Thank you, Summer Marston, aka Grammar Nazi, for editing and formatting my book. Without your perfection, Toxic Secrets wouldn’t look the same.
Thank you, Meredith Blair from Author’s Angels, for your patience as we looked for the perfect image. I love my beautiful cover!
Thank you, sis, April Martin, for creating my amazing author web page.
Thank you to all my family, friends, coworkers, and beta readers who have supported me all the way. Y’all are amazing!
About this Author
Jill Patten was born a Yankee, but raised a southerner. She lives in the small town of Mayberry, North Carolina which was made famous by a popular TV show back in the sixties. (Maybe there will one day be a statue of her at the end of Main Street. Ha! A girl can dream, right?)
Jill has always loved to read, even during reading labs in middle school for reading comprehension. Judy Blume was her first author she hero-worshipped, maturing to revere the works of Stephen King. With all the fantastic authors today, she simply cannot choose a favorite. Her taste is very eclectic and she loves almost all genres. When she's not captivated by her fictional characters, she spends time with her sweet husband and two beautiful children.
Music is her muse. Jill also loves elephants, sarcasm, and anything made with sugar, especially sweet tea. She enjoys all things rude and crude and laughs at stuff she probably shouldn't. She has been accused of being bossy a time or two, but doesn't really see it herself.
All in all, Jill is just a small town girl in this great big world trying to enable your book addiction.
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Table of Contents
Prologue
Chapter 1 ~ Decisions and Confrontations
Chapter 2 ~ Compromise
Chapter 3 ~ Checkmate
Chapter 4 ~ Dressed to Impress
Chapter 5 ~ You Make Me Wanna
Chapter 6 ~ A Toast to New Beginnings
Chapter 7 ~ A Kiss of Rejection
Chapter 8 ~ Sweet Cheeks with a Touch of Honesty
Chapter 9 ~ The Caretaker and the Dictator
Chapter 10 ~ Suspicious Eyes
Chapter 11 ~ Showtime at Seven O’clock
Chapter 13 ~ Apologies
Chapter 14 ~ Holiday Surprise
Chapter 15 ~ Snow Princess
Chapter 16 ~ Texting
Chapter 17 ~ Mr. Jaxon S. Vaughn
Chapter 18 ~ Last Basketball Game
Chapter 19 ~ Jaxon
Chapter 20 ~ Forgiveness
Chapter 21 ~ Jaxon
Chapter 22 ~ Surrender
Chapter 23 ~ Jaxon
Chapter 24 ~ Falling In, Falling Out
Chapter 25 ~ Jaxon
Chapter 26 ~ Californication
Chapter 27 ~ Pieces from the Past
Chapter 28 ~ Love Material
Chapter 29 ~ Jaxon
Chapter 30 ~ You Dropped the Bomb on Me, Baby
Chapter 31 ~ Vengeance is Mine
Epilogue
Toxic Secrets Playlist of Inspiration
Courtney’s California Playlist