In Rumor, Tennessee, the Crowne women are at the center of every whisper-- a source of fantasies and dealers of fate. Whiskey is their poison and karmic retribution is their motive.

I've been surviving as the youngest sister by playing the supporting role. I never leave my small town and clean up after my chaotic family. But on my birthday, I flip the right Tarot card and shake the Magic 8 Ball. Next thing I know, I'm crashing a private party, stealing a motorcycle, and caught up in a scandal that follows me home.

Rhodes Donovan is more than the sexy stranger I kissed while pretending to be someone else. He's an arrogant billionaire with a bad reputation, buying up pieces of my small town, and impatiently demanding that I return what I took from him. I don't trust him, the same way he shouldn't trust me, but soon the line between flirtatious threats and convenient blackmail starts to bleed into something far more dangerous.

Between my anonymous livestreams, a missing cop, a murder, and the scandals closing in on us, the last thing I should be thinking about is all the ways I enjoy his lips and hands all over me. But when his secrets collide with everything I thought I knew about my family, it's his scandals and our whiskey that'll save us.