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The Hallowed by Lani Lenore
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Best Friend's Ex With Benefits
Ashlee Price - 2019
And, now she's pregnant. It was supposed to be a pretend relationship after their breakup. But fake turned into real and Natalie became my obsession. Her deep green eyes and her innocence is all I ever think about. I'll do whatever it takes to protect her. Especially now that she's carrying a baby. A baby that could be mine. Is Natalie going to tell me the truth about who the father is?
Vegas Virgin
Kelli Callahan - 2017
Peoria: It was supposed to be the vacation I had always dreamed of until someone stole my luggage. Tracking him down was the worst mistake I ever made. Once he saw me, he wanted more. Once he had a taste, he wanted everything. Vincent: Stealing luggage wasn't my proudest moment, but a man has to eat. I never expected the woman I stole it from to become Ms. Detective and find me. She's was so sweet, so sassy, and so innocent. I wanted it all and I'm a man who gets what I want. Even if I have to take it. This is a steamy 35,000 word novella and the first in the Nevada Bad Boys series. Each one is a STANDALONE. This is a suspenseful romance with plenty of steam. I'm a girl that likes wild and crazy romances mixed with some instalove and plenty of angst along the way to a beautiful HEA. Take a chance and fall in love with a Nevada Bad Boy.
Buried Secrets
Emme Rollins - 2010
But Nick is dead, found murdered in their local cemetery, and Dusty simply can’t rest until she finds out who–or what–has killed her brother.Sure the local authorities aren’t being straight with her–or anyone else–about what’s been going on in their little upper Michigan town, Dusty delays going off to college for a semester, defying her father and stepmother and taking a job in the local bar to start doing some digging.Her focus soon fixes on Shane, her brother’s best friend and the town bad boy. The tension and rivalry between Dusty and Shane has always been palpable and sparks fly as the two collide. Dusty finds herself sinking in deeper with Shane and the mystery of what happened to her brother–and a lengthening list of victims–grows even stranger.When everything comes to a head, Dusty focuses on one thing: What happened the night her brother was killed in the cemetery? She’s sure Shane is keeping a secret and she’s determined to find out what it is, one way or another.
Calm Before The Storm
Ryan Mullaney - 2015
To get away and relax with friends, forget everything happened, get her life back on track.A stop to seek shelter from a passing storm changes everything. With the weather too intense to continue travel, they pull their Jeep up to the only home around in hopes that the farmhouse's owner would let them rest awhile until the tornado warning passes and the winds and rain have settled. But when the owner of the property answers the door with a shotgun aimed to fire and orders them inside, Samantha can only watch, unseen, as her friends are taken inside to meet an unknown fate.As the only hope for her friends getting out alive, Samantha must figure out what to do, and do it soon. The storm is only getting worse.CALM BEFORE THE STORM is a suspense thriller, a fast-paced journey of horror for a dark and stormy night.
The Good Girl
Emma Nichols - 2013
Though she has impeccable writing skills, there's no denying that a lifetime of being the good girl has left her ill prepared for this position. Realizing it's her lack of experience that will keep her from achieving this dream, she decides to proposition the bad boy who once lived in her college dorm that always had a stream of women doing the walk of shame from his room on a nearly nightly basis. Surely someone that shallow, that experienced, and that wildly attractive could teach her a thing or twenty. Only Wyatt has his own plans, and they don't allow much time for teaching Willow what she would already know if she could just break free of the cool, calculating, proper demeanor that was part of being a Stone. His reputation has served him well through the years and being the black sheep of his family has never bothered him. What does, however, is Willow. She is a mystery to unravel, a present to be cherished, a young woman who just might rock his world by bringing him back into his family's fold. She was everything they wanted for him and precisely what he had avoided since he started dating.What will happen when the good girl gets mixed up with the bad boy?
The Love Triangle
M.S. Parker - 2019
After I gave my heart - and my virginity - to Jarek Rockwell, I realized my father was right. How can I trust Jarek when all evidence points to a huge lie? But who is the real bad guy, Jarek Rockwell or Amaury Michaud, the high-class respected socialite who has been courting me? One wears a mask of deception – the other is fighting for my love. Alicia Bonnaire, Princess of Belgium is caught in a vicious, no-holds-barred love triangle. The pro-athletes, Jarek and Amaury must compete for Alicia’s heart. Find out what happens in The Love Triangle (Filthy Rich Royals).
