Three brides have been chosen for my pleasure and displeasure. One of them will become a King’s consort; the others will be discarded.
Until my decision is made, I get to feast on them all.
They are mine.
After the demise of my uncle, the O’Sullivan family has yet to choose the new Don. With two brothers and a vengeful, unhinged cousin also vying for the position, tension is rising in an already dangerous business.
Especially since no one knows that I’m responsible for my uncle’s disappearance.
Enter the Hands of Kings, a global cult with the ability to replace CEOs, Presidents, and Popes. And their leader, Victor, has his eye on me.
Few men were made to be Kings and Victor has plans for me, plans that do not require my approval.
But an unseen enemy is hiding and they know my secrets. They are manipulating the people around me with the intention of taking my crown.
A King is not so easily dethroned, especially when threats are made toward me and mine.
Why you will love this book… 🔥stepsiblings 🔥forbidden / off-limits 🔥one-night-stand that becomes more 🔥‘no strings attached’ agreement 🔥instalust 🔥small town 🔥romantic comedy 🔥idiots to lovers 🔥pining right next to each other 🔥damaged hero 🔥ADHD rep 🔥he has a cat
She’s the one night stand I never forgot. And now her dad is about to marry my mom.
It has to be some kind of cosmic joke, right? For once, I feel like I’ve got my life together—good job, great friends, a fresh start in a new place. I’ve been on my best behavior for ages. At last, everything’s coming up Javier.
Until the moment I walk into my stepdad’s house and meet his daughter.
I should say: I meet her again. Madeline and I have already met. It was one night, two years ago. A quick, casual hookup that had no right to be as mind-blowing as it was. I haven’t stopped thinking about it–or her–ever since.
But our parents are getting married, so under no circumstances should we sleep together again.
Or… again. Or one more time after that, just to get it out of our systems.
Madeline’s funny, fiery, and so gorgeous with her pink hair and nerdy tattoos that I can barely look at her without breaking into a sweat. But she has too much going on to be interested in commitment, and God knows I’m a bad boyfriend candidate.
Once the wedding’s over, we’ll be normal stepsiblings who don’t have sex with each other, and Thanksgiving won’t be awkward at all.
King is a determined billionaire… posing as a professional cuddler to get close to me.
He’s the type of man who always gets what he wants, and right now, he wants me—the socially awkward, plus-size model with intimacy issues.
I’ve never had anyone hold me, hug me – or even love me – and my therapist thinks a professional cuddler will help break down the walls I’ve built to protect my heart.
I’m skeptical at best…
But King is so good at holding me together that the line between professional and personal quickly blurs, igniting a passion I’m not prepared for.
King and I might be fifteen years apart, but our connection is undeniable.
When his true identity is revealed, I feel betrayed.
Until he proposes an irresistible deal: a fake marriage. He gets what he desires, and I get what I need.
I reluctantly agree… with boundaries of course.
Now, I just have to keep reminding myself that this isn’t real.
The summer before my senior year of college, I made the biggest mistake of my life. It wasn’t falling for my best friend’s little sister when I knew she was off-limits…it was leaving her behind thinking what we had was nothing more than a fling. Her pained cries as I walked away have played on a loop in my nightmares since that day. In the years that have passed, there hasn’t been a single achievement I’ve celebrated that wasn’t tainted by her absence. But now, it’s time. I’m going to get my girl back…no matter what it takes.
GRACE
Five years ago, I spent a whole summer learning, exploring, and falling in love with my lifelong protector. His future was bright, and as he broke me into a million pieces, he made sure I knew there wasn’t a place for me next to him under the bright, stadium lights. That girl who waited and hoped for him to come back is gone now, but just when I think I’ve moved on and created a life of my own, a ghost from my past reappears, determined to make things right. Tanner Lake may have once been everything to me, but those days are long over, aren’t they?
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🔥Emotionally Gripping
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From the USA TODAY bestselling author of From the Embers comes a new jaw-dropping standalone romance. Pain trapped me in this house. Can love set me free?
Death had been chasing me my entire life. I survived the horrors of war, but it was the aftermath that truly destroyed me.
People called me a recluse, but the only time I didn’t feel like I was suffocating was inside that house.
For my daughter, I kept some semblance of normalcy by implementing a rigid routine. Once a week, I forced myself to walk to the diner at the end of the block—a ritual I despised but relied on as my last anchor to the real world.
