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A Brother's Salvation (The Sacred Brotherhood #7)
A.J. Downey - 2018
A pillar of her community, a savvy businesswoman, a picture-perfect citizen despite a few bumps in the road, she never imagined what it would be like if it all came crashing down. She also never imagined that it would be one of the notorious bikers from around town that would set her back on her feet and put things to rights. Dragon has been The Sacred Hearts’ fearless leader since the club’s inception. He has loved and lost harder, than any member and has had no intentions of ever trying to find love again. Of course, never say never, because that is when things tend to prove you wrong. In this final installment of The Sacred Brotherhood series, two broken souls are mended proving salvation is there if you’re only willing to reach for it.
Double Scrooged
Shae Sullivan - 2020
Not that I can blame them. Daddy has never been the standard father figure. He was too busy cheating and drinking to notice that he had family that needed him.Now, five years later, my ex-stepbrothers are the biggest private investors on the west coast and my dad is barely scraping by.When daddy suddenly up and disappears a month before Christmas, it turns out he owes a lot of money and he’s bailing on the bill…See, I had no idea that the life we lived was funded by gambling…and unpaid debts. Debts that have suddenly come due. When two massive mafiosos show up in my small Portland gift shop claiming that I have to settle his back loans with money—or my flesh—I’m thoroughly freaked out.Now, I have nowhere to turn—except to them.After all, they say the devil you know is better than the one you don’t…But I’m not sure if I am more afraid of my ex-stepbrothers and their dark unforgiving demeanor—or the mob. And if I accept their help, they promise me one thing; They’ll save me, but I’m going to pay for all of my father’s sins…with my body.And the only thing getting decked this season, is my bottom.Looks like this Christmas, I’m getting Double Scrooged…
Abandoned Girl
Lexie Winston - 2020
With an unreliable junkie for a mother and an unknown father, her foster family, the kind, successful, and generous Bostons, are the brightest spot in her life.But even with a foster family like Harlow's, there are some things money can't buy- like the ability to fit in with the shallow socialites who act like her lack of pedigree is contagious.Now that she's finished college and her veterinary degree, Harlow's life was supposed to take off. She was supposed to get a job and create a life away from the petty drama of the wealthy elite.But when her mother dies and a life-changing secret is revealed, Harlow finds herself flying across the country to face an uncertain future that Kai, Holden, Jaxon, Thomas, Jacinta, Declan, and Oliver are going to make sure she won't accept.
Unexpected Turn
C.Y. Jones - 2020
I thought things were looking up when I applied to an ad about being a surrogate at this snooty fertility clinic. Good pay, nice benefits, what’s not to like? All I need to do is spit out a baby for the rich and powerful. Piece of cake. Or so I thought.Turns out, things are not that simple, and in this world, nothing is as it seems. I’ve entered a world of secrets and lies, not knowing who I can trust, especially the couple who hired me to conceive their baby.What do I do when fate knocks me on my butt and sends me tumbling down a one-way street with no opportunity to return?Who knew a chance encounter in an elevator would turn my whole life upside down, sending me on an Unexpected Turn that’s now my life?
Brutal Winter
Quirah Casey - 2021
This year when it comes, I’ll belong to them.When you sign your soul over to the devil, there are no take backs.I knew the terms of the contract when I signed it. For one year, my life isn’t mine.For one year I am to obey, to be seen not heard. For one year I’m theirs, mind, body, and soul. The bodyguard. The fixer. The maniac. The boss.Four men on a path to ruin me.I may be theirs for a year, but the damage they plan on doing to me will last a lifetime. That’s if I even survive, because between the family and their enemies, the odds of me even making it past the end of winter are low.
