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“𝘼𝙡𝙚𝙭 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙀𝙫𝙞𝙚’𝙨 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙝𝙧𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙩. 𝙊𝙣𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙙 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙎𝙞𝙣𝙛𝙪𝙡 𝙋𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙨𝙬𝙚𝙥𝙩 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙆𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩’𝙨 𝙍𝙞𝙙𝙜𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙. 𝙄𝙩 𝙥𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙨 𝙪𝙥 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙎𝙞𝙣𝙛𝙪𝙡 𝙆𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙡𝙚𝙛𝙩 𝙤𝙛𝙛; 𝙢𝙮 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙞𝙣𝙜, 𝙖 𝙡𝙪𝙢𝙥 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙢𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙖𝙩, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙨 𝙨𝙤𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙨 𝙄 𝙛𝙚𝙡𝙩 𝙖𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙄 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙖 𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙗𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝, 𝙞𝙩 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣.” – 𝙈𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙖, 𝘽𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝘽𝙤𝙮𝙛𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙃𝙪𝙨𝙗𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙈𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙚

Sinful Princess, book two in the Sinful Trilogy and book seventeen in the Knight’s Ridge Empire series by Tracy Lorraine is NOW LIVE!

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USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Tracy Lorraine brings you the next instalment of her dark mafia, high school romance story set in the Knight’s Ridge Empire world.

For years, all I dreamed about is getting away.

Starting over… a new life.

Far, far away from where I grew up.

But I always expected to be the one to save myself.

I was naïve enough to think the decision about where I went, and more importantly, who with would be up to me.

Turns out, I never had a say. In any of it.

My future had been mapped out long ago.

A future that begins at eighteen when I’m ripped away from the only home I’ve ever known and thrust into a world darker than the one I was running from.

When I’m dragged around like a rag doll with a price on my head, the only person I can think about is him.

The dark and sinful man who turned my life upside down.

He could save me. I know he could.

But there’s just one problem.

He’s going to have to find me first.

Dear Readers,

Sinful Princess is the second book in Alex and his vixen’s trilogy and the final couple in my Knight’s Ridge Empire series. This book is a dark forbidden bully romance that contains mature content and demanding alphaholes that some readers may find disturbing. You have been warned.

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The feelings that Alex have for Evie are deep and enduring but he believes that if she knew everything about him she wouldn’t want to be with him so he distances himself first. He soon realizes what an epic mistake that was and when he learns what has happened however getting her back is only the beginning.

Evie has never felt more alone but she never expected that it would be Alex who was there for her. Despite his secrets he makes her feel safe however she is about to realize that she doesn’t really know him at all.

I enjoyed seeing the evolution of both these characters as we see a softer side of Alex and a stronger side of Alex. Secrets are revealed, the twists keep coming and the angst only increases which all lead up to a cliffhanger that leaves us wondering what the future holds.

Meet Tracy Lorraine

 

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What to expect from Vegas Heat: The Expansion Team

⚾ Forced Proximity
⚾ Insta-Love
⚾ Baseball Sports Romance
⚾ Age Gap

⚾ All the steam
⚾ Best Friends Daughter/Coach’s Daughter
⚾ Co-Workers
⚾ Secret Relationship

Blurb:
Our team is assembled, and the Vegas Heat is ready for our first season.
Life is perfect except for one thing. I can’t tell anybody about the love of my life.
The more time passes, the more people find out. It’s only a matter of time before her father learns the truth, but it has to come from us.
If it doesn’t, our relationship will become like a groundball that’ll eventually roll to a stop…but there won’t be anyone there to pick it up.
GROUNDBALL is the fourth book in the VEGAS HEAT: THE EXPANSION TEAM series. This series must be read in order.
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The Cruel Devious Heir duet is now complete! Cruel Devious Heir: Part Two by Caitlyn Dare is now available!

‘𝙵𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚞𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚕 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚎𝚗𝚍 𝙸 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍𝚗’𝚝 𝚜𝚎𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢 𝚍𝚘𝚠𝚗. 𝙸 𝚑𝚊𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚠𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚗 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚐𝚛𝚒𝚙𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚎. 𝙸𝚝 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚞𝚙 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚍𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚎𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚎 𝚝𝚠𝚘 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚔𝚎𝚍 𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝙷𝙴𝙰.’ – 𝙺𝚊𝚢 𝙳𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚎𝚕𝚜 (𝙺𝚊𝚢 𝙳𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚎𝚕𝚜 𝚁𝚘𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎)

𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐎𝐃𝐀𝐘 – https://mybook.to/CruelDeviousHeir2

𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐮𝐞𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐎𝐧𝐞 – https://mybook.to/AHCruelDeviousHeir1

He’s cruel. He’s devious… and he’s determined to keep her.

