author - "S. Heald"
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Ellie Marie is just a normal southern girl, minus the fact that shes a body guard and contract killer who lives with her crazy Aunt Betty who practices witchcraft and lives on the Louisiana Bayou. Ellie is still trying to find her place on the swamp through every late night clean up in New Orleans and through her rocky emotional state of unsteady relationships, male or female. So she does what she knows best as she paves the road...
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I don’t know why some women stay... but I know why I did. Even through the black eyes and torture, I still had loved him, or the thought of him. But love is a tricky thing that can turn to hate very easily if pushed too far. The question is which of the two emotions outweighs the other.... In my case, hate won.
![](/uploads/posts/books/7/2/1/8/s-heald-secrets-on-the-bayou.jpg)
Ellie Marie is just a normal southern girl, minus the fact that shes a body guard and contract killer who lives with her crazy Aunt Betty who practices witchcraft and lives on the Louisiana Bayou. Ellie is still trying to find her place on the swamp through every late night clean up in New Orleans and through her rocky emotional state of unsteady relationships, male or female. So she does what she knows best as she paves the road...
![](/uploads/posts/books/2/4/7/4/s-heald-the-wrath-of-a-beaten-woman.jpg)
I don’t know why some women stay... but I know why I did. Even through the black eyes and torture, I still had loved him, or the thought of him. But love is a tricky thing that can turn to hate very easily if pushed too far. The question is which of the two emotions outweighs the other.... In my case, hate won.