Until the day a “Closed” sign on the door shattered my fragile existence. Worse, the new owner was the most haunting ghost from my past.
It had been years since I’d laid eyes on Gwendolyn Pierce. She hated me—and rightly so. But when a film crew arrived in town to dig into my past, she became my only ally.
With my secrets threatened, I leaned on Gwen, forging a connection neither of us could deny. But with a past as dark as ours, I feared it would eclipse any hope for a future.
I always said that when Death finally came for me, I would be ready, eager, and alone. Always alone.
But for Gwen, maybe I could face the world again as long as it meant I could be alone—with her.
They don’t go to the brick wall. No one in the village does. Ever since I was a little girl, everyone has warned me not to go or even to look at it. And if you happen to find yourself close to the wall, run as fast and as far away as you can. The magic from the beast creeps beyond the wall, but not by much.
No one who values their life approaches the enchanted area, let alone searches out the gate. Everyone is sure not to provoke the enchanted area. Those who do, don’t come back to tell their tales. The magic is dark. And it’s all from the beast.
FOR THE LAST 19 YEARS OF MY LIFE, I’ve heard the tales and been warned to stay away. The thing is though, I’m not a very good listener. I got lost in the magic. He scented me. He claimed me with a bite on my neck. And I ran. Quickly and with a new terror racing in my heart.I swore I would never return. I would not trust the magic and allow it to entrance me again. I would not risk being caught in the hands of the Beast again.
But that was months ago and I miss the magic. Not only that, but I dream of the beast. It’s not a dream I’d admit to out loud, but it’s a dream I’d like to see come true.
Shall we find out how He Had It Coming? Check out this stunning cover reveal for this dark comedy romance set in the Her Small Town series by CoraLee! Releasing September 4th!
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Blurb:
From USA Today Bestselling Author CoraLee June
Welcome to Pine Hollow: A Forbidden Romance Brimming with Scandal and Sarcasm
Just when I thought I’d escaped Pine Hollow’s gossip mill and its suffocating small-town charm, my best friend Bella called. Turns out, she needed help—serious help. As in, her husband Butch is now a permanent resident of Whispering Pines Cemetery, and let’s just say it wasn’t exactly natural causes.
Bella and I? We’ve always been partners in crime, but this was a new level of mischief. So, I packed up my Austin dreams and headed back to Pine Hollow, where every smile hides a secret, and every sweet tea is laced with irony.
I expected a tearful reunion, not a body and a hastily dug grave. And certainly not my stepbrother Calvin showing up, all infuriatingly handsome and ready to assist. Calvin, the original heartbreaker who had me fleeing town years ago because of feelings I couldn’t shake and the judgmental whispers that followed.
As Calvin and I navigate this fresh mess—both the literal dirt and the figurative skeletons in our closets—old sparks ignite. It’s hard to focus on staying out of jail when unresolved tension keeps pulling us together.
Every side-eye spells gossip and Butch’s father is out for blood. We’re balancing on the thinnest of ice. The town is watching, whispering, and waiting for the next scandal to unfold.
Dive into a steamy mix of forbidden romance, dark humor, and a mystery too tangled to ignore.
Because in Pine Hollow, secrets never stay buried. And as for Butch? Well, he had it coming.
About the Author:
CoraLee: Whipping up characters that go deep, bring the laughs, and stir the heart. Also known as the angsty author CoraLee June, “CoraLee” is the name stamping those rom-com pages. Ex-librarian and Texas State English grad (where daydreaming was practically a major), CoraLee is now writing books that make her giggle, while navigating Dallas life with three mini sidekicks and a hubby still figuring out the plot twist he’s in. CoraLee has a flair for turning every day into a comedy skit. Welcome to the chaos.
I’ve heard these words my entire life, and never believed I would ever be allowed to find my other half. The Trials are your one shot every twenty five years to find your forever. Here’s the kicker, a female Nephilim isn’t allowed to revel her wings till the trials. Do you know what its like to have wings and not be allowed to fly or expose them? It absolutely sucks.
When the moment finally arrives and I get my card guess who ends up in my life? An Archangel, and Angel, a Nephilim that can’t talk and the son of Death himself. Dark Nephilim hate everyone and Cyrus doesn’t make loving him easy.
