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I found salvation in his underworld.But he looks at me like I’m his damnation.Alone and homeless after my family was torn apart, my only goal was to protect my little sister. I failed. Being kidnapped and trafficked across the country shattered the life I was still piecing back together.The Sanctum saved us. Provided refuge. A temporary haven within their criminal empire. While our enemies still lurk, plotting and hunting, the jagged scars I gained to protect Maya cannot heal.Still, The Sanctum’s resident playboy treats me with dismay. Finnigan Hennessey hides behind possessive, infuriating arrogance, yet his broken soul calls out to mine. He’s determined to deny the tempting, forbidden heat between us, but I don’t care about the eleven years separating us.Finn is everything I should hate. After all, his world destroyed mine. But not all villains are the same shade, and in my quest for revenge, my hidden colors are surfacing.I’m not the innocent victim he thinks I am, and he’s not the heartless jerk I took him to be.Will he forever deny our magnetic attraction? Or will he break my soul long before our enemies even get the chance?Catch up on the series#1 Dangerous Strokes, a Dark Mafia Romance#2 Reckless Covenant, a Second Chance Mafia Romance ___________Author’s Note: Manacled Hearts is Book 3 in The Sanctum Syndicate series of interconnected standalones. It is a dark mafia romance with sensitive content. Please go to the author’s website for the full list of triggers.

The Sensational Second Installment Of The Scarred Souls Series #raze #razehell #scarredsouls Raised As A Prototype For The Georgian Bratva's Obedience Drug, 221 Fails To Think, Act Or Live For Himself; He Is His Master's Perfectly Crafted Killing Puppet. Standing At 6'6, Weighing Two-hundred And Fifty Pounds, And Unrivalled In To-the-death Combat, 221 Successfully Secures Business For The Georgian Mafiya Boss Of Nyc, In The Dark World Of The Criminal Underground. Until His Enemies Capture Him. Talia Tolstaia Dreams To Break From The Heavy Clutches Of Bratva Life. She Dreams Of Another Life - Away From The Stifling Leash Of Her Russian Bratva Boss Father And From The Brutality Of Her Work At The Dungeon - Her Criminal Family's Underground Death Match Enterprise. But When She Stumbles Upon Her Family's Captive Who Is More Monster Than Man, She Starts To See The Man Underneath. A Powerful, Beautiful, Damaged Man Whose Heart Calls To Hers. But Sacrifices Must Be Made: Blood For Blood . . . Life For Life . . . Souls For Scarred Souls . . .

SPECIAL LUXE EDITIONSome women are worth waging wars over.Lenny Primrose has lived her entire life as her rich father's puppet. Now, at twenty-three, she's no longer interested in playing his games. Unfortunately, the only way to avoid being married off to one of her father's business partners is to involve the man he fears most: the British assassin who almost killed him.Jonas Wolfe would be content to never be in the same room as a Primrose ever again. His days are filled with contracted murder and running his pub―anything to keep from sitting around thinking about his one failed mission.But when Lenny commits a rash crime, Jonas steps in to help, and extracting himself from her family becomes impossible. Especially when she bats her pretty green eyes, proposing a fake relationship that she vows will benefit them both.Interested in improving his public image, Jonas agrees, and it isn't long before lingering looks become scorching hot kisses. But even as the two grow closer and bond over their common enemy and undeniable chemistry, Lenny still remains distant and closed-off. Turns out she's keeping a horrible secret…one that threatens to tear everything they've built together apart.From USA Today bestselling author Sav R. Miller comes a dark fake dating romance inspired by the Helen of Troy and Trojan War myths.Rich bonus features include: Beautiful full-color character art Author annotations And more!

She has a secret. I’m complicated. Not broken or ruined or running from a past I can’t face. Just complicated. I thought my life couldn’t get any more tangled in deceit and confusion. But I hadn’t met him. I hadn't realized how far I could fall or what I'd have do to get free. He has a secret. I’ve never pretended to be good or deserving. I chase who I want, do what I want, act how I want. I didn’t have time to lust after a woman I had no right to lust after. I told myself to shut up and stay hidden. But then she tried to run. I’d tasted what she could offer me and damned if I would let her go. Secrets destroy them. **Pepper Winters is known for her Dark Erotica. This is more of a Grey Romance. Not fluffy, but not too brutal.** A story about being Destroyed by Love and Possessed by Hope

The second in the Lyonesse trilogy, following Tristan, Isolde, and Mark further into the forbidden as they wrestle with their love for each other and the growing secrets that surround them."He thinks I'll destroy him. It's hard to love someone you know is actually a knife pressed against your throat.I should know."Isolde Laurence is an uncommon bride.She's been raised to do as her father told her, put elegance and duty above all else―but unbeknownst to him, her loyalty has shifted. Now she's in service to the Church, one of the elite spies who work for her uncle, a cardinal. Her latest assignment from the Church? Marry Mark Trevena, the owner of a notorious club in DC where the rich and powerful come to play, and seduce him.But what was supposed to be a simple lie has become far more complicated: Isolde has fallen for Mark's handsome and emotionally wounded bodyguard, Tristan. Even worse―she's falling for her future husband himself, a mistake she made once before and has bitterly regretted ever since.And there's something far darker at play than the machinations of Isolde's uncle or even the twisted longings of her own heart. Because Isolde's new husband has secrets of his own, and the reason he'll stop at nothing to possess Isolde and Tristan both might tear all three of them to pieces.If the heartbreak doesn't do the job first…

"Holy dark and delicious angst. Carian Cole did not hold back. I dare you not to shed a tear." ?L.J. Shen, USA Today & Wall Street Journal bestselling author of VICIOUS My innocence was stolen when I was abducted at five years old. For eleven years I held on by clinging to childhood fairytales. I waited for a prince to someday save me and carry me off to a happily ever after. I had no idea my saviour would come as a scarred recluse, covered in tattoos, who can't-or won't-speak a word. Nevertheless, the moment our eyes met I knew he was the one.? My prince. With his bare hands, he killed the monster who kept me captive. But people have a way of distorting the truth when the hero looks like a villain. As it turns out, Tyler Grace is many things: A myth. An outcast. A nightmare. Haunted by tragedy, he lives secluded in the forest. Some say they see him ride through town at night-straddling a black motorcycle, his face covered by a skeletal mask. I've been warned to stay away, yet I can't stop thinking about him. I ache to hear his voice. And I want nothing more than to break through his walls. I know he's the only one who can break through mine. Do we dare dream of a love that once felt impossible to find? Or will only our horrible, twisted past tie us together? ?Fans of angsty romance from Lauren Asher and Mia Sheridan will be hooked by this emotional novel following two broken souls connected by a dark, haunting past.

*I hope you're ready for everything that you've been missing. Audrey and Damien are back and the stakes are a lot higher than before. I know you've missed the hotter than Hades sex and the equally hot men. Don't worry, I promise, you won't have to wait any longer. Damien and Audrey won't disappoint you. My name is Audrey and you've been following me. For the past five years, you have been watching me and waiting to find out what happens next. Your wait is over and its time to confess. It's time to confess everything that I've been keeping from you and all of those horrible secrets that could implicate me and my family. Everything that you've wanted to know and maybe some that you didn't want to know. Oh, and Damien is back and we're getting married. You don't want to miss this! Even after we got married, the past still manages to show up and throw us off balance. Be careful what you ask for, because you just might get more than you wanted.

Delilah wakes up in her old life. Only, this time, she's not alone. But she's done being the pawn in a twisted game where love and cruelty blur.The walls remember. The mirrors lie. And the boy she once loved is still there-watching her. Always watching her.She thought she could escape the consequences of loving him. Of destroying him.She was wrong.As buried truths come to light and generational curses emerge from the shadows, they both begin to question what's real, what's planted, and if they can trust each other again. But in the game of life, who's really in control?Out of the shadows and into the darkness, old monsters come out to play.True evil is revealed as the game restarts. And the ghost she thought she'd lost is caught between vengeance and obsession, torn between hurting her or saving her.In the end, love might be the most terrifying trap of all.

Some secrets are best left in the dark, in a place where hearts exist bound by barbed wire.Seth loudly resents the concept of biology choosing one's mate. Determined never to fall for the "fated Korrena" trap, he picks fights and carelessly sleeps around to hide from the truth: he's secretly in love with his best friend's little sister. But Riley believes so firmly in the poetic nonsense of Korrena pairs that she has "saved herself" for her future pair. When her prince shows up, it will break his heart to lose her-so he'll take her in whatever way he can have her.Riley has always relied on Seth to keep her on task and look out for her. He makes her feel safe. But a shift in his attitude lately has her off-balance. There's that new scent he wears that no one notices but her, and the subtext in his teasing, especially when they're alone. What she wouldn't give for Seth to be her Korrena... but he doesn't believe in that, so she hides her feelings. She'll take him in whatever way she can have him.She wishes he wouldn't see her as a child. He hasn't seen his "Firecracker" as a child in a long time.The slow drag of Seth's tongue over the cut on her finger obliterated thought. Seth-freaking-Emerson, her childhood friend who had always been like a big brother to her, was tasting her blood...----------------------------------Book four of the Blackthorn Saga featuring two side characters as the main characters. While it's best to read the previous books, there's enough information it can be read as a standalone for newcomers to the series.Ruinous Secrets is a full-length (132k words) new adult paranormal romance by author Stephanie Denne.The dark and mysterious world of the Blackthorn Saga is a new take on vampire romance in an academy setting complete with a king and his court, fated mates, magic, and more! Blackthorn Saga takes a new approach to the fated mates trope and the toxicity around the jealousy and possessive behaviors that can come from it, allowing the characters to evolve and grow across multiple books to find themselves and find a true, organic love without just bending to "destiny."----------------------------------Author's Note: 18+ This series contains content that may be unsuitable for certain readers. To learn more about content warnings in the author's work, please visit her website.

She is his greatest weakness. He is her grimmest threat. They need to break their fate-bond- or die. Salma is haunted by the truth of who she is and why she was brought to the Manor. She must break the tainted bond she shares with its Master without him learning the truth, or die. Their kiss can mean nothing to her if she is to survive. Especially when the Shade bite she received is even now tainting her blood, twisting her soul, and turning her into a creature of the night. Adom's memory is becoming more and more unreliable, and the voice in his head is becoming harder and harder to resist. His Book of Truth tells him that he must, though, for a sacrifice is required on the full moon, and Salma is key. No matter how much the voice whispers its intent to kiss Salma, kill her, and take control of Adom completely. Their only hope lies in the stories woven by the man in the tower. But can Salma truly trust the faceless being whom she cannot help but visit every night, lured by his dark song? After all, it is never wise to bargain with the fae. Especially in a realm where every kiss is a betrayal and a fate-bond can drag all the worlds to the Duat. The continuation of the slow-burn, closed-door fae romance with elements of 1001 Nights, Jane Eyre, and Egyptian mythology. Perfect for fans of Sylvia Mercedes, Tara Grayce, and Emma Ham.