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The Devious King by B.L. Mute
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The Virgin Clause (The Calegaris Book 1)
Caprice Langden - 2021
He wasn't my type - tall, dark... dangerous. My stomach flipflopped whenever he was around and I got so tongue-tied I could never get words out of my mouth. But it didn't matter. He never talked to me. Barely knew I existed. Why did I just spend the last decade dreaming about him? I'm shy, quiet… still a virgin. A man like Dante Calegari would never be interested in a girl like me. So, I made him an offer he couldn't refuse. ~ She thinks I don't know how she feels, thinks she's hidden it all from me. She couldn't be more wrong. I've known Noemi since she was twelve, watched her grow up. She was sweet back then, a little shy, too quiet. Never talked to me. Just smiled, nodded, and walked away. Then the sweet girl I knew went away to college, traveled the world and came home to torment me. But it could never happen between us. I'm a ruthless killer and she's the girl next door.Then she made a decision that changed things. She handed me what I needed. A pass to my own personal paradise, or a one-way ticket to Hell, depending on how you looked at it. She gave me permission to ruin her. She asked me to agree to the Virgin Clause and I wasn't strong enough to say 'no.' Now, she's all mine. If I can keep her alive.
Rapture & Ruin (Rapture & Ruin #1)
Julia Sykes
Including kidnapping me to exact his revenge.Max Ferrara is a ruthless Mafia prince, a monster out of my worst nightmares, but it’s not his scarred face that makes him a beast. My father, the mayor, sent most of his family to prison. I’m the key to his revenge.But my innocence sparks his obsession. The chemistry we share is undeniable, and I can’t help being drawn to the damaged criminal who watches me from the shadows. His pain calls to something deep inside me, and I’m quickly becoming addicted to his dangerous presence in my life. When other bad men threaten me, my possessive stalker proves to be my dark protector.With every stolen kiss, I fall harder for the man who should be my most fearsome enemy. If our families discover our relationship, we’ll both suffer painful consequences.Our love could be our ruin.
Chased
Felicity Brandon - 2021
Brutal, Ruthless and Charming.Chase Benedict takes pleasure in inflicting suffering on enemies and observers alike.Cambridge graduate, leader of the largest criminal organization in Britain, calculating lawbreaker, he doesn’t take no for an answer.Until me.I won’t bend to his will.I won’t be manipulated by his menace.He’ll discover what it means when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object.
Punishing Thirst
Olivia Fox - 2021
It’s a stand-alone in the Rough Redemption Series complete with HEA and no cliffhangers. There are fiery hot scenes in and out of the bedroom!
Dangerous Vow
S.R. Jones - 2021
He sees me as prey. He doesn’t know what I’m capable of or the terrible secrets I hide.Giovanni Bianchi: Handsome, wealthy, and controlling.He’s the man who has it all—except me.When he offers me the opportunity to work as a librarian for his estate, I can’t turn him down despite my father’s deathbed warning. I have nothing to lose. My father is dead. My home is in danger. My fortune gone. Yet, still he takes from me. I should have listened to the warnings.Giovanni tempts me with books, lures me with sunshine, and wraps me in sin. But all is not well in our Eden, and my secrets refuse to stay hidden. Will he leave when he sees the real me? Maybe, but I’m starting to understand my Italian Prince.He’s not just powerful, he’s the devil in disguise.Our twisted game will bring danger to us both, and our lives will never be the same again. Secrets are spilled, battle lines are drawn, but Giovanni won’t let me go.And this time he’s playing for keeps.
Nikolai: A Mafia Prince Romance
Shandi Boyes - 2018
It is the women determined to tame the bad boys.By tame, we mean stake our claim.
Perfectly Bad: Pierce
Alice May Ball - 2016
My voice shook, “Are you going to force me?”His nostrils flared.”Is that what you want?” His eyes gleamed and a shock beat through my body. I wanted to smack that grin right off his face. When I want something from somebody, I’ll take what they love the most. I wanted old man Grace’s club? So I kidnapped his curvy, sassy daughter. I didn’t give much thought to her when I slung her over my shoulder and carried her away. She was only collateral. But they say that opposites attract, right? I have to hold the little minx close or she makes all kinds of havoc. That’s where the real trouble starts. However close I hold my feisty prisoner, the urge to hold her closer and tighter gets stronger. It uncoils like a fat, sleeping python then it lengthens and hardens and nothing will make it sleep until it has fed. He’s hot as hell, but he’s a ruthless killer He took me hostage just to steal my daddy’s club. I needed to show him that I wasn’t like the paper-thin dancers and models who flowed into his arms and his bedsheets like a tide. I wanted to smack that smirk right off his chiseled face. The longer he holds me in his power and try as hard as I might, I can’t push away the thoughts of how it will be if he turns his brutal force on me. Can I resist him? This standalone, novel-length adventure races with passion, pulses with action, and climaxes again and again, rises higher and higher to a full, complete, satisfying and surprisingly happy ever after ending. It’s a bad boy romance like no other and you’re going to love it. LAUNCH BONUS for a limited time only, includes Alice May Ball’s Biker MC novel SAVAGE ANGELS for free ! ! !