Oakley Beckworth didn’t expect to fall for the daughter of the man who hates him and everything he stands for. But it happened anyway.

What started as a game to sabotage Tally’s plan to knock the Heirs off their throne quickly turns into a game of life and death.

Headstrong. Tenacious. Pure.

She sees past all his bravado.

Oakley wants her even though he knows her father will never approve. Even though he’s not good enough for her.

But for once, Tally is determined to choose her own path in life … and she wants Oakley.

Because some people deserve to be loved.

Especially, the boy who did everything he could to save her.

Cruel Devious Heir: part two is a dark high school bully romance. If possessive, rugby playing alphaholes aren’t your thing, you probably won’t like this book! It should be read after part one.

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Although the feelings that Oakley has for Tally were unexpected, they were undeniable. If he had never met her he wouldn’t know what he was missing but now he can’t imagine a future without her. Not everyone is happy they are together and will do anything to keep them apart but the heirs as a team are unbeatable.

Tally has gone through so much and continues to go through so much. With Oakley and the rest of the heirs she has found where she belongs. Getting together may have been difficult but she, Oakley and the rest of the crew are about to find out that staying together may be even more difficult.

So many surprises, so much heat and so much emotion as Oakley and Tally realize how special the love they share is and that they will do anything to protect it.

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Tia Louise has revealed the covers for A Little Taste!

  

Releasing April 13, 2023

A LITTLE TASTE
By Tia Louise

Aiden Stone is a six-foot-two former Marine with a permanent scowl, dark hair, and dreamy blue eyes.

He’s the oldest of the Stone brothers, and his “by the book” family has battled mine for control of our small town for generations. 

The last thing I should do is sleep with him. Or nearly run him down with my truck. Especially since he’s sort-of my new boss…

It doesn’t help that my grandmother (the mayor) is a former magician, and my mom is a psychic (sort-of)… And my dad died in a failed escape-artist attempt (that my mother is convinced was a murder).

Trust me, I know crazy, but I’m just plain ole Britt Bailey, Shania Twain-loving, non-magical forensic photographer. Yes, I take pictures of dead things, but I don’t see them in my bedroom at night. 

I only want to see one thing in my bedroom at night, and when I’m called home to help Sheriff Stone on an investigation, he actually stops frowning for a minute, and my teenage fantasies get very real.  

It’s a terrible idea. We work together, he’s seven years older than me, he’s a single dad, he hates all things magic, but a little taste, and we can’t say no.

Until the town crime wave turns personal, putting everything on the line, and we’ll need more than a magic bullet to get our happily ever after.

(A LITTLE TASTE is a small-town, grumpy single-dad romance with a touch of light suspense and lots of tasty spice. No cheating. No cliffhanger.)

 

Couple Cover Designer: Lori Jackson
Special Edition Cover Designer: Y’all. That Graphic.
Photographer: Wander Aguiar

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Tia Louise is the USA TODAY best-selling, award-winning author of super-hot and sexy romances. All her heroes are alphas with hearts of gold, and all her heroines are the smart, sassy ladies who love them.
 
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I don’t have the hots for my roommate… If I say it enough times, will I believe it?

A Reluctant Roommate, an all-new hilarious forced-proximity, brother’s best friend, romantic comedy from USA Today bestselling author Angela Casella is available now!

I don’t have the hots for my roommate… If I say it enough times, will I believe it?

Drew

Some people might say I’m allergic to change. They’d be right.

I’ve lived in the same house my entire life, worked at the same company since I graduated from college, and hung out with the same three friends since middle school. If you think that sounds boring, you’re in agreement with my new roommate—my sister’s best friend, Andrea Ruiz.

Andy has always been a ball buster, a hell raiser…and she’s also the sexiest woman I’ve ever met. I let her move in because she was down and needed a place to stay, but she’s taking a hammer to my carefully constructed life.

Andy

My grandmother’s always told me I’m too impulsive for my own good. Should’ve listened to her, I guess. I posted a few (very tame) videos of my feet on a platform known for its racy content, and suddenly found myself homeless and out of a job. But Drew took pity on me and gave me a place to live, and now the Fairy Godmother Agency, a husband and wife P.I. team who thrive on anarchy, is offering me a job.

