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From USA Today bestselling author Rina Kent comes a new STANDALONE MM college romance.I'm not attracted to men.Or so I thought before I slammed into Nikolai Sokolov.A mafia heir, a notorious bastard, and a violent monster.An ill-fated meeting puts me in his path.And just like that, he has his sights set on me.A quiet artist, a golden boy, and his enemy's twin brother.He doesn't seem to care that the odds are stacked against us.In fact, he sets out to break my steel-like control and blur my limits.I thought my biggest worry was being noticed by Nikolai.I'm learning the hard way that being wanted by this beautiful nightmare is much worse.This book can be read on its own, but for a better understanding of the world, you might want to start with God of Malice.

OWNED BY THE MAN I BETRAYEDSix years ago I uttered a lie that changed a man's life.My father banished him from his bratva cell. From the country.Now he's back to take my inheritance. My life. Not through murder, but marriage.And my own father arranged it.Maxim thinks he can make me submit to his will. He thinks he gets to call all the shots.I wanted him once and he refused me. I won't fall for him again.And I don't plan to cave.Not even when he makes me tremble with need...

From USA Today bestselling author Rina Kent comes the fifth in a dark and steamy college romance series featuring elite criminal families and morally gray heroes. Mafia heir Nikolai Sokolov is a notorious playboy and as violent as they come, and when he sets his sights on golden boy Brandon, all hell might just break loose. I'm slowly sinking. Brandon King never thought he was attracted to men. To be honest, he'd never been that attracted to anyone. But that was before he slammed directly into Nikolai Sokolov, a mafia heir known for being a notorious bastard and violent monster. Once Nikolai has his sights set on Brandon, he's haunted by him. He can't seem to let him go. A man who is so unlike him in every way: a quiet artist, golden boy, and his enemy's twin brother. Brandon can't seem to get rid of Nikolai--he's everywhere. And his being everywhere throws a wrench into Brandon's carefully controlled life. Nikolai is desperate to break that control down. While Brandon worries about Nikolai's role in his life and his slowly disintegrating control, he learns that being wanted by a beautiful nightmare is much worse.

From the USA Today bestselling author of the Brutal Birthright series comes a dark college mafia romance series. Welcome to Kingmakers, the most brutal college in the world.He saw what she did. Now, he holds the power…The ruthless halls of a mafia university are no place for the diminutive and gentle Cat. She barely survived her first year at school, at the cost of her innocence.Cat did something bad, and Dean Yenin saw it. Now she's being blackmailed by the most vicious bully at Kingmakers.He offers her a devil's bargain: his silence and protection…if Cat belongs to him.Dean's twisted games of dominance have Cat doing things she never thought she'd do… But even the most sadistic games have rules, and Dean's fascination with Cat might just be his undoing.At Kingmakers, love is a weapon used by the most lethal players. But brokenness can lead to unexpected strength, and sometimes, the one who holds the power is the one most vulnerable to its spell…

Shanghai is under siege in this captivating and searingly romantic sequel to These Violent Delights, which New York Times bestselling author Natasha Ngan calls “deliciously dark.”The year is 1927, and Shanghai teeters on the edge of revolution.After sacrificing her relationship with Roma to protect him from the blood feud, Juliette has been a girl on the warpath. One wrong move, and her cousin will step in to usurp her place as the Scarlet Gang’s heir. The only way to save the boy she loves from the wrath of the Scarlets is to have him want her dead for murdering his best friend in cold blood. If Juliette were actually guilty of the crime Roma believes she committed, his rejection might sting less.Roma is still reeling from Marshall’s death, and his cousin Benedikt will barely speak to him. Roma knows it’s his fault for letting the ruthless Juliette back into his life, and he’s determined to set things right—even if that means killing the girl he hates and loves with equal measure.Then a new monstrous danger emerges in the city, and though secrets keep them apart, Juliette must secure Roma’s cooperation if they are to end this threat once and for all. Shanghai is already at a boiling point: The Nationalists are marching in, whispers of civil war brew louder every day, and gangster rule faces complete annihilation. Roma and Juliette must put aside their differences to combat monsters and politics, but they aren’t prepared for the biggest threat of all: protecting their hearts from each other.

