Recommendations based on "Once Bitten, Twice Shy"

Secrets and Lies...I’ve lived the entirety of my life wrapped up in subterfuge for one purpose—revenge.Through the years, I lived more as an enigma than a man.For so long, I denied I had a beating heart of my own.Until her. Until she unearthed the starving vessel inside, forced me to acknowledge it, forced me to understand that I’m capable of bleeding the same as any other.For that, we paid. We're still paying.Yet, she demands it still, the useless heart of the ruthless thief and shameless villain she fell for. My fear is, I’m no longer that man.With the lies I’ve told, the life I’ve led, my mistakes are beginning to catch up with me, day by day, one by one.This is my last chance, and I have no intention of losing her again, but as the deception of my past starts to unravel and close in, shedding my humanity may be the only thing that can save us both.Maybe it’s already too late.

In A Sizzling Prequel Novella To Her New Series The Dark Elements, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Jennifer L. Armentrout Draws Readers Into The Extraordinary, Irresistible World Of Wardens And Demons. Dez Wasn't Just Jasmine's Crush. A Gargoyle Warden Like Jas, He Helped Her Come To Terms With Her Destiny—fending Off Demons And Maintaining The Balance Between Good And Evil. He Was Her Everything…right Until The Moment He Disappeared Without A Trace. It Didn't Help That Jas's Father Had Just Announced That She And Dez Would One Day Be Mated. Hard Not To Take That Personally. And Now He's Back, Three Years Older, Ten Times Hotter, Ready To Pick Up Exactly Where They Left Off. But Jas Isn't Taking That Risk Again. Dez Has Seven Days To Meet All Her Conditions And Earn Back Her Trust. Seven Days Filled With Terrifying Danger And Sweet Temptation. Seven Days To Win Her Heart—or Shatter It All Over Again… With Her Signature Flare For Combining Humor, Romance And Action, Armentrout Weaves A Fast-paced Read That Will Have Readers' Hearts Racing In More Ways Than One. Like Armentrout's Previous Heroines, Jasmine Is Fun And Full Of Attitude, While Dez Is As Snarky As He Is Sexy. This Is A Must Read For New And Old Fans Alike! -rt Book Reviews Don't Miss White Hot Kiss, Book One In Jennifer L. Armentrout's The Dark Elements Series From Harlequin Teen!

New York Times Bestselling Author Lynsay Sands, One Of Paranormal Romance's Original Superstars, Delivers A Scorching And Delightful Story Of A Mortal Man On A Mission - And The Vamp Who Is His Only Hope. One Late Night Leads To ... Kidnapped! When Jeanne Louise Argeneau Left Work, She Never Thought She'd End Up Tied Down By A Good-looking Mortal. More Attracted Than Annoyed, She Quickly Realizes There Is More To Her Abductor Than Meets The Eye. One Desperate Act Leads To ... Love? Paul Jones Has Need Of A Vampire, And Only Jeanne Louise Will Do. He Just Has To Convince This Beauty Of A Vamp To Help Him ... Never Imagining That He Would Fall In Love. But With The Immortal World's Answer To Law Enforcement Hunting Them, Their Time Together Is Running Out ... And Paul And Jeanne Louise Will Need To Risk Everything To Spend An Eternity Together.

#1 New York Times bestselling author J. R. Ward explores what really happens when good and evil toy with humanity in her new novel of the Fallen Angels....When Cait Douglass resolves to get over her broken heart and lose her inhibitions, she’s unprepared for the two sensual men who cross her path. Torn between them, she doesn’t know which to choose—or what kind of dire consequences could follow.Jim Heron, fallen angel and reluctant savior, is ahead in the war, but he puts everything at risk when he seeks to make a deal with the devil—literally. As yet another soul is unwittingly caught in the battle between him and the demon Devina, his fixation on an innocent trapped in Hell threatens to sidetrack him from his sacred duty....Can good still prevail if true love makes a savior weak? And will a woman’s future be the key, or the curse, for all of humanity? Only time, and hearts, will tell.

Raised as a prototype for the Georgian Bratva's obedience drug, 221 fails to think, act, or live for himself; he's his master's perfectly-crafted killing puppet. Standing at six-foot-six, weighing two-hundred-and-fifty pounds, and unrivaled in to-the-death combat, 221 successfully secures business for the Georgian Mafiya Boss of NYC, who rules 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...

