THE SWAMP FOX MOTEL
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Southern suspense
90,960 words
The Swamp Fox Motel is a Southern suspense woven with dark romance, emotional nuance, and an eccentric cast of characters navigating life in a small town that wants to forget its past.
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With 1.5 murders, expect a twist at the end à la Freida McFadden.
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Following her mother's untimely death, Cypress Fox must renovate her mother's hippie motel before it is demolished.
Recovering from an abusive marriage and her recent loss, Cypress finds strength in her community, a group of LGBTQ+ youth, however, old habits die hard, and Cypress is drawn into the intense romantic advances of a stranger who offers his help, and his love.
In a town where prejudice runs deep and progress means erasure, Cypress is plagued by unseen attacks and supposed accidents. Someone wants her gone, but the question is who. When she learns of her lover's secret, she begins to suspect the worst.
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They say you can’t come home again, but Cypress did, and it nearly killed her.
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Small town Francis, South Carolina, never took too kindly to the Swamp Fox Motel, infamous for its hippies and homosexuals. Cypress's mother was both. Raised in the fray of counter-culture chaos, Cypress moved out the day she turned eighteen and never looked back, until ten years later when she learned of her mother's sudden death.
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Cypress was hoping for a fresh start, escaping her broken marriage to come back home. She thought it would be easy to pick up where she left off, but broken windows and veiled threats weren't the welcome she expected.
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Despite the hidden hostility, she is not alone in her struggles. Prim, proper, women, hard-living old men, and a gaggle of queer youth all offer their own flavor of Southern hospitality to Cypress as she fights to save her childhood home.
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Somehow, she must find herself amongst the rubble. First, she finds Frank. When he offers his help, and his love, how could Cypress resist?