Book picks similar to
The Forbidden: Special FREE Preview by Jodi Ellen Malpas
bought-but-not-read
in-collection-already
jem
romance-freebies
Zerk's Mark
Jean Marie - 2021
A territory fight leads to kidnappings. I knew bikers were dangerous, but I didn’t think it would end in this disaster.My obsession with this mountain of a man is totally life-consuming.Intense, secretive, dangerous, basically everything I should stay away from.He warns me of his broken past,but I’m not scared of rough edges.I challenge him every step of the way.He won’t tolerate my disobedience.His silence pushes me into the arms of a deceiving enemy and I don’t know who to trust...The sexy alpha biker that won’t open up, or the chiseled-faced prospect that says too much.The wrong choice makes it all erupt. My savior ends up being the man I didn’t trust.Because just like his brothers in the club, he would die before they ever took his property.NOTE: Adults Only.***Zerk’s Mark is the first book in the Red Spades MC Romance series. It’s a standalone, full-length novel with alpha bikers that will do anything to protect the people they love. It is recommended to read the series in order for maximum enjoyment.
Owned by the Scottish Mafia Boss: A Dark Mafia Romance
Rosalie Rose - 2021
. .DaisyA girl like me,Born into a dark underworld,Doesn’t do normal.Yet, despite my messed-up upbringing,I never expected Daddy to do this:Ship me off to goddamn Scotland.He said it was for my “protection,”But that was bullshit.He sold me off.Cal might be smoking hotAnd ripped every which way to Sunday,And maybe I let my desire get the better of me once . . .Twice . . .Multiple times . . .But I refuse to become his mafia wife.And nothing,Not even this baby I’m carrying,Will change that...Note: Owned by the Scottish Mafia Boss is a steamy romance between a rugged Scottish Mafia boss and the beautiful woman he's arranged to be married to.
You Had Me at Hello / Here's Looking at You / It's Not Me, It's You: 3 Book Collection
Mhairi McFarlane - 2015
Ben and Rachel. It was them against the world. Until it all fell apart. It’s been a decade since they last spoke, but when Rachel bumps into Ben one rainy day, the years melt away. They’d been partners in crime and the best of friends. But life has moved on: Ben is married. Rachel is not. Yet in that split second, Rachel feels the old friendship return. And along with it, the broken heart she’s never been able to mend. Hilarious, heartbreaking and everything in between, you’ll be hooked from their first ‘hello’.HERE’S LOOKING AT YOU: Anna Alessi – history expert, possessor of a lot of hair and an occasionally filthy mouth – seeks nice man for intelligent conversation and Mills & Boon moments. Despite the oddballs that keep turning up on her dates, Anna couldn’t be happier. As a 30-something with a job she loves, life has turned out better than she dared dream. However, things weren’t always this way, and her years spent as the ‘Italian Galleon’ of an East London comprehensive are ones she’d rather forget. So when James Fraser – the architect of Anna’s final humiliation at school – walks back into her life, her world is turned upside down. But James seems a changed man. Polite. Mature. Funny, even. People can change, right? So why does Anna feel like she’s a fool to trust him?IT’S NOT ME, IT’S YOU: Delia Moss isn’t quite sure where she went wrong. When she proposed and discovered her boyfriend was sleeping with someone else – she thought it was her fault. When she realised life would never be the same again – she thought it was her fault. And when he wanted her back like nothing had changed – Delia started to wonder if perhaps she was not to blame… From Newcastle to London and back again, with dodgy jobs, eccentric bosses and annoyingly handsome journalists thrown in, Delia must find out where her old self went – and if she can ever get her back.
One Night With the Billionaire: The Complete Series
Cassie Cross - 2016
On her way to a presentation that could make or break her, she runs into Jason Turner, a handsome, mysterious billionaire. Jason is immediately drawn to Kaia, and wastes no time in letting her know how much he wants her. But for reasons that Jason doesn’t explain, reasons that he doesn’t even like to think about, he can’t let himself get involved with anyone. It’s not safe. So, he asks Kaia to meet up with him that evening, but there’s a catch: they can only have one night together. Despite her own better judgement, Kaia agrees. But one pleasure-filled night isn’t enough for either one of them, and Jason finds his resistance crumbling. If Jason lets Kaia get closer, she could get hurt. If he lets her go, he’ll always want her. If he can keep her safe, is it worth a chance? When Kaia finds out that past Jason’s holding onto is built on a lie, maybe Jason will finally let himself have a future with her…
Shift
J.S. Wood - 2020
Wood’s Shift is a humorous, swoon-worthy, contemporary romance written in K. Bromberg’s Driven Worlds project.Wyatt Price is my boss.As one of the top sports agents in the industry, he’s arrogant, egotistical, and stubborn.My favorite pastime is to see just how far I can push him with my quick wit and sarcastic attitude before he breaks. Don't get me wrong, I'm a damn fine employee. However, pushing him gives me just enough delight to not set the whole place on fire and run screaming.Cameron Hayes is my assistant.My ridiculous, sarcastic, pain in my side assistant.If she wasn't so good at her job, I would've fired her years ago... then I would have taken her home and shown her how much I actually liked it. And her. But... I can't cross that line. Crossing it could mean losing her. And I'd rather suffer in silence then see her walk away.J.S. Wood’s Shift is a humorous, swoon-worthy, contemporary romance written in K. Bromberg’s Driven Worlds project.
