Teresia knows sleeping with the pastor's son is a terrible idea. After her mother marries an assistant pastor and moves them onto the grounds of The Well Fellowship, eighteen-year-old Teresia Elkund quickly learns never to give anyone a reason to talk. Then she meets Charles Connors. He's the pastor's son: beautiful, experienced, watched by everyone, and far too used to getting away with things. His mother wants him with a nice church girl. He wants Teresia alone without anyone noticing. He is the first boy to touch her and the first person to make her feel fully alive in her own body. Then Teresia learns about Jeannette Reyes. Jeannette used to date Charles, and neither of them seems completely finished with the other. She is also the girl behind The First Draft, a secret writing group that meets off-campus and reads the kind of stories Teresia would never dare leave open on her desk at home. Teresia wants in. She wants to write something good enough to make them stop seeing her as the quiet church girl with nothing to confess. The church wants Teresia pure. The writing group wants her honest. Charles wants her in secret. Teresia wants too much of it all to walk away. Set in 1984, Teresia is a dark coming-of-age romance about desire, rivalry, shame, obsession, and the cost of wanting freedom more than forgiveness. ❤️ REVIEWS ❤️ Your story still pops into my head. I loved it. So different from everything I've read before - Eleanor of Corrupt Romantics

He didn't ask for her consent. He claimed her as part of his revenge. A decade ago, her father's betrayal destroyed his family and built his empire on ashes. Now he is the most feared man in the city - ruthless, calculating, untouchable. And he wants payment. Not money. Not power. Her. Sheltered, innocent, raised far from the world of guns and bloodshed, she never imagined her marriage would be a punishment for sins she didn't commit. Trapped in a mansion ruled by silence and shadows, she becomes the living reminder of the betrayal he can't forget. He married her to make her father suffer. He didn't expect her softness to shake the walls he built around his heart. He didn't expect her tears to feel like guilt. He didn't expect love to interfere with revenge. In a marriage born from vengeance, who will break first - the ruthless heir... or the innocent bride?