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Dangerous Affair : An Enemies to Lovers - Romance
Mia Faye - 2021
To support them financially, the pretty woman uses her greatest asset: Her body.Working as a dancer in various nightclubs in New York City, Abby tries to make a living. One day it happens: She meets the mysterious businessman Theo, who makes her an irresistible offer. If she goes out as an escort with one of his business partners, he will pay her enough money to get rid of all her worries in one fell swoop.But before that, the attractive Theo wants to convince himself of Abby's escort qualities, and the two spend an unforgettable night together. Abby falls head over heels in love, and she realizes that she doesn't want to date any other man than Theo. The domineering businessman also seems to develop feelings for Abby and doesn't want to share her with anyone else.But when Abby learns who Theo's business partner is, she suddenly realizes what she has gotten herself into: It's Aldo Gioacchino, the biggest mob boss in the entire city. And he is now staking his claim on Abby - no matter what the cost.It's the beginning of an incredible intrigue full of desire, drama and love, the outcome of which puts everything at stake for Abby: Her sisters, her love for Theo, and in the end, her own life....
Alpha Wolf Protectors
Lilly Wilder - 2022
Standalone reverse harem romance with a HEA.
Ray of Hope (The Cursed Elements Series, #1)
K. Mawhood - 2021
They are spewing all kinds of crazy about being werewolves and how I’m one of them.Maybe they aren’t the only insane ones. Between that and the unexplainable things happening when I’m around them, I think it’s safe to say sanity has left the building.Now, Cayden, Barrett, Liam, and Wyatt are taking me on what was supposed to be a road trip to figure out my past.Problem is, theirs isn't the only eye I've caught.Author's note: Since this is a series, the book does end in a cliffhanger. Don't worry, we will be putting up the second book for pre-order very soon!
Sexy SEALs: A Steamy Holiday Romance (Loved By Three Book 5)
Sarwah Creed - 2021
For Richer, For Poorer
A.J. Wynter - 2019
Player. My Husband? My boss is known for two things: 1. He’s the heir to a billionaire dollar family fortune 2. Dumping women the second they turn 25 Yep. He’s an a@#hole. Now, he’s being forced to get married or lose it all. The only person he trusts in this world is his assistant – me. When he offers me millions to pretend to be his wife, how can I say no? The catch? It has to look real and I’m twelve years OLDER than him. Yeah. Will people buy it, or will this blow up in our faces? When Sadie and Liam are forced to fake an engagement will sparks fly, or will they rip each other apart? The Titan Billionaire Brothers is a duet, each book featuring a Titan brother. Book 1 is Liam's story and can be read as a standalone or as part 1 of the duet.
Indiscretion: Reckless Sin
Ali D. Jensen - 2022
That's what they call me. At least, that's what everyone knew me as when I was a little girl. The media’s favorite girl to watch on stage at her daddy’s shows.Ainsley James Dylan. Daughter to the legend himself—Axel Dylan—AKA, The Rock God. Also known as The Groupie Slayer and lead singer of the band Viper.When I was young, my dad was my idol. Now I know better and I’m done with that life. At least I had the chance to move on with my mom. I’ve left my music in the past where it belongs, along with the memories of a dad who failed his daughter too many times.Little did I know that after years of laying low and hiding from the media, I’d be found by my lost childhood friends—the sons of my fathers band members.As kids, we were inseparable. I still to this day dream about the boys I miss and the friendships I’d lost. Only now they aren’t boys, but men, and we’re all going to the same university and they don’t want to be my friend. They want to make me pay for leaving them behind. They say the only way I can make it up to them is to join their band and be the very thing I despise—A Rock Princess.CONTENT WARNING:Indiscretion is a reverse harem romance. That means the FMC is in a relationship with three or more partners. This book feature's dark themes, potential triggers, foul language and sexual scenes, so it may not be suitable for everyone. This book heavily touches on mental health, depression, suicidal thoughts, and mentions of drug use. Please read with caution. This book is recommended for readers eighteen years of age or older.
Secrets
Dakota Haywood - 2020
I’ve lived my whole life on the move, up until three years ago. Mom made a promise that I’d graduate here. I allowed myself to make friends, get a boyfriend, even join a sports team. But if something is too good to be true then it probably is. Promises are broken. Lies are spewed. Now I’m being uprooted from the only place that has ever felt like home. I guess being kidnapped by my neighbors was just the cherry on top of the pie. Callum, the obnoxious flirt Wyatt, the lazy genius Logan, the kidnapper Trey, the aloof stoic man And Kade, the forgetful leader. A group of criminal misfits. Everyone’s lied to me, I can’t even trust my own family. So why do I find myself trusting them when it could cost me everything?
Royals of Villain Academy: Books 5 - 8
Eva Chase - 2020
Four impossible loves. Can we conjure a happy ending?I was starting to think I knew what I was dealing with at the university best known as Villain Academy. I’d come to believe that by owning my role as the last remaining Bloodstone, I could change this place for the better. Then a series of shocking revelations turns everything I believed on its head.The other scions have my back now, with all the trouble that's brought them. How much more will they have to sacrifice before we can find some kind of peace? I'm ready to fight for my newfound life, my family, and the guys I'm falling for... but this battle may bring more casualties than I can bear.Do I have the defiance in me to overthrow centuries of magical tyranny? Looks like it’s time to find out.*Royals of Villain Academy is a university-age paranormal academy series. Expect magical villainy, a tough heroine who bends to no one’s will, a dollop of steam, and a slow-burn enemies-to-lovers romance where the men discover the joys of sharing.*Enjoy over 1200 pages of excitement in one box set! This set contains the final four books in the Royals of Villain Academy series—Corrupt Alchemy, Foul Conjuring, Grim Witchery, and Vicious Arts—plus 30+ pages of exclusive bonus scenes.
