Twisted Truths: A Dark Romantic Suspense with Cult Themes by JL Skye

When falling in love with the enemy distorts everything you thought you knew.

I never thought that at 24 I’d have to put my NBA dreams on hold and return to the hometown I’d left and never looked back on. But I also never thought I’d be burying my family at 24, either.

Barrenridge is a town that is full of dark and painful memories for me, but when my sister is accused of murdering our family, and then taking her own life only hours after escaping the Sunfire Circle cult, I have no choice but to return to this place, to clear her name.

With the help of my half-brother, I have just one objective: to bring down the cult for good. They’ve taken so much from me, and now it’s time for them to pay. Even if it means working with the enemy to expose the evil lurking at the heart of the cult that took my family from me.

As we unravel the twisted truths that don’t just expose the cult, but the darkness lurking within Barrenridge, too, I’m faced with an impossible choice: seek justice for my sister? Or save the girl I’m falling for from a similar fate?

The Sunburnt Hearts series follows a group of high school graduates from Barrenridge—a small, one-way in, one-way out town three hours west of Sydney—six years after finishing school. Some have returned to the small town, some are only just escaping for bigger and better things. One thing is for sure, despite being a typical farming community with an old goldmine, the town harbours more than just dust and secrets. Beneath its quiet surface simmers long-forgotten feuds, forbidden love and the kind of heartbreak that never truly heals.

The series follows the lives of a sports physio who gets a job with an NRL team, a Supercars driver, an NBA basketballer, an artist, the police chief’s daughter, and a DV survivor running from her past.

The titles in this series are: Prove Me Wrong, Unwritten Rules, Twisted Truths, Beautiful Ruins, No Strings, and Off Limits. Each book can be read as a stand alone, but you will find cameos from characters within each of the stories.