Drew’s so solid and reliable. I know my chaos is driving him crazy, but there’s a part of me that likes driving him crazy. I want to crack his shell. Because in the brief moments when he lets himself relax his rules, he’s surprisingly irresistible.

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💜 EXCERPT REVEAL 💜

HOPE AFTER LOSS by Amber Kelly releases on April 20th! We are thrilled to share an excerpt with you!

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EXCERPT:

“I think you should let me take you out on a real date.”

I shake my head.

“Come on, Anna. Let me wine and dine you.”

“Wine and dine? Don’t get your hopes up, girl. I bet he means beer and hotdogs,” Erin calls across the room.

“She hasn’t got a clue what I’m capable of,” he whispers.

“It’s not a good idea to mix business and pleasure,” I answer.

“You’re fired,” he quips.

“Oh, I didn’t see that one coming,” Jena mumbles.

“He’s bluffing. That farm has never run so smoothly,” Graham chimes.

“Who’s side are you on?” Weston asks Graham.

“That’s a hard one. You’re my brother and I’d love nothing more than for you to find a good woman, but there’s nothing more entertaining than watching you crash and burn.”

“I’m riding the same fence,” Langford adds.

Weston turns his gaze to them.

“I was in both your corners with Taeli and Isley.”

“Were you? I seem to remember you being a pain in the ass,” Langford says.

“No, he was. Kind of,” Isley defends.

“See,” Weston says, as he blows a kiss at his sister-in-law.

“I don’t know, I think you need to make him beg,” Maxi states.

Weston’s head whips to her.

“Beg?”

She shrugs.

“Yeah, you’re a little too cocky for my taste. I think eating a little humble pie would be good for you.”

“You’re an evil woman.”

“Yeah, begging sounds like a great idea,” Erin goads.

“Fine.”

He turns to me and takes both my hands in his.

“Anna Kunder would do me the great honor of allowing me to take you to dinner. I promise it will be somewhere fancy with cloth napkins and ridiculously expensive bottles of wine.”

“Stop,” I mutter under my breath.

“Please?”

“Okay, even I have to admit that was good,” Maxi states.

“Right? Did you steal that line from a movie?” Erin asks.

I bite my bottom lip trying to stifle a laugh as he turns and growls at them.

“No. That one was all me.”

“Say yes,” Ansley encourages.

Amused, my eyes drift past her and fall on Corbin. He’s quietly sipping his beer beside Maxi. When he catches my gaze he inclines his head.

Maxi watches the two of us and lightly nudges Corbin’s side.

He turns and smiles at her then his eyes return to me and he winks.

In the wordless exchange, he gives me permission. Not that I needed it, but I did need it.

I look back to Weston.

“Fine. One date,” I agree.

BLURB:

I had a perfect life—married to my high school sweetheart and preparing for our new baby. Then tragedy struck.

I could have moved us back to have the support of our parents, but home isn’t where you come from, it’s where you want to be. And I want to be here in Balsam Ridge.

So I begin anew, a single mom with a fractured heart. Determined to rise above the grief and grasp the joy that still bubbles inside of me every time I look into the eyes of our baby girl. Starting with a job at the local hemp farm.

Weston Tuttle is a walking contradiction. Playful yet ambitious. Soft yet strong. Wisecracking yet caring. A beautiful man with a sexy smile and big heart, and a blessing to me and my daughter.

This may not be the life I planned, but it could be the life that I was always meant to live.

 

 

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Amber Kelly is a romance author that calls North Carolina home. She has been a avid reader from a young age and you could always find her with her nose in a book completely enthralled in an adventure. With the support of her husband and family, in 2018, she decided to finally give a voice to the stories in her head and her debut novel, Both of Me was born. You can connect with Amber on Facebook at facebook.com/AuthorAmberKelly, on IG @authoramberkelly or on twitter @AuthorAmberKel1.
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Bachelor and the Geek

A Bodyguard Protector Romance 

Bachelors Abroad Book 1

By Sofia Aves

Romance Cafe Publishing

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His brand of grumpy sunshine clashes with her outer geek…on an international stage. 