The Shadow Shifter
Olivia Ash - 2018
and it’s dying. Ashlynn is its sole inhabitant and the only one who can restore its power.Raised from birth to fight the supernatural monsters that live in the Void, Ash is the Sentinel: her world’s last defense against the blood-sucking creatures who would devour everything and everyone in their path. But not even the Sentinel can fight alone.Begrudgingly, Ash allows three men chosen by the castle to compete for the right to fight at her side: a shifty demon, a rogue alchemist, and a devastatingly dark shifter prince. These are dangerous men, full of more raw magic and power than Ash has ever seen, and she can’t, for the life of her, understand why the castle allowed any of them inside. The catch? These three men all want one thing. Her.Edmund, Darien, and Taegen all have more at stake than they let on. None of them can lose this contest, and one thing is clear: the only way to win a place in the castle is to also win Ash’s heart. What should have been an easy choice becomes impossible, and as the castle begins to crumble around them, the creatures of the Void smell blood. They’re coming for Ash, for her men, and for her home. <But Ash is a fighter. Come hell or high water, she’ll defend what belongs to her with her life.
Serpent Son
N.P. Martin - 2020
A Dark Elf. An Avenging Wizard The name’s Corvin Chance, and though I was born with magical abilities, I’d rather be playing my guitar in one of my local pubs than running around flashing my magic. Until someone murdered my mother that is. Now I’m slinging magic around the streets of Dublin as I try to find out who killed her. Iolas Tasar—a gangster elf who crowned himself King of the South—is my main suspect. But besides being powerful and sociopathic, he is also part of a murderous cabal that includes a bloodthirsty vampire prince. If I’m going to take him down, I’m going to need help. Luckily, I have my two best friends: Dalia, a sardonic Demi-Fae who could scare the bejeezus out of Lucifer himself, and Monty, a wise-cracking street magician and YouTube star with a gift for technomancy and conjuring. Together we will enter a dangerous Dublin underbelly populated by dark elves, vampires, goblins and orcs to discover just who killed my mother and why…if we don’t die ourselves first, that is. And did I mention the Fae Queen who has also blackmailed Dalia and I into helping her…on pain of death? Join me and my oddball motley crew as we attempt to solve a murder, exact justice and just maybe…get a pint of the black stuff afterward.
Being Human meets Iron Druid in this gripping urban fantasy action adventure series.
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Universally Challenged
Anna Bell - 2012
Not only does she wake up in a stranger's apartment, but the company she works for claims never to have heard of her. Jess wakes up in a hotel room without her husband. She tracks him down and discovers he is married to another woman. When a stranger, Jake, tries to convince her that she is heading up a multi-million dollar deal, it is too much for Jess, the teacher, to take in. Trapped on the wrong side of a parallel universe, Jessica and Jess turn to Jake to help them work out who they really are and what they really want. Same woman: wrong parallel universe
The Ares Trials: The Complete Collection
Eliza Raine - 2021
It’s less great when you turn up to find him dead on the floor, and an armored giant dressed like a freaking ancient warrior standing over his body though.Ares, the God of War, has lost his power and the only way for him to get it back? Me. Apparently, I’m a goddess. One with the power of war. I mean, it does explain a lot.To my relief, Joshua, my shrink and only friend, isn’t really dead. He’s been kidnapped and taken to Olympus—the world where I’m supposed to belong. I vow to do whatever it takes to find him. But Ares has other plans for me. He wants my power, and the easiest way for him to get it is to kill me.When Hades suggests a compromise, I’m forced to work side-by-side with a giant, murderous warrior god. One with far too many secrets. Ares might be the brute everyone thinks he is, but I’m no angel. He awakens a power within me that I’ve failed to control my whole life.And I soon discover that Joshua isn’t the only one that needs saving.This is the complete collection of The Ares Trials, including The Warrior God, The Savage God and The Golden God. It is intended for adults and is packed with magic, mythology and enemies-to-lovers soulmate romance!
Cruel Princes
Jillian Frost - 2021
Turns out I’m the lost heiress to a multi-billion dollar fortune and a pawn in their sick game.They keep me locked in their seaside estate, completely at their mercy. All four of them are bullies, taking out their hatred for me in the form of punishments, each with their own reason for keeping me around.I’m sick to want them.It’s dangerous to need them.I think I’m finding my place among these depraved monsters.Except there’s one small problem.They’re not the only men who want me.There are far more dangerous men looking for the heir to the Wellington fortune… which means I’ll be staying in their beds and under their protection for the foreseeable future.Cruel Princes is a DARK BULLY romance about four possessive men and one ruthless woman who will bring them to their knees. The main character will end up with more than one love interest.
The Vectum
Chloe Adler - 2018
But on her first night there, she learns that blood isn't the only thing on the menu—and consent isn't always required. When dark and mysterious Vasily rides to her rescue, she's grateful, then confused when the vampire insists she’s something special. But she’s not. She’s just another boring human living in Distant Edge, where supernaturals roam free. Or is she? Synergist: The Vectum is book one in a five-part reverse harem serial. Each part is approximately 10,000 words and is meant to be read in order.
Ashwood's Girls: A Troubled Spirits Novel
J.R. Erickson - 2021
It ended in murder.In present day, Adam Tate is in a rush to build his wife’s dream home. She’s ill, and he lives with the looming fear that her days are numbered in months rather than years. As he digs the foundation for their new home, he makes a chilling discovery-long-buried skeletons. On impulse, he hides the grave and pushes it from his mind.When Adam and his wife Holly move into their new home six months later, it becomes clear that Adam has awoken something that will not be silenced.Step into a story of betrayal, murder, and voices from beyond the grave.