Falling Castles #3
Falling Castles #3
AMID SECRETS
Some secrets are meant to be told. Others never should.
The four years since William Castle’s death have been a rollercoaster ride for Alex Castle and Tyler Falling. In the beginning, they soared as life partners and business owners. Then the worldwide economy crashed, and so did their idyllic life. Alex has spent every waking hour since to keep Castle Resorts afloat, letting her relationship with Tyler take a backseat.
Just when Alex and Tyler commit to getting back on track, decades-old dark secrets surrounding a scandalous affair, rape, abandonment, and confidential adoptions come to light. Someone in the Castle family’s past with a deep grudge holds the oldest secret of them all and intends on exacting revenge.
The tsunami of secrets converges and threatens to tear apart their families and tear down the businesses of every Castle child. No one close to Alex and Tyler is left untouched. Can Alex and Tyler pull each other through? Will their love be enough to keep everything they’d built from coming undone?
Published: February 2023
Series Titles
Falling Castles Series
From the Author
The first two Falling Castle books left many of my characters with deeply held secrets, some for sinister reasons and some for the sake of love. So, the third installment, Amid Secrets, was inevitable. Those skeletons, ranging from uncomfortable to life-shattering, had to come out. The tricky part was intertwining them and then revealing each one in a logical order.
Like Despite Chaos and Blind Suspicion, this book started as an alternative universe fanfiction story based loosely on Showtime’s The L Word. Bette and Tina became Alex and Tyler. Kit became Syd. Peggy and Helena Peabody became Abby and Harley Spencer. And in this story, Lara Perkins becomes Lara Prescott. Abby and Lara are the only characters that resemble their inspiration from the original television series. The others took on different jobs, personalities, and family circumstances.
When I finished drafting this story in its original fanfiction form in 2017, I cried and cried and cried. This was the third book in my first series, and I had no intention of writing anything more. I’d lived in the world I’d created for a year, and it was like saying a final goodbye to old friends. Then, in 2020, when I cracked open those original stories to revise them, I got to reminisce for an entire year. The new world I’ve created for my old friends is so much better and more emotional than I’d originally envisioned. And when I typed the last words in Amid Secrets, I didn’t cry this time. I decided right then not to let go of this world. I plan to revisit it again.
– Stacy Lynn Miller