Some might say I’m running away. I prefer to look at it as an extended vacation, from social media, the paparazzi, and my very public life back in Los Angeles.
That’s why I rented a small cabin in the woods in Nowhere, Wisconsin. I needed an escape and time to lick my wounds from a breakup. What I wasn’t expecting was Marcus Wright, the most frustrating man on the face of the planet, to be right next door. Our chemistry is undeniable, and it doesn’t take long to realize a summer fling is just what the doctor ordered.
Our time has a deadline though, and at the end of a month, I’m going back home to Los Angeles. Problem is, despite Marcus’s grumpy demeanor, I’m not sure I want to.
Marcus
My days, and some of my nights, are spent working on vehicles in my shop. Working and living in my hometown of Pine Village is where I’m comfortable, where I belong.
My quiet little world is disrupted the day Ryan Marcotte rolls into town in her high heels and designer clothes. She’s the exact opposite of me, a spoiled rich girl who pushes my buttons like no other. She’s famous, has her own TV show, and is only here for a short time. I’m also wildly attracted to her. I try to fight it, but the pull is too strong. So when she suggests a little no-strings fun, I’m all in.
Unfortunately, our private bubble is popped the moment fans discover her location. All good things must come to an end. I just wasn’t expecting my heart to be so invested.
Even the star power that Ryan holds isn’t enough to bring her love and happiness. Needing to distance herself from public situation she found herself in she heads to Pine Valley where hopefully she can stay under the radar.
The lifestyle that Marcus is leading couldn’t be more different than Ryan’s and now she is his tenant. He believes that she is entitled and totally out of her depth however when circumstances keep bringing them together what she lacks in experience she makes up for with enthusiasm.
Great chemistry, a little angst and a heartwarming romance as Ryan is embraced not only by Marcus but the town as well.
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.
From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author comes a brand new sizzling summer read that will have you laughing, swooning . . . and sweating.
Scottie Price just started a new job and it’s a real sausage fest. She’s the only woman on a team filled with Brads and Chads. Expecting a bachelor pad atmosphere, she is quickly corrected when she finds out everyone is happily married.
In an effort to impress her boss, Scottie mentions her nonexistent husband in a company meeting. But eagle-eyed Chad points out her lack of wedding ring. Panicked, Scottie creates a story about her unhappy marriage. Unfortunately for Scottie, her boss has a solution—a one-on-one session with the best marriage counselor in the Northeast, who happens to be her boss’s husband.
With no way out of her lie, Scottie agrees to see him. Frantic, she calls in help from her best friend who sets her up with his brother, an improv-obsessed millionaire.
Enter Wilder Wells. More than happy to take on the job, he teaches Scottie the main rule of improv: always say yes. But the rule backfires during the session when Wilder signs them up for an eight-day summer marriage camp with all of Scottie’s co-workers where she’ll have to share a cabin with her way-too-handsome fake husband.
Scottie is having difficulty fitting in with her co-workers as they are all blissfully married while she has just gone through a divorce that changed her. One white lie where she tells everyone she is married has left her in quite the dilemma when she needs a husband for a marriage camp that her boss and her husband are hosting.
Wilder is the brother of Scottie’s best friend who has just sold his business and is now a wealthy man. He hasn’t’ decided what comes next so when Scottie needs a pretend husband he is all in for the what he believes will be a fun experience and spending time with Scottie only increases the appeal.
Scottie and Wilder couldn’t be more different as he takes whatever comes their way while she tries to plan everything out which makes the situations they find themselves in humorous. Erin Mallon was a great choice for Scottie as you can feel her insecurities while Teddy Hamilton is swoony as he shows Scottie she is perfect just the way she is.
New York Times bestselling author Tijan delivers a bold romance about two people wrestling with emotional trauma, thrown into a deadly—and heated—power dynamic when the mafia comes after them both.
Every bride dreams of her wedding day.
Today was supposed to be that day for me, except it’s not me marrying my college sweetheart.
My best friend is doing that. Or, well, my ex–best friend.
Instead, I’m over a thousand miles away, riding the subway in a city where lost people come to dream.
Me—I’m just hoping to distract myself from my heartbreak.
That is, until I met Jake Worthing.
Grumpy.
Hot.
A total jerk.
Did I mention hot?
Also, extremely presumptuous.
Just because I look like I’m a thought away from a total meltdown does not mean I need an ambulance.
He had the audacity to ask if I needed medical treatment.
Well, good riddance to him.
I don’t ever have to see him again.
Except, well, I do when I’m taken to the police station for a total misunderstanding.
He walks in and…gah. He’s the same that I remember from our first meeting.
Brooding. Still gorgeous. (The universe is not fair sometimes.)
He’s stirring up emotions that I didn’t know were still inside of me.
Then someone tries to shoot him and I’m a witness, and…er, how is it that I’m the one being kidnapped?