No Ordinary Day
Polly Becks - 2015
The first book, set in 1991, No Ordinary Day, tells the tale of an epic tragedy that changes life forever in a small town in the wild, mystic Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, especially for eight special women, and the mystery surrounding that tragedy. Kindergarten teacher Lucy Sullivan has an Irish temper, a fierce love for her students, and a growing fondness for fellow teacher Glen Daniels—until plain-spoken soldier Alex “Ace” Evans comes into her life, quite literally saving it. As they struggle to rescue five little girls caught in a flooding school, will these two opposites find the love missing in both their lives—or even survive? Set against the background of the magical forested mountains and unique towns and cities of the Adirondack Park, No Ordinary Day introduces both the place and the characters of the rest of the Extraordinary Days series, which is thereafter set in present day. Each book in the Extraordinary Days series makes a direct cash donation to a different charity or non-profit organization. Your purchase of No Ordinary Day benefits The American Red Cross.
One More Kiss
Elizabeth Lennox - 2021
But can he trust her? Or was the beautiful Kinsley a spy? Why was she determined to reunite him with the father who had abandoned his mother prior to Lincoln’s birth? What was Kinsley’s agenda? The consequences if he was wrong about her could be huge.
Risk (With Me, # 1)
Sue Wilder - 2020
With a deputy sheriff with him, who is convinced you're an intruder.Even worse?He had every right to do it. Even though the house is yours--oh, and he's your neighbor and catches you in every other embarrassing moment until you're convinced the Universe is against you and this new life you have to start.And did I mention that he's drop-dead gorgeous?And exactly what you do. Not. Need.But the heart makes its own rules and a girl has a choice.If he's worth the risk.CALEBTalk about a cluster.She invades a house she claims is hers, while I'm responsible, so, of course, I have to rush in.And she's standing.Naked.With that towel.Doesn't stop there. Just when I'm pulled in other directions, trying to keep my uncle from driving the company into another version of cluster, this girl disrupts. Everything.It's not enough that she's beautiful.That she belongs here more than any woman I've ever known.She has to disrupt the privacy in my cove.The routine of my life.When I need to focus and stop thinking about what she looks like.Naked...
Her Billionaire's Demands (The Institute: Shameful Arrangements Book 2)
Emily Tilton - 2021
A Billionaire's Holiday Love
Posey Parks - 2020
Scrooge is my neighbor.The man loathes Christmas.What person doesn’t warm up to the best holiday of the year?The cabin I purchase mentioned it needed light work, not a gut renovation. Looks nothing like the picture.The brooding beast next door said he’d help spruce up the place if it will get me to leave him alone. Deal. Because who wants to be around the Grinch longer than they have to? Even if he’s tall. Has a gorgeous face you can stare at all day. And a body you’d love to mount on your sleigh repeatedly.Then I wondered could I help Mr. Non-Christmas fall in love with my favorite holiday.NoahDidn’t bargain for a neighbor this holiday. Especially one who looks as beautiful as her. She’s all kinds of distracting. She doesn’t even notice her effect on me. But my other head does.I’ll help her fix up her cabin while giving her attitude an adjustment with my thick peppermint stick.On a serious note. The Grinch plans to keep Ms. Christmas all to himself.
