Thriller | YA Contemporary | Steampunk
Current and Upcoming Novels
S.E. Reed
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COMING SOON!!
​THE FIRST WIDOWS by S.E. Reed
Adult Thriller
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Some people will do anything for family. Even kill for it…
When Sophia, a wealthy woman far from home, meets Rebecca, a struggling nurse and mother, at a paint-and-sip class in New York, their friendship unfolds just as you might expect.
The lonely outsider finds her place. The overwhelmed mother gets the help she desperately needs. The two women save each other.
But that’s only the beginning.
The first time Sophia reads Rebecca’s journal, it’s curiosity. The next time, it’s desperation.
Because she’s realized she’s not the only one in this house with secrets…
A dark, twisting domestic thriller for fans of Freida McFadden and Jeneva Rose, about the people we trust, and the ones who destroy us.
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​THE FIRST WIVES by S.E. Reed
Adult Thriller
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Two women live in neighboring beachfront mansions. One posts carefully curated photos of her enviable life. The other watches from the shadows, learning every detail of that life, waiting for the right moment to destroy it.
Hannah thought she knew which one she was.
When Hannah meets Sophia, she sees a kindred spirit. Another woman married to wealth, someone who understands the pressures of living up to impossible standards. Quickly, Sophia becomes the friend Hannah never knew she needed. Until Hannah discovers Sophia has been lying. About everything.
You may think you know where this is going. The confrontation. The revelation. The fight for survival. But Hannah is about to discover a truth so twisted it will shatter everything she believed about her marriage, her past, and herself.
Some secrets can kill. And some women have been living with the dead for years.
Fans of Freida McFadden and Jeneva Rose will be glued to every twist in this psychological thriller where nothing—and no one—is what they seem.
​ASK GRACE by S.E. Reed
YA Thriller
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Grace Everly might be a lot of things; like a podcaster, K-popster, sort-of-popular girl at Richmond Hill High in southern Georgia. But let’s get one thing straight. She is NOT friends with Gloria Sanchez, her next door neighbor. So when Gloria goes missing, and the only clue leads back to Grace, tensions run high! Especially since the police can’t get it through their thick skulls that Grace had nothing to do with Gloria’s disappearance.
Then Seth, Grace’s boyfriend, goes missing, putting an even bigger target on her–and she starts experiencing stress-induced flashbacks of a kidnapping scene right out of some campy horror flick. The kind her and her friends spoof on their weekly podcast, What’s in the Woods?
Confused and angry aren’t a great mix of emotions–but they fuel Grace into unlocking her memories, while boxing at her dad’s gym. Armed with new clues, Grace and her friends race against time to find Gloria and Seth, before the rotten-faced man from her memories turns Richmond Hill into a real life horror movie. One they can’t spoof on their podcast.
THE DARKNESS OF DYING IN THE LIGHT by S.E. Reed
NA Steampunk
Sultry Savannah is where we lay our scene, from a time that once, but never was. Two households, both alike in dignity, collide in the chaos of civil unrest igniting a forbidden romance between a pair of star-crossed lovers.
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Seventeen-year-old automaton, Sephony Roulette, is beautiful and headstrong. Against her will, she's been betrothed to an ambitious politician desperate for her father's money. Sephony would rather die than marry him and her mechanical heart breaks to set her free.
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Marcus Wexhaven is called in to use his micro-cogs to repair Sephony's damaged heart. When she wakes in his arms, the fiery passion between them cannot be denied. To prove to their feuding families their love is worth celebration, Sephony and Marcus work in secrecy to unravel a vicious political plot. When Sephony finds herself on the receiving end of a hideous crime, it's Marcus who comes to the rescue, again.
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He is willing to fight to protect her, even if that means his own death. Sephony is far too proud to let Marcus die alone. For never was a story of more darkness than of Sephony and her Marcus.
OLD PALMETTO DRIVE by S.E. Reed
YA Contemporary
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"I don't care! I am NOT moving to Florida."
Parent's nasty divorce - Check
Dead relatives - Check
Moving 1,800 miles to the middle of nowhere - Check, Check, Check
Teen socialite Rian Callusa knows her privileged New York life is over as they drive down a backwoods road toward her new home. But instead of pulling up to a dusty shack, her jaw drops when her Mom parks in front of a stylish mansion. Maybe she doesn't know as much about her Mom as she thought.
While Rian spends time in the Everglades with her cousins, Travis and Sam, and falls head over heels for vintage-loving Justine, she learns it isn't just her Mom keeping secrets. They've all got secrets too. Until one fateful night, the dark, murky waters of the swamp decide to tell the story about what really happened on Old Palmetto Drive.
MY HEART IS HURTING by S.E. Reed
YA Contemporary
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SILVER MEDAL WINNER 2023 Florida Book Awards
WINNER 2024 The Paterson Prize for Books for Young People
TOP 15 2024 Book Blogger Novel of the Year Awards
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Jinny Buffett is lonely…
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She’s never had the comfort of a white picket fence with a loving family. Her subsidized apartment in Hollywood Florida echoes with the void of her dead Daddy, and the nights drag long into twilight while her Mama works the block outside the Margaritaville resort.
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It’s idealistic Ms. Fleming, who’s brave enough to come knocking first. She wants to see Jinny rise up and use her ace scores to escape the wheel of poverty, convincing Jinny to start a school book club, where she finds the friends and boyfriend she never knew she needed.
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But when her Mama spirals out of control and threatens her entire existence, it’s Jinny’s Everglade ancestors who arrive in a mist of magic, bringing the swamp and hope with them.