“Leah McClure writes with such honesty and clarity. She brings you inside and you get all wrapped up.”
— Tamiko McArthur, Reader
Fatal Reversal - Out Now!
Two young women full of promise decided to trade in their mundane lives at college for a titillating adventure amongst Washington DC’s elite. They had grown tired of long days in class followed by unfulfilling part-time jobs and sophomoric day drinks before football games.
Consorting with a more mature, affluent crowd should have been easy enough for best friends Elodie Moreau and Diem Weppler. But their beauty, sex appeal and wit would place them right in the path of a duplicitous admirer, a hate filled man whose good looks and charm hid an evil persona
A provocative idea that Elodie proposed to Diem over dinner would set into motion a kidnapping, two murders and a horrific disruption leaving two families broken, betrayed and forever changed.
Rage and Innocence
Jolene Mitchell grew up in a small town in Florida, the isolated and only child in a home rife with secrets. She was raised by an alcoholic mother and an abusive, emotionally absent father. As she matured, her psyche was troubled by feelings of being broken and missing fragments of her life. Her fathers unexplained death compounded this feeling and led to a strained relationship with her mother, who failed to fill in the missing pieces she yearned for. She married, hoping it would satisfy her longing for love and security, but her husband’s untimely murder spiraled her into the revelation that her fears were intertwined with her undiscovered truths.
Cameron Johnson was an up-and-coming journalist from New Jersey whose life journey in some ways paralleled Jolene’s. They were the same age, and she was also raised as an only child. Her career ambitions will bring her crashing into Jolene’s life when she finds discrepancies in a years-old date rape story that involved Jolene. And as she digs deeper into Jolene’s past, their lives, now bound by a search for the truth, collide and the two are forever changed. Cameron must face the ultimate truth about Jolene, one that she unintentionally tainted and that leaves anguish in its wake. Each has a hand in the other’s fate, but only one of them has the chance to tell the story.
And a House with a White Picket Fence
Taylor Wayland’s cozy happiness with her husband Joseph and their three children wasn’t the only thing going well in her life. She had a beautiful home, longstanding friendships, good health and prosperity, all of which made her life seem picturesque. Despite this idyllic existence, she harbors a selfish passion to fill a void. In search of what she sees as a deeper sense of self, she gives in to her lust for an old flame, her husband’s best friend. At the height of their indiscretions, their tryst is revealed during a dinner party, but is immediately overshadowed by a shocking misfortune involving another friend in the group.
The reader is taken on Taylor’s selfish journey of exploration. We watch as she masks her indiscretions while grievously hurting everyone in their inner circle. Taylor’s betrayals intertwine with her evolution as a wife, a friend and an uninhibited lover, and she eventually reaches a hard-won outcome. Her search for a perfect life travels along a broken and imperfect road, and to achieve this life she loses as much as she gains.
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt