Joy Outlaw

Pretty Little Mess Joy Outlaw

She's a madcap adventurer at heart (sprinkled with a dash of mercenary and a heap of naiveté) who goes on thrilling international adventures, stares death in the face, and barely makes it out unscathed. She's wild and wildly conflicted, but at first glance, you may not be able to tell. That's because the decidedly unlucky Jane Luck is like a duck gliding on water, and on the surface it looks like she's paddling toward a bright future with focus and ease. The daughter of well-meaning but troubled parents who struggle with violence, addiction and infidelity, Jane leaves home to pursue her lifelong dream to study architecture in the city of purported brotherly love, Philadelphia. However, 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 whose staunch religious beliefs are a grounding force, but also 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 an escapade in Bermuda, a perfect storm of burnout, self-doubt, religious guilt, youthful sexuality, and the obsession of a deranged kidnapper, could send her over the edge.