Devil In The Waters Series

The thing that happened at the reunion is getting foggier with the passing of time. Josh wonders if it really happened at all. One thing’s for sure: his bully is taunting him. That’s real. Texting him the things Josh fears his wife would do. But Kimmy’s never been sweeter. Their relationship is growing stronger, isn’t it . . .? And while Kimmy repairs relationships around her she curses how close she came to ruining her marriage. Only, she can’t help swirling around that same awful drainpipe again, caught in the pool of Devlin Stone’s enormous temptation . . .

Josh’s wife works for his bully now, providing him with her top notch legal expertise. The guy doesn’t deserve her skills. On the brighter side, Devlin Stone isn’t in her office everyday. He’s a busy man. And he pays Kimmy very well. So well, maybe Josh and Kimmy will find themselves in an excellent situation to make a family in their own home in just a few years . . . Both Josh and Kimmy have demons in their past that want to rise from the ashes and find fuel to make their flames roar again. A long time ago, Devlin Stone had an effect on both of them, and now the awful man is insinuating his way into their lives once more, inch by inch . . .

In a luxury hotel bar, deep in the heart of the city, Kimmy meets with her devilish boss after work. She’s here to deliver the news: their relationship will only be about work. She knows how her boss treated her husband all those years ago. But as truths emerge and philosophies are challenged, Kimmy feels those dark temptations rise . . . The cable holding Kimmy and Josh together has stretched so thin, its strands begin to snap. It’s made of strong things like love and character and trust and truth . . . but Josh’s high school bully—Kimmy’s boss—has them lying not only to each other, but lying to themselves as well . . .

Despite the bad she’s done, there’s one thing Kimmy’s sure of: she loves Josh, and cares for him deeply. So in the aftermath of her sin, Kimmy plans a surprise for her husband. The thing with Devlin is done, and as good as it was, that dark temptation was sated and now needs to be part of her past. She’s going to move forward celebrating the best man in her life. Only, Devlin’s not done with Kimmy, and he has ways of insinuating himself into Kimmy and Josh’s marriage. Kimmy’s even told him some of Josh’s secret fetishes . . . As Josh’s surprise unfolds, Devlin has a surprise of his own . . .

Josh is getting what he wants in Grand Cayman, even if it’s only a dark conjuration. Kimmy’s playing along with his game—a game sparked by his greatest enemy, his high school bully nemesis. But he loves this game . . . There’s a real game being played behind Josh’s back, and the closer the game pieces come to one another, the more exciting it is. Kimmy sees it. Her husband loves the game—he thinks it’s pretend—but the more she convinces him its real, the hotter he gets. Josh might tell himself there’s no way he’d want his fantasies to become realities, but Kimmy’s starting to think she can get her husband to beg for it. She’s going to stake a lot on a frightening gamble.

On vacation in Grand Cayman—an award to Kimmy from her devilish boss and secret paramour—Josh and Kimmy do battle finally and get to the heart of their trouble. A visitor to their tropical villa provides intrigue and tension. But in the disruption, Kimmy sees a path forward. Not just forward, but all around her. A realization illuminates a treacherous trajectory, but one if she really loves her husband she must embark upon. Meanwhile, Josh visits Hell. Not literally, but figuratively; one carnival-like destination adorned with all the trappings of the torturous underworld without the real corporeal pain. But slowly real Hell begins to materialize around him, masked in carnival-like adornment . . .

All through high school, Devlin Stone made Josh Waters’ life miserable in the way only a true bully can. Ten years later, Josh wakes on a groggy morning after his and his wife Kimmy’s high school reunion. There’d been a lakeside rager at the cottage of Dalton High’s most popular girl, and maybe he’d indulged a little too much. What happened last night, anyway? . . . Devlin Stone’s there to tell him. “I did what you wanted, Josh.” What did Josh want? Not that, there was no way in hell he asked for that . . . Devlin says You did, Josh, and now it’s done. I slept with your wife—and I’m going to keep doing it. Kimmy’s too much woman for you, and you just made a deal with the devil . . .

The wild things Josh and Kimmy did in Cayman together are behind them now, but Josh already misses them. He showed his wife some of his darkest fantasies and his wife didn’t flee. No, Kimmy embraced it. He couldn’t be luckier. But . . . what if he didn’t want the fun to end on their Cayman vacation? What if he wanted their wicked game to continue back home? While Josh struggles to shape to Kimmy what it is he wants, Kimmy clears a secret path for Josh. She parts the thorny brush for him, leading him through the brambles of his shameful desires out into glorious light. The glorious light could bathe them both. Josh could have his desires fulfilled and Kimmy could be absolved from her sins. All Kimmy has to do is keep Josh moving, eyes down, and not looking up to see her leading the way.

Josh sees a path forward in this pretend lifestyle he and his wife are playing around in. They’re together in this, and it’s Devlin Stone—his former bully, and his wife’s boss—who is the real outsider. This path is a mature one. One he deserves. Those days of victimhood are behind him. Devlin is his wife’s boss and now a part of his life. High school is years behind him, and Devlin Stone could be a powerful friend and important business ally. He did offer up a night on the town and a private box at the ball game. Josh goes out with Devlin and Devlin’s friends. But Devlin really is his wife’s secret lover—and all that Josh thought was pretend comes into sharper focus as very real and terrifying.