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Phoenix Rising
Kristie K. Shafer - 2017
Over 80k words of dark humor, gang violence, and steamy sex. Some characters, making special appearances, are from The Biker series. Lily and Vaughn grew up together in the small town of Stillwater, Minnesota. Although they were good friends, Lily's parents never approved of the hell-raising biker. Not only did he and his family hang out with a notorious motorcycle club, the Steel Bandits, Vaughn just wasn't good enough for their daughter, and they refused to let her see him. Young and influenced by her parents, Lily was forced to obey their rules, hurting Vaughn in the process. -Fast forward six years later- Lily, who moved away to Chicago after high school, is back in town for a family reunion. She runs into Vaughn and finds that he's sexier than ever, but still holding a grudge. Still, there is no denying the attraction they have for each other and eventually things heat up between the couple. Their relationship comes with a price, however. Vaughn is now a patched member of the Steel Bandits and his world is dangerous, especially for Lily now that his enemies know what she means to him... This story contains crude language, sexual situations, and violence. Is not suitable for readers under the age of 18. Please do not buy if any of this offends you. This is a work of fiction and is not meant to be a true depiction of a motorcycle club. It was written for entertainment only.
Unworthy Heart
Dorothy F. Shaw - 2015
He’s got his eye on the top of the ladder at an L.A. marketing firm when his gaze snags on a feisty, tattooed redhead who’s nowhere near his type. But she pushes all his buttons.Maiya Rossini clawed her way out of her dysfunctional, trailer-park childhood. She’s on top of the world, with a great job, and her future dreams are big, but when it comes to matters of the heart, she has no room.In the bedroom, Maiya and Ryan rub each other in all the right ways. Maiya is everything Ryan didn’t know he wanted, and he’s got his work cut out for him convincing her there’s more than just sex between them.Each book in The Donnellys series is a standalone story that can be enjoyed in any order.Series order:Book #1: Unworthy HeartBook#2: Defensive HeartBook #3: Shattered Heart
Arsen: Blacktop Blades MC
Kathryn Thomas - 2016
QUINN I prayed for a way out, but all I got was Arsen. I didn’t know if I was trading one hell for another. He’s no hero, and I’m no princess in a tower. But when he holds me in his strong arms. I can forget the pain. Forget the fear—and believe those words he whispers in my ear: “You’re mine. Now and forever.” ARSEN We picked her up wandering the highway. Something about her made me stop. Made me take a second look. When I found out what happened to her, something inside of me snapped. I didn’t need Quinn turning my life upside down. But I’m in too deep and I won’t stop. She’s mine, and I aim to keep it that way. Even if it means doing the unthinkable Even if it means starting a goddamn war. ARSEN is a full-length, standalone romance novel with steamy hot sex, NO CHEATING, strong language, a happily every after ending and NO CLIFFHANGERS. Contains dark and disturbing themes, and over the top sexiness that may be uncomfortable for some readers. Perfect for fans of Joanna Blake, Alexa Riley, Devon Hartford, Sabrina Paige, Winter Renshaw, Vanessa Waltz, Emilia Kincade and Melanie Harlow
Body Rock: The Complete Series
Nora Flite - 2014
Lola Cooper: Sometimes fame falls into your lap. If it does, it isn't a blessing. It just means you have to struggle harder than anyone to prove you deserve it. My struggle should have been with the fans, with the music. Not with a lead singer who wanted nothing more than to watch me crumble under his lips and fingers. Drezden Halifax: She's in my head and my god damn blood. I can't fight it. I've stopped trying. Music was everything to me. Now I just want her. Even if it means I'll tear her to shreds, even it means ruining her for everyone else... Lola Cooper is going to be mine. And I'll do anything to make that happen. Genre: New Adult Rockstar Romance This is the complete collection of all four books of the Body Rock Series 100,000+ words
Never Wanted More
Stacey Lewis - 2014
He’s bound and determined to break them down. On the outside, Peyton Williams has the perfect life: influential parents, successful siblings, and wealth at her fingertips. But to Peyton, there is more to life that what you have and who you know. College is her ticket out—her ticket to find her own path, her own life. Intelligence and talent are Wyatt Parker’s tickets out the scrutiny of his family-life and upbringing. Determined to break out of the stereotypes that suffocate him, Wyatt takes academics and sports seriously. But when he starts tutoring the gorgeous, but aloof, Peyton, he sees that there’s more to her than he realized. Can Wyatt teach her that money can’t buy happiness? Will he learn that things aren’t always as they seem?
Entitled: A Bad Boy Romance
Danielle Slater - 2016
But that's just because I always get what I want. And now I want her.
Devlin Masters has spent his entire life in the service of his family's business empire, working his way up from the mailroom to the boardroom of Masters In Style. As C.E.O. and heir to the billion-dollar hair-care company, Devlin's life is consumed by his work. But when a rival orchestrates his downfall, Devlin must rehabilitate his image or lose control of his cherished company. Then he meets Ayron. He instantly wants her curvy body. He soon appreciates her mind just as much. But what if she wants his heart?
His father hired me to help him. He’s not supposed to know about this deal. I can't fall in love with him. I've got to be heartless.
