It’s both exhilarating and terrifying to think that in just three short weeks, I’m going to be a three-time published author.
On one hand, storytelling has ALWAYS been a passion of mine, so it’s completely surreal that I’m at a point in my life where I’m actually doing the thing I’ve been dreaming about doing since I was a kid. For years, the only way I managed to fall asleep at night was by telling myself one of my stories. Day after day, I’d build more of the world, more of the backstory, create different plots and settings and conflicts. The fact that I get to share that with he world? I can’t even put into words how happy that makes me.
But on the other hand, when I write these stories, I can’t help but pour a little of myself into the pages. Okay, maybe a lot of myself. It’s no coincidence that my novels (and many of the works I’m fiddling with that I haven’t published yet) have a lot of the same themes – disappointing parents, anxiety, addiction, found family. Parts of my personal story that I haven’t been able to help but sprinkle into my books. And someone reading that? A stranger or a friend or a colleague? Yikes. This is the shit I keep private. The shit I only share with the people closest to me but that is way too hard to keep locked down when I’m writing a hundred-thousand word manuscript.
What I’m trying to say, is that my next book comes out at the end of August, and I’m currently filled with a mix of elation and pure, unadulterated panic.
I’m going to lean into that excitement and joy as best I can, and run with the idea that you guys are going to love this book as much as I loved writing it.
Kat is a complicated girl. She felt very alone for much of her childhood, took care of herself because no one else showed up in the way a teenage girl needed, and will be damned if anyone tries to tell her how to live her life. Writing her was an interesting exercise, and I had to step back a little and try to think about how I felt when I was nineteen—the kind of love I was looking for, the loneliness, the need to constantly be around people and noise. Of course, I wasn’t chasing after dangerous criminal bikers more than a decade my senior, but you get the point.
I’m telling you guys. I DO NOT miss being nineteen.
And Axe? He was an easy write. And I low-key fell in love with the man. I had tears at the end of the story because I just didn’t want it to end, and I think I have a few bonus scenes left in me that I’ll need to get out before I shut the book on these two (that’ll come later 😊).
The Soldiers of Sin Series has a huge piece of my heart, and I can’t wait to dive in deeper to book three, that I’ve already got plotted and the first couple chapters written. In the mean time, I hope you enjoy That Girl is Trouble!
That Girl is Trouble is the second story in a series of interconnected standalones that follows the Soldiers of Sin, the notorious outlaw motorcycle club based out of small-town Ontario.
Trouble has a bad habit of following me. Or maybe it’s the other way around.
I’ve always loved living a little on the side of reckless. Bad things, dangerous things, forbidden things. That’s the shit that gets my heart beating, that reminds me I’m still here, that I’m still alive.
Axe Donovan is the epitome of that. A storm of violence, of wildness and freedom, of reckless abandon. One look from the harsh-eyed president of the Soldiers of Sin MC, and my pulse goes into overdrive. He’s everything I can’t help but step into. The thrill I need to chase. The rush that sets my everything on fire.
I’m not supposed to want him, and being almost fifteen years older than me, I don’t think he’s supposed to want me either.
But I’ve never been all that good at backing down from something I want, and I think the Sinner president is about ready to admit what I know he’s been feeling since the day I walked through his door.
I just hope when this is all over, I manage to come out the other side in one piece.
Content Warning: This book features a couple with a thirteen year age gap and there are some scenes containing sexual subject matter where one of the main characters is under the age of eighteen. This book also contains scenes that may depict, mention, or discuss death of a parent, attempted rape, sexual assault, domination/submission, spanking, rough sex, emergency contraception, suicide (off page), torture, murder, drug addiction and drug use, drug trafficking, and drug overdose (off page).
This is an adult romance and includes graphic, descriptive sex, strong language, and scenes of violence, which may be offensive to some readers.