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Black Reapers MC Books 1-6: An MC Romance Box Set (Black Reapers MC Box Sets Book 1)
Trent Jordan - 2020
And I can’t get enough of her.Life nearly broke me a year ago.My father died. My brother killed my girlfriend. And my club almost fell apart.By the skin of our teeth, I’m hanging on. But I will never meet anyone like my last woman. Her beauty, her smile, and her joy will never return.And then her best friend showed up.I have every reason to hate her. She works for the DA. She wants me arrested.But the fire in her eyes… the spark in her soul… the flame in her heart…I can’t get enough of it.PatriotShe’s perfect for me. Which means she’ll probably end up dead.I'm the pretty face of the Black Reapers. I’m also a man responsible for the deaths of many.I enlisted in the military to fight evil. Instead, I witnessed too much of it. It broke my soul and destroyed my first marriage.The Black Reapers has given me a second chance at brotherhood, but I can’t trust myself with love. I can fight, I can protect, and I can kill, but I can’t be open. I can’t love.And then I met her.Fierce. Unyielding. Gorgeous.I’m enamored by her, and I will make her mine.AxleI don't know why she's reaching out to me. She knows I hate her.It's been years since I last spoke to Rose Wright. I'd like to keep it that way.She was a nightmare. Rose could cut me down like no one ever could. By the end of our relationship, both of us were trying to pierce the other's soul with our words.And the sickest part of it all?The only reason we broke up was because she moved away for school.I swore I would never go back to her. No matter what.And yet, now that she's contacted me, I can't help but be morbidly curious. How bad is her life now?Curiosity is getting the better of me. I can't wait to find out. I can't wait to smile at her fall from grace.I can't wait to see her again.Butch“This is who I am. I am a killer.”It's all I want people to know.I don't want them to see me as anything more than a ruthless assassin.Because it's the only thing I'm good at, and it's the only thing I see myself as.But then she comes into my life.She recognizes me as something more than a killer, even if I don't.She believes there's good in me. She believes there's love in me. She believes there's more to me than meets the eye.I don't believe her.But she's changing my mind.PhoenixI must have her. If not, I will destroy what little in my world remains.I watched my father get murdered in cold blood by my “friends.” He was my only parent; I was his only child. He was everything to me.I am hellbent on burning the world down. The Black Reapers cannot stop me. The Fallen Saints cannot stop me. I cannot stop myself.But someone can.Her.She is the light that fills the void my father left. She is the hope in a hopeless world. She is the only soul that can prevent me from destroying everything and everyone I know.ColeShe’s all mine—if I can kill her father.I’m not the pushover anymore. Once the “little brother” of the club, I am my own man. I’ve got men under my control, and I’m not afraid to use them.I’m ready to fight back and end the bloodshed forever. I’m willing to die for victory. I’m willing to die to destroy my enemies.But then I meet her.The woman who gives me a reason not to be a martyr.The woman who gives me a reason to see life beyond the final battle.She's beautiful. She's smart. She's perfect.The problem isn't who she is.It's who her father is.The man responsible for all the violence, tragedy, and death in my world.And if he finds out I have her, both of us will die in vain.
Ruthless King: A Dark Arranged Marriage Mafia Romance
Kiara Morgan - 2021
As the coveted Russian mafia princess, I have lived my entire life locked away.I have felt pain and cruelty at my own father's hand.Now I will marry the Italian Mafia's Capo, Alessio to unite our two families.From the very first night he showed me brutality I should be used to by now.I'm haunted by the past and now the present.If he thinks I will break so easily, he's mistaken.I have lived among monsters my entire life.I will survive.
Prophet
S.M. West - 2018
Solving problems, my trade. Until the tables turn, and trouble finds me. Now on the run, I need a plan. But not before I’m blindsided by a pain-in-the-ass stranger. Maggie. Curves, startling blue eyes, and she hates me. I don’t trust her and with good reason. My plan is simple: use her. Then I kiss her. Touch her. Crave her. She was my way out, now she’s my downfall. Prophet is book 1 in the Scarred Hearts series of standalone novels about brooding heroes. Prophet is a full length, standalone enemies-to-lovers romance with a HEA.
The Next Generation Series: Books 1-3
Riley Edwards - 2021
But he’ll break every rule to protect her.Nick ClarkI clipped a shiny, new FBI badge to my belt, thinking I could save the world. Four years later, the shield’s got some dents, along with my idealism. And there’s one cold case that’s come back to haunt me.A killer has resurfaced, and all my instincts tell me he’s after the victim that got away. I’ll break every rule in the book to protect beautiful, scarred Meadow. Because I’ve done the most dangerous, most distracting thing an agent can do. I’ve fallen for her.Meadow HolidayI don’t believe in fairy tales. Not after an attack left me a half a woman. But when Nick swears to protect me from my worst nightmare, his charm cracks my resolve to guard myself. One kiss shatters it.But, like the evil villain in the tale, the killer won’t stop until he finishes what he started. And our happy ending balances on the point of a knife.Chasing HonorMoney can’t buy love. But a dangerous secret could cost them their lives.Ethan LenoxEight years ago, I was left holding the baby, but I have no regrets. I’m a good single dadand a good cop. While I haven’t exactly been a monk, dating—and trusting my heartagain—are off the table.When I catch a photographer snapping pictures of my kid, I go into hyper-protectivemode. But Honor’s pictures are as arresting as her pretty eyes, and when she answers myad to rent a room at my house, I begin to wonder if she’s another heartbreak…or a secondchance.Honor SullivanGotta travel light when you’re on the run. Luckily, secrets don’t take up much room. Ineed a place to stay just long enough to figure things out, but when I get a look at mynew landlord, my heart flipflops.Ethan and his daughter are everything I’ve been missing. But just when I’m beginning tobelieve I’ve found refuge, my secrets find me. One of which I hadn’t even known I wascarrying. This one could not only get me killed, it could endanger the little family I’vecome to love.Finding MercyDEA Agent Jason Walker became a widower at twenty-eight. Two years later he’s still torturing himself with guilt. They’d married young, and she’d been his first love, but her illness changed everything. They’d fought a losing battle and he’d held her to the very end. Now he just wants to be left alone with his misery and memories.Mercy James is no stranger to grief and loneliness. Her brother’s death of a drug overdose, and her police officer father’s death in the line of duty were the driving forces behind her pursuit of a career in the DEA. In spite of—or maybe because of—her past, Mercy doesn’t believe in feeling sorry for others, or for herself.When a case brings Jason and Mercy together, and their attraction heats up, can her tough, straightforwardness help Jason learn to live in the light again? He’d lost his first love, but is he ready for a forever love?
This Side of Midnight (Tildas Islands #4)
Tamsen Schultz - 2021
But when tourists start dying under suspicious circumstances, she never imagines that the biggest battle she’d have to fight is within her own department. That is, until her friend, Dominic Burel, and the FBI Task Force he’s a part of, prove she’s right to be concerned.As an FBI agent and former PJ with the elite Air Force Pararescue Unit, Dominic Burel has been happy to move through life solely focused on work. But when a family visit leaves him shaken, he realizes his friendship with Anika could, and should, be so much more. Now he has to change her mind about them and he’s not above using his investigative skills to finagle his way into her case—and life—to do it.As Anika and Dominic hunt a killer, they quickly realize they’ve uncovered something much more sinister. The simple murders aren’t so simple and there’s a much grander plan at play. And when they find they aren’t the only ones hunting, it will take everything they have to stay out of the true killer’s crosshairs.If you revel in escaping into a story, this friends-to-lovers romantic suspense will keep you turning the pages.
Brutal Captor #1-6
Amber Adams
In return, he holds her captive.April Cooker loves her life as an ER doctor but in a horrific twist of fate she suddenly finds herself whisked away to a heavily guarded mansion in order to care for a man she found bleeding to death in an alley. This is no ordinary situation. She has walked into the world of Valentin Ivankov, Russian mafia don. Forced to tend to his injuries, April starts to learn more about the man whose life she has just saved and can’t help but wonder if she’ll ever see her own life again outside the magnificent mansion that has become her prison. Will this devastatingly handsome but dangerous man let her go or is she forever trapped in this world by her brutal captor?Book II: Escape is her only thought. He is determined to make her his, permanently.April has now learned who her patient is and he doesn’t seem intent on letting her go.When her own secret is revealed there is suddenly more at stake regarding her life than ever. As she catches glimpses of the real man beneath his cold and hard exterior, April is drawn into the dark, violent world of the handsome Valentin Ivankov. Will she be able to resist this dangerous man or will she find herself helplessly drawn into the arms of her Brutal Captor?Book III: Being drawn to her captor was never the plan. His tenderness something he never knew that he had.Russian mafia don, Valentin Ivankov, has taken Dr. April Cooker away from everything she’s ever known and, much to her shock, he’s now announced he’ll be taking her as his wife. Escape is still her only thought. But, while she attempts to gain his trust she finds herself unable to resist the pulse-raising effect he has on her.Craving the touch of her Brutal Captor is not something she ever would have thought possible and his tenderness something she never expected. Perhaps it’s not just her life that’s in danger but also her heart.Book IV: The captive comes to hold power over her captor.A mafia Don is expected to take a wife, not necessarily to love one. Marrying April was purely a strategy in order to gain leverage against his fiercest enemy. But now, Valentin finds himself helpless against her. Each day he sees more and more that without April his life would be empty and meaningless and he will stop at nothing to protect her. And it’s this that is planting April right in the crosshairs of the violent mafia war with the Ivankov family’s longest standing competitor, Capeci. Who just happens to be April’s father.Will Valentin’s love for April be the thing that destroys both of them in the end?Book V: Having a future with him is exactly what she wants, or so she thought.Against all odds, April has fallen in love with her Brutal Captor and the man who forced her to marry him. The passion she and Valentin share is like nothing she has ever experienced before and having a future with him is exactly what she wants. Or so she thought. April soon finds out that perhaps the only thing you can count on in Valentin’s world is betrayal and ever-present danger... especially at the hands of family.Book VI: It’s life or death for both of them. Is blood always thicker than water?The war raging with his enemy Capeci is not letting up and April finds herself forced, once again, to play the role of a pawn at the dangerous hands of her father. The extent of the Capeci’s stronghold over Valentin and the Ivankov bratva is finally displayed in a crushing blow that brings Valentin to his knees. A final showdown with Capeci is about to go down and April herself has been positioned as the sacrificial lamb. Is the new love of Valentin and April strong enough for them to triumph over this nightmare or is it true that at the end of the day blood is always thicker than water?
Tangled Web
Wendy Saunders - 2017
There's only one thing missing... her sister.Cassandra hasn't seen her sister since the night their wealthy, prominent father died from a massive heart attack. She had only been five years old at the time and can barely recall the events of that night. All she can remember was that men came to the house and that it was the last time she saw her sister. Her alcoholic, emotionally unstable mother refuses to discuss her and will only say that she had been sent away to an exclusive boarding school in Europe. But, as the years pass by with no word from her, Cassandra begins to suspect there is more to her father's death and her sister's disappearance than she first thought.Desperate to find answers she hires a private investigator, but when he turns up dead it becomes clear someone doesn't want her looking into her family's past. When wealthy businessman Jackson Evans stumbles into her life, with problems of his own, they realize his family and hers are inexplicably entwined in a web of deceit and murder, which spans two decades.One by one, everyone who was in her home the night of her Father's death, begin to die under suspicious circumstances and it becomes a race against time to uncover the truth, before she becomes the next victim.
Pretend to be Mine
C. Morgan - 2020
Nothing like pretending your life is together.We might have pretended a little too well.The crazy part? She’s not from the escort service that a buddy set me up with.She owns the service.And she’s pulling out all the stops. I’m not sure who’s more convinced about her affections, my ex or me.Needless to say, she’s willing to pretend to be mine.The only question is, can I keep her when it’s all over?I plan to work like hell to make that happen.
