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Highlander’s Sinister Bet
Fiona Faris - 2021
After the murder of her beloved father, even those closest to her could not be trusted. So she kept to herself.When the handsome Laird to-be starts courting her, Lorraine is truly baffled. He never paid her any attention in the past. Why does he care now?A renowned warrior and heir to the clan's Lairdship, Daividh MacDougall can have any woman he desires. Many women pine for him, but his eyes are only for one lonely lass. Even if his intentions are not so honorable – for he’s bound by a wager to seduce her.The more time he spends with Lorraine, the greater the spark of desire grows, and soon, his passion for her becomes real. But before he can confess the truth, a dark plot against him starts to unfold, and everything changes.With his secrets revealed, Daividh's enemies can ensure Lorraine hates him forever. Before taking his life, that is…It started as a bet, but it became a deadly game…
His Mate to Keep (Warriors of the Lost Planet, #2)
Ivy Sparks - 2021
But getting abducted and imprisoned inside a remote experimental lab? Yeah, I think this takes the cake.Then there’s my neighbor in the cell next door, Xavier. Despite being a smoking hot alien, he’s a brooder with a pronounced contempt for pirates like me. But that distaste can’t hide the look in his eyes when I’m forced to shower in front of him.Everything changes when our experimenters demand we breed for them. If we ever hope to escape, we’re going to have to play along. But what happens after that? Will Xavier and I return to the loner lives we both once knew?Or will we discover an unshakable bond neither of us thought was possible?His Mate to Keep is an alien sci-fi romance, from the Warriors of the Lost Planet series of standalone books. This novel features a spitfire heroine and the sexy alien warrior who seeks to possess her. No cheating, no cliffhangers, and a very happily ever after is guaranteed.
Wicked Lies
M.V. Kasi
Her new client is the darkly handsome stranger she had met before in a club under scandalous circumstances.Sparks fly and awareness buzzes, but she resists the strong attraction towards the brooding billionaire. And when she finally decides to give in, she shockingly discovers that the man she is falling for has spun a passionate web of wicked lies she is unable to escape...Bhargav Varma is known for his icy control and meticulous planning, especially when it comes to destroying his enemies. But a chance encounter with a beautiful woman changes it all.Although his plans to avenge a past family betrayal weren't supposed to include the beautiful architect he deliberately hired, he is determined to claim the woman who vows to hate him and fight him with a burning passion...Wicked Lies is a standalone contemporary romance.
Her Very Strict Captain: A Tough Navy SEAL Undercover Romance
Maggie Carpenter - 2021
Cool under pressure with a tough, take-no-prisoners demeanor, he has been recruited by the CIA to head up an undercover team tasked with capturing a ruthless international drug trafficker.Posing as a sailing school captain in the U.S. Virgin Islands, he meets his fair share of young women, but his desires run dark and deep, and there is no room for romantic entanglements.When sassy, sexy, auburn-haired spitfire Beth Cameron charters his yacht, he keeps her at arm's length--until her rebellious streak puts her life in danger. Jerking her over his lap, he delivers a stinging spanking, then suddenly surrendering to temptation, he throws her on his bed and mercilessly ravages her until she is screaming his name and begging for more.Though he wants to oblige, engine trouble forces his return to shore, but just moments after they dock she vanishes. No note, no call, no text.It's now six months later, and he cannot believe his eyes.She is running frantically down the wharf towards him, terror in her face and wearing a long, blonde wig...
Bear's Baby
Maia Starr - 2019
The thought of James raising her baby teaching him all his barbaric ways of living was unbearable. She refused to put baby Cameron in harm’s way, even if it meant losing everything she had and starting a new life at bear lake…Newly Alpha Bear, Jean Paul is in need of a mate and needs to keep a level head to carry out alpha duties before he goes insane. Just when he was about to lose his sanity to his roaring bear within, he stumbled across a women and her baby in the woods who is in dire need of help. The moment he looked her in the eye, he knew she was his mate and claimed her and her baby as his own vowing to protect them from anything that comes into their territory…even if it is a pack of wolves.Jenna May has sworn to be done with men and shifters but cannot keep her eyes off of the big hot alpha bear that saved her and her baby. Not only that, he blows her mind away in bed to the point where she just can’t get enough of all that sweet honey of his. There’s only one problem, a pack of wolves are on the horizon and Jenna May left out one big secret that could ruin everything…Note: Adults Only!
