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Heartless
Jade West - 2020
That’s my plan until I see her, the woman in gold with the sinful curves and the blonde curls. My will to dominate her runs as deep as the hate I have for her last name. No matter how beautifully she bends beneath my hands, I'll leave her shattered, a broken toy for her cruel family.I'm a sadist, and she's the object of my obsession."I'm speechless... My limits were tested and I even found a few hard limits of my own. I still hear that divinely, sexy man demanding those sinfully sweet words." - USA Today bestselling author B.B. Reid on DIRTY BAD WRONG
Fighting Chance
Lea Coll - 2022
James rejected me in high school. It's her cluttered storefront I have a problem with. Still, it’s hard to stay mad at her when she’s more beautiful than I remember and her son keeps finding new ways to sneak over to my hardware store every chance he gets. While I admit he needs a male figure in his life, I’m the wrong guy for the job. Despite my reluctance, the little guy brings us together even as our pasts keep us apart.I’m falling deeper for this woman, and the more I get to know Savannah, the more I realize I may have misjudged her. Maybe we can get a second chance after all.
Breathe With Me
Michelle B. - 2017
Time passes.The pain you felt subsides, laying dormant.You can finally wake with the sunrise with a smile on your face, only to have it ripped away from you again when you’re abducted and held prisoner by a sadistic human being.Only to be released and promised he’d come back for me… My given name is Sofia Rose Heart and I am the headstrong daughter of an organized crime boss.But, I am also known as Beautiful, by my best friend and my soul mate, Caelan O’Reily. He is my strength, courage, heart, childhood memories, and even the breath that I breathe at times to keep me alive. It is his breath that steadies my pulse. From the moment he moved next door to my family, he became my protector. My name is Caelan O’Reily. What would you do when you are trying, so desperately, to hold onto the woman you love, but she keeps pushing you away? You fight, that’s what you do. I have loved my beautiful girl since we were kids. I have waited years for her to acknowledge our love, and for a short glimmer of time, I thought she had. I’m done waiting.She’s my girl.She always has been.She always will be.I’m her protector and her air when she needs it.“Love” cannot describe the feelings that I have for her. In fact, there are no words to describe it at all.She’s my life.I will kill to keep her safe. I’m the man that watches her every move. She has turned my life upside down. What once was a pure love has now become my obsession. I’m the man she is meant to be with. The man she cannot hide from.I love her.I need her.I will kill to have her. *****This is book 1 of 3 for Caelan and Sofia. (A trilogy within a series.) Books 4 Where The Chips May Fall and book 5 Skinny Love are standalones but will be enjoyed more if all are read in order.*****
Marked for Death
J.C. Valentine - 2017
I’ve learned every trick in the book, staying one step ahead of him and his trackers. He’s taken everything from me, and despite everything, I’ve managed to carve out a life. But he’s getting close again. It’s time to hit the road, to start over…but it looks like the universe has other plans.RyderAs Sargent at Arms, stalking the crazy man trying to kill my MC brothers is part of my job description. Protecting the club is what I live for. Unfortunately, today I’m the loser in our never ending game of cat and mouse. The last thing I remember before waking up in the emergency room is staring up at the sky while bleeding out onto the cold, hard pavement. Then the pretty nurse walks in and turns my world sideways, and those soft hands know just how to handle a big, angry biker like me. With a psycho on my tail, the stakes couldn’t be higher. I know I should walk away, but self-preservation has never been much of a strong suit. As my enemy closes in, I’ve got no gun, three bullet holes, and absolutely zero patience left. The question is, who will be the one to sign my death warrant—the crazy-ass biker who’s gunning for me…or the sexy-as-sin nurse I’ve got a hard-on for?
Master of Sin
Sienna Snow - 2019
The one I shouldn't want, shouldn't crave, the one who could destroy my carefully built life.Hagen Lykaios was the essence of sin, indulgence, and danger - everything I knew to avoid.All it took was one unexpected touch, and he consumed me, left me begging, needy, and hungry for more.He said if I entered his world he would corrupt me, own me, and change all that I had ever known...and you know what? I went anyway.
His Baby, Her Billionaire
Sloan Storm - 2020
Me? I only have one, my baby bump, and it's starting to show.Dalton "The Destroyer" Maxwell.That's what they call him.He's the sexy older man, the distinguished battle-hardened SEAL turned brooding, introspective professor. There isn’t a red-blooded female in five hundred miles that wouldn’t kill to trade places with me.It was only a fling - just a chance encounter in a faraway place. I wasn't looking for a fairy tale ending beneath those starry skies.But what should've stayed a memory didn't. It chased me home, leading me right where it shouldn't - his arms.Now the consequence has me feeling like I'm cramming for an exam I'll never pass. The truth is, everything about us is forbidden. Nothing good can come of it.There's only one problem. Dalton disagrees and won't take "no" for an answer.When he promises he'll give it all up for me and his baby, that's when his ten-figure truth leaves me with an impossible choice.What have I done?
Bad Blood
Cora Kenborn - 2021
A Carrera bleeds for revenge.Thalia Santiago is the daughter of my enemy. A beautiful rebel with a single cause.Impulsive. Fearless. And ripe for her father’s undoing.I recognized her the moment she stepped into my casino.I watched her start the fires that burned her pretty fingers, and then I poured gasoline on the flames. Now she’s in my debt, and her dues are a shiny gold ring and a vow of deception. I’ll bend her. I’ll break her. I’ll turn our mockery of a marriage into a battlefield.And that river of bad blood that flows between our two families? I’ll make it an ocean of hate. *This is book 1 of a new dark romance duet, releasing May 12th. Tainted Blood, book 2, releases June 9th. **Bad Blood is set in the Santiago and Carrera worlds, but it is not necessary to have read either trilogy beforehand.
