Heartbreak Butterflies

A Southern Gothic Romantic Thriller

In a world of sugar and blood, to love is a death sentence.

Rose lives a lie. Passing as white in her uncle's brutal plantation, she hides her heritage behind a mask of wit and worry. The only thing real in her cage is him: Landy, the enslaved gladiator she's loved since childhood. Their symbol is the Heartbreak Butterfly-a beautiful, fragile thing that dies if you touch it. It's a perfect metaphor for a love that could destroy them both.

When a single, electric glance between them sparks her uncle's wrath, their world ignites. Rose is forced to flee, cutting her hair and binding her chest to become "Ross," a cunning runaway seeking refuge in the deadly bayou. Landy escapes separately, his heart shattered, believing he lost Rose forever.

But fate is cruel and ironic.

In a hidden Maroon camp, "Ross" finds a heartbroken Landy, carving his love for a lost girl into the cypress trees. Seizing a desperate chance to stay close, Rose makes him an offer: "You look like a man dying of thirst in a flood. I can fix you. Let me teach you how to win her back."

Now, Landy practices wooing the woman he loves... with the woman he loves, who is disguised as a man. Every whispered confession of his devotion is a beautiful agony. But in the swamps, secrets are as hard to keep as Heartbreak Butterflies, and the line between practice and passion is about to shatter.

They are running from a past that wants them dead, and hiding from a truth that could set them free. How long can a love this dangerous stay in disguise?