And by Jake?
Now I’m heated for a whole different reason.
If I get myself out of this captive situation, I’m going to reign down my own destruction starting with Jake Worthing.
I just have to survive first and, also, not get my heart broken. Again.
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Tijan is a New York Times Bestselling author that writes suspenseful and unpredictable novels. Her characters are strong, intense, and gut-wrenchingly real with a little bit of sass on the side. Tijan began writing after college and once she started, she was hooked. She’s written multi-bestsellers including the Fallen Crest series, Ryan’s Bed, Enemies and others. She is currently writing many new books and series with an English Cocker she adores.
After Sawyer’s life implodes she decides to head to NY to not only distance herself from the situation but also confront some family drama by meeting her cousin. The meeting didn’t go as planned when a misunderstanding results in her being held in police custody. The last person she expected to see was the sexy stranger who caught her attention earlier that day or that she would become a witness when he is attacked.
Jake’s life has taken a twist he never saw coming as he goes from being in law enforcement to leading his mafia family. When his life is threatened and Sawyer sees everything he knows the only way to keep her and himself safe is by keeping her under his control whether she likes it or not.
Both Sawyer and Jake are at a crossroads in their life as they try to determine what comes next. Chaos erupts both between them and from outside sources as they take us on suspense and emotional filled journey as they find love under the direst of circumstances.
I wasn’t supposed to love him. I wasn’t even supposed to acknowledge him. But my entire life, I’ve had heart-eyes for my oldest brother’s former best friend, Cortland Haven.
I can’t help it that boys can be stupid, and a feud broke apart a long-time friendship and divided once-close families.
Try as I might to ignore Cort, I didn’t miss his eyes on me from across a crowded bar, twelve years ago. Oh, the way my skin tingled under his appraisal. The way my heart pattered knowing he was looking at me.
We shared more than a moment.
Now, we’re older and wiser. And with a little over a decade age gap between us, and a divide greater than that between our families, my heart still hasn’t gotten the memo.
No, that fickle organ has other plans for Cortland and me.
Especially when the silver fox is my son’s new baseball coach and I suddenly find myself assigned as his physical therapist.
I don’t just fall for the man adverse to touch, I tumble hard for him, when he should never be mine.
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.
“Can I taste you now, Nora?” He looks up at me, watching my face carefully as he waits for my answer.I nod. But that’s not enough for him. “Words. I need you to tell me. So, I’ll ask again—can I put my mouth on your pretty pussy?” Oh, wow. Wow, wow, wow. I’ve never understood the appeal of dirty talk, but now, I totally freaking get it. “I-I think I might die if you don’t,” I tell him honestly.
The island is only four square miles, but we could walk home as quickly as it takes to drive along the narrow dirt paths we call roads. Three minutes later, our house on the far end of the island comes into view.
There are only two homes out on the point. Mine, and the one owned by Elizabeth Sweet’s family. I’ve been taking care of the place since my brother passed, and he’d been doing it for years before that without once seeing the family, so I was shocked when Dan called and asked me to do a couple of things around the place before his daughter arrived.
I park in front of the large white-cedar-shingled house. The sun is just setting, and nothing about the dark house looks inviting. Even with the large wraparound porch and the massive second-story windows, the structure looks angry. Like it doesn’t want a Hollywood princess here either.
“Hurry up!” Sutton hops out of the truck and takes off across the grass I cut last week.
I’m reaching for the luggage when a feminine scream pierces the air.
“Stay here, Sutton,” I demand. Heart thudding, I take off toward the house. Just as I hit the porch, another scream sounds from inside, making the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
I throw the door open and find a tiny blonde in jeans and a tight shirt standing on the table, feet bare, with a broom in her hand.
“Get it off. Oh my god, it’s in my hair.” She steps back, her foot teetering on the edge.
I rush across the six feet, arms out, and catch her as her arms windmill and she falls backward.
She smacks into my chest, still thrashing like a wild woman, causing me to stumble.
“It’s in my hair,” she shouts again.
I have one heartbeat to decide whether to drop her or just go down with her. I curse myself for being a gentleman as I hit the ground with an umph.
All the while, her hands never stop flapping. We’re flaton the floor, yet she’s flailing, hitting herself and me in the process.
“What in the holy hell is the problem?” Deciding it’s best to keep my hands to myself rather than try to stop her, I drop them to my sides, leaving the young superstar on top of me.
“There’s a spider on me.” She shudders, though the spastic movements finally slow.
I survey the silky blond strands, and sure enough, I spot the little guy. Gently, I pick it off her head, then fling it away.
“You touched it with your hands?” Huge blue eyes fixate on my fingers.
I shake my head. “They’re everywhere. Better get used to them.”
“I hate spiders,” she whispers, her voice shaky.
No shock there. I smirk. “Ready to go home yet, Princess?”