Red Handed
Kate King - 2021
Name your price.”At twenty-three, you would think I could say no to being traded to the enemy, but that’s not how life works when you grow up in an organized crime family. I consider myself lucky to have grown up at all.Ten years ago, my brother was murdered in the gang war that split the city of St. Adrian down the middle. My family took the South Side, and the North Side went to them. The Gentlemen.Now the leader of the Gentlemen is asking for my help and my father has been nice enough to agree to his terms. In exchange for my sister’s protection, I need to cross the divide and live with the family that killed my brother.Too bad I’ve never been great at playing nice.Nico, Beck and Rush are the enemy. The leaders of the Gentlemen. They’re conceited, lying, murderous assholes and they’re the reason I’ve been trained all my life to cheat, steal, and shoot my way to the top.I’m ready to take them down from the inside. I just hope they don’t get to me first. After all, a truce between two enemies is a promise waiting to be broken.Red Handed is an enemies to lovers contemporary mafia romance where the female main character will end up with multiple love interests by the end of the series. All the characters are in their mid-twenties. There are dark themes and graphic violence, but no bullying or violence toward the main character. This is book one of three.
The Lieutenant
Melissa Adams - 2021
When my father was assigned as base commander in Star Cove, I couldn’t say no to his offer to move in with him. I couldn’t wait for the beach and the sand and my first real job out of college.Only dad doesn’t tell me about his new wife and her deliciously sexy military sons and the house we all now call home. The house is big, but the base is small, and everyone talks.If I give in to our attraction, I could ruin my new stepbrothers’ careers and my dad’s. If I don’t, I might lose the only chance at a love that could heal my broken heart for good.Warning: this book is part of a trilogy and ends on a cliffhanger. This is a why choose, military stepbrother story where the heroine won’t have to choose between her different love interests. It has sexual scenes, dub-con, swearing, danger and mild violence. Suitable only for readers aged 18+
Reborn In Blue
M.J. Knight - 2020
A abusers victim. That's how I have seen myself the last ten years. Not Anymore. That night was the last straw. I’m starting over but not somewhere new. I'm going back to where it all began.How many times in your life do you get the chance to flirt with four sexy bad boys? Exactly! So when you do, you go for it! Enter the steamy Sons of Fortune. The four oldest sons of the Saupoudrer crime syndicate. Gearing up to take over for the heads of the families in charge, they were not suspecting me to show up and throw a wrench into everything. The daughter of former Navy Seal turned felon, Frank "Old Man" Underhill. I was struggling daily to deal with my demons. They helped me embrace them. I might slowly be going crazy, and they might be dark and twisted, but I would forever live in the chaos and shadows just to be near them.It's never that easy, however. Not when people want to control you or kill you. Will we get our crazily ever-after, or will we be ripped apart before I can find out how wild life can be with the Saupoudrer boys?I'm Ayida Underhill, and this is how I won my life back. This book contains strong language, sexual situations, violence, death, and reverse harem relationship. It also mentions past physical and emotional abuse. Recommended for 18+
Theirs to Protect
Piper Stone - 2020
Rough men who know how to keep a woman safe... and how to make her scream their names.But the Hell's Fury MC doesn't do charity work, and their help will come at a price.A shameful price...They aren't just going to do whatever they want with me. They're going to make me beg for it.Publisher's Note: Theirs to Protect includes spankings and sexual scenes. If such material offends you, please don't buy this book.
Their Kingdom Come
Logan Fox - 2020
Now no one stands in our way.No one, except one girl.Trinity Malone doesn't know about our past.She doesn't have a say in our future.At least, so we thought.Until we realized Trinity's exactly who we were looking for.She's our secret weapon.Soon, she'll be seeking revenge...Just like us.Contains strong language, violence, and sexual situations some may find triggering.HEA guaranteed with multiple love interests.
