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She thought she was planning a surprise. Instead, she uncovered a nightmare.

Naomi Myers, a sharp and successful attorney, believes a sexy lunchtime rendezvous is the perfect way to reignite the spark with her fiancé, the charming and devoted Terrance. But her plan shatters when she sees him with another woman, cracking the foundation of their perfect future.

Driven by suspicion and a desperate need for answers, Naomi is pulled into a dark maze of betrayal and secrets and lies. Every unexplained trip, every polished excuse, pushes her further away from the man she thought she knew. Seeking comfort, she finds a dangerous connection with Ayren, a younger man who makes her feel seen again. But when Ayren vanishes after their night together, Naomi's world spirals into a full-blown murder mystery.

In this taut psychological thriller, the glittering skyline of San Francisco hides a darkness that threatens to consume her. As the lines between love and obsession blur, Naomi realizes Terrance's lies may stretch far beyond infidelity. She isn't just fighting for a broken relationship—she's fighting to survive the man who holds her heart, and all the deadly secrets he keeps.

Perfect for fans of E. Lynn Harris and twist-filled domestic suspense, Secrets, before, "I do!" is a relentless page-turner that will make you question how well you know the person sleeping next to you.

Sizzling with the glamour of E. Lynn Harris and the dark, witty suspense of The White Lotus, this is a gripping psychological thriller where a luxurious Caribbean getaway becomes a deadly fight for survival, and a lifetime of secrets is the most dangerous predator of all.

For five successful friends, the bonds forged in childhood have been shattered by a mysterious and deeply personal betrayal. When a summons arrives from tech mogul Simone Devereaux for her surprise wedding at an opulent villa in St. John, they are reluctantly drawn back into her orbit for what is meant to be a celebration—but feels more like a reckoning.

Each guest arrives a fugitive from their own life:

• Anika, the psychologist whose perfect marriage is a façade for a secret, life-altering affair.

• Jaz, the decorated combat veteran escaping a violent relationship she's just left in ruins.

• Damien, the handsome venture capitalist haunted by the public lie that destroyed his marriage.

• Julian, a celebrated designer whose unrequited love for his best friend is about to detonate.

Their champagne-fueled reunion is cut short when their private plane suffers a catastrophic failure, stranding them in the savage, untamed jungle of St. John.

Stripped of their designer armor, their cell service, and the sophisticated lies that have defined them, the five survivors must now confront the bitter truths that tore them apart. They quickly discover that the secrets they've kept from each other are far more dangerous than any predator lurking in the dark.

SPOILER!!! The pilot dies.

Bridal Party is a masterful blend of psychological suspense and sophisticated relationship fiction, a gripping page-turner packed with shocking twists, sharp humor, and breathtaking drama.

Perfect for fans of:

• Character-driven thrillers by authors like Lucy Foley and Liane Moriarty

• Complex friendship stories and juicy African American fiction

• Binge-worthy tales of wealthy people behaving badly

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It starts in the trunk. Bleeding. Half-conscious. Wondering how the hell she got here.

Scheyenne “Shi” Iverson wakes up bound in the trunk of a car, her body wrecked and her mind fractured. She doesn’t know who did this to her yet — only that the life she had before is gone.

Not long ago, she had a family.
Now they’re dead.

As Shi stumbles through the aftermath, bouncing between survival and shock, the Bay Area closes in around her. From East Palo Alto to Oakland, she starts realizing her family wasn’t just taken — they were executed. And whoever did it is powerful enough to walk free.

With only her best friend Vicky left, Shi makes a quiet decision: she’s not running, and she’s not waiting for justice.

She’s going to find out who’s responsible — even if it means stepping into the Bay Area drug underworld she was never meant to survive.

This is where grief turns into intent. This is where the hunt begins.

An explosive opening to a Bay Area urban fiction crime saga about loyalty, betrayal, and revenge.

Revenge doesn’t start with guns. It starts with learning the game.

Looking for answers gets Shi noticed — by the wrong people and the right one.