The Syndicates: Theo / Carlyle / Erik / Oran / Mateo
Raven Scott - 2020
Unleash the passion of FIVE dominant, powerful mob bosses.TheoThis man is everything your mom warned you about.RuthlessColdI should be afraid of him.I should keep my distance.But talk about sexy - he’s a living, breathing, chiseled god.When l meet his eyes for the first time, I know what's behind them.These were dark, angry, and full of demons.Who cares if his past has damned him?Who cares if his eyes say he could never love?I'll suffer in silence, let him pierce my heart till I bleed out knowing he'll never feel the same way.Or could he?CarlyleI’m a powerful criminal.I know fire when I see it.Valerie is too feisty for her own good.I bring the world down to its knees.But she isn’t scared of me.Not yet.She hasn’t seen the real face behind this mask.The man that I’m capable of turning into.But she does trigger the monster within me.One that will devour her until she submits herself completely to me.ErikDid I make a mistake laying eyes on Natasha?F”ck no.My cracked little Fabergé egg with baby blue eyes and curves that shook my soul.Hot as hell, but why is her touch icy cold?Her ocean eyes tell me she’s hurt. Tormented. Neglected.Still, I want her.Her heart, like her soul, is dead.In that, her and I are the same.I’ve always liked to take risks, play with fireBut I won’t watch as the flames get higher.Demons lie in whispers of her past, but I’m her future.Just before I find her heart, she finds another secret.Secrets that could shatter everything.I’ll fight. Until the ashes of her past turn to dirt.It’s time she learned, pretty things aren’t meant to be broken.But can I save her from herself?Or will her demons tear her apart in the process?OranWhat was the meaning of the human connection?When my one constant dissolved in my palms to ash, I found the answer to that question. True, it required a total upheaval of my life, but- hey, my goals weren’t all that great, anyway.In that moment, I lost everything that had been and found what could be.Seattle was supposed to be a new beginning. A silvering city on the water, where I spent months finding myself and what I wanted- truly wanted.And then… I found her. A stroke of luck on the back of a mindless decision, she came into my life like a storm determined to run its path.MateoThere were a lot of things in my life I regret but taking that walk that night wasn’t one of them.I was tired. I was ready. I was stuck in an endless loop with no way to escape.After the shit of the past years, I could waste away in this room and be happy to do so.But I wasn’t alone, and her… she didn’t deserve this terror. She didn’t deserve this incompetency.Me- I spent my life knowing this day might come, and I was ready.
The Gifted Box Set
Amira Rain - 2016
Something that seems to attract the attention of hunky shapeshifters. Themes include Paranormal Pregnancy, Shifter Menages, love triangles and one on one action! Book 1: GIFTED TO THE BEAR Avery Clarke has just discover she is one of the gifted and now the FBI are hunting her. Handsome WereBear Jim Duncan is the only one who can help her but his kindness will come at a price... Book 2: GIFTED TO THE DRAGON A one night stand with a handsome stranger leaves young Madison Bennett pregnant. Little does she know, that stranger was a dragon shifter and being pregnant has now activated her “gift”...Book 3: GIFTED TO THE WOLVES Jayme Adler is well aware of her gift and has been sent to infiltrate a wolf pack and the two Alphas in particular. That is if they do not infiltrate her first...Book 4: GIFTED TO THE LION Paulina Mars has always used her gift to fight. However, a handsome WereLion named Mark was about to enter her life and show her things she never even imagined were real...Book 5: GIFTED TO THE ANGEL Lauren Grant has just been kidnapped. The man says he is an angel and he also tells her that she is already pregnant with his future child... even though they have never met before! You simply will not be able to put these books down! Scroll back up and start reading the whole package right away!
Blackstone and the Stage of Death
Sally Spencer - 2014
The entire audience at the George Theatre saw Charlotte Devaraux stab William Kirkpatrick with a fake dagger. They gasped as he fell. But they gasped even more when they realized this would be his final curtain call. How did the murderer manage to exchange the fake dagger for a real one? With the help of the brilliant Dr Ellie Carr, a career driven scientist, Blackstone is able to determine that this dagger had not only been exchanged for a real one but had been laced with a most deadly poison. But what is the source of this exotic poison? And who is the mysterious little old man who keeps appearing on the edges of the investigation? Assisted by the amiable Sergeant Patterson, Blackstone follows the trail of the killer from the theatre to the world of the Victorian freak show and into the depths of a lunatic asylum. And though he does not know it, another murder is now brewing. Will he find this killer in time? With a cast of unusual suspects, all of which have the motive and the wherewithal to commit the crime, Blackstone struggles to find which is truth and which is merely part of the act. Praise for Sally Spencer: "The characters are rich and complex, the plot is unusual and inventive, but it's the delightfully droll, wonderfully witty doses of humour that make the novel such a pleasure" - Booklist Sally Spencer worked as a teacher both in England and Iran - where she witnessed the fall of the Shah. She now writes full time. Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent publisher of digital books.