New bonds are tested when one of my guys is abducted and taken to hell. We’re in a race against time to save him and me in the process. My true lineage is laid out before me and I’m shook.
The path before me is perilous and I may not survive it. But, I have to try. Love is the only thing worth fighting for.
Why you will love this book: 🔥Small Town 🔥Marriage of Convenience 🔥Boss’s brother 🔥Single Mom 🔥”My Wife”
Get married or move out. Those are my options, thanks to the trust my grandma left and my aunt is determined to enforce. From Marie Johnston comes a single-mom, marriage-of-convenience romance. If I don’t get married, I’ll have to find somewhere to live that I can afford with two kids and a lot of debt—and do it without losing my brand-new job. When my aunt confronts me on the move-out deadline, I try to buy time. I blurt out a name. I tell her I’m engaged to Eliot Knight. Eliot’s my boss’s brother and he’s been around the vet clinic where I work. He’s hot. He’s charming. He’s who I’d pick if I had to marry someone at a moment’s notice. But he wasn’t supposed to hear me. He wasn’t supposed to get dragged into my mess. And he wasn’t supposed to agree to help me. Now, we’re Mr. and Mrs. Knight. We only need to be married for a year, and he runs his family’s ranch in another town. Three hours away. Yet circumstances keep throwing us together, and I get a lot of time with my new husband. I fall hard the first time I hear him say, “My wife.” But our lives are still separate. At the end of the year, I’m afraid I’ll get to keep my house, but I’ll lose my heart and be left with nothing but endless memories.
Infuriating, sexy and seemingly everywhere, Penn Barnett is far too sexy for his own good. It seems like every woman in Rockhead Point has had a taste of the mountain man, and I can definitely see the appeal.
When I literally fall into his orbit, he tells me I’m his the moment our eyes meet. But my life is anything but simple, and right now I just don’t have the time or energy for another complication in my world no matter how hot he is.
Only he isn’t prepared to take no for an answer and he’s determined to make me his.
Now he’s everywhere I am, following me home and trying to take over my life. But I’m not the only woman who wants to be claimed by him and his ex has open access to my life, especially when I’m staying in her mom’s house.
If I’m his and he’s mine, how come everything is trying to tear us apart? He wants to claim me, and I might want that too, but my life isn’t my own, and for the first time ever the Barnett brothers’ legacy might not be as powerful as real life.
My name is Lux Weston and I’m a matter of national security, apparently.
All I did was meet a beautiful girl in a bookstore, then rescue her. One… twice… and maybe a third time—from a creeper.
The problem? The creeper turned out to be Secret Service, and the girl… well, she’s Radley Andrews—the President’s only daughter.
It has disaster written all over it. I should stay away.
She’s a student, I’m a major league baseball player.
She’s trying to hide from the spotlight, I’m standing underneath it.
Not to mention I’ve never had a relationship, and Radley has her own demons to battle.
When she starts looking at me the way I’m looking at her, staying away becomes impossible. Soon we’re sneaking secret dates and I’m making her breakfast.
While Radley might be the most beautiful girl I’ve ever seen, she’s become something better.
Mine.
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Lulu started writing by accident, and somehow found herself stuck in a fictional world of ice hockey, baseball and billionaires. A world she has no plans to leave. She’s the creator of The New York Players Series, The Tuesday Club Series, and The New York Lions – the worst team in the M.L.B.
More recently she’s ventured across the Atlantic to where her latest novel is set – the beautiful cities of Oxford and Cambridge, and the annual rowing showdown on the River Thames.
She’s a big fan of strong heroines, because those fierce alphas need someone to keep them in check. You’ll find hear navigating her way through Romance Land one HEA at a time, and trying to figure out the latest social media platform she needs to post to.
Weston may be a professional baseball player, but he is not a player. When he meets Radley he is enchanted however she is gone before he realizes what happens. When fate brings them together again, he is not about to let her walk away a second time even if it involves a less than ideal situation with the Secret Service.
Radley is the daughter of the President which brings some complications to her life, and she is still trying to deal with her past. When she meets Weston, she may be attracted to him but doesn’t believe she is ready to let another man into her life even if he is patient and persistent.
Weston and Radley were everything you could ask for and more. He is understanding as he lets Radly set the pace of their relationship and shows her that she can trust him with her heart. The interactions are humorous, the emotions heartfelt, the romance heartwarming and they are surrounded by a great group of people who are there for them through it all.
