"Am I too close?" I whispered, referring to our first conversation. Times were different now, we were different now. I watched as she fluttered her eyes closed, the sound of the music officially become background noise to the tension. It was giving in just as we did. Just as she did. "Maybe I want you to be..." - Blaine's love life is turned upside when she comes across a relentless Delta. Tatted like a notorious gangster, Niy'Asia makes all the effort to show Blaine how much she actually cares, despite constantly having to put her own feelings aside.

"Would you say that no one compares?" She asked, comedy laced in between her words as she found this hilarious. Rolling my eyes, I sighed, "I don't know..." Which was my given answer, because I didn't know. I haven't... been out, much to directly tell. But even then, "It's sick," because, "it's like it could only ever be her." - Areli finds herself doing her best to navigate life as she let everything go, leaving it all in the past for the greater good. But one night changes it all, because Savannah's eyes were always hard to not fall deep into. - BOOK TWO

In New Orleans, nothing stays buried. Willow moves in with her voodoo-practicing grandmother to escape her unstable mother, convinced the city's magic is just stories. Quiet, kind, and book-loving, she plans to keep her head down-until she meets the woman next door. Sincere, known only as Sin, is power incarnate. A dominant force who runs one of the city's largest drug operations, she is feared, respected, and deeply spiritual. Spirits listen when she speaks. People don't ask questions. But the city knows what they are before they do. As secrets surface and spiritual debts rise, Willow is forced to confront a destiny she never believed in-and a version of herself that refuses to stay quiet. How will Willow salt in her sin????

𝘫𝘶𝘫𝘶 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘹 𝘧𝘦𝘮 𝘰𝘤

"𝗜 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗦𝗲𝗲, 𝗜 𝗮𝗺 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗺𝘆, 𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗜𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗶𝗻'𝘁 𝗮 𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗲,"

My father was a fisherman. My mother was a whore. I was a product of my environment. I grew up in a small town, along the seaside. Everyone knew everyone, and nothing was ever private. It was like having one big, nosy family. So when I nearly drowned and was saved by not one, but three, mysterious women, you can imagine that it was the talk of the town. Father claims that they were mermaids. I claim that he's a mad man. On an unrelated note, three beautiful women just moved into town...

𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐇𝐮𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐭 𝐃𝐉. 𝐀 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐲 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐬𝐡𝐞'𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐬𝐞𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐢𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐮𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧.

𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐇𝐮𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐃𝐉 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐛𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐮𝐝𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐜𝐤 𝐮𝐩 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞. 𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐝 𝐃𝐉 𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐚𝐧 𝐮𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫.

"can i help you?" "nah, you just look familiar..." [ when a heartbroken Ethel met a soft-spoken Opal, it was sort of a hazy mess. but then again, how else do you fall for your high school sweetheart? ]

ʟᴜᴍɪɴᴏᴜꜱ; ꜰᴜʟʟ ᴏꜰ ᴏʀ ꜱʜᴇᴅᴅɪɴɢ ʟɪɢʜᴛ; ʙʀɪɢʜᴛ ᴏʀ ꜱʜɪɴɪɴɢ, ᴇꜱᴘᴇᴄɪᴀʟʟʏ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴀʀᴋ.