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Tropes: Biker MC, Curvy Girl, He Falls First, Alpha Hero, Forced Proximity, Protector, instalove, Spicy / steamy She came to Vegas to be brave. She left with $2.3 million and a price on her head. Poppy is a kindergarten teacher from Ohio. She didn't know the poker game was rigged. Didn't know the money belonged to dangerous people. Didn't know they'd send someone to make her disappear. Vice was supposed to handle her. One look at the gorgeous, curvy woman in his doorway—terrified, innocent, completely out of her depth—and something in him snapped. He was sent to make her disappear. ...

She walks into the clubhouse with bruises she won’t explain… and eyes that beg me not to ask. I didn’t survive war and the Twisted Devils by playing hero. I keep my world simple: loyalty, violence, and rules — especially the one about staying away from trouble in a pretty package. But Riley Monroe is all soft curves, shaking hands, and secrets sharp enough to cut. One look at her and my discipline fractures. One touch and I’m done. Riley is running. From a past that won’t stay buried. From a monster who doesn’t take no for an answer. And the closer she gets to me, the more ...

After a string of shameful relationships and reckless partying with her best friend, Amber, Emily is now a successful voiceover actress, her wild past and everyone in it firmly behind her. Until she receives a cryptic voice mail from her former friend that sends her spiraling into the darkness she thought she had outrun. One thing is clear from the message: Amber is in trouble.

I came to the Tombs to tend to the dead. I left the Awakening Ceremony with four dragons that were never supposed to wake. Seven years I’ve worked the deep levels of Dragonfall Academy — feeding dragons, cleaning roosts, tending the memorial fires where no one else will go. Ground crew. Invisible. The daughter of a dead war hero with calloused hands and nothing to her name but a uniform that smells like dragon musk. The whispers started when I was a child. Voices in the Tombs, pressing against my mind like grief that isn’t mine. I learned to ignore them. I learned to keep my head down...

Persephone is the Goddess of Spring by title only. The truth is, since she was a little girl, flowers have shriveled at her touch. After moving to New Athens, she hopes to lead an unassuming life disguised as a mortal journalist. Hades, God of the Dead, has built a gambling empire in the mortal world and his favorite bets are rumored to be impossible. After a chance encounter with Hades, Persephone finds herself in a contract with the God of the Dead and the terms are impossible: Persephone must create life in the Underworld or lose her freedom forever.  

As a footballer, my first touch of the ball was key. Control, timing, dexterity and skill were all needed to ensure I scored. I figured it wouldn't be dissimilar in a relationship, only even though I was one of Manchester Athletic's star players, I didn't actually know for sure. I'd never had a girlfriend. I'd never, you know—scored. I trained, I joked with my teammates, I helped my mum out with my cousins who she was bringing up. I was studying for a degree, even though it was going to take me years to get it. I hung around at Kitty's café. The coffee was good, but coffee wasn't my thing.

My father sold me to a monster. I wasn't supposed to want him to devour me. Nikolai Ivanov is the Pakhan of the Bratva. Cold. Ruthless. And now, thanks to my father's debt, my husband. I arrive at a wedding in a dress I didn't choose, expecting to survive. He expects me to submit. Neither of us expected the fire. I meet his ice with defiance. He meets my resistance with patience. Every look is a dare. Every touch is a claim. And when he corners me in the dark, I realize the most dangerous thing isn't him. It's how badly I want to stop fighting. He says I belong to him now. The terrifying ...

🔥 He was supposed to kill the witness. He chose to keep her instead Kate I watched him kill a man. Then he decided to keep me. One wrong turn. One alley. One bullet. Rocco Salvatore should have pulled the trigger. His family demanded it. Instead, he dragged me into his penthouse and made me his problem. He says he hasn’t decided if I live or die. But the way he looks at me? That’s not calculation. That’s hunger. Rocco She was supposed to be a loose end. Now she’s my obsession. I’ve killed for my father. Become the monster he needed. But this woman who should be trembling at my ...

Casey has been having a little trouble getting his tool to work properly, and at the urging of his loving wife he decides to go see a specialist – the hunky Doctor Cherry. Doctor Cherry has just the cure for Casey’s ailment: some curiously sensual medical devices and just the perfect dosage of hot man medicine. Will Doctor Cherry’s unorthodox treatment be able to cure Casey of his problem…all while his wife is right in the room watching? The Doctor's Touch is a gay standalone story featuring a hot husband, a hunky doctor, a curious wife, and a deliciously steamy HEA. For all your M/...

Relive the passion and thrill of the New York Times bestselling Twilight Saga romance with this highly anticipated companion, retelling the iconic love story of Bella and Edward, from the vampire's point of view. When Edward Cullen and Bella Swan met in Twilight, an iconic love story was born...

