Mallory may have escaped her captor, but that is only the beginning as she needs to find out who she is and why it happened. Exhausted she collapses on Liam’s ranch where she finds out they are tied together in a way that only raises more questions than answers.
Liam has a devastating past that continues to haunt him. When he finds Mallory, the surprises keep coming when he finds her in possession of an unlikely object and now, they must find out who is responsible before they try again.
There is a story about healing and new beginnings that is filled with suspense and twists that will keep you guessing until the end.
AUTHOR BIO
Born out of an idea to write sweet romance, or as some call it, closed-door romance, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Kelly Elliott decided to bring a pen name to life. Letting her reader group vote on the new name, they came up with Ellie Grace.
After publishing contemporary romance for over 11 years, the new pen name allows Kelly to branch out and write in different genres and tropes. While “Kelly” is known for small-town, western, contemporary romance, “Ellie” will get to explore a bit more with her writing while keeping it on the sweet side of romance. Don’t worry; she’ll still be giving you the swoony heroes, strong heroines, and HEAs that make your heart melt. However, she may make you cry a time or two.
“Ellie” lives in central Texas with her husband, their two pups, four cats, and a plethora of wild animals. When she’s not writing, “Ellie” enjoys gardening, reading, and spending time with her family.
Series: Book 3 of the Oakmount Elite series – Complete Standalone
Release date: July 12th
Genre/Tropes: Forced Proximity / Tortured Hero / Boss x Employee / Enemies to Lovers / Primal Play / Who Hurt You? / Dark Romance / Found Family / Amnesia
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Sebastian Arturo isn’t just cruel, he’s downright terrifying.
With piercing green eyes, a body made for doing very bad things, and a charming demeanor, it’s no wonder everyone thinks the world of him… everyone except me.
When I wake up with pieces of my memory missing he’s the only one who can give me answers.
But he doesn’t give me answers, instead he tells me to stop asking questions, or else…
I heed his warning and do my best to avoid him but since he’s my boss and I live in his house that’s kinda difficult.
Then one night his hate for me reaches its breaking point…and the lines blur.
Hate twists into lustful obsession.
His cruel words become seductive praises.
One touch sparks a raging inferno of desire, and I find myself burned to ash beneath his fingertips.
Just when I think I’ll finally find happiness my memories return bringing with them a vicious truth.
Turns out the man I’m falling for isn’t who I thought he was… and escape isn”t an option. He has me right where he wants, caught in a trap, just like prey.
**This is a standalone, however for better reading enjoyment please consider starting with The Wallflower before reading The Prey. Again this is a dark romance novel, but does contain a happily ever after. It also contains triggering material, and adult content. Please do not start reading till you check the trigger warning at the beginning of the book.**
About JL Beck:
Beck writes steamy romance that’s unapologetic, meaning it makes no apologies for the way it rips you open and makes you crave more. Her heroes are alphas who take what they want, and she pairs them with heroines that bring them to their knees.
She loves writing about darkness, passion, suspense, and of course, steam.
Leaving her readers gasping and asking what the hell just happened is only one of her many tricks.
Her books range from morally grey to dark and spicey but always end with a happily ever after. She loves to write across numerous tropes, but her favorite is enemies to lovers.
She started her writing career in the summer of 2014 and hasn’t stopped since. She lives in Wisconsin and is a mom to two, a wife, and likes to act as a literary agent part-time.
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?
Dangerous secrets can lurk under the water’s surface
Ariana Alivette has lived a life of perceived luxury in the elusive Omni Towers. While most of the remaining survivors around the world are struggling to survive, Ariana has been locked away to protect a dangerous secret. But, even the walls of a gilded cage can’t last forever.
When Ariana makes the decision to reveal her secret to save a life, she suddenly finds herself targeted by those determined to use her for their own ambitions. Ariana must quickly learn the rules of this new world and do whatever is necessary to master her own fate, because one wrong decision means losing her life—and her heart.
There’s nothing more liberating than picking up your life and relocating. I needed a fresh start, desperately looking to get away from my past. Stewart Grove is such a cute small town and seems like the perfect place to settle. Add in the fact I got a job serving at the popular Burgers and Brew restaurant, and everything seems to be clicking into place.
Then single dad Jack Harper sat down at one of my tables and turned my world upside down.
I wasn’t expecting to meet a man so quickly after moving, let alone one ten years my senior, but there’s no denying the instant connection. The problem is, I carry a secret. One that could destroy this new life I’m creating.
I just pray it all doesn’t blow up in my face.
Jack
Weekends are spent with my kids. As a local electrician and business owner, I don’t exactly work your typical nine-to-five job. Add in co-parenting with my ex-wife, and there isn’t a lot of free time for myself. Dates have always been an afterthought, especially when the few I’ve been on didn’t go well. I’m content with just being Dad, making sure my kids always come first.
Then I met her.
Stevie Clement is completely unexpected in the best sort of way, and I find myself drawn to her like I’ve never experienced. I want all of her time, in my life and in my bed.
However, it may come down to an impossible decision: my kids or the woman I want to spend my life with.
The reasons that Stevie finds herself in Stewart Grove working at Burgers and Brew was twofold and neither of those reasons was Jack. From their first meeting she is drawn to the older single father, but she has secrets that aren’t going to make things easier.
Jack believes his life is complete between his career, his kids and his friends. After his divorce he didn’t believe he had the time or energy for a relationship but when he meets Stevie, she seems to fill an empty space he didn’t know he had.
It was great catch up with the rest of the crew and see the relationship between Stevie and Jack unfold. She becomes part of his life like she has always been there even if they have a few challenges to overcome along the way.
USA Today Bestselling Author Lacey Black is a Midwestern girl with a passion for reading, writing, and shopping. She carries her e-reader with her everywhere she goes so she never misses an opportunity to read a few pages. Always looking for a happily ever after, Lacey is passionate about contemporary romance novels and enjoys it further when you mix in a little suspense. She resides in a small town in Illinois with her husband, two children, and three rowdy chickens.
It’s not every day you ask your older brother’s teammate to be your fake boyfriend. But desperate times call for gorgeous, impulsive measures.
Miles Garrett is a pro basketball player with a heartstopping smile and infamous cocky charm.
But to me, he’s always been more than a celebrity. Miles is the guy who puts friends and family first…and my college crush.
When my sorority sister decides to bring my ex to our reunion, I need a plus-one who can have my back and save my pride. Asking Miles is the perfect solution.
Until he raises the stakes for both of us.
He says he’s only playing to win. He’ll be the best fake boyfriend I’ve ever had.
But his gaze hunts mine across a crowded room. He protects me with a fierceness that steals my breath. Our just-for-show kisses ignite a wildfire inside me.
I’m fighting feelings that have been simmering for years. Soon our pretend relationship starts feeling dangerously legit…
Because it’s hard to fake what’s always been real.
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🏀Review🏀 Brooke was raised in an affluent lifestyle, but it also came with expectations which included ensuring that her actions reflected well on her family. She now finds herself in a situation where she needs to ensure the success of her career as an influencer. She has the opportunity to ensure that happens, but she needs a date as her ex will be there as well.
Jayden is a professional basketball player who is a great teammate and a loyal friend. When Brooke approaches him to pretend to be her date he does not hesitate to agree even if she is the sister of his teammate and friend but denying the feelings between them could be the biggest challenge of all.
Due to her brother even though Brooke and Jayden had feelings for each other they never acted on them. All it will take is some close proximity for them to acknowledge how they feel about each other as he shows Brooke how she deserves to be treated. This is the first part of their story, and I am looking forward to seeing what the future holds.
🔥Childhood Friends/First Love 🔥Enemies to Lovers (but he’s actually been in love the whole time) 🔥Forced Proximity 🔥Roommates 🔥Second Chance 🔥“Fuck it” 🔥Toys as teammates 🔥It’s always been you 🔥Secret tattoo for her 🔥No Third Act Breakup 🔥✨Fancy✨ peen 🔥He Falls First and Hardest 🔥“Eyes on me” 🔥Smut reading MMC 🔥Curvy FMC 🔥Hurt/Comfort 🔥Found Family 🔥Dirty talking MMC 🔥She thinks he hates her but he knows her coffee order 🔥He takes care of her when she’s sick 🔥Broken MMC
Coming home and finding out my ex is my new roommate is a nightmare…especially when I’ve been pretending to hate her for years.
Harper Davidson has been ingrained on my heart since we were kids, and now she’s tattooed on my skin. But she’ll never know about either. Not when she’s better off thinking we’re enemies.
Having her in my space every day and sharing a wall with her every night is a challenge I never saw coming. A challenge I’m not sure I’m up to.
Especially when our daytime games turn into nighttime dares, pushing each other to the breaking point until our neighbors know exactly who’s making her scream.
As lines blur and feelings deepen, we begin teetering on the edge of something more. And it’s becoming harder to pretend that this is nothing—that she is nothing.
Because this second chance is starting to feel like a last chance.
It’s always been her for me, but I’m broken beyond repair and don’t know how to be the man she needs. These demons in my closet are never silent, and I’ll do anything to keep them from dragging her down with me.
1. Develop an obsession for his best friend’s sister. 2. Agree to let her be his new roommate. 3. Kiss her.
Hello I’m Emerson Knight and I’m an idiot.
I try to stay away from Gianna Damiano I really do. But between crop tops and fiery glares I can’t get her off my mind. One fake date changes everything and I cannot deny I want my hands on every one of my new roommates delicious curves. One night keeps turning into one more. And suddenly I’m lying to my best friend.
I’m the man known for his fake out, but I’m only kidding myself because the way she’s stealing my heart feels very real.
✨TEASER: SINFUL VOWS: Extended Edition by @deborahgarlandauthor, available now on KU and coming to audio June 21 with the amazing DB West and Lexi Evan narrating and featuring Troy Duran as Lachlan O’Rourke!
