The Alex Chronicles:Girlfriends & Secrets

By Tracy Reed

Alexandra “Alex” Miller and her best friends are more like sisters. They live by the code that a good girlfriend will stick by you and be honest with you not matter what.

They’ve been friends over twenty years and have seen each other through marriage, divorce, broken engagement, death and other minor crises. But it’s the secrets they’ve failed to trust each other with. Each of them is holding on to a secret they believe could destroy not only their reputation, but their friendship as well.

Alex and her best friends, Chloe, Taylor, Kendell and Dionne all long for one thing, a happy ending. As they’ve gotten older, they’ve discovered, not everyone gets the fairytale happy ending they want, but the reality life has orchestrated for them.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tracy Reed
• Release date: Oct 11, 2015
• ISBN: 9780986293368

Tracy Reed

A California native, novelist Tracy Reed pushes the boundaries of her Christian foundation with her sometimes racy and often fiery tales. After years of living in the Big Apple, this self proclaimed New Yorker draws from the city’s imagination, intrigue, and inspiration to cultivate characters and plot lines who breathe life to the words on every page.  Tracy’s passion for beautiful fashion and beautiful men direct her vivid creative power towards not only novels, but short stories, poetry, and podcasts. With something for every attention span. Tracy Reed’s ability to capture an audience is unmatched. Her body of work has been described as a host of stimulating adventures and invigorating expression.  

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The Alex Chronicles:

GIRLFRIENDS & SECRETS

Copyright © 2015 by Tracy Reed

All rights reserved.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual person, living or dead, business establishments, event or locals is entirely coincidental.

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ISBN-13: 978-0-9862933-5-1

ISBN-10: 0-9862933-5-0

To my first loves

God

Mommy and Dad

Acknowledgements

Thank you to that group of friends who read my first book which was the first draft of this story...Mommy, Selma, Debra, Terryl and Yolanda. Your honest critiquing helped me dig deeper and understand these characters.

This is the series that led me to my friend Michelle Sutton. Her guidance and mentoring has been more valuable then she will ever know.

My friend Rachele Turner, I miss your quiet voice and honest observation.

Table of Contents

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ALEX

CHLOE

TAYLOR

DIONNE

KENDELL

ALEX

EXCERPT: What My Friends Don't Know

EXCERPT: Generational Curse

EXCERPT: The Good Girl

TRACY'S OTHER BOOKS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Tracy is a woman who loves God, Cute Guys and Fashion. Sometimes those last two things fight for second place, when there’s a great designer sale.

She calls herself a partial New Yorker due to the two and half years she lived there. She refers to her books as Edgy Christian Fiction with real characters in real life situations. Like her characters, she’s a small business owner waiting on that one cute guy, who loves God and understands her love of fashion.

To learn more about Tracy and her books go to:

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who are we…

ALEX

MY NAME IS ALEXANDRA SIMONE Miller and I am a fashion addict. Isn’t that how they make you introduce yourself at those addiction anonymous support group meetings? At least that’s what I’ve heard. I tried kicking the fashion habit, but it’s a little difficult when there are so many talented dealers, I mean designers tempting me. I know somewhere there has to be a support group for people like me. I think it meets at Neiman's or Barneys. I heard a rumor that if you’re really bad they sentence you to aversion therapy at Bergdorf’s…I wish.

So the last thing a person like me should do is own a boutique. Fashion is a drug and not only am I a junkie, I’m also a dealer and the base of my operation is my boutique, Alex Simone.

Alex Simone is my baby. It’s a place where women come to escape and fantasize. We encourage women to try things on, because that usually leads to buying. Shopping at one of my boutiques is like playing dress up in the ultimate fantasy closet, complete with designer ready-to-wear and vintage couture.

Not only am I a fashion addict, I’m also a borderline workaholic. I say borderline, because I do manage to eek out time to spend with my friends.

My girlfriends are like family. People always ask how we met. I think that’s the one thing we haven’t been able to agree on.

Let’s see. Taylor is my cousin on my dad’s side. She and I have always been close. She’s really more like an older sister. I think we have shared secrets none of the other girls know about. But there’s that one thing that happened in Paris. I think I didn’t tell her because I knew she would have been disappointed in me.

Anyway…she was going to school in Atlanta and she said I’d like it. Not only because it was crawling with good looking guys, but because it had a great liberal arts program. To be honest, I needed to get out of the city. A dose of Southern living was a welcome change. So I applied and got in. That’s where I met Chloe.

Chloe was a typical rich girl on the verge of being cut off. School in the south was the last straw. She and Taylor were roommates. I don’t know who thought it was a good idea to put them together. Then again, it was probably for the best.

When I went for my college tour, the two of them had me running around town. I don’t think I

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