Trust is the thread that binds us . . . and the rope that hangs us.In Nadezra, peace is as tenuous as a single thread. The ruthless House Indestor has been destroyed, but darkness still weaves through the city's filthy back alleys and jewel-bright gardens, seen by those who know where to look.Derossi Vargo has always known. He has sacrificed more than anyone imagines to carve himself a position of power among the nobility, hiding a will of steel behind a velvet smile. He'll be damned if he lets anyone threaten what he's built.Grey Serrado knows all too well. Bent under the yoke of too many burdens, he fights to protect the city's most vulnerable. Sooner or later, that fight will demand more than he can give.And Ren, daughter of no clan, knows best of all. Caught in a knot of lies, torn between her heritage and her aristocratic masquerade, she relies on her gift for reading pattern to survive. And it shows her the web of corruption that traps her city.But all three have yet to discover just how far that web stretches. And in the end, it will take more than knives to cut themselves free...

USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Kit Rocha return to their explosive post-apocalyptic action/romance series, The Mercenary Librarians, with the next thrilling installment, Dance with the Devil. POWER IS NEVER GIVEN, ONLY TAKEN Tobias Richter, the fearsome VP of Security of the TechCorps is dead. The puppetmaster is gone and the organization is scrambling to maintain control by ruthlessly limiting Atlanta's access to resources, hoping to quell rebellion. Our band of mercenary librarians have decided that the time for revolution has come. Maya uses her wealth of secrets to weaken the TechCorps from within. Dani strikes from the shadows, picking off the chain of command one ambush at a time. And Nina is organizing their community—not just to survive, but to fight back. When Maya needs to make contact with a sympathetic insider, Dani and Rafe are the only ones with the skill-set and experience to infiltrate the highest levels of the TechCorps. They'll go deep undercover in the decadent, luxury-soaked penthouses on the Hill. Bringing Dani face-to-face with the man who turned her into a killer. And forcing Rafe to decide how far he'll go to protect both of his families—the one he was born to, and the one he made for himself. Victory will break the back of Power. Failure will destroy Atlanta. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Elite operative Domino is no stranger to peril and impossible situations. Trained all her life to be just as comfortable fighting terrorists as mixing with the gala crowd, she is proficient at playing any role necessary to accomplish her objective and believes the cause sanctifies the means. But her latest assignment to investigate journalist Hayley Ward will test more than her skills, ingenuity, and courage, because this time she faces the ultimate dilemma: a choice between loyalty and love.

Gentlemen don't look at engaged women the way Ras Sorrentino looks at me.Ras Sorrentino is the underboss of the most powerful clan in the Camorra. He's also chaos and danger poured into a sleek Italian suit.The first time I met him, I thought he was there to kill me. The second time, I wanted to kill him.The third was in Ibiza, where I glared at him across the church as my sister married his boss.It's not his sharp tongue or his taunting smirks that I hate the most. It's his gaze.How it narrows when I flinch. How it hardens when he notices the bruises on my face. How he stares at my engagement ring like he wants to melt it off my finger.I know it's a bad idea to let him push my buttons. After all, the fate of my family rests on my upcoming marriage and my fiancé is only interested in me because of my pristine reputation.A reputation Ras seems to have no qualms with stomping all over.It's a good thing him and I live on the opposite sides of the world.Until he tells me, he's coming back to New York with me.And he's staying.

It's Italy, 19XX, and the Gardino family, which rules a port town, has two candidates for the next boss. One is Gino, a pure-blooded executive who respects tradition. While the other is Dante, a liberal who seeks a new future. Gino sees Dante as his rival, but Dante always tries to find some reason to get involved, Inadvertently, Gino's "biggest secret" is revealed to Dante. So to keep his secret a hidden, Dante asks... to hold Gino for one night.