Title: Something Complicated

Series: Dirty Southern Secrets #1

Author: J.L. Leslie

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: May 7, 2019

I thought I had it all. I lived in the perfect small town in Alabama. I married my high school sweetheart. We were expecting our first child together. Everything was falling into place. 

Until it wasn’t.

Life gets complicated sometimes. You can be happily married one minute and divorced the next. You can become a single father to a newborn baby when that was never in your plans. 

You can fall for your ex-wife’s best friend. 

Yes, life gets complicated. Sometimes it takes something complicated to make everything else fall into place again. 

*𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬. 𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞, 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥-𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐡 𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥. 𝐈𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐱𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬. 𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲.*

I am a happily married mother of three (two boys and one girl). I live in a very small town in Alabama. Never lived anywhere else. I’ve been writing since my early twenties, but I couldn’t seem to finish a book. I started self-publishing with the encouragement from my mom. Without her encouragement, I don’t think I would’ve done it!

I get my inspiration from life experiences, movies, television, other authors, and music. Music is definitely a big influence on my writing. I can hear a song and it can inspire an entire book for me. I listen to it while I’m driving or before I start writing and it keeps me inspired. I like to put music in my books, even if it’s just one song the characters listen to or hear at some point. Sometimes music has gotten me through the really tough times in my life and that’s why it inspires me.

I like to write fast-paced, steamy romance reads. I like for my males to be alpha-males and my heroines to be strong, but both need to have one weakness- each other. I am an avid reader. I absolutely love romance books!

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Something Complicated is book one in the Dirty Southern Secrets series and I couldn’t think of a better title for this book. You get complications, chemistry, small town nosy bodies, amazing characters (well okay some of them haha) and true to reality. Your heart is full of emotions reading this story and at times you want to shake some characters with their actions. It’s sad to say in this day in age that our society still treats people like this. 

Kaler and Jenna have a past (as friends) and with events that occurred their friendship frayed over the years and you will see why. Kaler believed he had it all until life through him some lemons. I love how he handled this though, it’s not easy being a single parent and he chose to give Willow the best life he could. Speaking of Willow, she will have you caving to want she wants, and she is so cute. You will love all the characters (ok maybe not and you will see why) but she will become one of your favorites. 

Jenna truly has some complications when she lands a new job as the kindergarten teacher. How do you stay true to one without hurting another? That’s a tough one and I love the way this played out. It could have gone so much differently especially in this small town and I’ll have to say it was very grown up on how this played out. 

This book has so many emotions and it truly can be related to reality. I love how the author explored some subjects as we don’t see this as much and I loved it. Just reminds me that I’m glad I don’t live in a small town. It is quite funny though especially weekend life. I am excited to see where the next story in this series is headed.