The working title is THE CURSE OF WHITE OAK GROVE, but it's a title that's growing on me, so it might stick around. It's about a girl who visited her grandma one summer at age 13, and bad things happened, so she tried to forget the town even exists. But after a death in the family twenty years later she returns, and guess what? She hasn't quite escaped those bad things! Luckily, this time she gets to bang a couple of hot dudes who may or may not have their own agendas, and probably don't care about her best interests.
- small town with dark secrets and horrifying traditions (of course)
- creepy ghost mansion
- non-virgin heroine who has a young daughter (not an overly precocious or annoying one, don't worry)
- heroine has sex with two different guys (not together, and not concurrently)
- the sex is explicit and spicy AF
- villianous love interest(s)
- dub-con
- one love interest has been celibate a long time
- messy relationships, etc. etc.
- me trying to out-toxic myself, let's goooo
My heroine, Aubyn, is a fool for love, which means she makes really bad romantic decisions and tends to ignore obvious red flags. She's not an idiot or TSTL; she just really wants love, and sometimes this translates into sex that may be detrimental to her emotional well-being. It just so happens that the sex in this book is too hot to resist, so maybe that's understandable. And I just really want to write a bunch of toxic smut. :P
I'm currently at about 74000 words (yay me!). I haven't quite decided on the ending, because I tend not to do things like "plan ahead" when I'm writing, so some details will probably change. I do have a good idea where I'm going though, and I'm pretty excited. I know I'll go through several stages of agony before I finally finish it, but that's just the way it goes. I'm hoping to have the book out later this year, so stay tuned. :)