The Vigilante's Lover: The Original Series Complete Boxed Set
Annie Winters - 2016
She had no idea. The complete set of all four volumes of the blockbuster romantic suspense series from the desk of USA Today bestselling author Deanna Roy / JJ Knight Mia trembles as she reads the letter that arrives from Ridley Prison. Seduction. Ropes. Descriptions of things Mia has never experienced or known. The man’s words are desperately passionate. He longs for a woman who must have given him a fake address. Mia’s address. She plans to send the letter back. He’s a convicted felon. But his words gnaw at her. She’s never done anything dangerous. And no man has ever talked to her like this. So Mia writes him, pretending to be the woman he desires. It's her one dark thrill in her dull, solitary small-town life. The man is in prison for another fifteen years. It's harmless. She is safe enough. Until he escapes. ___________ This complete set includes all four books of the original romantic suspense series.
Rotten Apple
Kate Allenton - 2019
Gwen Bennett As an operative with a hidden talent, I know how to keep my clients safe. It’s ingrained in my unusual DNA, and I’m damn good at my job. So, when a thief swindles my grandmother out of a fortune and flees to a private island that’s by invite only, I’m determined to find access, even if that means taking a job I don’t want for a family I’d rather avoid. Maxwell Pierce She needs me. There’s desperation in her eyes. I have something she wants. And I know it. When my brother sends me to recruit Gwen Bennett for a job after she’s turned him down, I thought it would be more difficult to make a deal. Offering to share my island suite and my bed was more than enough to get her to agree. Now I just need to get her to realize that my sister's life is on line and that's worth more than any money she can hope to recoup. They’ll have to get creative to keep from losing it all when lives, a family fortune, and their hearts hang in the balance.
Romance Series Starter Bundle: Caden + Chaos & the Geek
Elizabeth Stevens - 2021
Featuring the first books in the LOVING THE SYKES and the GRACE GRAYSON SECURITY series.Loving the Sykes #1: CADENCADENI just have to hope I haven't waited too long. And that her three big brothers, the only family I have left, aren't the thing that finally manage to kill me.I need to make her my girl.LUCYI don't know if he'll ever see me as anything more than a little sister. Not with another in his heart. But, I'm willing to do whatever it takes.I've always been his girl.Grace Grayson Security #1: CHAOS & THE GEEKAMBERHow do you politely refuse when the only guy to star in any of your dirty fantasies has just offered to put you up for the foreseeable future and your brother’s just accepted like you were in fact still thirteen and couldn’t make decisions for yourself? You don’t.KITWhen I find out about my best mate’s little sister’s situation, the offer is out of my mouth before I can stop it; Hawk’s like a brother to me even if Amber’s never looked twice at me. It might just be time that this chaos gets a little geek.
Lost
Jodi Kae - 2016
Trying to keep her safe and help her regain her memory, takes him on a different life course than expected.Lost is an erotic suspense novel, an intense non-traditional love story that will take you on a roller coaster ride of emotions. Romance version also available. ISBN: 9781533743640
Catch a King: Five Kings
Stella Andrews - 2021
I found her. A woman with so much sass wrapped in a body that will be my downfall.She thinks she hates me, but hate doesn’t look at me like that.Beautiful, strong, and brave but her loyalty lies with another.She is to be auctioned and my brother is the only bidder.Then I discover the truth. She was brought here for a reason.My family will use her to bring our father’s killer down.Will I betray my own family to save her life?MillieIt was hate at first sight. I went undercover to find a killer. I found him.When he looks at me, I’m a hot mess.I don’t want to react to him; I don’t think I even like him, but my body has other ideas.Dark flashing obsidian eyes rip the breath from my body and leave me burning inside.The scowl on the face of what can only be described as a god among men is trying its best to scare the hell out of me and the fact this man is tall, broad, and wrapped in leather and evil intent, sends a message straight to my soul.My heart says he’s going to break you, my head says walk away.What if it's not my choice to make?
Five kings is the explosive new series by Stella Andrews.Five powerful men who belong to an exclusive club where membership requires you to leave your soul at the door.Someone is out to bring them down, and each book tells their story and the women that break them.A gritty Romance filled with twists, turns, suspense, and a bit of intrigue.If you like your books on the darker side, this series may be for you.Hot, dark, and twisted with romance running like a river of pleasure through its pages.