Why you need the brand new extended edition… 🗝️Grumpy Irish Mob Hitman 🗝️Sunshine Single Mother 🗝️Secret Child 🗝️Age Gap (38/23) 🗝️He Brokers Her Marriage to His Boss 🗝️Forbidden/Taboo 🗝️One Bed 🗝️Mobster at a Tea Party 🗝️Found Family 🎧Recorded in Duet and featuring sexy Irish accents
It was supposed to be a one-night stand with a sinfully gorgeous stranger. A man I’d never see again. I was stranded, he had a hotel room (which I had broken into), and the rest is history. Until he shows up at my doorstep five years later with a marriage proposal. Not to marry him, though. Turns out he’s a hitman for the Irish Mob, and his boss needs a wife. The man I’d been dreaming about for years has chosen me. For someone else. He thinks he’s too broken and doesn’t deserve love. But when the roads flood, we’re trapped, and there’s only one bed. I’ll prove to him he’s worthy and we belong together. All of us. Me, him, and our daughter…
Arranged marriage, enemies to lovers, Mafia/cartel romance
As the only daughter of the Kansas City capo, at eighteen years of age, I was given to the son of my father’s consigliere, a man who was expected to accomplish great things for the famiglia. Things didn’t go the way we planned.
There wasn’t love.
My husband was a traitor, taking part in a coup against the famiglia.
My husband is dead.
I’m free.
Until the fateful night my brother, our new capo, informs me that I’ve once again been promised in marriage. He explains that as a childless widow and the daughter of the late capo dei capi, I am desired—requested.
Aléjandro Roríguez is the son of the leader of the Roríguez cartel. My brother married a woman from the cartel, securing the Mafia/cartel alliance. He says that it’s now my turn.
I’ve only met my future husband a few times, but I know without a doubt that I don’t like him. Loving him is impossible. I’ve lived in a marriage without love. I won’t do it again.
Aléjandro lives a dangerous existence.
Death saved me once before.
Maybe it will again.
Have you been Aleatha’d?
TILL DEATH DO US PART is a stand-alone dangerous Mafia/cartel romance in the new “Brutal Vows” series. Each arranged-marriage story is filled with the suspense, intrigue, and heat you’ve come to expect from New York Times bestselling author Aleatha Romig.
Mia believed that she had done her duty to her family had been fulfilled with the marriage that was arranged. His death was a reprieve from the life she was living and isn’t something she wants to repeat however her brother advises differently.
Alejandro is a powerful man within his family’s cartel, and he wants Mia for more than business reasons. He will be patient and understanding as he shows her what a life between them would entail but nothing is going to stop him from claiming the woman he wants.
The suspense will keep you on edge, the surprises keep coming and the chemistry between them is intense. When it came to Mia, we were able to see beyond the ruthless side of Alejandro to the loyal and loving man he truly was.
Meet Aleatha Romig:
Aleatha Romig is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author who lives in Indiana. She grew up in Mishawaka, graduated from Indiana University, and is currently living south of Indianapolis. Together with her high-school sweetheart and husband of over thirty years, they’ve raised three children. Before she became a full-time author, she worked days as a dental hygienist and spent her nights writing. Now, when she’s not imagining mind-blowing twists and turns or her new lighter side, she likes to spend her time with her family and friends. Her pastimes include reading and creating heroes/anti-heroes who haunt your dreams!
Cole may be skilled when it comes to his actions on the ice, but his English class is a struggle and it could be the difference between graduating or not. There is a reason he finds it difficult and that his experience with other tutors didn’t go well but find out that Avery, the girl he had an unforgettable first meeting with and the coach’s daughter, has complicated written all over it.
Avery is trying to distance herself from a difficult situation which is how she finds herself at the same university where the father she hasn’t had a relationship with for years is the coach. She and Cole come to an arrangement that will give them both what they want however the more time they spend together the more the rules seem to change.
Cole knows that Avery has been hurt and while he is willing to be patient and understanding he isn’t about to let her walk away from what they could have together. A little turmoil, a few secrets and two captivating characters all add up to a story you won’t be able to put down.
We all have them. Mine started with a breakup and ended in bitterness. I was my own worst enemy, choosing booze and women to numb my pain and soothe my ego. My nickname became Jude, Patron Saint of Lost Causes. And I lived up to it daily.
Hockey was my only solace and I continued to excel on the ice. Things didn’t change when I was called to the pros. It just provided me with more money and more opportunity to make bad choices. Until one day a scandal bought me a one-way ticket to the Hawks in a team trade. Chicago. Middle America. I was happy about the trade, but not about the conditions once I arrived. According to the team, I needed to clean up my image.
That’s where she comes in. Emerson Evans. An acquaintance from the past. She’s there to make sure I stay on the straight and narrow, storming into my life and changing things without my permission. We have nothing in common. She’s the girl next door with artistic flare and a sharp tongue. I’m a hockey god on skates with a stubborn streak.
The more she catches my eye, the more I realize how wrong we are for each other. I’ll just hurt her. That’s what I do. But I was never one to follow the rules. And I’m starting to understand …
Sometimes the wrong choices get us to the right place.
I’m Sam Anderson and this is my story.
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