Destroy The Guilty: Second Chance Romance

by Garnell Wallace

LeoI'd instantly fallen in love with Gideon Grey the first time I saw him. Granted, I was seven at the time and had no idea what falling in love was. However, there was something about the scrawny boy that fascinated me. I stole bread from the church charity bake sale to erase the hunger in his eyes, and he stole my heart.Years later, we reconnected in a bar, and I learned what falling in love meant. I thought we would spend the rest of our lives together, and we'd tell our children about growing up in the same small town, and how my parents had forbade us from being together. They took me away from him at fourteen, and fate brought us together again at twenty. We had the perfect forbidden love story, and then, like so many other great love stories, ours ended in tragedy.We didn't die like Romeo and Juliet, but four other people did, because of Gideon's terrible mistake, for which he went to jail, and I ended up in a wheelchair. Six years after he destroyed my life, Gideon returned home, and I quickly learned that hating him would be a lot harder than I’d anticipated.GideonThe night of the car accident began in Heaven, and ended in the depths of Hell. The choices I'd made came with irreparable consequences, and I'd accepted them all. I have to live with my choices and carry my demons on my back. My guilt will always be my cross, and I would gladly endure the burden with Leo by my side. From the moment I first saw her, she was the only woman for me. I came home to the hate-to-love chapter of our story, and I'm willing to wait until she has a change of heart. We will have our happily-ever-after, because a love like ours is too powerful to die from one mistake.

232 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 15, 2023

About the author

The first time I was exposed to books, I knew I'd found a world I could live in. Along with books, I grew up with a wonderful oral tradition of storytelling, passed down from my ancestors who didn't have books and weren't allowed to read.

My mother sometimes told wonderful stories because she couldn't always afford books but still wanted to foster a love of stories and use your imagination in her children.

I always had a book with me in school and as a shy, introverted kid, it was like I always had friends, people I could hang out with, who to be honest, were much more intelligent and exciting than the children around me.

Today I write stories of my own and hope I can give that same sense of wonder and happiness to other people. I was born to write, my path has always been led there, even when I didn't know it.

I am now on a life-long journey to share my stories with the world, and to experience as many new ones as I can, whether it is through books, movies, music, paintings, sculptures, or people I talk to. Everyone has a story to tell, everyone has a life that can impact someone else.

Some of my biggest heroes are writers. Getting lost in a book is often my solace, prayer, and time on the couch. I will always be as much of a reader as I am a writer. Books and stories will always be my first love and each time I pick up a new book or begin writing a new one, I fall head over heels all over again.

I have been published in various paranormal and erotic anthologies including Making the Hook-up, Obsessed, and Best Women's Erotica, all from Cleis Press. A proud self-published author, my books include, The Destroy Me Trilogy, The Broken-Hearted Girl, The Vampire Next Door, Lullaby Lake, and The Sunday Secrets Series written under the pen name, Jubilee Brown.

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