Embracing My Southern Roots

By: Ella Grace

Congratulations to "Merisha A", the winner of Ella's giveaway. Thank you to all who participated!

I’m a southerner through and through. Even though I lived up north for several years, the saying, “You can take the girl out of the South but you can’t take Southern out of the girl” definitely holds true for me. I have a thick drawl, bless people’s hearts without even realizing it, and if it were possible, I’d make sweet tea the national drink.

When my publisher suggested a new series, based in the South, I jumped on the idea. My Christy Reece books are known for their darkness and grit. Wanting to write a different kind of series under Ella Grace but one that’s still sexy and suspenseful, I created my own little town in Alabama called Midnight. I know about small southern towns, about lies that get told so many times they become fact, and about secrets that get buried miles deep.

As I wrote the first book, MIDNIGHT SECRETS, the town came alive and the characters in Midnight told me their secrets. One dark event that no one talks about anymore is the murder/suicide of Maggie and Beckett Wilde. 

It’s not until Savannah Wilde returns to Midnight to put the family home up for sale that she learns the truth about her parents’ deaths. Zach Tanner, the man who broke her heart years ago, is the town’s new chief of police. He’s also the only one she can trust to help her.

Lies, betrayals, broken promises, and unrealized dreams lurk beneath the calm, peaceful façade of Midnight. And if Zach and Savannah can stay alive to discover the truth, they might just find the happiness that has eluded them for so many years can still be theirs.

MIDNIGHTSECRETS

AT THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT, THE HEAT BEGINS

On a hot southern night, with a storm on the horizon, a family is shattered. Three beautiful daughters—Savannah, Samantha, and Sabrina Wilde—go on with their lives, each significantly changed, as they bear the memory of the murder-suicide that killed their parents. For years, they have stayed away from Midnight, Alabama. Until Midnight calls them home.

Savannah is the first one back, when a grueling case in Nashville leads the young prosecutor to seek shelter in the quiet of the once grand Wilde mansion. But when she finds letters casting doubt on her family’s dark, shameful past, she realizes that peace in Midnight is a shallow façade and sinister secrets lurk beneath the surface. Zach Tanner, once the town’s bad boy, is now the new police chief and still has a wild hold over her. Zach can feel it, too, but he hurt Savannah once. As teenagers, they broke every rule together. Now it’s his job to keep her safe, even though he isn’t sure who her enemies are, or which ones might be his own. All he knows is that they have only each other to face dangers they can’t see coming.

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