Gambit – Prequel

Gambit: gam-bit noun – (in chess) an opening in which a player makes a sacrifice, typically of a pawn, for the sake of some compensating advantage.
A fall festival, a visit to a fortune teller, and decisions that give Fate the edge it needs to put everything in motion.

Rook – Book One

Grant Foster hasn’t been back to Lakeridge, North Carolina in over a dozen years. Now Wes is dead, and the Club is returning to bury their friend and help figure out who killed him. 

Will coming back heal what’s broken in him, or break him worse than before?

Knight – Book Two

Keeping promises can be deadly.
Chase Payne is on the right track to letting go of his past. He left his job to go back home to hold a promise he fully intended to keep.
This homecoming challenges him in ways he never saw coming.

Bishop – Book Three

For Logan McMann, family was complicated. He’d left Lakeridge, NC when he finished high school and never considered moving back – until his chosen family asked for his help.
Hudson Hayes was brought to NC by Red to heal.
Forced to deal with each other, they soon find that chosen family can fill the empty spaces, and help heal broken hearts.

King – Book Four

Zach worried about bringing trouble home with him when he got back to Lakeridge, NC. He was more comfortable moving than putting down roots, but planting roots is what he finds himself considering as the pieces of the puzzle start to fall into place.
While the Chess Club team works to bring the powerful to justice, Zach has to decide if he’s going to stay, or run once more.

Queen – Book Five

When money and power are up against love and family, who do you think will win? Myke and Maddie are learning how to live together – and work together.
Then an attack on their home brings up old trauma for Maddie and Myke and they will either learn to lean on each other, or walk away.