One Night Flame (A Briggs Town Series Book 1)
Beverly Evans - 2020
Taking Emmaline
K.L. Donn - 2020
From USA Today Bestselling Author KL Donn comes the first book in an all new Adair Empire spin off standalone series Power of Vashchenko.A picture says a thousand words.Hers gives me a lifetime of peace.I am Viktor Vashchenko.Prince of darkness.The last standing male in my blood line.I toppled the Russian Bratva.Avenged my family.Now it’s time I make my own.Emmaline Taylor will give me an heir.Her life.And when I’m finishedHer heart.
Reborn
Anne K. Whelan - 2021
Aine must figure out her past, before the life she can't remember is destroyed.
The Five Points' Mob Collection: Filthy, Filthy Rich, and Filthy Dark
Serena Akeroyd - 2022
FILTHY One taste was all it took. She's mine. Whether she likes it or not... This is Finn O'Grady's story. FILTHY RICH The bruises on my bride's face stir the monster in me. Someone's touched my property. I'm Irish Mob. We kill to protect our women. We reap nightmares on those who harm them. And I’m the biggest nightmare of them all. This is Eoghan O'Donnelly's story. FILTHY DARK Loving someone means making them hate you to keep them safe, to get them away from the toxicity that is your world. I destroyed us before we even had a chance to begin… Can a near death experience bring both my kid and the woman who owns my heart back to me? This is Declan O'Donnelly's story. Contains never-before-seen bonus chats!!
Billionaire Crave
Lauren Wood - 2018
I have everything, money, power, a different woman on my arm every night of the week. Life was good. Even if it was all a façade to something much darker. Some nights I only had my money to keep my warm. I looked back at my decisions, questioning them. All of this money should make me happy. I could do anyone, buy anything, but something was missing. Then Kristin showed up on the scene and derailed my plans. She wasn’t supposed to be here, but she was. Kristin was my new secretary, brought into the company on false pretense, but she was here now. Every day I had to work with her closely. I could smell the sweet perfume of forbidden fruit and I wanted a taste. I wanted to tantalize my taste buds with her sweet nectar. Hear her call out to me in the night with that innocent voice of hers. I wanted to give her what she didn’t even know that she needed. I had to have her and find out why Kristin was different. What made me willing to risk it all, for her?
Tracy the Fire Witch
P.G. Allison - 2019
government's special task force asks her to join the team they're sending to Germany. They're hoping to stir up those terrorists and make them scramble. The team already has one witch plus a couple of werewolves. Having Tracy along will provide them with some added firepower. When she asks her soulmate John if he's okay with going with her, he replies, "Germany? Werewolves? Maybe some terrorists? What's not to like?"
Broken Queen
Brook Wilder - 2021
Then he broke me.Sal Faliero chained me to his bed and forced his ring on my finger.In public, I was his queen – the mother of his child. In private, I’m nothing but his possession.I thought I found the bottom to his cruel games.But each day, he proves how much further I can fall.He demands my total obedience.My complete submission.He wants me on my knees.Begging him for mercy.Even if it means he has to break me.Broken Queen is a dark Romance & Psychological suspense novel by bestselling author Brook Wilder.WARNING: This book contains scenes that may be disturbing to some readers.
Dream Team
Anita Knight - 2021
He’s been in love with her for years. One kiss will change everything.MackenzieWhy do they call it falling in love? Because there’s only one way to go— down.Love ruins everything, which is why I simply can’t trust my heart when important decisions are on the line. Like which car to buy or who I’m going to marry.Logic and cold hard facts are the only way to approach relationships. There’s no opportunity for heartbreak if your heart isn’t involved, right?That’s precisely why I’m dating my boyfriend. We’re such a good match that if he asked me to marry him… I might even say yes. Everything is going according to plan.Until my best friend Derek kisses me.Suddenly, I’m having these crazy feelings, and my whole life starts spinning out of control.But the scariest part of all of this is that I’m pretty sure I enjoyed his kiss… and I may have even kissed him back.This was definitely not a part of my plan…DerekWatching Mackenzie date other guys has never bothered me too much.Until she started dating the guy she’s with now.He’s an ass in every way, and she deserves so much more than him. But she’s blinded by her own stubborn rules.I told myself they’ll break up eventually when he inevitably does something too asinine to forgive, but then Kenzie goes and tells me he’s planning to propose. And that she’ll say yes.Kenzie? And that jerk? Married?I can’t let that happen.If Kenzie wants to live life according to some frigid list of made-up rules, that’s fine. But I’m not letting her throw her life away with that idiot without knowing what it feels like to be kissed by someone who truly loves her.Because I do. I always have, and I always will.I just hope I can make her see that before it’s too late.