THE HOA Book Series

By Tanya Smith

Book One: Vellamar

Vellamar Estates is the kind of neighborhood where the lawns are always perfect and the neighbors always wave. The kind of place where you pay a little extra for peace of mind, for safety, for the comfort of knowing that someone is looking out for you.

Someone is. That's the problem.

Behind the gates, four families are keeping secrets — the kind that could destroy careers, marriages, and lives. A dental student living a second life after dark to keep her daughter in school. An NFL star gambling away everything he built to prove his father wrong. A landscaper washing cartel cash to pay for the oxygen his grandmother breathes. A married couple whose only violation is existing where they aren't wanted.

They came to Vellamar to build something. To protect what matters. To finally breathe.

But the man who installed their security systems kept the keys. There are cameras in the smoke detectors and the picture frames. Files on every resident since the day they moved in. And an understanding that the best leverage isn't money — it's shame.

The violation notices are just the pressure. The real business is what people will pay to keep buried — and everyone pays alone, because everyone believes they're the only one.

Now the families of Vellamar must decide what they're willing to lose to protect what they've hidden — without knowing who's watching, who's listening, or who among them can still be trusted.

Some neighborhoods have rules. Vellamar has leverage. And once you're inside, getting out costs more than getting in.

For the paranoid, you were right.

Book Two: Dunmore Isles

The gates will change. The watching won't.

Not everyone who left Vellamar stayed gone.

Coming soon.

READ CHAPTER 1

Audiobook narrated by Robin Miles