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Love Her Darkly

(2025)
(The first book in the Shadows of Love series)
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The body lies at the bottom of the ravine. Slack face pointed into the heavens. Dead eyes staring up at nothing. Tufts of grass stab upward from the dirt around the head like a green halo.

The dumped corpse is found just next to the
Sea Spray Motel. After its discovery, all hell breaks loose.

The guests of the Sea Spray find their vacations forcefully interrupted.
Fun in the sun turns to blood on the beach. A wide cast of colorful characters gets thrown into the fray, into danger.

But one guest gets it worse than the others.

College student
Ellie lied to her parents and snuck away on spring break, thinking she was going on the perfect vacation. Instead she finds herself drawn deeper and deeper into a nightmare.

Taken. Trapped. Alone.

Meanwhile,
Detective Avery Stinson works the case, follows the clues deeper and deeper into danger.

But the nature of the danger keeps
twisting, the explanation for the crimes keeps morphing. Like shadows shifting and rippling, eluding understanding.

And the biggest shock comes at the end.

Love and danger. Sex and violence. The heart wants what the heart wants.

It's
The White Lotus crossed with Natural Born Killers. Love Her Darkly is a gripping, heart-pounding thriller perfect for fans of Freida McFadden, Karin Slaughter, and Noelle Ihli.


Genre: Mystery

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