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.
Power
Victoria Woods - 2020
My biggest adversary is out to take everything from me. My family. My business. My power.I have sworn to make him pay for his deceit, but first I must track him down.I own the biggest tech company in the world as a front for my criminal ways, but she has something I am missing.Amelia Becker.Brilliant. Beautiful. Brave.I am drawn to her. I cannot keep away. She consumes me.I want her to find him, but I need her to find me.TRIGGER WARNING:Subject matters like rape that may be dark and disturbing to some readers is included in this book.
The Beast of Moscow
Bethany-Kris - 2021
Reclusive. Paranoid. Violent. His trek to the top has been a bloody game—with a deadly end for anyone who loses. And it’s not over yet. Vera Avdonin stumbled into the life of Vaslav Pashkov entirely by accident, and it should have stopped there, too. Just a broken ballerina who helped a beautifully tortured stranger. But she’ll soon learn that like the mafiya he controls, once he brings you in, there is no way out. They don’t call him The Beast of Moscow for nothing. *The Beast of Moscow is a slow burn, contemporary romance saga told over the course of several parts and encompassing more than one generation from start to finish. Only part of this is a love story; everything else hurts. TBOM—taking readers from Moscow to Paris while peeling back the beginning layers of Vaslav Pashkov—is part one.
Ember
Emma Slate - 2018
I am weak. Naked. Vulnerable.A lamb among wolves.My life is no longer enchanted. My life is no longer a dream.My life is a nightmare, and my only hope is a man who’s determined to fight my demons like they’re his own.Only, in the quiet of the night, I worry he isn’t my savior.He is my destruction.
Desperation: Ceejay's Absolution
Linzi Basset
Desperation is a story about Colt Fargo, the owner of Club Wicked Cove, and Ceejay Powell, a woman driven by her past to join the lifestyle in an effort to find absolution for her guilt. Colt happens upon Lady Silver involved in a scene that contravenes the ethics of his club and sets out to find what motivates her to demand such a scene each every time, subsequently giving her an ultimatum that she must accept if she wants to remain a member of the club. The instantaneous attraction between them sends Colt on a mission to break through the wall to assuage the pain in Ceejay’s heart. In his quest, she finds the key to his guarded past and soon they are both fighting off the siege of emotions that threatens to overwhelm them. By a quirk of fate, their dark association with the mob soon jeopardizes the solace that Colt Fargo has found in obscurity in the backwater town of Jacksonville, Texas in his quest to escape the life he once led as a reluctant member of a powerful American crime family whose long tentacles are now within striking distance of reeling him back in and squeezing the life out of Ceejay Powell. This story ends in a cliffhanger…to continue in book 1, Part 2, Desperation: Colt’s Acquittal. Note: This book is meant for mature audiences. Please read the notice inside the book before purchasing it.
Rake: A Dark Boston Irish Mafia Romance
Sophie Austin - 2020
But I still want to see what's under her clothes. Sasha is the devil in heels. She wants to ruin my family's business. But she's also incredibly delicious. The way she licks her lips, Tosses her hair, She brings me to my knees. But I have to focus. Get her and her labor union ideas out of the casino. And I'll do anything to stop her. Even tie her to my bed. My family can't know I'm attracted to her. They'll think I'm turning my back on the family. I'd never do that. But for Sasha? Maybe they're right to be worried. Rake is the latest standalone book in a hot new dark mafia series written by bestselling author Sophie Austin. Get an inside look at what brings the eldest son of Boston’s richest crime family to his knees. He’ll do anything to protect his family fortune and investments, and he’s not afraid to get dark and dirty to get things done. Sasha’s ready to rumble, and this enemies-to-lovers and class differences romance will keep you turning the page with just the right amount of high drama, emotional angst, forbidden steamy scenes, heartpounding danger, and satisfying emotional redemption that leads straight to an Happily Ever After you dream about. Fall in love with Finn and get to know the Carneys. If you loved The Doyles, but wanted them even darker, the Carneys are for you.
The Sweet Temptation of Whiskey
Charlene M. Martin - 2015
He is broken-maybe even beyond repair. He has never been in a successful relationship, because he doesn’t let anyone get close enough. Anaya Cole has recently come into money and she is looking to invest. Mr. Black offers to help Anaya invest her inheritance so that she can open her abuse center. There attraction is overwhelming, but Anaya doesn’t want to want him. After all he is a man-whore. Ms. Cole has penetrated my mind and I just can’t seem to get her out of it. I have to have her, so have her I will. If it’s the last Goddamn thing I do. I will screw her until she can’t walk and then I will move on with my life just like I have always done.Once Anaya tastes the whiskey on his breath, she can’t stop. She craves more, and when her head and her heart collide, she is left with an important decision-Walk away or risk being burned? After all, Whiskey never felt so good.***********WARNING: This book has adult situations, including abuse. (Possible triggers) This book is a DARK EROTIC read not intended for the faint hearted. Due to content and situations this book is NOT intended for anyone under the age of 18.***************