Some families keep secrets. This one keeps files.
The Unholy Creed Series by James E. Lorraine & Scott/Ashdown novels by Angela. R. Key
The Saint of Nothing
Rebecca DeSaint survived what should have destroyed her.
The men who built their power on ruined girls, buried records, bought silence, and called it medicine expected her to stay broken. Quiet. Ashamed. Disposable.
They were wrong.
Now Rebecca is turning herself into something far more dangerous than a victim. She is becoming a reckoning. A whispered name in back rooms. A public threat to private monsters. A force aimed straight at the rich, protected men who thought their money could keep the truth buried forever.
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The Apostle of Ruin
Rebecca DeSaint came to Chicago to do clean work in dirty rooms.
After New York, she was supposed to stay in the daylight. Read the money. Protect the programs. Expose the rot before it swallowed the people who needed help most.
But Chicago has its own kind of evil.
Inside polished boardrooms, donor foundations, women’s shelters, youth programs, and private finance corridors, money is moving through names that should not connect: Blueframe. Kestrel. Marwick. Each trail leads to another shell, another lie, another body dropped just before Rebecca can get the answer she needs.
Someone is watching her work.
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The Lies We Inherit
Elise Scott did not inherit a grieving family. She inherited a machine.
Behind the polished walls of Scott wealth lies something colder than scandal and far more dangerous than money: a private architecture of leverage, buried truths, coerced silence, and bloodline rot passed down through generations. What begins as inheritance quickly becomes initiation when Elise uncovers the hidden system her father spent a lifetime curating, one designed not simply to protect the powerful, but to control them.
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About the Author - James E. Lorraine
James E. Lorraine is fascinated by appetite. Not simply hunger for money or power, but the quieter appetites people are better at disguising: the need to be chosen, to win, to control the room, to keep the relationship, to have the last word, or to possess the one thing good judgment says to leave alone.
He writes people who are accomplished enough to believe they can manage the consequences, then gives them something they want badly enough to test that belief. His stories move through boardrooms, bedrooms, churches, marriages, and spectacular romantic disasters, because he is less interested in genre boundaries than in what happens when desire collides with self-control.
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About the Author - Angela R. Key
Angela R. Key is fascinated by the stories families teach themselves to believe. The polished version. The inherited version. The version repeated so many times that questioning it begins to feel like betrayal.
She writes psychological suspense about memory, inheritance, identity, power, and the evidence people leave behind when they try to control the truth. Her stories are populated by families with archives, institutions with long memories, houses that seem to know more than their occupants, and women forced to decide whether what they were told matters more than what they can prove. Her interest is not simply in secrets. It is in who benefits from keeping them. Explore Angela R. Key →