June 7, 2024

Curls & Chaos - Chapter One

For the Reader:
Curls & Chaos was volume 18 in the Heels, Rhymes, and Nursery Crimes series collection. Each story is based off of a nursery rhyme - with a twist. Must be a woman criminal - must be a romance of some flavor.

This is the nursery rhyme I twisted -

There was a pretty girl
who had a little curl
right in the middle of her forehead
When she was good, she delivered - understood?
But when she was bad, she was busted.

Welcome to Nursery Crimes, where tales are twisted and happily ever-afters are not always guaranteed....

Description:
Rizzo Maldonado was an unusually adept hacker. Then again, Technomancy was a relatively unknown power, and unless you were into superhero comics or roleplaying games, you wouldn't know it existed.

Everything's going great until Rizzo's new mystery client has her hacking into the wrong system. The worst kind of people take notice and Rizzo's about to lose her hard-won freedom, until Blake Nolan steps up and helps her take a different path.

For someone who's avoided trusting or needing anyone else, Rizzo now has to make a hard choice. Will she open her heart and take a chance on Blake? Or will she risk it all - including her freedom?

Chapter One

Rizzo leaned back in her desk chair and watched the activity on her monitors. Carl Wallace was probably freaking out right about now, but that’s the cost of being an asshole. Rizzo’s client, Carl’s last girlfriend, had paid handsomely to get all of the videos and pictures deleted from his computer and his cloud accounts. Seems Carl liked to take sex videos and photos without his partner’s permission, then blackmail them when they decided he was too creepy to continue dating. Unfortunately for Carl, his last girlfriend had the knowledge and resources to hire Rizzo. Also unfortunate for Carl was Carl’s paranoia that kept him from keeping copies anywhere except the cloud, so everything would be gone in the next twenty minutes or so. Forever.