Urban Fiction · Novelist

Trinity LaCroix

Author of the Pretty Dumb Intellectual series.

Sharp, sensual, and unapologetically smart — urban fiction about brilliant women caught between the lives they've built and the street kings who pull them under.

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The Novels

Two books. One unforgettable voice.

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Pretty Dumb Intellectual

Book One — the novel that started it all.

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. 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. Smart in business, clueless in love — her world is about to crash down.

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Pretty Dumb Intellectual 2: Code Blue

Book Two — the stakes just got vital.

When Xavier Delgado is found unconscious and barely clinging to life, the streets of Charlotte go quiet. But Blue Williams doesn't do silence — he does vengeance. Down in Miami, Lyric is unraveling: Blue vanished without a word, her best friend crossed a line that can't be uncrossed, and her boss Tay is hiding more than contracts. As power shifts and bodies fall, the truth threatens to torch every connection left standing.

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About the Author

Trinity LaCroix writes what others whisper about — messy love, sharp truths, and women who burn bridges while wearing heels.

Trinity LaCroix is an urban fiction novelist whose work threads ambition, intimacy, and the quiet violence of being misread. Her debut, Pretty Dumb Intellectual, introduced readers to a heroine who refused to choose between being beautiful and being brilliant — and asked them, gently, why they ever thought she should.

With the sequel, Code Blue, she returns to that world with higher stakes, sharper edges, and the same generous attention to women learning to take up the room they've earned.

Now adapted as a series

The story you read is now on screen.

The companion web series brings the world of Pretty Dumb Intellectual to life. Watch the trailer and step inside.

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