young, no matter how disastrous it ended. No matter that he broke her heart. He's the one she wants, but she thinks she can never have. Until he kisses her one night, years later, and she remembers just why she fell for him. Leaving her with a problem... To take the risk and fall again or walk away from love forever. Michael: I know I shouldn't. I shouldn't go after my best friend's little sister; he warned us all away when she was a kid. At the time, the warning stuck. None of us even thought about her like that, me included. But it got harder when she got older and we spent more time together. Especially when I figured out it went both ways. I'd tried to write it off as a one-sided...lust, but that hope was crushed when she came back to town after being away for college for a few years, grieving and guilty about her twin's death a few years back. When she kissed me one night and then seemed to keep watching me, I knew I was done for. I knew I shouldn't go after her, that I should stick to my friend's warning and stay away, but sometimes it's best when it's not allowed, and she's not only the most forbidden but the sweetest as well. One kiss and we were both hooked. All bets were off. We were screwed. The heart wants what it wants, and when it's forbidden? When it's forbidden, it tastes all the sweeter and can sometimes be almost impossible to resist. A Trial of Spades and Angels Novel

River South. Supposed a good girl with the face of an angel, who hides more secrets and pain than could be guessed or comprehended. Numb to it all and broken-hearted. Phoenix North. Star athlete with a cold and arrogant attitude....and a broken heart. Pain from an old wound made him into the player he is now. When the two get thrown together after he moves back to their hometown of Ayrith as his father's last attempt to help Phoenix, will the two manage to reconnect after so much time apart and having changed so much from the people they once knew the other to be? Both struggling with addiction, pain, loss and heartbreak, will River and Phoenix be able to save and mend each other? or will their pasts of darkness and pain draw the two deeper into something addictive and twisting that they may not be able to escape? A Trial of Spades and Angels Novel

Maddox: She was everything I couldn't have. Beautiful, smart, driven and sassy. Super sarcastic, and feisty and pushed my buttons at every opportunity but still, she drove me wild. The one problem? She's a Silver Spade girl and I belong to the Cardinal Angels. I wanted to get her out of my mind but her elusive beauty drove me to keep looking. Keep digging and eventually found myself trapped helping her out of a situation she should never have been in when I vowed to leave her be once I knew who she was. Even if she didn't want my help and reminded me so enough times to make me want to hate her, I never could, not when I found myself falling for her instead. Our paths crossed by chance one night and that was it. I knew I had to talk to her again, to have her. Even if it killed me in the process. Lolita: A charismatic stranger and an argumentative conversation at a bar. The kind of place I habitually avoided unless I had no choice. Yet after that one encounter, I can't get the sarcastic and aggravating stranger out of my mind. Driven mad by thoughts of meeting him again even just to ask for a name, I never imagined that this small thought would develop into an obsessive attraction to the enemy. He never told me his name but he didn't have to, his signature angel wing tattoo told me all I needed to know. He was danger in its most concentrated form, but all that did was get me obsessed more since I'd never been good at staying away from what I couldn't have. I hated him, then it became something more. I said I hated him, but that was a lie, even if I wish it weren't. On the wrong side of the tracks one night two paths crossed by accident and ignited a burning flame. You know what they all say: it's a thin line between love and hate. A Trial of Spades and Angels Novel

A two-part duet creating a short Poetry Collection for when Life gets to be too much and you just need a place to hide. A safe space to reflect and think. To be alone and not have to connect to the world. To disconnect and just be alone with yourself, to be free. Volume I