Pretty Dumb Intellectual
Book One — the novel that started it all.
Smart in business, clueless in love — Lyric Anderson's world is about to crash down.
Reading order — Start here. Book 1 of the Pretty Dumb Intellectual series.
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Lyric Anderson is smart, ambitious, and driven when it comes to her career — but when it comes to love, she's always a step behind. She knows better than to be caught up with a street king, yet the lifestyle keeps finding her anyway.
When her first love, Brian "Blue" Williams, re-enters her life, and her closest friend Samantha's jealousy boils over, Lyric's world unravels into a tangled web of lies, betrayal, and choices she never saw coming.
A story about the women who refuse to choose between being brilliant and being wanted — and what it costs them when the world insists they pick one.
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Chapter One.
The first thing Lyric noticed about him, after all these years, was that he still smelled like trouble dressed in cologne.
She had spent the better part of a decade getting good at things her mother said women like her weren't supposed to be good at — contracts, negotiations, walking into a room and making it quiet. And then Blue Williams walked back in, and every degree on her wall went soft at the edges.
"You look the same," he said.
She didn't. She knew she didn't. But she let him think it.
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Praise for Pretty Dumb Intellectual.
"I could not put this book down. Trinity writes women like she's lived inside them."
— Early Reader
"Lyric is the heroine urban fiction has been waiting for."
— Book Club Reviewer
"Sharp, sensual, and devastating in the best way."
— Goodreads Reader
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