Category: On A Pale Street

Once inside, she found herself closing the door and then promptly leaning against it with a heavy unexpected sigh and glancing about the empty spacious foyer with a frown. How difficult it was to have a nice afternoon when there was a quite literal reminder of her ex burning in the back of her mind!…

Sleeping in someone else’s bed was not something Juliette Byron was entirely comfortable with, though after an evening of social masking with colleagues and strangers as well as more entertaining exercise, sleep came quickly. Then, like most mornings, she was up at dawn, dressed and out the door without even stopping to have breakfast or a…

Come the Saturday of the engagement party Juliette was in high spirits. The photos they’d taken at dinner to make her announcement went exactly how she planned. The board of CEOs were quite interested in this new relationship (both personal and business), and were even more thrilled to be invited out to an exclusive location…

Before six, Juliette found herself strolling down the pier at a much more leisurely pace, spying about to see exactly which “glow” Jordan told her to look for. She’d changed her clothes again, knowing it was going to make her seem like some sort of superfluous diva, and damn it, she was willing to take that…

Juliette had a problem. And his name was Jordan Harrow. No, that wasn’t fair. Her actual problem was Arnould Byron, her duplicitous father, and current bane to her existence. If he hadn’t gambled away the family fortune and then start embezzling funds from their company, she never would have needed to entertain this ridiculous marriage contract in…

When one has already taken the poison, one might as well lick the plate. Water collected threatening to overwhelm that of the sewers this particularly wet evening. Spraying fountains of dirty splashes up under the tires of cars, coating their underbellies in the runoff of muck, grime and other unmentionable debris that simply aided that…