Creeping Beautiful Books

McKAY I wasn’t the one who broke her but I played my part. She came to us when she was ten. I raised her. I loved her. I taught her how to survive in a world of evil men. But it wasn’t enough. ADAM I wasn’t the one who saved her but I did my best. She needed me as much as I needed her. Bought and paid for on the auction block. But not for the reasons you think. She was my weapon. DONOVAN I wasn’t the one who lied to her but I hid her truth. She was broken before I got there. Wild and angry. Defiant and bratty. But she trusted me most. She loved me best. So I set her free. Indie Anna Accorsi is a woman lost in her past. A pretty little nightmare. A gorgeous piece of misery. A mess of lovely darkness. She is creeping beautiful. And now we want her back. If I had to choose between them, I would die. There is just no way I could only choose one. I need them all. I don’t even care if that’s selfish. I want them all. And if I thought I could have Nathan St. James, then I would take him too. I would keep all four of them because they are each different, and unique, and give me something I can’t get from anyone else. Every single way they fill me up has been written in this journal. So if it’s not clear by now, there is nothing left to be said. There are simply no words to describe my need. But I am afraid that you will see this and you won’t understand. And I don’t care if you are Nathan, or McKay, or Adam, or Donovan. I need you to understand. How many other ways are there to describe Nathan St. James? He is my boy-next-door. He is my best friend. He is the firefly catcher, and the treehouse builder, and the swamp charmer. Oh, I know what Adam would say. He was running around on you back in high school. And I get it. If Nathan loved me best, he would be more careful with my heart. He’d be like McKay. McKay is so very, very careful with me. McKay is my soul . He is my trainer. He is the bubble-bath maker, and the hair washer, and the nightmare chaser. But McKay will never admit that he has always loved me. That I am his first, and only, one true love. So I have Donovan. Donovan is careful too. He is my mind reader. My note taker. He is the light in the dark, he is the filler of holes, he is the voice in my head that keeps me calm during all the stormy nights of insanity. But he’s part time we all know it. He will never take me to LA with him. And I wouldn’t want to go. This is my home. Right here. This is where I want to be. And that’s where Adam comes in. Adam. My owner. My knight. My protector. He is my partner in crime. The fixer of mistakes, the leader of us all, the untouchable one. He is like a mean old dog who will bite anyone who tries to touch him. Everyone who gets too close. Everyone but me. He lets me get close. He lets me touch him all over. But will he share? Will any of them share? Only if I make them. So this is how I made them…

INDIE I have them all now. Just the way I want them. McKay, the one who loves me deepest. Adam, the one who protects me fiercely. Donovan, the one who tells the truth. They are my friends, they are my lovers, they are my world. And Maggie belongs to all of us—no matter who her father is. This is the family I’ve always wanted. This is the family I deserve . And I will do whatever it takes to keep them. McKAY I have a secret that could ruin everything. But I’m not keeping that secret to hurt her. Nathan St. James needed to go. ADAM I made a plan that could ruin everything. But I did it to save us in the end. The Company needed to come back. DONOVAN I told a lie that could ruin everything. But I didn’t tell the lie to them—I told it to myself. Carter is closer than we think. There is something truly wrong at Boucher House on the Old Pearl River. Some hidden evil lurking deep inside the woods. Nothing about their blissful life is what it seems. Because just when they think they have it all—he shows up to take it back.

Wendy Gale isn’t the kind of girl you marry. She’s not even the kind of girl you date. She’s not a friend with benefits, she’s not a one-night-stand, and regardless of what she thinks, she has never been a rebound. Wendy Gale is kind of girl you kidnap and lock in your basement so she can’t ever escape. She’s the kind of girl you tie up. You put a collar on her. A leash. Handcuffs. You chain her to things and gag her mouth. A blindfold isn’t a bad idea, either. Because Wendy Gale is the kind of girl you grab on to—any way you can—and you never let go. Wendy. Babe. You only need to know one thing about me, OK? I will never let go. Gorgeous Misery is a dark romantic thriller about one man’s desperate desire to save the woman he loves at all costs. It is the third book in the Creeping Beautiful series and must be read in order.

Sometimes I wish it was just him and me. Sometimes I wish there never was an Indie or a Donovan. That McKay and I just ran away together when we were young. Sailed around the world. Climbed mountains. Learned to parachute. Did whatever we wanted and never thought about this place, or the Company and our place in it, ever again. Sometimes I wish we were broke, and uncomfortable, and stressed out about things like rent, and food, and bald tires. I wish we had done it differently. I wish I had listened to Gerald. I wish I wasn’t thirty-seven years old, filled up to my neck and choking on regrets. Lovely Darkness is about love, and regrets, and accepting the truth—even if it breaks you. It is the last book in the dark romantic thriller series, Creeping Beautiful, and must be read in order.