From the author of the bestselling Broken Trilogy and Dark Water Series comes Extraction—the first book in Stonewall, a dangerous suspense series in the World of Mayhem, where brotherhood runs deep, and the fight for what matters most only gets harder when the heart is on the line.
Agent Paul is a soldier of many faces—
a ghost, an undercover operative, a team leader.
But those are just titles.
When a letter lands in his hands, everything changes. The past he buried resurfaces with a single revelation—his son.
Returning to the cartel world he barely escaped is a mission he can’t face alone. His brothers rally behind him, shifting their current operation to follow a trail that leads into the darkest corners of Mexico. What they encounter is far more than intel.
A pawn.
An heir.
A child.
Nicole Winter is a war correspondent with a reputation for chasing the truth. Smart. Relentless. And already three steps ahead. When their paths collide, she’s holding the one document Paul needs—and carrying secrets of her own.
As trust is tested and loyalties blur, the mission spirals. When Paul vanishes mid-operation, Nicole is left with one impossible task—to get the boy out alive.
One letter is all it would take for Paul to face the past he never expected to encounter again. When he realizes that a previous mission resulted in a child he doesn’t hesitate to return to Mexico to rescue the child he didn’t know he had
Nicole is an investigative report who has the same agenda as Paul however she finds herself caught between two dangerous rivals. She and Paul find themselves working as a team as they try to battle the feelings between them as well as the escalating danger around them as every step closer only increases the threats to them and the child.
Action, adventure, suspense and surprises all collide into an entertaining story that leaves you wanting more. Not only do we get to catch up with characters we know but the evil forces keep you on edge and the characters of Nicole and Paul are compelling.
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Author J.L. Drake was born and raised in Nova Scotia, Canada, later moving to Southern California where she lives with her husband and two children.
When she’s not writing she loves to spend time with her family, traveling or just enjoying a night at home. One thing you might notice in her books is her love for the four seasons. Growing up on the east coast of Canada the change in the seasons is in her blood and is often mentioned in her writing.
An avid reader of James Patterson, J.L. Drake has often found herself inspired by his many stories of mystery and intrigue.
She hopes you will enjoy her stories as much as she has enjoyed writing them.
Sin Bin is a college hockey romance with a party boy hero, a heroine with a rebellious streak, and the sparks that fly when they’re anywhere near each other
Ollie
I didn’t plan for any of this to happen. Granted, if you polled the general population of Bainbridge University and asked which of the hockey players was most likely to get married in Vegas, my name would probably be first on the list. But the name of my lovely bride? That would be a shocker.
I’ve wanted Fallon Zabek since the moment I laid eyes on her a few years ago, but as my teammate’s sister, she was off limits. I’m known for doing things I shouldn’t, but I stayed on my best behavior and kept Fallon at arm’s length.
That wasn’t hard to do since I’m not her favorite person. All it takes is one night, two drunk confessions, and a pair of wedding bands to change everything.
Fallon
Freedom. It’s finally mine, and I’m determined to make the most of it.The overbearing father who ruled my life for far too long has no say in my choices anymore. I’m making my own plans, my own rules, and my own mistakes.
I never thought one of those mistakes would be getting tipsy and waking up married to Ollie Jablonksi.
All I want is to be on my own and to be calling the shots in my life, so agreeing to stay married is an awful idea. But the more time I spend with Ollie, the more I realize that when you’re with the right person, love isn’t suffocating, it’s liberating.
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Sin Bin is the first book in Season Two of the Bainbridge U Hockey series, and it can be enjoyed as a standalone. If you love playboys who push the limits, heroines who give as good as they get, and spicy scenes that will melt your kindle, then buckle up for Ollie and Fallon’s love story!
✨TEASER: SOMEHOW YOU KNEW by @harlowjamesauthor releasing July 10th! This will be a simultaneous release in Audio with the amazing narrators Erin Mallon and Brandon Francis!
I never imagined I’d agree to an arranged marriage for over 5 million dollars.
Not to mention that the man I’d be marrying is someone I’d already met once before.
Gage Kingston waltzes into the meeting with the lawyer unaffected—cocky, tattooed, and acting like he didn’t know who I was.
But after we agree we’d be stupid to walk away from that kind of money, we embark on a six month timeline to riches despite the animosity between us.
Now I’m living with the man his aunt thought would be perfect for me while wondering if the woman was going insane before she died to think this was a good idea.
Then the first letter came.
Turns out Diane had a plan to get us to fall for each other while trying to make our marriage work.
Arguments turn to meaningful conversations.
Innocent brushes turn to lust-filled challenges.
And before I know it, we’re crossing every line we drew in the sand.
Did Diane somehow know that we were meant for each other before we figure it out for ourselves?
Or was jumping into a marriage with a man I barely knew one of the worst mistakes of my life?
Giana Darling has revealed the covers for The Sun & Her Burn!
Releasing: July 23, 2025
From Wall Street Journal best-selling author Giana Darling comes a MMF romance about a movie star caught in a decade old scandal, a marriage of convenience, and forbidden love under Hollywood’s unforgiving spotlight.
