Publication Date: December 27, 2022
“A dark and riveting page-turner with an intelligent twist.” —Nadine Matheson, author of The Jigsaw Man
SOMEONE HAD TO MAKE HIM PAY. SOMEONE HAD TO TAKE HER DOWN.
Brandi Maxwell is living the dream as an intern at prestigious New York fashion house Simon Van Doren. Except “living the dream” looks more like scrubbing puke from couture dresses worn by hard-partying models and putting up with microaggressions from her white colleagues. Still, she can’t help but fangirl over Simon’s it-girl daughter, Taylor. Until one night, at a glamorous Van Doren party, when Brandi overhears something she shouldn’t have, and her fate becomes dangerously intertwined Taylor’s.
Model and influencer Taylor Van Doren has everything…and is this close to losing it all. Her fashion mogul father will donate her inheritance to charity if she fails her next drug test, and he’s about to marry someone nearly as young as Taylor, further threatening her stake in the family fortune. But Taylor deserves the money that’s rightfully hers. And she’ll go to any lengths to get it, even if that means sacrificing her famous father in the process.
All she needs is the perfect person to take the fall…
An overheard conversation leads to unexpected consequences in Someone Had To Do It by Amber and Danielle Brown.
Brandi Maxwell yearns to be part of the fashion industry and shed her difficult past. However, she knows challenges are likely given her skin color. Brandi is on a collision course with Taylor Van Doren, whose father runs a prestigious fashion house.
Told in alternating viewpoints, readers get a comprehensive look inside Taylor’s carefully crafted exterior. On the brink of losing her inheritance because of repeated drug use, she is desperate to outsmart her father. In doing so, Brandi becomes the perfect scapegoat.
The authors craft a perfect crime with all indicators pointing to Brandi. From emails to photos, police have plenty of evidence that Brandi is a scorned lover seeking revenge. All Brandi needs is a clue that she can use to scratch away at Taylor’s facade.
The characters provide an excellent contrast between the haves and the have-nots. Yet it is the product of a difficult upbringing who shows true grit when faced with adversity.
Full of twists and turns amidst a backdrop of fashion and glamour, Someone Had To Do It delivers a pulse-pounding thriller.
We both graduated with Communication/PR degrees from Rider University where we wrote and sat on the editorial staff for the On Fire!! Literary Journal. We then pursued a career in fashion and spent five years in NYC working our way up from interns to assistants to managing our own popular fashion + lifestyle blog.
Amber is also a screenwriter, so we currently live in Los Angeles, which works out perfectly so Danielle can spoil her 30 (and counting!) plant babies with copious amounts of sunshine.
Our debut novel with Graydon House, SOMEONE HAD TO DO IT, is available for preorder now.
You can follow Amber (@ambersharelle) and Danielle (@dani_nicbrown) on Twitter.
