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The Bad Boys of Bokaro Jail


Chetan Mahajan - 2014
    From picking the best prison ward, befriending the people who can get him mobile phone access and upgraded food, and training for his upcoming marathon in the tiny prison yard, Chetan soon learns to work the prison system. In the process he makes unlikely friends, and discovers what India’s underbelly really looks like. A true story, The Bad Boys of Bokaro Jail, is thought provoking, amusing and touching. It will show you the Indian prison as you have never seen it before.

SEAL'd With A Kiss


Nicole Elliot - 2017
    People say I’m dangerous. Ex-SEAL with a bad attitude. But everything changes when I see Piper Prewitt, the one that got away. All I want is to get my torpedo in her target, but the way she’s looking at me? Ain’t gonna happen. Things weren’t easy for her while I was away and she’s always been good at hiding secrets. What she doesn’t realize is I know how to torture her for information. With my lips, my hands, my missile… She doesn’t stand a chance. However, the bomb she just dropped could ruin us both. She had my baby while I was overseas. She may have won the battle, but I will win the war... Of her heart. SEAL'd With A Kiss is a hot Second Chance SEAL Romance. It has a HEA and NO Cliffhanger. There are a few bonus books (including an EXCLUSIVE book, Doctor's Fake Proposal) for your reading pleasure. Enjoy!

Ivy's Venom


C.A. Rene - 2021
    I'm back in Whitsborough,A boring town where nothing ever happens.Two years of boarding school didn't reform me and now I'm trapped with a loving family.Forced to be a daughter and a big sister,This is my punishment.Being back here leaves me with no other choice but to face my demons.Like the sounds of her screams (I'm like a ticking time bomb),And the warmth of her blood (I'm on the cusp of exploding).Then there's him.He's filled with hatred and a burning need to hear my screams, feel my blood.He's looking for vengeance and only I can give it to him.I got out once and I can do it again,Even if the cost is more than I can pay.

Brewer


Zahra Girard - 2021
    Lethal. Deadly.She's too pure for a monster like me, but my black heart beats only for her.She still prefers flower crowns to leather cuts.But I’ll do whatever it takes to make her mine.There’s just one problem - the devil from our past who wants her dead.Natalie wants to run again, to disappear.But there’s no way I’m losing her.So I take her captive.I'm keeping her. Safe. Mine. Forever.And I'll kill anyone who tries to take her from me.

Saving Her


Tiana Cole - 2019
     Bev Witnessing the brutal murder of my grandfather upended my whole life. We packed up and moved across the country to start over safely. I built my business and kept to myself, never wishing for more. Never wanting more. Until I met a man who made me want more. Need more. Crave it. Too bad it was all a lie. Too bad my safety depends on trusting him. Too bad I can’t resist him... Lucas It was a chance to start over after the service, and I took it. He was my dad’s old military buddy, and his little princess needed help. I needed a job, a distraction, so I went, expecting to protect a Hollywood brat. Bev wasn’t any of those things. She was sexy as hell. Sweet as a summer night. And she was being stalked by a psycho. I had to keep her safe, not fall for her. Fate had other plans. When she finds out the truth, I’ll do whatever it takes to convince her what we have is real.   ****This is a standalone 51,000-word full-length novel with a touch of steam and HEA.****

Chasing Di'Maggio


Elisabeth - 2015
    Their families want them to marry for the sake of Matty’s dying Grandma... Now it’s simple really; all they have to do is get married and pretend to be a couple in love. There goes that word “love.” The question at hand is do they love each other or is it one-sided? Matty’s problem is that he’s in love with Nico, and Nico’s problem is that she’s in love with Matty, so why is it so hard for them to believe that they have to go through with this? Because they are two people who are in love with each other but hiding it from one another, making their journey much more difficult than it should be. What do you get when you mix Nico’s vibrant, happy, smiling personality with Matty’s angry, annoyed, dominating personality? ... Let the chasing being.

The Woman He Wanted


K. Alex Walker - 2016
     This wasn’t something Kellen Edwards believed; it was what he knew. It was what he felt the first moment he laid eyes on Bailey Green. It was like they’d known each other in a previous life and their souls had sought each other out, hers moving to Atlanta from Barbados at a young age, and his moving back to Atlanta after a hiatus in Baltimore and Louisiana. But despite knowing that this woman is his, fate won’t make their union an easy one. His family life begins to unravel as tensions rise between him and his brother, and a dark secret shadowing Bailey’s life tries to interfere with their “happily ever after.” It’s not until a trip back to Barbados, back to the house where she grew up and where a mysterious man still walks the halls at night, do they begin to unravel the mystery that will either make their relationship last, or destroy it altogether.

Part of the List


Xavier Neal - 2017
    If you were dying, what would be on the list of moments that mattered most to you? That shaped your life? What would you choose to remember or choose to ignore even in the face of death? Who would you miss? What would you regret not doing? Who would you regret not loving? In the face of your own mortality or in the face of your lover's, what would be part of the list?

