From a psychologist writing dark romance.....
One woman. Millions of crowd-sourced secrets. A hook-up app built on anonymity and the devastating power of what people confess in the dark. Frances didn't build it to play fair: she built it to collect what men owe. When it starts crumbling from the inside, she'll have to decide how far she'll go to protect her weapon and the women who use it. Dark, explicit, and unapologetically ruthless.
Frances doesn't trust systems: she exploits them. Adopted at ten by a powerful politician for optics, not love, she learned early what men with power actually want from women without it. After years of watching, learning, and waiting until she knew exactly how to make them pay, she built Clicqk, a crowd-sourced secrets app that turns blackmail into a scalable business model.
But Frances didn't build Clicqk just for profit. She had a vision. A world where women like her, women who were once exploited, can monetize pleasure on their own terms.
But ambition has a way of outgrowing its original design. When Frances gets funding from Chastity, a driven venture capitalist willing to risk her engagement and her future on a covert investment, what starts as a financial partnership becomes something more volatile. Chastity doesn't just write the check. She rewrites the blueprint, pushing Clicqk toward bigger targets. Deeper secrets. The kind of men who have never been made to pay.
When Chastity's former fianc� Rowan is secretly activated in the app to harvest his elite connections, everything starts to unravel. Code breaches surface. Payments vanish. Users' locations leak. And worse yet, Chastity wants out, distracted by the one thing Frances has never had use for: a man worth losing everything over.
Retreating to a safe house, Frances crosses paths with Cash, an adult-streaming mogul running his own shadow investigation into his sister's death. His off-grid instincts cut through her data-driven world. Together they trace the chaos back to a source no one saw coming.
Clicqk has been hijacked. And whoever controls it now controls Frances.
To survive, she'll have to decide which truths to weaponize, which loyalties to burn, and how to stop her own creation from finishing her off.
Frances didn't build Clicqk to survive. She built it to win. And she's not done yet.
Edwards, Bex: - Bex Edwards is a psychologist writing dark romantic thrillers that explore the intersection of technology, power, obsession, and human behavior. Drawing on her background in psychology, she creates fast-paced stories that spark conversation, each filled with morally complex characters, high-stakes relationships, and the consequences of secrets kept in a digital world. She lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, where she can often be found plotting her next twist, analyzing fictional characters, and consuming entirely too much coffee. Bex travels frequently, and weaves her journeys into her plots. Terms and Conditions is her debut novel, the first in a trilogy. The novel's short-read prequels are also available.
