Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bright Like Wildfire | 2022 | Juliette Cross | Buy |
| 2 | Secrets at Sunset | 2022 | Juliette Cross | N/A |
Beauville gives Juliette Cross a chance to work in a purely contemporary register, away from the witches and dragons of her paranormal catalog. The series is set in a small Louisiana town where the close-knit community provides both the backdrop and the complications for the central romance. Bright Like Wildfire, the first book, came out in 2022.
The duet format keeps the story contained to two books, which suits the small-town setting. Cross uses the community itself as a kind of character: gossip, local history, and familiar faces all shape how the central couple’s relationship unfolds. It reads as lighter fare compared to her darker paranormal work, with the heat of a Louisiana summer standing in for supernatural tension.