Micah


Jo Raven - 2015
    There’s me: Micah Owens. Tattoo artist at Damage Control. No parents or siblings. A past that still gives me nightmares. And then there’s her: Evangeline, the girl who saved my life and haunts my more pleasant dreams. Only she doesn’t know who I really am, and telling her might well send her fleeing for the hills. She deserves better than a loser like me. She’s pretty. She’s clever. She’s goddamn sexy and has a heart of gold. Which is why I can’t tell her. A smile from her and I’ll do all I can to make her mine – including pretending to be someone I’m not, someone worth having. Isn’t love weird? Standalone novel. No cliffhanger. *Warning: this book contains graphic language, sex, and violence. Mature readers only. Not intended for young readers.* MICAH is book 1 in the series Damage Control - a series set in the same world as Inked Brotherhood. The boys of Damage Control were taken in by Zane Madden and Rafe Vestri and offered apprenticeship and work in the tattoo shop Damage Control. Next in the Damage Control series: Jesse, Seth, Shane and Ocean.

Bystander: A Dark Bratva Romance (Lenkov Dynasty Book 1)


Sassa Daniels - 2021
    

The Lord and the Scorpion


Shiree McCarver - 2006
    Sauda Mauri is a trained assassin. She has been a slave and an assassin for many years and now she has a chance at a new life as a free woman if she can complete her final mission. Running from her Japanese master she is traveling under the guise as Lady Francis’s nursemaid so she can get her assignments from the head of the Queen’s Secret Service. She does not need any complications and Lord Ethan Clare is more than determined to be just that. When she is hurt protecting the Queen, she awakens to find Ethan at her bedside. He has been asked to help her uncover who the culprits are behind the attempt on the Queen’s life. Their union changes the destiny of many and attracts the attention of a madman who is determined to get the Blackamoor woman out of their lives forever.

The Price They Paid


Jade Royal - 2018
    He didn’t know that he would meet his mate today, and not under these circumstances. Would he lose her before he even had a chance to make her his?Justice had one goal that night: to celebrate her birthday. Why was there a strange man chasing her? How did she end up in the hospital? And who told her heart to fall in love - and with a wolf? Wait, wolves are real?

The Reformed Bad Boy's Baby


Alyse Zaftig - 2016
    After losing his wife in childbirth, he stopped caring about anything but business, staying in his private cave of grief and guilt and ignoring the son who looks too much like his dead wife. After a wake-up call in Singapore, he’s finally moving forward, getting to know the son that he’s neglected all these years. Slowly and surely, he’s pushing past his grief and letting go of his tragic past. That’s when he meets Valentina Baez. She makes his heart start again, a heart that he thought he buried with his wife. Valentina is a curvy consultant who never expected to meet a billionaire dressed in khakis at a baseball game. She was surprised to see his gang tattoos, and they only meant to spend a single weekend together. But when she realizes that she’s pregnant, will that turn into a lifetime? ***The Reformed Bad Boy's Baby has a guaranteed HEA. No cliffhangers. No cheating.*** EXCERPT CHAPTER ONE SINGAPORE I was almost back to the Fairfield when someone held a gun on me. I wasn’t looking around the street. I had plenty of street smarts from growing up in LA, but Singapore was basically a different world. It was exceptionally clean, and there were almost no guns here. That’s why I was surprised to feel the barrel of a gun pressed to my back as I passed a dark alleyway. “Don’t make any noise, or you’ll be paralyzed for life."

Fake Date With the Billionaire


Raven Rivers - 2016
    She’s marrying Kelly Westcott’s brother! I've never forgotten the way Kelly used all those cruel, ignorant stereotypes about Black people against me when we were kids. Maybe I should forgive her, but I just can't. And now I've found the perfect revenge, because I just met this super hot guy on my new interior design contract. He's an architect, and really nice--and did I mention hot? Maybe it's crazy, asking a perfect stranger to go to my sister's wedding with me, but I did it anyway. And he said yes! Kelly will burn with jealousy when she sees me with him. Derek: Oh, man. What have I done? I can’t believe I hid my real identity from Jayla. But I couldn't risk telling her the truth. She's the first woman I've wanted to date since I divorced my cheating wife five years ago. Jayla is beautiful, and I really like her--and she likes me for myself, not because I'm a billionaire. So now I’m pretending to be Derek Brandon, average guy, instead of D.B. Drake, billionaire CEO. I’ve got two weeks to win her over, and maybe by then Jayla will be into me enough to forgive me. It’s just a little white lie. Right?

Indecent Pawn


K.K. Harris - 2015
    This man swooped in and saved her when her life was near an all-time low. Growing up in foster care, the finest of things was never within her reach. Meeting Derek Myers was like a dream come true until reality struck. The wealthy and successful don’t always have it all together. The monster within her dear husband reared its ugly head before the ink was dry on the marriage certificate. Violence, cruelty, and humiliation makes fighting for independence a bust seeing she had no one to turn to for guidance nor assistance. One dreadful night rocked her world to the core being snatched from her home and introduced to a man far more dangerous than her husband could ever dream of being. The man whose last name she carried had just sold her soul to the devil. For what purpose would be later determined.