Sin and Secrets

Series · 4 books · 2020-2021

By Kali Brixton, Shanna Swenson, Nicole Rodrigues, and more

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Rise

2020

Get drawn into an addictive world of sin and secrets as we take you back to how it all started and tell the stories of four best friends who experience loss, heartbreak, and love. Meet Eden, Magnolia, Everleigh, and Addison in this introduction prequel novella and learn about their pasts and how it'll forever haunt them. Like the mighty Phoenix, these ladies will RISE. DISCLAIMER: This is a background introduction novella, not a full story with a HEA. Please note, this is a dark romance with possible trigger warnings. Magnolia's story Delivered in Sin, coming December 2020 Everleigh's story Star-Crossed Secrets, coming January 2021 Addison's story High Rise Secrets, coming February 2021 Eden's story Marked by Sin, coming March 2021

Delivered in Sin

2020

By day… Magnolia Giordano is a labor and delivery nurse. By night… she’s Madam Siren, exotic dancer at RISE, the gentlemen’s club she co-owns with her three best friends. This is her story… At sixteen I was married off. At eighteen I was cast out. Seven years later, I have everything I could ever want but I'm broken, broken beyond repair until I snap and succumb to him. The man I keep running into, the man that changed my life with just one night without even knowing it. I embrace the fairy tale, let myself believe I deserve it without knowing it'll put everyone I love in danger. I have everything I ever wanted now though, and there is nothing I won't do to keep it. One night. There was something that drew me to her like a...Siren. When fate keeps pushing you together, you can only ignore it for so long. I can't deny it any longer. When her past comes to derail us, I don't have a choice but to protect what's mine and that's her. She's mine and I will do anything to protect this life we've built together, despite the consequences. This is book 1 in the Sin and Secrets Collection. It is recommended to read the prequel novella, RISE before diving into this series.

Star-Crossed Secrets

2021

By day, I, Everleigh Greene, am a dutiful elementary teacher. By night, I become Madam Isis, the unattainable ice queen at RISE. Co-owning a gentlemen’s club with my best friends was supposed to grant us all freedom. So, why does it feel like my wings are being clipped, one feather at a time? I conceal my identity so my family won't know where I spend my nights. I put on a brave face so my girls can’t see how their fortress of freedom shackles me. The hardest one of all to wear is the mask of indifference whenever he's near. The man I can’t have. The one who’s promised to another. I tell myself that I can keep up this charade, that I can be two people—even that I can stop loving him. But aren’t the saddest lies the ones we tell ourselves?

Marked by Sin

2021

By day...I, Eden Riser am a timid librarian. By night... I become Madam Roxie, superstar of the gentlemen's club I'm the owner of—RISE. This is my story… All my sisters now have their happily ever afters, just like the novels I tend to wrap myself in to escape the scars of my past. I know love will never find me. Not that I even deserve it... But deep down, I still want it. Quietly hiding behind a mask and glasses these past ten years has been easy for this ruined soul with enough sinful skeletons to fill a whole closet. The problem is that it’s getting harder and harder for me to keep my feelings hidden...and to keep my two identities separate—even if it's been as much for safety as for anonymity. Especially when larger-than-life public figure and celebrity book model, Callan Manning enters the picture. Will unraveling secrets be what destroys us both or is love strong enough to pardon even my darkest sins? Callan Manning Yeah, I’m a public figure who takes more selfies of my biceps than I probably should. But this narcissist has a big heart hidden beneath my bulky frame. I’m a caregiver for my nephew with cerebral palsy, and I love my life, but something is missing… The minute I saw Roxie on that stage, I knew I had to have her, in whatever way I could. But her idea of sexual torment took me to a whole new level of submission I wasn’t accustomed to. There are parts of her that remain untouchable, and God, do I want to touch… Thing is, I also want another woman, too; a woman who drives me as insane as Roxie does but is her polar opposite in every way—Eden. Something doesn’t add up here, though. I know those eyes, I’ve seen them before. I’ll figure this mystery out if it’s the last thing I do. \\\Marked by Sin is a dark romance with suspense, BDSM, and duality, and deals with sensitive topics that may be offensive to some readers. Reader discretion is advised.\\\

Authors

Kali Brixton

Author · 3 books

Kali Brixton is the alter ego of a mild-mannered English teacher who adores the written word and a good ol'-fashioned love story (or song). Cinderella will forever be her bread, butter, and jelly, and glitter runs in her veins. She believes in the healing power of hugs, humor, and HEAs. All things sparkly, cheesy, and Wizard of Oz-zy are guaranteed attention-grabbers. Although rooted deep within the Appalachian Mountains, she has a heart full of wanderlust. Kali dreams of one day becoming a full-time author and traveling to faraway lands. Until then, she will continue to teach high school students the indisputable importance of Poe and puns. Kali resides with her own Prince Charming/partner-in-crime/husband of more than a decade and the dreams that are now too big to stay within her wild imagination.

Shanna Swenson

Author · 12 books

Shanna Swenson is the Amazon bestselling author of her book Until Kingston as well as an award winning finalist in the Fiction: Romance category of the 2020 International Book Awards for her books Abundance and Return to Abundance. She writes endearing adult romance novels that showcase the healing power of true love in the face of tragedy. Shanna is a dreamer turned writer who does cardiac ultrasounds by day and creates fictional worlds every spare chance she can. She started writing at the ripe age of fourteen and has always loved dynamic characters. She's fascinated by the unknown, is a Cancer with a capital "C", and has an eclectic taste in music, movies, and books. She's a Georgia native who married her own "knight in shining armor" in 2015 and when she's not working on her next novel or reading, she enjoys watching movies (of the action and horror persuasion) AND pro football, working out, traveling, hiking, and taking photos of nature. Follow her on BookBub, Amazon, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok,and Twitter.

Cara Wade is a daydreamer and a lifelong teenybopper. Boy bands forever! She would love to spend the day in the kitchen baking up sweet treats but hates doing the dishes after. When she is not writing (or suffering writer's block) you can find her reading, hiking, or relaxing by the water. She lives in northern Massachusetts with her loving husband.