When she crosses paths with T‑Money, a Bay Area kingpin who sees past her anger and into her potential, Shi is pulled into a world that runs quieter and deeper than street-level chaos. He doesn’t recruit her. He studies her.

Under T‑Money’s watch, Shi learns discipline, patience, and how real power actually moves inside the Bay Area drug game. Not reckless violence — control. She’s taught how money flows, how loyalty is built, and how survival depends on knowing when to listen instead of react.

But mentorship comes with strings.

As Shi grows stronger and smarter, she starts realizing she’s being shaped — and that everyone around her has an angle. Including Vicky, whose loyalty begins to feel complicated the deeper Shi goes.

Disloyal is where Shi stops being a victim and starts becoming something dangerous — even if she doesn’t fully understand the cost yet.

An urban fiction crime thriller about power, manipulation, and the price of revenge.

She didn’t plan to fall in love. She planned to get close.

By the time Shi meets Spencer “Spin” Washington, she’s already learned how the Bay really works.

She understands leverage. She understands silence. She understands that the fastest way to the truth isn’t force — it’s proximity. Spin isn’t just powerful; he’s connected to everything Shi has been circling since the night her life went left.

What starts as access turns into intimacy. What feels like control starts slipping. And somewhere between strategy and survival, Shi finds herself tied to a man who embodies everything she’s been chasing and everything she should fear.

Living inside Spin’s world teaches Shi the final lessons no mentor can give: how violence hides behind love, how power isolates, and how easy it is to mistake protection for ownership.

As the Bay watches her rise beside him, Shi gets closer than ever to the answers she wants — and further than she ever planned from the woman she used to be.

The book ends the same way it began: suddenly, violently, and irrevocably.

With a gun raised.

And a bullet placed in her head.

It starts with her in a trunk. Again!!!

Once you’re in the game, you don’t just walk away from it.

Her name starts ringing louder — not just in the streets, but in rooms she was never supposed to enter. Money moves faster. Conversations get quieter. And the people around her start expecting loyalty she hasn’t promised.

The closer Shi gets to real answers about her family, the more exposed she becomes. Law enforcement starts circling. Old enemies test her position. New ones smile a little too long.

And while she’s trying to keep her footing, something else grows around her — a life that feels almost normal. Almost safe. Almost hers.

But almost never lasts.

This is the book where Shi realizes she can’t climb and protect everything at the same time — and where the future she’s starting to imagine quietly paints a target on her back.

The pressure doesn’t ease. It tightens.

Shi has been holding too much for too long — power she didn’t ask for, loyalty she can’t fully trust, love that makes her visible, and unfinished business that refuses to stay buried. She tells herself she can keep it all moving, that if she’s careful enough nothing has to break.

The Bay is patient.

What’s been circling in silence finally shows itself. Conversations shift. Moves get exposed. Violence doesn’t erupt — it presses in, precise and intentional.

The streets close ranks. Law enforcement tightens its grip. And the future Shi was starting to picture for herself begins to fold under the weight of everything she tried to carry at once.

By the time it’s over, nothing is where she left it. What Shi loses isn’t something she can fight her way out of — it’s something she falls into.

This is where the climb gives way and her past comes back to haunt her.

The Bay thought the story ended in blood.

The world believes Shi is dead.

Her name fades from conversations. Her enemies stop looking. Her friends mourn what they think is already buried. And somewhere far from the Bay, Shi is still breathing — hidden, broken, and forced to sit with everything that came before.

She isn’t waking up to answers. She’s waking up to absence.

The people she loved are gone. The life she built has been dismantled. And the version of herself that climbed the Bay’s drug game doesn’t exist anymore.

Coming back isn’t about revenge or reclaiming power. It’s about choosing whether she even wants to return to a city that already wrote her ending.

The Bay moved on. The streets replaced her. And the truth about what happened in Death Pool lives with the people who survived it.

Resurrection is about rebirth after erasure — and what it means to step back into the world when everyone already thinks you’re dead.