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Joy. 
    
    Meaning? A great pleasure or happiness. 
    
    For Joy DeVries, her great pleasure comes hand-wrapped with secrets and murder. 
    
    Joy DeVries grew up a childhood star, and it came with as much baggage and scars as one would imagine. Nowadays, she's known as Joy Daisy, a kids show TV legend, and that's all she'd prefer people to see. If they look any closer, they might get a glimpse of the lust-driven, alcohol-consuming, unhinged woman she really is. 
    
    However, Detective Colin Rooker is determined to get to know the woman behind the make-up and frills. He's taken with her, and she's intrigued by him. The only catch to this whirlwind romance? 
    
    Detective Rooker is chasing a serial killer. 
    
    And she's closer than he thinks.
    
    ***
    February 2021 Wattpad Editor's Pick!
    
    Open Novella Contest III Accolades:
    
    *Chosen as an Ambassador's Pick in Round 1!*
    *Round Two Winner!*
    
    Round 1 Milestone: Chapter three
    Round 2 Milestone: Chapter eleven
    Round 3 Milestone: Chapter twenty-one
    
    ***
    
    My entry for the Open Novella Contest III. Prompt #4. Because sometimes when I set out to write a nice fluffy contemporary romance... this happens.
    
    CONTENT WARNING: Mature rating for sexual situations, drug use, violence, murder, death, gore... **BLANKET TRIGGER WARNING** If you're offended or triggered by anything, ever, then you probably shouldn't be reading this.All Rights Reserved

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Joy. 
    
    Meaning? A great pleasure or happiness. 
    
    For Joy DeVries, her great pleasure comes hand-wrapped with secrets and murder. 
    
    Joy DeVries grew up a childhood star, and it came with as much baggage and scars as one would imagine. Nowadays, she's known as Joy Daisy, a kids show TV legend, and that's all she'd prefer people to see. If they look any closer, they might get a glimpse of the lust-driven, alcohol-consuming, unhinged woman she really is. 
    
    However, Detective Colin Rooker is determined to get to know the woman behind the make-up and frills. He's taken with her, and she's intrigued by him. The only catch to this whirlwind romance? 
    
    Detective Rooker is chasing a serial killer. 
    
    And she's closer than he thinks.
    
    ***
    February 2021 Wattpad Editor's Pick!
    
    Open Novella Contest III Accolades:
    
    *Chosen as an Ambassador's Pick in Round 1!*
    *Round Two Winner!*
    
    Round 1 Milestone: Chapter three
    Round 2 Milestone: Chapter eleven
    Round 3 Milestone: Chapter twenty-one
    
    ***
    
    My entry for the Open Novella Contest III. Prompt #4. Because sometimes when I set out to write a nice fluffy contemporary romance... this happens.
    
    CONTENT WARNING: Mature rating for sexual situations, drug use, violence, murder, death, gore... **BLANKET TRIGGER WARNING** If you're offended or triggered by anything, ever, then you probably shouldn't be reading this.

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