 

Silver fox and security firm owner Sirius Weston is the eldest of his band of bachelor brothers and feels some responsibility for his siblings’ security. Intent on leading by example, he lets himself be goaded into joining the cast of a reality TV show in an effort to boost his firm’s reputation and find himself some form of stability as a model for his brothers-in whatever form that might take. 

 

Mousy brainiac Annie Pillingston is nothing like what he imagined, either in his bed or out of it. When he’s partnered with her for the duration of filming reality TV show Geekily Yours, ending in the biggest gala event of the year, he helps the chaotic and shy woman battle catwalks, heels and social awkwardness as she transforms from geek into gorgeous in her own way. 

 

But there’s more fingers in the reality TV pie than either of them expect, from exes and interfering bosses to controlling fathers. Together they navigate the political landscape despite the risk of ruin for his firm’s reputation-and his own-until one secret too many threatens the trust they’ve built together. Though Sirius didn’t want to be on the show in the first place, he no longer wants to go home alone, though he might not have a choice.

 

 

About Sofia Aves:

USA Today Bestselling author Sofia Aves writes fast-paced police romances, sizzling military units, steamy cowboys with a Montana backdrop and the occasional cheeky god. She loves reading Indie authors and hides her collection of college romance books beneath an ever-growing TBR pile. Sofia is the marketing manager for Romance Writers of Australia and has a regular author marketing column in their monthly magazine. She writes kidlit for charity and has over eighty publications across three not-so-super-secret pen names.

 

Sofia is a mum of three crazies in a returned veteran household, and has an overly large fur baby who thinks she’s a teacup puppy. After eighteen years of planning and dreaming, Sofia and her husband will put the finishing touches on their very own alpaca park this year. Sofia lives near Brisbane, Australia.

 

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I’m not a girl who expects to be saved

Cruel Beginnings, an all-new dark academia, enemies-to-lovers romance and first book in the action-packed Cruel World Series from USA Today bestselling author Lili St Germain & Lyra Parish is available now!

I’m not a girl who expects to be saved.

I gave up on fairytales a long time ago.

So when my knight in shining Armani stalks into town and delivers me from my tragic fate, I’m grateful.

Darius Prince shouldn’t be in the seedy strip club where I’m paying off my mother’s debts, one piece of my soul at a time. And he definitely shouldn’t be the one who claims me in exchange for a suitcase full of trust fund cash and a deal inked in blood.

His dark eyes shine with a hatred so deadly, I wonder why he wants me at all.

Especially when I find out he thinks I’m somehow connected to his twin sister’s disappearance.

Darius doesn’t rescue me.

Instead, he drags me into his web of tragic secrets and forbidden desires.

He binds me so tight, I can’t find my way out of his grasp.

Not that it would make a difference.

Escaping my fate isn’t an option.

They say every ending is a new beginning.

I just didn’t expect my beginning to be so cruel.

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I rub my fingers across my chin as I size up Rafe Marin. Videos are horrifyingly easy to doctor. He could be making this whole thing up. 

‘What do you want?” I ask finally. “Why are you showing me this?”

“I don’t want anything—other than your assurance we never had this discussion.”

“What discussion?” I reply quickly. 

Rafe’s a smart guy, he catches my drift. “Exactly.”

“You didn’t tell me why you’re showing me this. If it’s legit, you know I’m going to have to find out who those guys are. Especially the one she arrived with. That could fuck with your family’s business dealings. So why risk it?”

Rafe nods, taking the phone and sliding it into his jacket pocket. “Because if my sister went missing and someone knew something, I’d want to be told.”

Huh. “That’s interesting.”

“What? That I care about my sister?”

“Oh please, we both know how much you care for your sister. Almost as much as your father cares for her, right?”I knew Rafe and Faye had some twisted thing going the moment I met them both, and my suspicions were only amplified when I had the misfortune of meeting their father at the beginning of our business relationship. That family is beyond weird. “But that’s not what’s interesting. What’s interesting is that you referred to my sister as missing. Most people refer to her as dead. Including the coroner, who issued her death certificate.”

“Well, there’s no body, right?” Rafe asks, completely ignoring my pointed jab at his incestuous little family. “No washed-up remains? A femur? A skull? A dismembered foot?”

I shake my head. “Nothing. Not even a single fucking strand of her hair.”

“Then she’s still missing,” Rafe states. “Especially in the world you and I live in. No remains, no proof of death.”

He regards me silently for a moment. And then, finally: “Do you think she’s dead?”

