Pretty Little Mess: A Jane Luck Adventure (The Jane Luck Adventures)

Saintly or sinful? Savage or sublime? Kind or a killer? Jane Luck has no clue what she’s capable of. She’s a heady, intrepid free spirit exploring life as a worldly new woman while molting out of the skin of a reserved, pious girl.The daughter of well-meaning but troubled parents who struggle with violence, addiction, and infidelity, Jane leaves home - against her parents’ wishes - to pursue her lifelong dream in the city. The elements of her past which travel with her almost cause her complete undoing.In this first installment in THE JANE LUCK ADVENTURES series, we find a floundering young college student who’s beliefs are a grounding force and a source of constant angst as she struggles to reconcile them with her humanity. When she gets a rare opportunity to cast off her cares during a respite in an island paradise, a perfect storm of burnout, youthful sexuality, and the obsession of a deranged kidnapper, threatens to send her over the edge.Jane emerges a little wiser, having revealed a mercenary streak within her which has the ability to save and destroy. It will come in handy, because she has no idea that her most harrowing and mind-blowing adventures are yet to come.

Georgia-born and Virginia-bred, Joy Outlaw is currently making a life in the mid-Atlantic U.S. region with two fascinating tweens who call her "mom". She's a writer for hire with a slew of creative endeavors and career attempts trailing after her, and she's picked up some intriguing titles along the way - Mystic Muse, Scribbling Sphinx, Wondering Woman, Nightshift Novelist. The evolution continues.