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TRUTH KILLS
Truth & Lies #1
Jamie K. Schmidt
Released Sept 30th, 2015
Truth & Lies Series
Aged out of the system and
battle worn from unsuccessful foster care, four women on the cusp of adulthood
find passion and their paths in life through the help of an anonymous fairy
godmother type who calls herself the Benefactrix.
Truth Kills: Book One
A healing and emotionally fragile girl unknowing falls for the nephew of the man who killed her family.
College freshmen, Phoebe's new lover is sexy, creative and willing to let her act out all her dirty fantasies. Unfortunately, Keith's not telling her the truth about who he really is and the secret past that binds them together. When his Uncle breaks out of prison to search for the "girl who got away," Keith risks losing the best thing in his life by admitting to Phoebe that his Uncle killed her parents.
Phoebe Jones lost her family during a home invasion when she was only thirteen. She's the only one of the four girls who remembers a loving family. The Benefactrix has given her a full boat scholarship to the local college, where Phoebe meets a graduate student who wants to do a story about her family. But Keith Parker isn't without his own demons. His Uncle, now on death row, was one of the men who broke into Phoebe's house eight years ago. What started out as a project for understanding and healing is complicated when Phoebe & Keith act on the explosive desire between them.
Phoebe craves to be in control sexually and Keith is more than willing to let her have her way with him. What started out as a hot fling rapidly becomes something deeper. Keith knows he'll lose her if he reveals who he really is, but the lie has taken on a life of its own and threatens to destroy not only their relationship but Phoebe's fragile self confidence and freshly won self esteem.
Turning back around, she stood up on
her tiptoes until she thought she saw the back of Larissa's head.
Larissa had been a door stop baby, dropped off at a hospital. She
never knew her family. She didn’t even come with a note pinned to
her blanket. Larissa had been Phoebe’s first friend at the home.
She loved hearing about Phoebe’s parents and the little details of
a “normal” life. For some reason Meatless Monday and Taco
Tuesday were the best things Larissa ever heard of and would never
get tired of hearing Phoebe talk about how it used to be.
Kelly, Maryanne, and Larissa. That
was the sum total of the people who would cheer for her when she
walked up on the rickety stage to accept her diploma from Principal
Barnes. And at the ripe old age of eighteen, Phoebe was about to be
aged out of the system and those people would be lost to her as well.
Fuck.
She was not going to cry. If she
started, she wouldn't stop and that would ruin the ceremony for her
friends.
"Just another day," Kelly
murmured.
Phoebe nodded and pulled herself
together. Nothing new here. She forced her chin up and willed this
endless ceremony to end. It wasn’t as if they would never see each
other again. None of them had any money to go very far, except maybe
Kelly. Her boyfriend Chad was loaded and liked giving her expensive
treats. He was taking her away on vacation tomorrow to Belize to
celebrate. But that was only for a week because Kelly had a job to
get back to at the camera shop. She’d been working there since she
was sixteen. It didn’t pay anything, but she was able to work on
her own projects in between transferring people’s pictures from
film to digital.
After Kelly got back from Belize,
Phoebe and the other girls would start their transition into adult
housing, leaving the group home that had housed them since they were
ten-years-old.
Graduation was supposed to be a day
of hope and of new beginnings. She should have been looking forward
to a fun summer and then off to college in the fall, somewhere far
away from Connecticut and the memories. Except her grades hadn’t
been that good. So she’d take night classes at her safety school,
and maybe next year get accepted into one of the larger universities.
Paying for that would be another thing to worry about. Just not
today.
USA Today Bestselling author, Jamie K. Schmidt is a hybrid author who has over thirty short stories published in small press and ezines, and a variety of novellas and books online. Her Club Inferno series from Random House has been in Amazon's top 100 ebooks sold and Barnes and Noble's top 10. She has a dragon paranormal romance series at Entangled Publishing. Book one of the Emerging Queens series is The Queen's Wings.
Jamie holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the State University of New York at New Paltz in Secondary Education English, which is a fancy way of saying she went to college to teach high school English. When that didn't pan out, she worked as a call center manager, a Tupperware consultant, a paralegal, and finally a technical writer for a major conglomerate company. She is an
active member in the Romance Writers of America (RWA). When not writing, Jamie relaxes with a mug of hot tea and knits or makes beaded jewelry.
active member in the Romance Writers of America (RWA). When not writing, Jamie relaxes with a mug of hot tea and knits or makes beaded jewelry.
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