4/30/2026
RUBY
Ruby’s life has been anything but precious. If she were a gem, she’d be the one shattered on the floor, too dull to be admird and too damaged to be treasured. Born into chaos and raised by neglect—Ruby has spent her existence clawing her way through trials, tribulation and the haunting absence of safety.
MATRIMONY
Joliana James is one of the youngest detectives on the force. Jo is proud to be a part of her father’s legacy, a retired police chief, while trying to establish her own. It is anything but easy. When a trail of bodies starts showing up across multiple Florida counties, her world is suddenly immersed in a seedy web spun by a serial killer with a fetish for married men.
Across town, Audra Harlow-Holcomb, an influential socialite who happens to be married to one of the most powerful judges in the state is planning her son’s wedding. It is to be her crowning achievement. However, when he goes missing weeks before his wedding, she is convinced his fiancé knows where her son is and she is willing to do whatever it takes to get him back. Even if it means getting her hands dirty by digging up her past.
Holten Conway is a popular news anchorman with steel determination. He is also the secret beau of Jo’s life. All he needs is to break this case wide open and cement his name in the pantheon of great journalists. If he has to break Jo’s heart to do so nothing will stand between him and fame.
Danger mounts and it will take all of Jo’s skills, and more than a little luck, to survive the coming storm and put a killer behind bars. Damaging secrets will be revealed and lives ruined the closer she gets to solving the case. It will be the test of her young career.
Greed, corruption, infidelity, and revenge are on display in this psychological thriller.