California girl Emma Ayers’ life has just been shaken by sudden tragedy. On top of losing everything, she’s also been forced to move across the country to Charleston, South Carolina. Emma now lives in the infamous South-of-Broad section of the city surrounded by old money and even older mystery. It’s a universe away from her normal teenage life and not just because of distance. Charleston holds its share of secrets and Emma seems to be part of the biggest one of all. She just doesn’t know it yet. That’s where Hell’s Belles come in. It’s one of the oldest debutante societies in the South and yet no one knows anything about them, only that you don’t mess with a Belle. Living among the mansions and manners of the Holy City, the Belles use their wiles and not a small bit of witchcraft to achieve their every mysterious ambition. Their world and the old aristocratic rules they live by are about to collide with Emma’s mundane and doleful life. Emma has always felt there was nothing extraordinary about her. What happens to a girl who finds out there’s more to everything than she ever could have imagined? (Hell's Belles is a serialized story that will be told over the Summer of 2015)

Emma Ayers has lived a lifetime’s worth of intrigue in less than a week. Now that she has been introduced to the mystical realm of the Belles, she has to sort out what her purpose is in the midst of her new world. Part of that new world is Bronwyn Hall, a posh academy for Charleston’s elite young women that holds as many secrets as the mansion Emma now calls home. Bronwyn is a place where the Belles aren’t the only ones who have their own set of rules. What happens when powers collide in a world where who is good and who is bad is as muddy as the marshes of the Lowcountry itself?

This is part 3 of the Hell's Belles serial. The Lowcountry of South Carolina is much more than just the city of Charleston. Beyond the church spires of the Holy City, out past the yachts and sailboats in the harbor, lie the mysterious Sea Islands, places with peculiar names like Wadmalaw, Edisto, and Kiawah. Among them sits Frogmore Island, a wild place where Emma Ayers will seek healing and hope in the haint blue world of the high priest of the area’s Gullah population, Dr. Ibis. In a place where things as ordinary as trees and glasses of water hold unimaginable power, Emma Ayers will find herself face to face with the Lowcountry’s terrible history, stunning natural beauty, and secrets that outnumber even her never-ending questions. This is part 3 of a serial. Being that it is not a standalone story, reading parts 1 and 2 will be necessary for this book to make sense. Just want to make that clear to prevent potential confusion. Happy Reading!