Victoria Wilder is a USA Today bestselling author of contemporary romance, known for small-town settings, sharp banter, and heat-forward love stories with a thread of suspense running through them. She writes fiercely independent heroines and the guarded, loyal men who fall hard for them, favoring plots where a simmering attraction shares the page with a mystery, a buried family secret, or a threat closing in. She reached a wide audience with The Bourbon Boys, a trilogy set in the fictional town...
Bourbon & Lies
Bourbon & Lies
Synopsis
In Fiasco, Kentucky, the whole town knows the rule about the Foxx brothers: never fall for one, because every woman who has ended up dead. The family calls it a curse. Grant Foxx calls it the reason he left police work and buried himself in the family bourbon distillery, swearing off the kind of love that already cost him once.
Then Laney Young turns up in the dead of night with a new name, a carefully rehearsed story, and a federal handler who insists the Foxxes are the only people he trusts to keep her hidden. She is supposed to keep her head down and blend in. Instead she is everywhere Grant looks — pouring in his tasting room, living in his guesthouse, calling him "cowboy," and skinny-dipping in his horse trough like she owns the place.
Grant knows a person on the run when he sees one, and he knows Laney is lying about where she came from. What he cannot do is stop wanting her. As their standoff turns into something that scorches, the danger Laney fled starts closing the distance to Fiasco, and the curse hanging over the Foxx name stops sounding like a rumor. The first book in the Bourbon Boys trilogy, Bourbon & Lies pairs slow-simmering, high-heat romance with a small-town mystery where the body count is real.
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Characters
Grant FoxxProtagonist
A former police officer who traded his badge for the family bourbon distillery after loss soured him on love; guarded and gruff, and unable to ignore the woman hiding in his guesthouse.
Laney YoungProtagonist
A woman who arrives in Fiasco under a new identity and a rehearsed cover story, placed with the Foxx family for safety while the danger she escaped hunts for her.
Agent HarperSupporting
The federal handler who relocates Laney to Fiasco, trusting only the Foxx family to keep her off the radar.
Ace FoxxSupporting
The eldest Foxx brother and the steadying presence behind the family distillery.
Lincoln FoxxSupporting
One of Grant's brothers, part of the family running the Fiasco distillery.
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Frequently asked questions
What is Bourbon & Lies about?
It's the first Bourbon Boys book. Grant Foxx, an ex-cop who left the force for his family's Kentucky distillery, gets tangled up with Laney Young — a woman hiding in the town of Fiasco under a new identity while the danger she fled closes in on her.
Is Bourbon & Lies a standalone or the start of a series?
It opens the Bourbon Boys trilogy and is the best place to start. Each Foxx brother gets his own book, and an overarching mystery runs across all three.
Why does the town say to never fall for a Foxx brother?
Fiasco treats it as a curse: the women who have loved a Foxx have ended up dead. That shadow hangs over the whole series and gives the romance its suspense edge.
How spicy is Bourbon & Lies?
Very. It's an explicit, high-heat romance balanced against a mystery with real stakes, including violence and murder — steam and suspense in equal measure.
When was Bourbon & Lies published?
It first released in 2024 and kicked off a trilogy completed by Bourbon & Secrets (2024) and Bourbon & Proof (2025), later picked up for wide print and special editions.
Does the audiobook version feature a specific narration style?
The audiobook utilizes a duet narration format performed by Samantha Brentmoor and Connor Crais.
Is this book part of a connected series?
This is the first installment in The Bourbon Boys trilogy, which continues with Bourbon & Secrets and concludes with Bourbon & Proof.