The thing about making a deal with the devil, is you never see the fine print.
I thought this was the best way to save them. The four men that keep me grounded, rooted to the core of my history, my legacy, and I’ll save them no matter the cost.
Truths uncovered lead to more secrets, more lies, more pain, and the tangled web of Echoes Cove has me trapped tighter in its bindings.
The monsters of this world have no idea how far I’m willing to go. How hard I’m willing to fight.
One thing is for sure, they have all underestimated me. Soon they will see my truth, and I’ll be the one with the crown.
She’s my sister’s best friend, my mom’s God-daughter and the mother of the sweetest two-year old I’ve ever met. Even if she won’t reveal who his father is.
When she unexpectedly needs a place to stay, I don’t hesitate to offer up my house on the family ranch. However, I didn’t anticipate Mia’s new boss mistaking me for her husband and the father of her child.
The secrets between us may keep us apart in the real world, but a fake relationship… that’s a role I’m happy to play for her.
At least until the lines between fantasy and reality begin to blur.
I never should’ve stolen that first kiss. Never should have thought one night would get her out of my system. Never should have grown so attached to her little boy.
When this is all over, Mia and her son will walk away with my heart.
It doesn’t matter though, it’s always belonged to her.
Why you will love this book… 🔥Hurt/Comfort 🔥Redemption 🔥Self Discovery 🔥Different Worlds 🔥Secret Billionaire 🔥Emotional Scars 🔥Road Trip 🔥Broken FMC/MMC
I met him when my ship was sinking, and I clung to him through the storm. Little did I know he needed me as much as I needed him.
The first time I saw Roman Dante King, he stuck out like an odd puzzle piece that got mixed up in the wrong box. It wasn’t his blue eyes in the dim light of the bar, the tattoos that covered his arms and hands, or even his arrogant personality. It was something else—something I couldn’t see—that told me he didn’t belong in our small beach town on the Oregon coast.
Elora Mazie Barlow reminded me of a hummingbird zipping from one flower to another, never stopping, never allowing anyone more than a glimpse before she was gone. Never letting anyone in… until me. Then she gave me her smiles that were more valuable than anything I ever owned and wrapped me in her peace without asking for anything in return.
Her tragic story sounded achingly familiar to my own.
Our connection is knotted up in loss. The journey we’re on together will eventually come to an end. But will we be able to untangle the mess of strings that have tied us together?
Writing a spicy romance novel with your best friend isn’t a problem. The problem is when you start to imagine him as you write the steamy scenes. Tobias Banks is a bestselling romance author, and he’s also my best friend. He’s smart, brilliant, kind-hearted, has never shown an interest in settling down, and he’s the one constant in my life I know I can depend on for anything. So it shouldn’t surprise me that as soon as my personal life shatters, he’s there, picking up the pieces and reminding me who I am. In a matter of days, we are back to our lively banter. I’m living in his spare room, and now, he’s helping me achieve my lifelong dream of writing a romance novel. Life feels good again, free … except I’m not looking at him as my best friend whom I used to pull all-night study sessions with during college. Nope, I’m looking at him as the man who walks into the kitchen each morning shirtless, smirks when I say something he likes to hear, wears shirts that hug his arms a lot tighter than I remember, and looks at me as if I’m his next meal. Falling for my best friend isn’t smart, but if I’ve learned anything since we set out on this journey together, it’s that love doesn’t make the rules. We do.
Betrayal cuts deeper than any knife stabbed through your back. It slices through you and makes you wish for the sweet demise of a bullet shot straight out of Carver’s gun.
I trusted them.
King, Cruz, Grayson, and Carver were not only the Kings of Ravenwood Heights but the kings of my heart, and now…they’re my executioners.
They took away everything I had. They stole my heart and made me believe in love. I should have trusted my gut. They gave me hope, and I was a fool who followed them blindly.
Never again.
I may have nothing left and not a damn soul in my corner, but I’m not nearly through.
I. Am. Dynasty.
I am my parents’ legacy, and I won’t stop until I’ve taken back what’s rightfully mine.
Watch out, boys. You’ve crossed the wrong bitch. I’m coming for you, and this time, I won’t back down. This time—I’m fighting until the end.
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