Reed
Madison Stevens - 2013
All of that is threatened when her brother drags her back into the seedy world of greed, violence and corruption she’s tried desperately to flee.Private security contractor Reed Allen isn’t about to let a burning attraction rope him in again. He’s already felt the sting of letting his heart rather than his head lead him. He’s just there to do the job and get paid, even if a certain spunky beautiful librarian has him feeling things he thought long since buried.Keeping Olivia safe is the easy part. Resisting their passionate urges could prove to be much harder.They’ll have to mend their broken hearts and move on from their painful pasts for a chance at a future.
Cocker Brothers 2nd Six Books Box Set
Faleena Hopkins - 2021
In exact series order.✨✨✨✨✨"I seldom give 5 stars and/or this long a review, but the series is that good." - Classy Lady• Honey Badger, Book 7:A Steamy, Edgy MC Holiday Romance to melt snow...In late December, a shiny black Harley Davidson takes an unexpected pitstop in the charming, Christmas-loving town of Nevada City, California - population 3057. The plan was to ride onward to San Francisco but when Antonio "Honey Badger" Martinez spots a shy redhead in Victorian costume who is in need of a hero, those plans change. Can two people find a Christmas miracle to call their own?• Hannah Cocker, Book 8:Welcome to the Next Generation!A Sizzling Coming of Age Romance where you'll meet the first of the 17 cousins, the Cocker Brothers now fathers.Our story begins with me, the only one who didn't know who her father was until I was five years old and a car accident took my mom away forever. The media won't let me forget, as if I ever could. And sometimes people don't realize I have a burned heart that has been looking for a way out. So when my cousin, Sofia Sol, offers a road trip to Florida on the back of her motorcycle, well...would you say no to an adventure?• Ethan Cocker, Book 9:A Billionaire Romance to drop your pencils for...I'm a computer genius who has patented security inventions so necessary to our future that I am now a very rich genius. But even though I may be well endowed, in the brains department, I can stick my foot where it doesn't belong sometimes. When I say 'foot' I mean something else. Just being a gentleman because you might be reading this in a public place. Am I making sense? No? Sorry about that. I’ve got a lot on my mind what with the hacker I'm unveiling, the stalker in my home, and the sexy boss I pissed off by assuming she'd be a man. But don't hate me. Come closer... I'll explain everything.• Gabriel Cocker, Book 10:A Rockstar Romance to make your heart sing on key...Someone has won a date with the insanely hot rockstar, Gabriel Cocker. But Paige is not exactly jazzed about her win since problems in her life make this the exact wrong time. Especially since Gabriel's cousin saw her first...• Emma Cocker, Book 11:A Billionaire Romance to make you slap a face...I am Jake's only daughter... daddy's 'Baby Love." But I don't need to be protected anymore. My boss has sharpened me, made me tough, with her verbally abusive ways. I am ready to handle this big chance to prove myself - a billionaire client from San Francisco looking for a mansion here in Atlanta to call his new home. I knew it wouldn't be easy with a man like him. Nothing good ever is. But when history comes knocking on this realtor's door, will I be the sweet doormat they all take me for or shake our foundation straight to its core?• Eric Cocker, Book 12:A Sports Romance to get your heart running a hundred yards...Eric's a star quarterback who gets all the ladies, gorgeous as he is. And kind. And funny. But when he flirts with a waitress at the sports bar his team frequents, she throws up a middle finger tattooed with birds that he can sit on...if he could fly. Even worse, she's taken. Will Eric have to sit this game out?FOUR 6-BOOK BOX SETS:1st Six Books Box Set2nd Six Books Box Set (This!)3rd Six Books Box Set4th Six Books Box Set✨✨✨✨✨Each features a different member of the same family, all intertwined in fun ways where one story pays off in another family member's book... a very fun read." - Fupping Magazine✨✨✨✨✨"...this series is a must read." - A Readers Review Site Blog