Breaking Belles

It's a tale as old as time... I give them three months to use my body however they see fit. Then they'll pay me more cash than I could see in ten lifetimes. Frankly it's a lot better than ending up on a stripper pole with a coke habit and a broke boyfriend who keeps trying to pimp me out anyway. I'll take a one-way ticket outta that country song, thank you very much. Me and my money-maker are only going to be young once. So I show up at the time and place they say, submit to the doctor's exam, and put on the fancy dress and string of pearls. Then I walk out into a bright ballroom.

There is nothing more dangerous than a secret…. It is how the powerful survive. They spin their influence in the shadows as their sins corrupt the innocent. And I am one of them. The elite. The chosen.

Twenty Beautiful Lies stand before me. I can feel one’s hatred from across the ballroom. She loathes me and all that I stand for...that’s why she will be my choice, my belle of the ball. Born into a secret society that strangles the life out of me, I have no choice but to face my demons head on. Inheritance isn’t about money or land, it’s much more twisted than that.... A sinful birthright. A dark heritage. A secret tradition only the most powerful and wealthy are aware of. The Order of the Silver Ghost.

I’m an imposter, a fraud, unwanted...but that won’t stop me from claiming her. She is part of a tortured past I’d rather forget. I will never forgive myself for living when my brother died. As a penance, I’m forced to live his life. To claim what should have been his birthright. Soon, I will join the most powerful men in the world as a member of The Order of the Silver Ghost. Into this opulent nightmare of my own making, she reappears. She will be both my salvation...and my damnation.

I’m a con artist, and I’ve got my sights set on Beau Radcliffe. He’s dominant, arrogant, and always thinks he’s the smartest person in the room. But he made the mistake of getting way too drunk one night and telling me all about the twisted ways of the dark, mysterious secret society he was about to be initiated into.

Bellamy Carmichael was Darlington’s princess all through high school. Perfect, popular, too gorgeous for words - and unfortunately, she knew it. I’d had a crush on her ever since arriving at Darlington Prep, only she never looked my way except for an occasional cruel putdown. I was a scrawny kid, nerdy, and worst of all, my family was new money. But now, a decade later, the tables have turned. I’m the one the Elders of the Secret Society are courting.

Good girls don’t break rules—but for one night with him, any risk was worth it. Walker St. Claire is my older brother’s best friend and strictly off-limits. Especially while he’s an Initiate during his Trials to gain entrance to the secret society. But after a lifetime of following the rules and being the good girl everyone expected me to be, I’m ready to break a few. Especially if it means Walker will finally turn his devilish gaze my way.