She turned exploitation into code—and secrets into currency.
At twenty-six, Frances watches her crypto balance climb into impossible territory, the result of an app born from intellect, revenge, and ruthless clarity. What began as a senior computer science project, meant to push boundaries and prove herself, became something far more a platform designed to flip power back into the hands of women who had been underestimated, used, and dismissed.
Raised as a political accessory by an ambitious adoptive father and shaped by the men who mistook her silence for weakness, Frances learned early how secrets work... and what they’re worth. When a trusted authority figure crosses a line she had only read about in books by Nabokov, Frances doesn’t spiral. She observes. She documents. And she builds.
Clicqk is the a sleek, subversive app that turns crowd-sourced truth into leverage and forces powerful men to reckon with the stories they assumed would stay buried.
What kind of woman will Frances become when the rules finally work in her favor?
A sharp, sexy, power-laced short, When Everything Clicked peels back new layers of Frances's psyche as a brilliant architect of leverage whose world clicks into place the moment she realizes secrets can be weaponized...and scaled.
Part of The Exploits series, where ambition turns erotic and revenge goes digital. In each episode of The Exploits, readers will enjoy a quick read full of open-door heat, psychologically charged encounters, and erotic tension, offering the backstories of the world of Bex Edwards’ dark romantic thriller trilogy, Stonehaven Secrets.
Writing stories of women who outthink and outmaneuver everyone who underestimates them.
Bex Edwards is a psychologist who writes smart, sexy fiction about women who refuse to play by the rules. Her heroines find their way within, around, and right past every obstacle in their path, claiming their agency and having a good time doing it.
Bex delivers sex-positive suspense and satire in equal measure, rooting her stories in the modern world her readers navigate every day: always-on technology, the pull and peril of going viral, and the fun (and risk) of being truly seen.
A lifelong storyteller, Bex attended her first writers’ conference in second grade and later earned a writing scholarship, a B.A. in English Literature, and a doctorate in psychology. After years of publishing nonfiction, she’s flipping the script and living the fiction-writing life she always imagined.
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