Book picks similar to
The Venture Capitalist by LaVie EnRose
romance
interracial
interracial-romance
alpha-male
The Billionaire's Craving
Mia Caldwell - 2016
Billionaire Colin Morgan lost his fiancee in a tragic car accident, and he blames a longtime enemy for her death. Years later, Colin has a plan to make his enemy pay. His revenge hinges on an innocent pawn … Sabela Vaughn hasn’t had it easy. She's been working double shifts as a waitress to pay for her family’s medical bills while serving as caregiver to her disabled brother. She dreams of a better life as a fashion designer, but her mounting debts keep her aspirations out of reach. When a mysterious benefactor suddenly pays off those debts, it seems too good to be true. It is. Colin has plans for Sabela, and the first step is getting her alone in his Swiss mountaintop chalet. The second is to seduce her, making her fall in love with him while keeping his own heart safe and sound. But when he meets beautiful and kind Sabela, his careful plans are thrown to the icy Alps winds. Nothing goes as planned, and in the final reckoning, long-hidden secrets might destroy everyone. This is a standalone romantic suspense with a touch of steam and HEA.
Rapture
Perri Forrest - 2016
Meet the star of this story, Hunter “Rush” Cambridge: Heartthrob, somewhat of a local celebrity, and hugely guarded of those he loves. Rush has never been in love. Lust is more his thing. In fact, he’s all business. The former athlete and current bar owner is solely focused on getting his new mega club up and running. But then Alika Collins comes crashing into his life—literally. Alika has flown from Las Vegas, to the Bay Area to meet up with someone that she met online. Only when she arrives, things quickly go south and Alika realizes that she has made the biggest mistake of her life. But did she? Sometimes bad things occur so that better things can replace them… After Alika manages to escape her situation, she finds refuge in the backseat of Rush’s car. Everything moves quickly from that point as she is insinuated into his world. Although Rush is preparing for the opening of his new club, he is compelled to be a source of help to her, in the process. But while Rush is helping to sort out pieces of Alika’s life, he’s got a few problems of his own. There are forces conspiring to take down everything that he has worked so hard for, and he’s not having it. Will Rush emerge unscathed once the truth comes out? Will there be love at the end for him and Alika, or is he just the person who happened to come along when she needed a friend the most?
Second Chances
D.A. Young - 2016
Heartbroken over a devastating loss, Ella is fairly certain that personal happiness just isn’t in her future. Everything changes when she meets Wyatt, a sexy beer crafter who against her will, shakes her out of her stagnant existence and awakens feelings in her that she thought were long dead and it scares the hell out of her. So she decides that it's the perfect time to leave New York City and return to her home in the Pacific Northwest to finally fulfill a lifelong dream of owning and operating her own hotel and evade his advances. Wyatt has been smitten with Ella since he first laid eyes on her. Everything about the aloof beauty captivates him and obsessed with the painful secrets her eyes hold, he becomes a man with a mission: To make Ella Kemp his. They first made their appearance in the Whiskey Row series, but in Second Chances, we get to know Wyatt and Ella up close and personally from their pasts, their secrets, and what the future holds for them. SECOND CHANCES is the first story in the CIRCLE OF FRIENDS novella series. Each novella will feature a couple from the “Kismet Cove Six”, a group of tight-knit friends from high-school who’ve forged a lifetime friendship amid love, heartbreak, and secrets. WARNINGS: MUST BE 18+ TO READ. THIS BOOK CONTAINS GRAPHIC VIOLENCE, RACIAL CONTENT, STEAMY/EXPLICIT LOVE SCENES AND COARSE LANGUAGE. IT IS NOT RECOMMENDED FOR THOSE WHO ARE EASILY OFFENDED.
Tale As Old As Time
Elisabeth - 2017
Dr. John Charbonne messed up. He messed up...big time. He took something special, a rose, from his boss. The problem wasn’t the rose, it was that he got caught now he had to pay. He made a trade, his daughter for his life in exchange... The moment Alcide ‘Beast’ Dios laid eyes on her picture, he was smitten. She was beautiful and her eyes called out to him. He accepted the trade with ease but she wasn’t what he expected. Arabella Charbonne was tricked by her father and now, she was at the handsome stranger’s mercy. Made to leave one prison for another...When will she ever be free? A tale as old as time when the unexpected becomes the exception.