Beautiful Beth Scott thinks she has life all figured out until her boyfriend of three years cheats on her. Determined to leave the good girl lifestyle behind, she hits a random nightclub, ready to splurge on the best liquor money can buy. But when a mysterious, hot stranger with flirty smiles and charming dance steps approaches her, dancing turns to more. And soon, he’s proposing an outlandish offer. One night in his bed to forget her ex. It’s day one of her life as a reformed good girl, so she accepts. But one night of no-strings-attached fun turns into something more, trapping her in ...

From author Oona Ryda comes a high-heat Irish mob romance featuring an age-gap arranged marriage, a possessive hero who will stop at nothing to protect what's his, and a downtrodden heroine discovering she's worth fighting for. This is the first book in the O'Rourke Brothers series. Guaranteed HEA. When Chicago mob boss Cillian O'Rourke arrives to settle a fifty-thousand-dollar score, he doesn't expect to walk away with the deadbeat gambler's nineteen-year-old virgin daughter. Nora Murphy has survived her father's abuse by making herself invisible. She knows what men like Cillian O'Rourke ...

Tamra never dreamed she would marry someone like Mike Mitchell: handsome, rich, a wonderful husband...until she finds out that Mike is having an affair. But Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, and Mike Mitchell should have remembered that before he made a fool of her. Because Tamra knows something about Mike. Something he did. Something evil. And she was prepared to carry the secret to her grave. Not anymore.

My stepbrother was supposed to be my downfall, not my addiction. When my father marries into America’s most powerful family, I’m thrown into a world of cruel smiles, ruthless rules, and one dangerously beautiful stepbrother who looks at me like I’m everything he wants gone. Roman Devereux is cold, grieving, and impossible to ignore. Then he finds out my darkest secret. Now we’re bound by blackmail, trapped under one roof, and tangled in a war of obsession, power, and forbidden desire. The more I fight him, the more he sees the parts of me no one else ever has. And the more I hate ...

My brother is running my family’s company into the ground and there’s only one man I can turn to for help. Westin Cline. His business sense is as sharp as his looks. He’s the smartest man I know with a commanding presence that shakes me to my core. I want him to fix my family’s company. He will, for a price. One date. One night with me and he says he’ll make all my problems disappear. But it’s a lie. It’s not true. Because a new problem develops… What am I supposed to do with this obsessive alpha when I start to fall in love? It only takes one touch to turn Westin Cline into...

I remember everything now. The alley. The rain. The lullaby he hummed while he broke me. And the tattoo on his wrist—the Tierney family crest. The monster who destroyed me was one of them. When I told Cormac, something behind his eyes went dark. Not angry. Lethal. "Which one?" His hand wrapped around my throat—not to hurt. To anchor. To claim. "Tell me which of my brothers touched you, Alice. Tell me who I have to kill." But it wasn't any of his brothers. It was worse. A fifth son. Hidden. Denied. A ghost with Tierney blood and twenty years of rage who murdered my parents and left me ...

From author Oona Ryda comes a high-heat Irish mob romance featuring a ruthless enforcer, a homeless witness with nothing left to lose, and a marriage that begins as a death sentence and becomes something neither of them expected. This is the second book in the O'Rourke Brothers series. Guaranteed HEA. danger + forced marriage + protector hero Saoirse Keane has spent her life surviving—fourteen foster homes, years on the street, and a world that taught her no one is coming to save her. Then one night she sees something she shouldn't. A mob hit. The man who pulled the trigger is Declan ...

He was never supposed to touch her. That didn’t stop him from claiming her anyway. Patrick doesn’t make mistakes. He keeps the books balanced, the violence contained, and the rules enforced. Loyal. Controlled. Untouchable. Until her. She’s forbidden in every way that matters. Off-limits. Protected. A line that should never be crossed. But Patrick has never been good at walking away from temptation, especially when it looks at him like a challenge. What starts as proximity turns into obsession. What should have been restraint becomes hunger. And once Patrick takes what he wants, there ...

She finds him half-dead in her cargo hold. Scarred. Branded. Feral with survival. Drystan is Lightless. Born without shadow powers. Sold into slavery before he could walk. He escaped. He trusts no one. Yara should space him and move on. Instead, she meets his defiant silver eyes and says: "Prove you're worth keeping." He proves it. Again and again. In ways that make her walls crumble. When slavers come hunting for their escaped property, Drystan will discover what he's willing to kill for. And Yara will learn that the broken stowaway she rescued might be the most dangerous thing on her ship...

I broke into the wrong apartment. He locked every door. And then he kept me. I’ve been surviving on my own since I aged out of foster care at eighteen. Quick hands, quick feet, quicker instincts. The DUMBO loft looked like an easy score… guy barely leaves, insane tech, a laptop worth enough to get me through winter. Forty minutes on the lock. Slipped inside. Found the laptop. Every door locked simultaneously. A face appeared on the central monitor… pale, dark-haired, dark circles under his eyes. Blinking at me through a camera I never saw. “That laptop’s encrypted,” Ronan ...