Lip Service (Reader's Choice Book 14)

Good girl Kayla is about to get in touch with her dark side and when one says dark, one means practically gothic.

Kayla is a church girl and not just any church girl, but one who spends as much free time as she can helping Reverend Herb out with stuff around the church. Of course trust her luck to leave her alone at the mall when Reverend Herb gets an emergency call to head over to the hospital.

Having been gathering books for the children's library, now Kayla has been left alone, to be picked up later by the good reverend. While a mall might seem like heaven to most eighteen year olds, Kayla is a different sort of girl with different priorities.

She isn't comfortable in the crowds but most of all wearing what she wore, old clothes for some work at the church, clothes that she feels pinch and make her a bit too exposed to the many leering eyes of mall patrons. Heading into a store to browse some clothing, Kayla quickly gets sucked in by the sales pitch and is soon allowing a girl to apply some sample lipstick to her. The bold dark burgundy is much too strong for Kayla's tastes but for some reason she finds herself opening up, thinking differently about the look it gives her.

In no time, Kayla has purchased a new wardrobe, leaving her old clothes behind and heading off into the mall with her thoughts slowly diminishing down to one thing, embracing this new lifestyle.

From language to posture, everything changes for Kayla, and old friends and the good reverend will find that some good church girls can pay much more than just lip service to being truly naughty.

Readers choice month approaches the end but still manages to offer new dark twists, this time with a gothic flair.