A sinner’s only hope is true love in this passionate new novel in J.R. Ward’s #1 New York Times bestselling Black Dagger Brotherhood series.Syn has kept his side hustle as a mercenary a secret from the Black Dagger Brotherhood. When he takes another hit job, he not only crosses the path of the vampire race’s new enemy, but also that of a half-breed in danger of dying during her transition. Jo Early has no idea what her true nature is, and when a mysterious man appears out of the darkness, she is torn between their erotic connection and the sense that something is very wrong.Fate anointed Butch O’Neal as the Dhestroyer, the fulfiller of the prophecy that foresees the end of the Omega. As the war with the Lessening Society comes to a head, Butch gets an unexpected ally in Syn. But can he trust the male—or is the warrior with the bad past a deadly complication?With time running out, Jo gets swept up in the fighting and must join with Syn and the Brotherhood against true evil. In the end, will love true prevail...or was the prophecy wrong all along?

“OMG, what an amazing, intriguing and totally dark series this is turning out to be.” Some wishes have dark and deadly consequences. But I found that out too late. I had wished myself into Dax Pierce’s life. Now I want out. But he holds the key to my freedom. Every day he buries me under the cloak of his obsessive love, I forget how to breathe. I forget how it feels not to hurt. I forget who I am, who I was. If I want to walk out of this hell alive, I have no choice but to become like him. Sometimes it takes a monster to fight a monster. *Black Rose is the last book in the Obsession Inc. trilogy. The book contains dark themes, including violence of a sexual and physical nature that could trigger emotional distress in readers.*

Savage Hearts is the third book in the scorchingly hot mafia romance Queens and Monsters series by USA Today bestselling author J.T. Geissinger.Savage (adjective):1) Not domesticated; wild and untamed2) A brutal or vicious person3) Malek AntonovHe’s a myth. A ghost. A legend. A Bratva assassin so feared, some won’t even dare to speak his name. He comes in search of vengeance for the death of his brother, but what he finds instead is me.A girl he thinks is someone else. Someone unrelated to the man who killed his brother.Except I am.And when he finds out my true identity, he decides to take me as repayment for what he lost.Now, I’m a little bird trapped in a cage, and the only way to survive is to make friends with the monster who captured me. But friendship isn’t what the monster has in mind.Discover Brutal Vows, the next book in the addictive Queens and Monsters series.

Behind the glamour of Gilded Age New York, a marriage of convenience between an artisan and a ballerina masks their shared appetite for revenge in this darkly seductive gothic romance. In early 1900s New York, former ballerina Petronille De Villier makes an unconventional choice: Marry struggling sculptor Arkady Kamenev. For her, it's an escape from her family's unsavory legacy. For him, the De Villier name promises the patronage his art desperately needs. It should be a simple arrangement. But beneath their marriage of convenience lurks a darker recognition. In each other, they see a reflection of their own dangerous appetites. As buried secrets surface and bodies begin disappearing, Petronille and Arkady discover their union runs deeper than social advantage. Their shared obsessions draw them into an intoxicating dance of predator and prey, though it's never quite clear who is which. Bound by law, God, and blood, they must decide if their monstrous natures will tear them apart or forge them into something terribly wonderful together. In a world where nothing is quite what it seems, two creatures of shadow learn that true love requires a taste for the macabre.

New York Times bestselling author Kerrelyn Sparks delivers the exciting conclusion in the Love at Stake series, where a Marine-turned-vampire finds love with the shifter princess forbidden to him.Russell wakes from a coma to find he's become a vampire. Now he has a thirst for revenge. Determined to hunt down the master vampire who turned him, he's used to working alone - until he meets Jia. She is after the same vampire for murdering her parents and insists she can help Russell on this mission. Reluctantly, he agrees, and sets up some ground rules:Rule #1: Their partnership is strictly business. If he holds her a little too close . . . if she looks at him with those exotic eyes . . . well, that has to stop.Rule #2: He's in charge. Jia isn't used to taking orders and questions every move he makes. So he stops her the only way he knows how.Rule #3: Don't fall in love. But the kiss that was supposed to quiet her awakens something else in him . . . something forbidden. Because Jia is engaged. To someone else.