Community therapist Ayron Winters loves helping people more than she craves a big paycheck. But when faced with losing her office space—and her beloved assistant's huge medical bills—Ayron knows she needs money, and a lot of it. Fast. When the founder of the famed Masters In Style hair care corporation wants to hire Ayron to counsel his impulsive, bad-boy son, she's intrigued. When she finds out how much he's paying, she thinks it's a godsend. But the devil's in the details: she can't let Devlin Masters know she's a therapist. In order to gain his trust, she must post as his friend. His confidant. But what happens if he wants more? What happens if she does? Ayron can't lose her heart to Devlin. But more than anything: she can't let him find out who she actually is. **This is a STANDALONE bad boy romance novella with NO cliffhanger, NO cheating. Has a HAPPY ENDING. Intended for audiences 18+**
The Infinite Something
Christine Michelle - 2018
The lying, cheating, scheming piece of crap bassist for my brother’s band destroyed my faith in men. Funny how another musician saved me from humiliation, became my best friend during my internship with his band’s tour, and ended up winning my heart despite the fact that I had sworn to never go there again. Too bad things couldn’t stay so simple. One jealous ex-girlfriend, one crazy infatuation later, and I became public enemy number one. Then I waited to see if he would remain my savior, or prove that I was right the first time around… You can’t trust a rocker. Why the hell had I done so twice? He was the reason for the second chance, and my reason for everything that followed. *Note: The Infinite Something is over 100k words, a stand alone book (future books in the series involve other people) and is intended for adult readers due to strong language, sexual situations, and some violence.
Bodyguard Dearest
Alison Foster - 2016
He's my so-called bodyguard.I don't need a bodyguard! And I hate his rugged deliciousness.Tanner barely ever speaks, yet I can't stop thinking about him. He's always there.It just makes me want to scream.**From USA Today Bestselling author Alison Foster, Bodyguard Dearest is a standalone novel featuring Tanner Hayes from SCANDAL and TAKE ME HOME. No cliffhanger -- explicit language. 18+**
Some Girls Do It: Limited Edition Boxset
May Sage - 2017
Read about three badass ladies and the silly alpha males who think they can manage them. Each book is a standalone novella. Scrooge McFuck Piper Stone’s hunky, rude, entitled, Scrooge of a boss is pushing her buttons every day, but he’s taken it too far, this time. Saying she couldn’t take the holidays off was one thing; preventing her to go home to her sick child? Not happening. She has zero regrets when she resigns. Bennet McFinnley can’t believe his annoyingly perfect personal assistant has actually resigned from her cushy, highly paid position, and he intends to tell her exactly what he thinks about it. But when he gets to her place, he comes to realize he might not know Piper as well as he thought he had. Bring on the Psychobitch Lucy is a perfectly reasonable person, up until she isn’t. She bottles up incidents, willing to forgive and forget, but when someone crosses the line, she becomes what her friends have affectionately called The Psychobitch. There’s one person who has it coming; from their very first meeting, Trick Johnson, CFO of Harris Toys, has been a contemptuous ass to her, but she held her tongue… Until her boss asks her to work with him for a month. Trick has a huge problem. He has a life plan – a simple, straightforward plan – and the gorgeous ball-buster his best friend employs isn’t part of it in any way, shape or form. He’s managed to keep her out of sight and mostly out of mind quite successfully… Until Carter Harris makes them work together. Them Back Dimples Cali believed she was done with men - after what the last one has done to her, she has zero reasons to want to open her heart or her legs ever again. Then he happened. Wren Richards, genius with a scalpel in his hands, charming when holding a flute of champagne, is a mess outside of the public eye, and he knows it. He’s quite happy living in chaos, but when his friends ask him to take on a cute young woman who needs a break as a housekeeper, he takes the plunge. Everything should be alright - as long as he remembers to wear pants when she’s around.
Blow
Lucy Fall - 2017
He was athletic, smart, gorgeous, muscular, and charismatic. I worshipped him too, only I did it from afar. I was nobody, a regular girl who wasn’t anywhere near Hunter’s league. But my feelings for Hunter grew as each month passed, until one day, I sat down and wrote him a letter. It was full of every secret fantasy, every dirty thing I wanted to do to him and have him do to me. How I wanted him to touch me, how I wanted him to take my virginity, how I wanted to love him and make him love me back. It contained all of my longing, my heartache. And then I did the dumbest thing of all. I sent it to Hunter Rhodes right before he enlisted in the military and went overseas. I knew he would never respond and he never did. But it wasn’t just because he didn’t know or care about me. Hunter Rhodes went to combat and disappeared. He was presumed dead and the entire town mourned for him. I did too. But at least I knew my horrible secret had gone away with him. Until one day, Hunter Rhodes came back home. Escaped from a year of captivity, he came back a changed man. He was no longer the charismatic Hunter Rhodes everyone knew. He was still sexy as hell, but now he was dark, damaged, full of scars and wounds he refused to talk about. And along with those deep scars and dark wounds, Hunter came back with my letter, and a devastating plan to make me act out everything I’d written. All of my deepest, darkest fantasies and desires would be made real. Even if it cost me everything…
Mine
Paula Cox - 2016
He turned my life upside down in the worst way possible: spread me open and took what he wanted—what I needed. He wasn’t supposed to stay. I wasn’t supposed to scream for more. But when he holds me down and grinds his hard body into mine. Makes me his possession and obsession. Makes me forget who I am and what he is. I can’t tell if this is all a dream come true. Or if I’m trapped in living nightmare. But as long as he’s by my side, I don’t ever want to wake up. Mine is a full-length, standalone romance novel with steamy hot sex, NO CHEATING, strong language, a happily every after ending and NO CLIFFHANGERS. Contains dark and disturbing themes, and over the top sexiness that may be uncomfortable for some readers.
