Books — Desiree Moodie
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Stories that refuse to leave you alone.

The Series

The De León Dynasty

A Brooklyn crime family, a banker with a buried past, and a love story written in debts that don't die. S.A. Cosby meets Kennedy Ryan — slow-burn tension, morally gray antiheroes, and a dynasty willing to burn the city down to protect its own.

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Book One

Crimson

Launching September 2026

Twelve years of silence. One photograph. And the most dangerous man in Brooklyn standing between her and the past.

Jade Monroe built her life on rules — because rules keep you alive. So when someone from her father's past resurfaces, demanding payment for debts she never owed, she does what she's always done: she handles it alone. Until Cristóbal "Crimson" De León makes that impossible.

He offers her the one thing no one ever has — protection. The cost? Letting him in. And for a man who's made control his religion, protecting Jade means breaking every rule he's ever lived by.

Slow Burn Morally Gray Antihero Protector Romance Dangerous Secrets
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Jade

Book Two · October 2026

Her story isn't over. Neither is his.

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Smoke

Book Three · November 2026

Every empire leaves something burning.

Free Serialized Fiction

Exodus

A Dystopian Thriller · Season Zero Now Available

In a fractured America ruled by the Dominion, two sisters survive on opposite ends of a burning country. Adira, a journalist, moves west through the lawless border zones, trying to outrun a regime that wants her silenced. Zara, a safehouse operator, holds the door open for refugees in Tennessee — until the Watchman's militia sets her city on fire.

Separated by three hundred miles and the fog of war, each believes the other might be dead. Each refuses to stop moving.

Exodus is a dystopian thriller about the mathematics of survival and the things that break them. About the stories we tell ourselves to keep going, and the ones we choose to believe. About two sisters walking into darkness — one toward the other, one toward survival — neither knowing if the other is alive.

There is no freedom without each other.
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The Backlist

Where It Started

Before the Dynasty, there were other dark corners worth getting lost in.

The White Rabbit Trilogy

White Rabbit

Smart, twisty psychological thrillers that pull you down the rabbit hole and don't let you climb back out the way you came. The series that started it all.

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Stone Morgan Investigations

Cat Scratch Fever

1980s New York City. A hard-boiled private detective with a sharp tongue and sharper instincts. Noir the way it was meant to be — neon, secrets, and trouble in a red dress.

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Standalone Thriller

The Perfect Mother

A psychological thriller about the masks we wear and the lengths we go to keep them on. Because the most dangerous lies are the ones we tell about the people we love.

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