Take This Ring
Roxy Wilson - 2016
She hopes her hard work will get her a promotion -- but the last kind of attention she expects is a dinner date with her sinfully sexy boss. She’s even more shocked when he offers her a temporary marriage contract. The money involved would take care of her problems and then some…but if she agrees, she can’t let on how attracted she is to him. She’ll get her heart broken if she doesn’t treat this like a business transaction. Thane Wainwright started with nothing and earned his money. He works hard and gets what he wants…and he’s wanted Peyton since the moment he laid eyes on her. But his aspirations -- for himself and for her -- go far beyond the business world. The contract is the perfect way to make sure Peyton is right for him…but he worries that when their time is up, she’ll take his money and walk away with her heart unchanged. How can he show her he deserves her trust -- especially when his no-good ex gets involved? Take This Ring is a full-length romance with no cheating, no cliffhangers, and a happy ending. For readers 18+ only due to mature content.
Dating The White Wolf
J.J. Jones - 2013
However, she finds herself strangely drawn to his aura and she can not say no. This is definitely going to be a new experience for Camille. Little does she realize, she is not only going to be dating a white man, but dating the white wolf that lives inside him as well....
Propositioning the Rich Italian
Stephanie Morris - 2010
She knows just how to get over it when she meets a painstakingly handsome stranger. What better way to start over than to have a two-week affair with a complete stranger? Antonio Carabelli walks into the bar of the hotel he co-owns after the end of a hard day and is intrigued by the woman he finds sitting there. It isn’t long before Tierra tells him about her plans to have a no-strings attached affair, and he is interested. However, he is only willing to move forward if they have physical chemistry. What better way to find out, than with a simple kiss? The results are explosive, but Antonio soon realizes he has a dilemma. Two weeks isn’t enough.
His Love
M.O. Kenyan - 2013
Every time he looks at her, all he can see is the reason his wife is dead. But when the beautiful Rayne falls into his life as his daughter’s nanny he is forced out of his ice cold exterior. He finds himself falling hard for his newest employee, but Rayne doesn't want anything to do with him. It doesn’t matter how handsome or ruggedly perfect his exterior is—how he treats his daughter tears at Rayne’s very soul.Antonio has to learn how to love his daughter again, while trying to convince the woman he loves to stay with him and not bolt at the first opportunity...
Aaren
T.A. Ford - 2010
The people of Penns Point, Kentucky, are no different. They've always protected their own. Aaren Robinson hadn't exactly run away-thrown out was more like it, when she was barely eighteen. From that day forward she turned her back on the past and constructed a perfect life for herself in New York City, one where she was in charge of her destiny. Now, she's returned home, to honor the father who'd never loved her, and lay him to rest alongside the mother she'd barely known. It will put her face to face with the secrets of the past, and also with Jarrod Pennington, the one she should have been warned about. Aaren is the story of a woman's journey to understanding her own heart, and the powerful ties of first love.
Pretty Fly For a White Guy
Lena Skye - 2013
He is sexy. He is confident. He is charming.He is Kenneth, a white man and the love of Nicole's life.However, it has been over a year since they were together officially and all signs are suggesting it is over for good between them. The fact he is now dating her ex-best friend is just the tip of the iceberg.Can she ever get over him and find happiness with someone else? Or should she fight for the man she believes she is meant to be with?Warning: This story does contain scenes of a sexual nature and is the type of book your mama will have warned you about. This black woman & white man interracial romance is a 35,000 word novella.
