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Delores Darling made one promise with her fingers uncrossed.

Disneyland. Two tickets, one suitcase, a seven-year-old reading the departure board like scripture. They never made the plane.

The federal government took her little girl at the gate, then made its offer: one favor, and the family walks free forever. The favor lives on a 160-foot yacht twelve miles off Miami. It wears a crown, buys senators by the pound, and cannot be touched by any law on earth. The Bureau needs him gone and needs to have never asked.

So Delores goes south wearing a name the government issued and a smile it should have feared. South Beach, summer 2000. Beautiful women arrive on the prince's yacht by invitation and leave by his mood. One came aboard with a schedule of her own.

The man who recruited her believes a weapon is something you point, fire, and disavow. He has never met a weapon that keeps score. Every lie she tells, every mile she puts between herself and her child, gets counted toward the promise she made at the gate. Delores Darling keeps her promises. That should terrify everyone on that boat.

And somewhere aboard waits a debt she buried years ago. It kept the receipt.

The sixth book in the Delores Darling series.

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Every monster has a first kiss.

Before the fires. Before the funerals. Before anybody knew to be afraid, Delores Darling was a working girl on Stewart Avenue with good aim, bad taste in men, and a mouth full of Bubble Yum. Then a quiet man in a long Lincoln pulled to the curb. The deadliest education in Atlanta had begun.

Six stories from the years nobody talks about. The night she met Frank. The kept years, when the games got dangerous. Her first lesson in the family business. A confession no priest was built to hear. A job worked in heels, nine months along and mad about it. And one hot Freaknik weekend with a boy whose name would follow her forever.

She wasn't born a legend. Somebody built her.

The Book of Prequels is Book Five in the Delores Darling series.

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THE DELORESES

Delores Darling, Book Four

Delores Darling came to New York to disappear. The city had other ideas.

There's a woman running from the wrong man. There's a mob boss holding a marker. There's a favor coming due that Delores never agreed to, and in this town a debt is a leash.

She meant to stay quiet. She meant to stay gone. New York keeps handing her reasons to be neither.

You followed her through two books of bodies and heartbreak. You know the rule. Delores always walks away. The question this time is what she refuses to leave behind.

Look out, world. The Deloreses are coming.

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WHY I LIKE RICE

Delores Darling, Book Two

Delores Darling is going home.

She travels light. A suitcase, a secret, and a smile that makes strangers trust her right up until the moment they shouldn't.

Athens, Georgia holds two things she's spent a lifetime avoiding. A name she was never given. A face she was sure she'd buried.

She'll leave town with the truth, a body count, and one small reason to keep living. Only one of the three was the plan.

You already know the rule. Delores always walks away. The danger was never hers. It belonged to everyone who got close.

Come find out why she likes rice.

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She is not the woman you save. She is the one you do not survive.

Delores Darling walks into a room and every man in it starts making bad decisions. She is gorgeous, lethal, and devout in her own strange way, and the men who fall for her rarely see the end coming. Neither will you.

This is her complete first collection, four novellas of dangerous love and worse intentions, set in a late-century Atlanta that runs on heat, sin, and bad luck. There is the older man who made her what she is and still owns a piece of her she will not admit. There are the ones who think they can tame her, cage her, or keep her. Every one of them learns the same lesson, and a few enjoy it right up until they do not.

Delores loves hard and leaves marks. Under the seduction and the body count beats the oldest want there is, someone to belong to, a family, a reason to stay. That ache is what makes her dangerous, and the reason you will root for a woman you know better than to trust.

Morally gray does not begin to cover her. If you like your heroines lethal, your men doomed, and your love stories with a knife tucked inside, Delores Darling is about to become your problem. Four novellas, one unforgettable woman, and no survivors who saw her coming.

Inside this collection

An Excuse for Living. 1998. Delores has a newborn, a pistol, and a handler named Frank who hands her the jobs and used to hand her everything. She still loves him, and loving Frank has always been the most dangerous thing she does. A tender, savage opening that shows you exactly what she is and dares you to look away.

The Survival Habit. On the run and low on options, Delores goes to ground in the mountains, where a crew of gun runners figure a woman alone is easy money. They figured wrong. A lean, mean survival story with her humor loaded and her body count climbing.

Sex in Three Easy Lessons. A hunter comes for Delores in Little 5 Points, so she decides to teach him something first. Seduction is a weapon in her hands, and she gives three lessons nobody finishes clean. The heat and the menace share a bed here, and the truth about Frank finally starts to show.

Looking for Normal. Delores wants what everyone else has, a house, a good man, a quiet life, and a sweet fool named Abner offers all three. Normal was never built to hold a woman like her, and the reaching for it costs more than she can say. The most tender and most devastating story in the book.

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Delores Darling walks into a room and three things happen. The men forget their names. She counts the exits before she counts the marks. Somebody is about to have a very bad night.

Set in a late-century Atlanta with real streets and a real body count, the series moves fast and hits where it hurts. Seductions that curdle into ambushes. Ambushes that land like punchlines. A woman who can charm her way into your bed and out of a chokehold, then leave you laughing at a scene that should turn your stomach.

She'll have you smiling right up to the gunshot. One page she is purring at a mark, the next she is counting bullets, the next she is apologizing to the neighbors for the noise. The danger is real. The laughter is worse, because you know better and you howl anyway.

Come for the trouble. Stay because you cannot look away.

Perfect for fans of Villanelle in Killing Eve, the guilty laughs of Barry, and the stylized revenge of Kill Bill. Expect an antiheroine who plays by her own commandments, dark comedy with teeth, seduction that turns to gunfire, and under all the bodies, a broken heart.

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