SINS & SECRETS IS A COLLECTION CENTERED AROUND THE ELITE CIRCLES OF NEW YORK CITY CORRUPTION
From second chances to obsession, these morally gray heroes go after what they want.
The complete romances and happily ever afters included in this collection are:
You Are My Reason Duet
You Know I Love You Duet
Tell Me You Want Me
Sealed with a Kiss
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You Are My Reason Duet – Mason is at a crossroads in his life and must decide whether to continue the path that he is on or to try and break away which will destroy his life as he knows it. Jules is a widow who lost her husband less than a year ago and she wants to move on, but the guilt is holding her back. Secrets, suspense and drama collide as just when you think you know where the story is going there is another surprise that throws you for a loop.
You Know I Love You Duet – Evan and Kat are finding out that careers and life can be challenge on a marriage as he appears to be guilty of a betrayal however the secrets he holds could destroy everything. Love was never a problem in their marriage however they have changed from the people they were when they married and grown apart. So much emotion, so much angst and so many secrets leave us needing to know what the future holds for this captivating couple.
Tell Me You Want Me – Adrian is a powerful businessman who has just purchased a new company. Suzette is determined to protect her job and her team and isn’t about to back down from anyone and that includes her sexy new boss. She is more than willing to submit to him physically but that doesn’t mean she is willing to submit in all areas of her life. Hot chemistry combined with a possessive hero who is so much more than he appears has met his match in his feisty and fiery heroine.
It is great to have these stories in one collection. I haven’t had a chance to read Sealed With A Kiss yet but I am looking forward to reading that story as well.
Meet Willow Winters:
I started writing after having my little girl, Evie, December of 2015. All during my pregnancy with her I read. I only wanted to read romance novels and I read everything I could get my hands on. I would read a book a day — sometimes two. In January I was staying up late with her and just thinking of all these stories. They came to me constantly. I finally sat down and just started writing. I always wanted to do it so I figured, why not?
I never thought I would reach this point of success to be honest. It’s insane to me that I have connected with so many readers.
And I love each and every one of them for all of their support. I’ll be honest, some days are HARD. I have my littles during the day and I write at night. Some days are just simply exhausting and then I hear from a reader and it motivates me to push through and keep writing. I couldn’t be more grateful for this wonderful career. For more information, visit https://www.willowwinterswrites.com/
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Maggie Cole is committed to bringing her readers alphalicious book boyfriends and fiercely strong heroines.
She’s been called the literary master of steamy romance. Her books are full of raw emotion, suspense, and will always keep you wanting more. She’s a masterful storyteller of contemporary romance and loves writing about broken people who rise above the ashes. Her books can often be found hanging out in the top 100, even years after publication.
Maggie lives in Florida with her son. She loves tennis, yoga, paddleboarding, boating, other water activities, and everything naughty.
The continuation of International bestselling author Maggie Cole’s highly-received secret society, drenched in dark undertones, next-generation Mafia series about two enemy lovers never meant to be together until one action catapulted their arranged marriage. Now, Fiona O’Malley and Kirill Petrov will have to let go of their preconceived notions, emotional scars, and everything they knew to be true about themselves.
My brother arranged for me to marry a stranger, one marked with a diagonal scar across his face and a tattoo necklace on his hand.
Neither disgusts me. They also aren’t what scares me.
Kirill Petrov’s a sworn enemy of our family and King of the Underworld. A towering man with darkness in his gaze, an unspoken promise of what he’ll do to me, and something so deep in his expression it hurts my heart.
Yet the blaze of his allure only grows hotter, singing, until I can’t resist him any longer… until I’m his Queen wearing his necklace night after night, staring at the beast inside his soul.
If I could, I’d kill that beast until the world saw my husband as the man I see—the man I love.
Except I give him my heart before I learn the full truth. And once you see the unforgettable, how can you go back? How can you forgive your husband for sins that aren’t his, yet he’s tied to? Especially when the people you love got hurt in the most vile of ways?
Bride by Coronation is a standalone novel with interconnected characters and book two of The Underworld series. This dark, secret society, Mafia, enemies to lovers, forbidden, arranged marriage, and emotional scars novel is not meant for the faint of heart. Expect violence, taboo, and graphic scenes.
👑Review👑 Kirill is a powerful man when it comes to the Underworld and as much as he wants Fiona he believes that she wouldn’t be able to feel the same way. When they are forced to marry to forge a business alliance it leads to an enduring love as he shows her what love and loyalty really means.
Fiona does not want to be forced to marry for the good of her family however finding out that Krill is her groom is the best outcome she could have hoped for. She sees beyond his physical and emotional scars to the man he truly is and supports him like no one else ever has.
Kirill will do whatever is necessary to protect her and make her happy while she proves to be his equal in every way. The surprises keep coming and the heat between this captivating couple only escalates as they learn to trust in each other and their love.