HOLDEN (Billionaire Bastards, Book Three)
Ivy Carter - 2017
A gold Rolex on his wrist. A custom-tailored suit designed to highlight every single muscle. A different model each week, all clutching his arm with perfectly manicured nails and Botox smiles. There is no way I could ever be with a man who is a) way out of my league b) richer than anyone I’ve ever met c) would hate me on sight if he knew whose daughter I am. But I’m mesmerized by the way Holden looks at me, like he could gobble me up in one wolfish bite. I’m mesmerized by thoughts of his mouth pressing against mine, how those taut muscles beneath his suit would feel against my naked skin. He can be brooding and cold, then explode into violent rage when provoked. His unpredictability is an asset in his business, but makes it impossible for him to have any kind of stable romantic relationship. He wakes up in cold sweats at night, coming out of horrific vivid nightmares where he sees violence played out over and over again. He still lives with the guilt of a horrible secret—a secret he’s never told another soul. I want to get through to him, want to be the one to save him. If he doesn’t reveal his demons, he’ll break my heart. If he does, I might be too scared to stay. Either way is a dead end. Because when it comes right down to it, my heart knows the truth. Holden Quinn is a cold, billionaire bastard. And that’s all he’ll ever be…
Forbidden Room
Joanne Lewis - 2013
Murder? Suicide? Was that Uncle Charlie running from the scene? The children refuse to speak to the police and the crime is never solved.Flash forward to the present and Sara – now an adult and the heiress to a very large fortune - is accused of killing Uncle Charlie. Soldier Boy has disappeared.New attorney Michael Tucker has few clients, yearns to be like his famous grandmother and cannot afford to move out of his parents’ home. When Sara hires Michael, he gets the chance to defend an innocent person, a beautiful lover and notoriety like his grandmother. But is it more than he bargained for? Is Sara innocent or is she really a murderer?Forbidden Room, a murder mystery, begins in the courtroom on the last day of Sara’s murder trial. The foreperson reads from the verdict form. “In The People of New York vs. Sara Goldstein, the defendant is found….”Sara awakens in a hospital room where she was taken after fainting. Michael is by her side. Court is in recess until the following day. The verdict has not yet been announced. Told from the points of view of both Sara and Michael, Forbidden Room unfolds in complicated layers until the verdict is pronounced and Uncle Charlie’s murderer is revealed.
Eyan (Adorkable Love Book 5)
Brynn Hale - 2020
It’s been two years since Rayna’s passing. He wonders if he’s someone who can’t move on, until the adorable and loving Tessa Dyce comes into their life as the twins’ next nanny. Tessa can feel something growing between them but remembering how her father was after her mother’s death, she’s cautious. When Rayna’s judgmental mother finds out, will the growing relationship come to an end or will outside forces they never see coming tear them apart?Will Eyan learn to cherish the memories of one woman while making a life with another?Read this alpha geek, curvy virgin woman, happily-ever-after, steamy, boss and employee, short story romance now!
Marked: An Irish paranormal thriller (The Kerry Horrors Book 1)
B.E. Balfinny - 2017
Set high up a hillside overlooking the ocean, even David, her architect husband, falls in love with it. Determined that they should swap city for country, Dubliner Kate decides to try living her dream. Curiosity draws her to the ancient circle of standing stones at the end of the lane – stones that her elderly neighbour is strangely yet fiercely determined to keep everyone well away from. Little realising the grave danger she faces, Kate visits the stones at sunset and her life is set on a terrifying course that will bring her face to face with an ancient evil. As her dream of the country life rapidly turns into a nightmare, events at the cottage become more and more sinister. Why is the old lady so determined to keep people away? What does the Parish priest know that he isn’t telling her? Will Kate discover the secret to her personal haunting before it’s too late? Set in the ancient and atmospheric surrounds of rural Ireland in the winter time, this paranormal thriller will leave you reluctant to turn out the lights.