Ten years after my scandalous affair with the world’s most famous actor, Adam Meyers, and his gorgeous ex-wife, Savannah, I’ve achieved almost everything
I’ve ever dreamed of.
Fame, wealth, and critical acclaim as both an actor and screen writer.
So, why does it all feel so hollow?
When a tabloid threatens to expose Adam’s most painful secret, I can’t ignore the urge to rush to his rescue—even after a decade of heartbreak.
Only, he needs a woman to help him and Savannah is remarried.
Instead, I turn to an unlikely friend, Linnea Kai, who is as desperate for salvation as Adam is.
It’s my turn to propose a deal that will change all of our lives.
A marriage of convenience only inconvenienced by the fact I’m falling in love with them both.
Giana Darling is a Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Top 40 Bestselling Canadian romance writer who specializes in the taboo and angsty side of love and romance. She currently lives in beautiful British Columbia where she spends time riding on the back of her man’s bike, baking pies, and reading snuggled up with her cat, Persephone, and Golden Retriever, Romeo.
She’s his obsession… and for her, he’s willing to risk it all.
The niece to one of the richest men in London, Harper’s entire life has been controlled since her very first breath. Constantly under scrutiny from her ruthless family and their controversial church, she’s had to fight for what little privacy she has. On the outside she was privileged and obedient, but in reality all she’s ever dreamed about was breaking free from her gilded cage.
Until one night she allows her desire to take control, and taste life without expectation. One sin, and now the escape she’s carefully planned for the past ten years has begun crumbling around her.
Tasked with infiltrating one of the cruellest families in the city, Sythe didn’t think he’d run into any complications. Then there was her, the niece to his target, and the woman who’s left him wanting more after one of the most intimate experiences of his life. Harper embodies everything he resents, yet his fixation becomes an unwelcome distraction. Until he realises they have a common goal, then that addiction burns into something more.
Amidst bloodthirsty Daemons, a fanatical faith set on eradicating all Breed, and a man lusting after power without a care for consequences, Sythe must navigate dark secrets and twisted lies to fulfil his mission and exact revenge.
Will he complete his objective and take down the family? Or will he forsake it all for her?
With all my best mates settled down, I’m the last single man standing. Of course, the one woman to spark my interest is the only one in Scotland who seems immune to my charm. Dr. Saoirse MacGregor is brilliant, beautiful, and decided she hated me at first sight.
When her friend goes missing on a research expedition, Saoirse turns to us at Out of Bound Scotland for help. With my military training, I’m the best tracker we’ve got, so she agrees to an uneasy alliance—as long as I take her along for the search.
But the Highlands hold dangerous secrets, and what starts as a search and rescue quickly becomes something far more treacherous. Forced to rely on each other to survive, the walls between us begin to crumble. Turns out the posh vet I’ve been clashing with for months has depths I never imagined.
I’ll do whatever it takes to protect her. But the real surprise of this enemies-to-lovers journey? She might be the one saving me.
Beneath Highland Stars is a forced proximity, enemies to lovers, woman in trouble, small town Scottish contemporary romance, featuring a retired military dog who’s gonna steal your heart.
“You have two options, Genesis. Marry into the Russian bratva or sign my contract.”
Julian Bellini. Italian mobster. Ruthless casino owner. My best friend’s brother.
When he finds out my parents secretly arranged for me to marry into the Russian bratva in exchange for their debt, he offers me an out. He’ll pay the debt if I sign his contract. But that contract comes at a cost.
One that might ruin me.
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Kelly Finley is a fiction author of spicy romances featuring bada** women and grown-a** men. She lives in the Carolinas with her husband and family. A rebel with many causes, she fancies black leather, dirty jokes, and smart mouths.
Thrilled by a flipped script and ticked off by women portrayed as weak, her books feature FMCs and MCs we champion and love—ones with shameless heat, brave hearts, and whip-smart minds.
She’s most likely at her keyboard right now, putting the next heroine on the page for you.
A dark, steamy, mafia romance, sizzling with heat when the stalked … stalks back.
AXEL is my hot d*ckhead boss who stalks me. I know. He’s arrogant. Powerful. Evil. But those eyes.
So, I stalked him back, and that’s when I discovered… He’s the escaped heir to a criminal empire. A dark prince. The head of a secret society of vigilante mafia kings.
I spied on their taboo ex-Bratva rituals. I know their dark secret, how they initiate their queens.
And he busted me.
Now, Axel says he owns me. He makes me stay with him … or else.
Or fall in love with my sinful stalker? Or become the mafia queen to the son of the most dangerous man in the world?
Author’s note: AXEL is a standalone, dark, not-mafia-mafia romance set in a world of taboo traditions, biting banter, morally grey heroes in a band of brothers with some heavy themes, and very explicit scenes. This is an 18+, interconnected romance with a guaranteed HEA.
🖤Review🖤 Axel is a man trying to separate his life in two one of which is his ties to the Bratva and the other his career as a strong-willed lawyer. He knows that the best thing he could do when it comes to Ruby, his legal assistant, is keep his distance but he also has this burning need to know everything about who she is and what she is doing especially when his two worlds begin to collide.