Desired by the Pack Bundle: Parts One, Two and Three
Emma Storm - 2014
~*~This 60,000-word bundle includes parts one, two, and three of the ongoing serial novel DESIRED BY THE PACK, a paranormal romance that follows the complex relationship between January Cabot and the Peace River Guardians werewolf pack. Please note: love scenes are fully realized and at times include explicit language. Some love scenes in the series also feature multiple partners in their human and wolf forms. Intended for readers 18+. Additional note: this story is ongoing, and continues beyond part three.~*~ PART ONE Full-figured nurse January Cabot wants the same things many other women want, but she’s stuck between two worlds, too human to mate into a werewolf pack, but too werewolf to marry a human man. Life is an endless, grueling cycle of 12-hour shifts and 72-hour bouts of Heat, the sexual frenzy that afflicts werewolf females once every month. Predictable, unchanging, soul-crushing... until alpha werewolf Thomas Becker prowls into her life and brings the Peace River Guardians pack with him.PART TWOIt's been nearly three weeks since January Cabot came face to face with alpha werewolf Beck and the Peace River Guardians alpha pack. While she counts down the days until she can take a home pregnancy test, unsure whether she hopes for a negative or a positive, Beck and the Guardians watch January closely, looking for evidence that she might be the dangerous target of their hunt. When January makes plans to flee the reach of the pack, the Guardians make their play to grab her for their own. PART THREEUnable to continue denying her nature and resisting the pull of the Peace River Guardians, January Cabot finds herself growing more and more distant from her life among humans. While she is discovering a home and conquering her shortcomings with her werewolves, the friend she left behind tumbles down a dangerous path that might lead him to his death.
His Obsession
J.L. Beck - 2017
Four years later he returns to that woman, who now has a child and life of her own. Jake knows he should move on but he can’t. He’s obsessed with Mia and the need to make her his again. Until she tells him her secret causing his world to flip upside down. Love can endure anything if it’s real, right? Now all Jake must do is win back Mia’s heart so he can give her the happily ever after he knows they both deserve. WARNING: Instalove themes rule this book. There’s also an alpha that refuses to take no for an answer, and a secret baby romance, with a happily ever after that's sweet enough to melt your heart. If you love seeing two people come together then this book is for you. -Also, contains a bonus book called Seducing the Virgin.-
JACKSON
Paige North - 2016
Filthy rich, devastatingly handsome, and sexy as all hell… JACKSON I don’t do slow and easy. I do fast and hard. I don’t do dates. I do … arrangements. I don’t do romance, love, flowers, hearts, candy, and I sure as hell don’t do marriage. Until my father dies, and decides to leave his company to the first one of his sons to get married. Croft International. The business that’s supposed to be mine. But I didn’t get to be where I am by giving up. I’ll just find a wife. How hard can it be? Until Emily walks into my office, all spitfire and passion, her curves encased in a dress that makes me c*ck throb. I tell myself I’m just using her. I tell myself it’s just business. So what if she doesn’t know that’s what I’m doing? All I have to do is convince her to marry me. But with each moment that passes—each look, each touch, each word out of Emily’s perfect lips—I wonder how I’ll ever survive being tempted by her…
Bad Love
Aurora Hayes - 2015
I’m the good girl, he’s the bad boy. We’re at a party. We get drunk. His eyes are all over me… so I let him be all over me. Simple as that. One crazy night with the sexiest guy in the world. Stripping away all my innocence. I’m never going to have to deal with him again. Until my father makes a shocking confession… my father’s now married and I have a new stepbrother. When I meet him, my life forever changes… (JAKE) Yeah, I knew the truth before I slept with her. And you know what? I didn’t give damn about it. I take what I want and I forget everything – and everyone – else. So when Jade sees me standing there, being introduced as her new stepbrother, the look on her face is priceless. But something else starts to happen… she turns me on again. She’s too pretty and way too tempting to be around. I like it. I like her. I like us. She’s so innocent and so good. And she has no idea who I really am or what I’m actually capable. Hell, maybe even I don’t know. It’s wild and it’s fun… just as long as we don’t get caught – or fall in love. Yeah, right. ~*~ Aurora Hayes is the pen name for bestselling romance author, Ana W. Fawkes. Don't miss out on *new releases* *excerpts* *cover reveals* and some great *contests* ... sign up for the *official* Ana W. Fawkes newsletter RIGHT NOW: eepurl.com/ADM0j