THE STARLIGHT
Talia
Sutton.
Twenty-one. Freckled. Quick-witted. Abandonment taught her to rely on herself; loving Jack will teach her exactly how hard freedom is to keep.
THE STORY
Some love stories
leave bruises.
In London, Louisiana, everybody knows who holds the power, and how dangerous it is to be noticed by the wrong man.
Talia Sutton is twenty-one, sharp-tongued, independent, and determined to build a life no one can take from her. Jack Cole is twenty-four, a construction worker with watchful eyes, dangerous instincts, and a devotion that does not understand the word enough.
What begins as first love becomes protection. Protection becomes possession. And when Tali's friend disappears, the line between being loved and being owned begins to bleed away.
Set in a humid Southern river town shaped by old family influence, violence, and silence, Pretty Things Bleed Starlight is a dark romance about the moment devotion becomes complicity and the cost of choosing freedom.