Ruby knows that there is a lot more to her boss than he shows. He may be demanding and infuriating but he is also intriguing, and she doesn’t hesitate to challenge him at every opportunity. She tends to act first and think second which could place her in danger, but she is about to realize that there is now place she would rather be.
The heat between them is a raging inferno, the interactions are entertaining and the characters and the reactions they draw from each other are captivating as they take us on a journey that you won’t be able to put down.
I’ve come to wreak vengeance on the man who killed my parents. My own little brother—an abomination, a snake in the nest.
I’m Hazel Fury—a phoenix, a killer—and I’m not leaving this insane asylum until Baz is in a body bag. Someone has to do it and that someone will be me.
Bring on your friends, little brother. Bring on death and mayhem—there’s no stopping a phoenix. Nothing but you.
I’ll do whatever it takes. Even if that means using a trickster you can’t outmaneuver and the big man himself—Dr. Stein.
And don’t worry about being lonely in Hell… I’ll send your friends there with you.
From rolling after a successful parachute drop: a term to describe an individual’s buttocks. The first three points are feet, calves, and back of the thigh.
I know this because I took a hard landing, jumping out of a crashing plane on a job that should have been simple, with a woman latched to me with a jimmy rigged harness.
And that was just the beginning of the chaos. With my teammates nowhere in sight, it was way too easy to fall for this woman’s charms. To say we got dirty was a nice way of putting it.
Then the bear attacked and put us in an even more perilous position that I was unequipped to deal with after I decided to sacrifice myself to save the frustratingly beautiful woman.
So, it was no surprise when after all that, I kept in touch with her. She started writing me letters, telling me about the idiot who cheated on her. And I responded in equal kind, complaining about how my mother came for a visit, catching me with a stash of unmentionable magazines.
Did I expect her to fly out to see me? No, but I would be lying if I said she didn’t save my life.
I was pretty sure my mother wanted to send me to Catholic school for adults.
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All Piper wanted to do was to get away from the situation she found herself in but she never expected that a trip to the airport would lead to an adventure. Not only does she find herself having to leave the plane midair but she now finds herself stranded with a sexy stranger.
Patrick was used to being in dangerous situations so the dilemma he found himself in with Piper was no different. He expected that their alliance would end when they returned to their normal lives however she might just be the solution not only for his mother but himself as well.
The journey that Piper and Patrick is humorous both when it comes to the situations they find themselves in and the banter, but it also includes a romance that neither saw coming and an adventure that was only beginning.
I’m a stay at home mom that loves to read. Some of my favorite titles are Pride and Prejudice, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and Horatio Hornblower. I started writing when I was trying to come up with suggestions on ways I could help bring in some extra money. I came up with the idea that I could donate plasma because you could earn an extra $500/month. My husband responded with, “No. Find something else. Write a blog. Write a book.” I didn’t think I had anything to share on blog that a thousand other mothers hadn’t already thought of. I decided to take his challenge seriously and sat down to write my first book, Jack. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed writing. From there, the stories continued to flow and I haven’t been able to stop. I hope my readers enjoy my books as much as I enjoy writing them. Between reading, writing, and taking care of three small kids, my days are quite full.
Pipes Those blue eyes landed on me That’s the first time I knew I was toast Casey The woman I never dreamed could be mine We had one wild night Then it all fell apart She has a fiery side One that I love I can’t get enough of the way she makes me feel B ut even when the darkness lurks We find our way back to one another every time Like magnets who can’t be apart Souls who never gave up Even when my life is in danger I’ll never stop fighting For her For us I won’t back down Not this time
Casey We couldn’t fight it Even when I knew I could fall When I put my heart on the line I took a chance I gave in to how he makes me feel To loving him, like I love this club But in all the chaos We dropped our guard We didn’t see the storm brewing The cold wind sweeping it’s way in Until it was too late Now the real fight begins Because I can’t live my life without him I can’t He’s the reason I’ll hang on Even when all hope is lost Even if it costs me my last breath
The men of the NOLA Rebels MC will do anything for their club. They’re a brotherhood, a club who stands mighty, and above all else, they take care of business, New Orleans style.
The bikers may rule this city, but the women of the club have their hearts, and the men will do anything to protect what’s theirs.
It is part of a series, but can be read stand-alone with a HEA. This book is recommended for mature readers.
None of us was prepared for the storm that is our woman to blow into our lives. She came in with meekness wrapped around her as protection, but the steel in her spine was easy to see. You just had to look close enough.
Vanquishing her demons was only the start. Now that her light shines upon our city, the rats are scurrying and trying to find shelter. But what runs must be caught, and we have always been predators.
Taking over Seattle was never going to be easy, and we expected more battles ahead. What we didn’t foresee was having so much more to lose. Bitterness and rage have corrupted the dark corners of this city. Now those who have been hidden should expect retribution in the light.
What they didn’t count on was how fierce we would defend what is ours. Our city. Our woman. Our lives.
Tangled together, our souls are strongest together. The sins that strangled our city for too long will not find solace here.
We will fight those who oppose us and keep our woman safe. Anything less will make us unworthy of our queen and we’re never letting her go.
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