Sweet as Sin
Explore Songs to Stories by Britt Wolfe
Songs To Stories Volume XI
Inspired by: Don’t Blame Me by Taylor Swift
COMING: OCTOBER 13TH
On the morning of her sixteenth birthday, Melody Meyers is arrested for murder. What should have been a day of celebration, carefully planned by her devoted mother, collapses into horror as police flood the Meyers’ quiet suburban home at dawn. The evidence is overwhelming, the warrant airtight—and yet, Melody insists she is innocent.
But innocence has never looked so dangerous.
As the trial unfolds, the story of Melody’s life comes under brutal scrutiny: her brilliance, her intensity, her intoxicating first love with Nick Halpern. To her parents, she is a bright, sensitive girl swept up in something too big to understand. To prosecutors, she is a manipulative teenager consumed by jealousy. To Nick, she is both—the girl who swore she’d rather see him dead than gone, and the girl who might have killed to keep him.
Love, after all, is Melody’s religion. She worships it with devotion that borders on obsession, and when that devotion is betrayed, her faith turns violent. The victim, Charlotte Nilsson, was more than just an older woman from Alvernia University—she was Nick’s secret, Melody’s rival, and the spark that ignited a crime of passion so intense it could not be undone.
As the case spirals, Melody finds an unlikely ally in the young associate working for her defence. He believes in her when no one else will, and together they hatch a plan that shifts suspicion onto Nick. When the verdict falls, it isn’t Melody who pays the price—it’s the boy she claimed to love. Nick is convicted. Melody walks free. And the Meyers family is left clinging to their faith in a daughter who may be a monster.
But monsters don’t stop at one victim.
Years later, the truth emerges in the most chilling way. News reports reveal a trail of bodies linked to Melody—husbands, rivals, women who got too close. And as the world finally learns what she has become, one man watches from the wreckage of his own ruined life, knowing he had been right all along.
Dark, addictive, and devastating, Sweet as Sin is a psychological thriller about passion, possession, and the perilous line between love and madness. With lyrical prose and heart-stopping tension, it asks the question: When love is your drug, how many lives will you sacrifice to keep the high?