Ground Zero
April Canavan - 2021
Ground Zero: The center or origin of rapid, intense, or violent activityJoshI carried her lifeless body out of a burning building.One that collapsed on top of us, forcing us to fight for survival.Where she gave her life so that I could live.That nightmare wasn’t the happy ending I thought I’d find in the flames.Turns out, it wasn’t our ending at all.It was the beginning of our story.The one where I fell in love without knowing what was happening.Or the destruction she would thrust into my path.NiaMy entire life has been bringing me to the brink of…Well, I don’t know, but it’s something big.What I do know is that I won’t settle.Not in my career, and not in my love life.I wasn’t even looking for a relationship.Until he walks through the flames and ash, right into my bed.Ours might not be the perfect story.But that’s half the fun.And if I survive the carnage he drags me into…I might just fall in love after all.
Just Like Heaven
Trilina Pucci - 2021
𝐖𝐞’𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐲. If only I could’ve convinced my heart.We were gorgeously young and desperate for one another. His lips whispered promises of all the stars in the sky. While I dreamt of a love that would last forever. But we’re star-crossed.Fate had decided our course.Leaving us to cling to each other as we crumbled to ash.His need became possession. My innocence turned jaded.Our families declared war.All that remained was hate. But Calder was raised by wolves. The rules didn’t apply. I was his until he said otherwise—for better or for worse.Our love story’s bathed in crimson and drenched in bullets.Because sometimes, Romeo comes with tattoos, guns, and a taste for blood.
Frozen Valentine
E.C. Land - 2021
I know I should make him leave. He's surely capable of fending for himself, but it's the middle of winter, the roads are icy and around these parts that can mean a death sentence. I don't have any other choice but to help this handsome stranger. My heart has been broken one too many times, and I've refused to let anyone back in. Can I keep this man from melting my heart with his charm, or will it be as frigid as it was yesterday? Today is Valentine's after all, and stranger things have happened.
Sweet Collateral
L.P. Lovell - 2021
A slave. A possession.Freedom is so close I can almost taste it, only to have it snatched away under the guise of protection. A gilded cage is still a cage. Rafael D'Cruze is a bad man. I hate him, so why do I feel safe with him?RafaelShe's a favor. A pretty slave. Sweet collateral.I have no interest in Anna beyond keeping her alive for the man who now owns her and paying off a debt. And yet, I'm fascinated by the little slave. I find myself willing to bleed for a willing touch, a trusting glance...A broken little bird. The big bad wolf. A longing that could heal or destroy.Hate me or hold me?
Total Surrender
Opal Carew - 2017
Surrender to your deepest desires in Total Surrender.
PLAYED BY THE MASTER
Jacqueline will do anything she can to save her brother-in-law. Race Danner is the only one with the power to help. In this game, Race holds all the cards. Played by the Master an exciting and humorous story of Domination and submission, where breaking the rules of the game is where the fun begins, when Jacqueline crashes a billionaire’s exclusive poker game in order to seduce him into granting a favor to save her sister, but instead finds herself Played by the Master.Warning: This story has Domination, submission, bondage, punishment, and a lot of other fun things, plus explicit, wild sexual encounters. After all, if you’re going to play, play hard! ;)
THREE
Hot steamy dreams...a handsome stranger...and his two brothers... all add up to an exciting adventure she'll never forget.Warning: This intriguing story is scorching hot, and not for the faint of heart
THE OFFICE SLAVE
Her ultimate sexual fantasy brought to life... Sylvia loves to read erotica, and after her latest read, she’s developed a sizzling fantasy about submitting to the sexual whims of four incredibly hot business partners. Never in her wildest dreams did she think she’d have the opportunity to live out her fantasy... until her friend decides to make it happen. Now she’s about to become an office slave… to four hunky men she’s never even met. But faced with the reality, can she actually go through with it? Warning: Ditto!
Smoke
Eden Butler - 2020
Maggie and her kid have shaken up his world and dislodged every hard and fast rule he’d ever made.And when the demons from her past resurface, Smoke and Maggie may have to break more than their own rules to win their freedom.But will it cost them everything and everyone they love?The Carelli Family SagaBook One - SmokeBook Two - DarioBook Three - DanteBook Four - Toni
Welcome to the Underworld
Con Template - 2012
This society is so powerful that it can control a nation, strike fear into the bravest of men and bring turmoil onto the most unsuspecting of victims...There is a dangerous society in Seoul that is plaguing Choi Yoori.Her world is turned upside down when she is told that she bears a strong resemblance to the “Queen of the Underworld,” a notorious Underworld crime lord who died 3 years prior—the exact same time Yoori woke up with amnesia. The dangers of this new world is crashing in on her and Yoori's only grip on stability lies with the guidance from her crime lord boss and the secrets the Queen of the Underworld hid from her powerful society.Welcome to a world where “Gods” walk amongst humans. Where the heartless and vengeful are revered like Kings and Queens—and the weak, the distracted are punished without mercy.It is a cruel world and once you’re in, the only exit is death.
Violent Delights
Jessica Hawkins - 2019
An untouchable among thieves. Heiress to a life others have killed for, and one I'd do anything to escape. I vowed not to leave without Diego, my first love and best friend, but if his ruthless brother has his way, I won’t leave at all.Cristiano de la Rosa is a man as big and bold as his legend. Once upon a time, he was our cartel’s best soldier . . . until he became my family’s worst enemy. And a man like Cristiano will bend fate to his will to get what he wants—even if it means tearing me from another's arms.Because in the de la Rosa family, old grudges run deeper than loyalty, and betrayal is a three-letter word: war. But this feud isn’t between enemies—it’s between brothers. And I’m the prize.