In Rumor, Tennessee, one family sits at the center of every whisper. The Crowne women have weathered decades of gossip from behind the bar of The Whispering Fool — beautiful, secretive, and rumored to be dangerous. What the town doesn't know is how quietly they settle scores, and which men who hurt women end up simply gone.
Wyn Crowne, the eldest daughter, should be the last person keeping secrets, but she has the biggest one of all. After surviving a serial killer and starting over under another name, she has kept her distance from her sisters and told no one who she really is. She has almost convinced herself the past is buried — until Julian Colton walks in. He is a charming jeweler with a sinful smile, too many questions, and a second job that makes him far more dangerous than he looks. And he already knows a version of Wyn she thought she had left for dead.
The first book in the Whiskey Women series, Rumors & Whiskey opens Victoria Wilder's spin on small-town romance with a darker edge — sisterhood, buried identities, a slow-burning attraction that refuses to behave, and a streak of vigilante justice beneath all the Southern charm.