“Not for a single fucking millisecond have I ever thought she was dead,” I reply confidently. “Who’s the guy with her in the video?”

“I don’t know.”

“But you know something. What are you leaving out?”

Rafe struggles to articulate the next part. “There, ah…there might be somebody who knows who he is. She hasn’t told me, but for the right price, she might tell you.”

“She won’t tell you, and she might tell me. Sounds like a great fucking lead, Marin.”

“For the right price,” Rafe clarifies. “Question is, how much is your sister worth to you?”

It takes every bit of strength and self-control I possess not to stand and rip his larynx out of his throat with my bare hands. “She’s worth every penny I have. She’s worth the entire ocean. You understand. You have a sister you love. Maybe even more than I love mine.”

Rafe snorts, but he won’t bite. He won’t address his fucked up relationship with Faye, no matter how much shit I give him about it. Oh, well. 

“This mystery woman got a name?” I ask. 

Rafe smirks. “You know I can’t tell you that.”He glances at my balled fists. “I can arrange a meeting. Okay? It’ll be on the mainland, most likely, somewhere public. This woman, she’s paranoid. And rightly so, by the sounds of it. She’s got people looking for her.”

“If she’s got people looking for her, toss her on your boat and bring her to me. I’ll come unarmed, by myself, and she can name her price. If she’s worried about retribution, I’ll take her to Valmont Island and give her asylum.”

Rafe immediately looks worried. “No island. She can’t go there.”

“But I can keep her safe there!” I explode. I’m frowning so hard, trying to figure out Rafe’s reluctance, when it smashes into me like a wall of bricks. 

“She’s from the island,” I whisper. “Your informant. Isn’t she?”

Rafe pales. “You shut your fucking mouth,”he jabs his finger into the table. “I find out you breathed a word of this to anyone, I’ll have your goddamn head, Prince.”

I fall back in my seat, stunned. “She’s from the fucking island.” My mind is going a million miles an hour as I try to think of who this mystery woman could be, who’s from Valmont Island who just might know the guy my sister was fucking two nights before she disappeared? 

“Nobody gets away,” I whisper. “Nobody.”

“You know that’s not true,” Rafe says pointedly. “What, your father?” I reply. “He didn’t get away. He was banished.”

Rafe shrugs. “Being banished isn’t common, but it happens.”

I shake my head, my skull burning with the start of a blinding headache. “The only reason Javier’s not dead in a hole somewhere is because of his seat at the Empyrean Table. I’ve never heard of another person being granted the same. Ever. Have you?”

“Sometimes the dead don’t die,” Rafe says cryptically. “Like your sister, maybe.”

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Birdie has never had anyone that she could count on which is how she finds herself in a desperate situation knowing that it will not end well but realizing there is no way out. She may have been rescued from one situation by Darius but the situation she now finds herself in isn’t any less dire.

Darius is a wealthy and powerful man who is determined to get the answers he needs about his sister which he believes that Birdie may have. She was supposed to be a means to an end but he finds her equally intriguing and infuriating which only makes the heat between them burn that much hotter.

This story is dark, dangerous and oh so enticing. The chemistry between them is intense, the angst and emotions run deep, the twists keep coming and the cliff-hanger leaves us wanting to know what the future holds.

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All the things I should stay away from.
The thing is… when his hands touch mine, I’m not disgusted, and I should be. Because he owns a scandalous club, and I work there…

He’s the villain in everyone’s story except mine. In fact, it would classify me as the villain in his story.

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Avani has never had anyone in her life she could count and was forced into situations because of that. From that she has become strong, forceful and isn’t about to back down from anyone or anything however she has met her match in Grayson, her demanding and cantankerous new boss.

Grayson is dark, dangerous and familiar with being feared by others. He soon finds out that Avani is the exception to the rule and despite the way she infuriates him and refuses to follow his rules he is determined to claim her in every way.

Avani challenges Grayson at every turn which only increases the heat between them. They both have difficult pasts which impacts how they are with each other but their imperfections only reinforces that they are meant to be together.

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USA Today Best Selling Author T.L. Smith loves to write her characters with flaws so beautiful and dark you can’t turn away. Her books have been translated into several languages. If you don’t catch up with her in her home state of Queensland, Australia you can usually find her traveling the world, either sitting on a beach in Bali or exploring Alcatraz in San Francisco or walking the streets of New York.

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