Marcel Lamothe

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Naked Nancy

Book 1: A Summer to Remember

“Did two naked old people just invite me to come swimming?”

From her new favorite perch in the backyard magnolia, ten-year-old Nancy Bellwood can see everything: the Fishers’ chickens, the Harpers’ trampoline, and the neighbors swimming without a stitch on.

Walt and Diane are naturists. They wave. They have a pool. And before long, the Bellwoods are wondering why they ever bothered with swimsuits.

Then Nancy discovers a naturist resort hidden in the North Carolina woods—and a torn treasure map left there forty years ago. With three new friends at her side, she follows the clues beyond the resort fence, into an abandoned cotton mill, and toward a secret nobody has found since the 80s.

She may be new to naturism, but if anyone can climb, crawl, and puzzle her way to the end, it’s Naked Nancy!

Now if only she could remember to get dressed before answering the door.

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Big Bare Island

Book 1

“Get naked and don’t be a dick.”

Those are the rules on Big Bare Island. Jess can handle the first. The second remains to be seen.

After being fired from her last three jobs, this corporate goth is running out of options. So when a naked king offers her nearly twice her old salary to become Chief Problem Solver for his tropical island paradise, she takes the job—despite having no idea what she’s getting into.

Her first assignment involves a crab siege. Her next is saving the island.

The power grid is dying. Someone is spying on the residents. And Doug, the surly IT dweeb, is guarding a data closet with his life.

Meanwhile, a mysterious old wizard has left Jess a journal full of impossible secrets—and far more questions than answers.

Yet amid all this chaos, one great mystery remains: Will she ever take off those damn combat boots?

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The Ocean’s Daughter

Jane Cullen Book 2

Jane Cullen thought she’d found her place in the world. Then she lost it.

When a faceless investment firm buys Paradise Cove and converts it to a textile resort, Jane loses her job, her home, and the community that taught her who she was. But an unexpected opportunity thrusts her into a new role leading an organization dedicated to spreading naturism globally. It’s a lot of pressure. And thanks to an online smear campaign, half the internet has opinions about her body and her choices.

Enter Kat, a barefoot artist who answered an ad Jane forgot she posted. One interview at a naked beach festival later, Kat has the job—and Jane has her first girlfriend.

“I enjoyed the first book in the series, but this one really blew me away. Engaging, personal, sensual, mystical, a little far-fetched perhaps but told with such joy and openness, it’s hard to put down.”

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The Naked Truth

Jane Cullen Book 1

“They say life begins at the edge of your comfort zone. Mine apparently began at the edge of Paradise Cove’s parking lot…”

Jane Cullen’s high school journalism assignment was simple: Write a report about Paradise Cove. The catch? It’s a naturist resort. And somehow, that turns out to be the least surprising part of her story.

Set on a whimsical tropical island where dress codes are nonexistent but life lessons are abundant, The Naked Truth is a wholesome, warm, and witty celebration of self-creation. Through Jane’s journey, we discover that maybe we’re all just one leap of faith away from becoming who we’re meant to be—even if that leap happens to be from a rooftop, wearing nothing but a smile and a safety harness.

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