Ahmose
L.B. Keen - 2018
Kemet, an ancient group of warrior who've lived on our planet for ions. Ahmose has been asleep for a century since his beloved wife died in his arms. As a Kehmet warrior, his only choice was to hold a blade within his heart and be laid to rest in the catacombs beneath his home. When he awakens in a metal box disoriented and lost, he escapes into the dark midnight sea. Lacking Mana, he calls out only to find himself staring into the dark-brown eyes of a young woman. Rachael had one desire when she planned a trip after her last semester of graduate school, and that was to go Sardinia, Italy and enjoy a romantic getaway with her boyfriend. When he sends her a text stating that they should take a break, she spends her first night drinking at a bar while she cries her disappointment into glasses of expensive wine. Rachael doesn't know the first thing about the stranger that she finds in her bed, only that he's an unneeded distraction on her "man-hate” vacation, and that there are some dangerous people after him. Will they survive the evil force that's chasing them? Or will they be captured before they can explore the intense passion between them? ***If you've read CURSE OF THE GODS SERIES by Jaymine Eve and Jane Washington or the CHILDREN OF THE GODS PARANORMAL ROMANCE SERIES by I.T. Lucas, get ready to fall in love with AHMOSE! ****
Immobile
Yvonne Bennett - 2017
Her life is empty and she knows she can't depend on love, because of what happened years ago. Only her desire for a better life, in spite of the loneliness she knows is her fate, is all she has to cling on to. That is, until he appears. ************* PART 2, THE FINAL COMING OCT 26TH*********************** Akylas Reynolds would have never thought when his friends forced him into a strip club, he would have found the answer to his infliction. Although he was drop dead gorgeous, the war had crippled him in more than just his leg. No, there was a deeper issues that seemed to keep him from experiencing the flames of passion. That is, until he laid eyes on the dancing, brown skinned beauty on the stage. It was something about the woman that stirred his body in ways that no other had managed before. What will happen when Lena is called to a prestigious, rich neighborhood to do a show, and encounters a dark, handsome man. A man that soon becomes infatuated with her, and is determined to have his IMMOBILE heart beat again ?
Romancing the Mob Boss
Mallory Monroe - 2011
Hoping to see him again, but not disappointed when she doesn’t, she goes on with her life. But a week later, when she interviews for a job at the renowned PaLargio Hotel and Casino on the Vegas Strip, and discovers that the owner of the hotel is the man she had slept with, a man who very much wishes to rekindle what they had captured that passionate night, her entire life spirals into a new and dramatic world where family ties and ever-increasing violence ropes them in.Reno Gabrini is a man’s man who knew, the first time he spent an evening with her, that Trina was the woman for him. But he soon discovers that capturing her heart was not going to be as easy as ordering his minions around, especially with his mob connections that keeps their romance in a constant state of uncertainty. But his love for Trina makes him bound and determined to do all he can to keep her, even if it means forsaking all others.In an interracial romance that tests the very essence of love, Reno and Trina discovers that there are no easy answers, and no perfect endings, but that their love and devotion to each other can help them find the way.
Lessons from the Professor
Shyla Colt - 2012
So when he meets the charming mocha-skinned beauty, he’s wary. Her sweet nature and natural tendency for submissive behavior overrule his fear, and Sidney decides to train her as a sub. Sutton takes to the lifestyle like a duck to water, but the one thing he didn’t bargain for was her ability to thaw the ice around his heart. Sutton thrives on pressure. Handed a heavy load of responsibility from the time she was young, she’s fallen into the habit of pushing her feelings aside to get things done. After spending the past ten years focused on her career and family, she begins to notice how empty her condo feels and longs for something more. From the moment she meets Sidney, she’s instantly attracted to his intelligence and regal demeanor. When he introduces her to the BDSM lifestyle, her unexpected response surprises her. Good girls did not beg to be spanked. Or did they? Can she open up to Sidney and learn to live for herself before it’s too late?
Rafael
K. Victoria Chase - 2012
The bodies in her jurisdiction are piling up and if she can solve these cases, her career is made.Detective Rafael Santiago holds the key, and this case is his redemption. Partnering with a stubbornly independent woman is challenging, but ignoring their attraction will jeopardize their working relationship--and the case.An interracial romantic suspense with a bit of faith weaved in.