Dangerous Truths
Kris Butler - 2021
Pretending to have it all together wasn’t working anymore as the lies I had to tell weighed heavier each day. I’d done everything right my whole life and I still ended up divorced, childless, and alone. All I had left was my job.Maybe it was time to be a little bad? Seductive choices pulled me over into darkness and I no longer had to pretend. The escape was addictive as recklessness marred my skin and desperate decisions led me into the arms of unknown danger. The hardest part was knowing whether they would save me, or destroy me. Because their destruction was beginning to taste like salvation and I didn’t know if I could walk away.After all, the sweetest lie was the one you told yourself, especially when the truth was the most dangerous confession of all.*Author's note: This is a why choose novel, meaning the main female character doesn't have to choose between love interests. This is a dark contemporary mafia romance, medium burn with a slow build harem. The characters are adults with most being 30 and above. This story deals with depression and other themes that may be triggering. Please read the forward at the beginning of the book for more details. This is an adult romance and intended for readers 18+ due to language and content. This series will contain MM though not in book 1.
Sweet Obsession
Callie Rose - 2020
I risked my life for a man I didn’t even know and nearly died for it.I’ve tried to forget him. To forget that whole night.But he hasn’t forgotten me.He’s been watching.Obsessing.Craving.And when he crashes back into my life like a wrecking ball, accompanied by two dark shadows—men he calls his brothers—the life I’ve been trying to rebuild for myself shatters into a thousand sharp-edged pieces.He believes our souls are bound by blood, and he’s come back to claim what’s his.Two years ago, I saved Marcus Constantine’s life.Now I wish I hadn’t.This is the first book in the Ruthless Games series, a dark reverse harem romance. It contains sexual situations, violence, and dark subject matter.
Limelight: A Reverse Harem Romance
Emi Ree - 2020
While they are technically a normal, healthy part of life, wet dreams are not the norm for 19-year-old Amber. She should not be dreaming of men she doesn’t know, let alone the seven male popstars from the world-famous boyband IDOL. In a few days, she will receive a soul bond that should be her one-way ticket into the arms of her soulmate, the destined love of her life. And it’s definitely not a good idea to continue yearning for a group of men when she should be paying attention to her fated mate. Right?In a last-ditch attempt to get rid of her infatuation, Amber decides to attend their concert on her birthday. It’s her way of saying goodbye to the people of her obsession. Her way of convincing herself that she will never see them again, and that is for the better. She does not expect to switch bodies with the idol on stage, minutes after her 20th birthday, nor does she expect to find that all the members of the boyband are her soulmates. All seven of them. ***LIMELIGHT is Book 1 of the My Soulmates are IDOLs Duology. It is an 180,000-word polyamory romance novel. This is a story of carnal desire, raw emotions, heartache, grief, drama, angst, sex and destined love. It contains singers, concerts, soulmates, soul bonds and Asian characters. The story takes place in South Korea and contains multicultural themes.This is a story of how one beautiful girl falls in love with seven guys, and they steadily fall back in love with her. This is an MMMFMMMM book with a STRONG focus on the woman. The men are not scared of each other’s bodies. Two of the men within the seven were once friends with benefits. So you will see some gay content.
Sinners' Playground
Caroline Peckham - 2020
Because it sure as hell wasn’t for the surf. But what else was I supposed to do when I found myself in Sunset Cove with twenty bucks to my name, the key to my enemies’ secrets hanging around my neck and a mouth full of grave dirt that wouldn’t wash clean?I hate the Harlequin boys.But this is the perfect opportunity to take what they owe me. Because once upon a time, they broke my heart, stole my life and sent me away from everything I’d ever known.Fox, JJ, Chase and Maverick.The four names tattooed onto my heart more permanently than any of the ink on my skin. They don’t just live in this town anymore, they rule it. And the view here may be beautiful, but the sun, sea and sand hide dark secrets.The gangs.The lies.The violence.It all lurks beneath a veil so thin that once you’ve seen through it, you can never close your eyes to the truth again.But I don’t plan on closing my eyes. I have four devils set in my sights. And this dead girl no longer has anything to lose.This is an enemies to lovers contemporary series where the girl will end up with multiple love interests and all of the characters are in their late twenties. Trigger warning: this series features gangs, violence, dark romance and jealous/possessive themes.