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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.

Watch her. Crave her. Covet her.I’m the monster in the shadows—but she’s addicted to monsters.She looks so pretty when she cries out in her sleep. I’m obsessed by her gasps when she hears me coming for her. I'm hooked on the way she fights me when I pin her down.When she starts investigating the wrong missing girl, I have to punish her to keep her from digging—or her dark past will swallow her whole.Chase her. Taunt her. Torment her.No matter what I do, she won’t back down.Now it’s too late… I’m not the only monster hunting her. But will I be the one to claim her?If you crave possessive 'touch her and die' anti-heroes like Zade Meadows in a dark college world like Rina Kent's, then you’ll be obsessed with this sexy dark stalker.Scroll up and one-click Hunting Pretty to start reading this dark gothic college romance today!Author's Note: Hunting Prettycontains a morally gray stalker who falls first and harder and is willing to do whatever twisted thing it takes to have and protect her. Please check the author's wesbite for full TWs. Hunting Pretty is Book 1 of the Lovely Broken Doll trilogy and ends with one hell of a cliffhanger. Book 2 is out 5 Feb.

BOOK 1 OF THE USA TODAY BESTSELLING SEVEN SERIES★★★★★ "Fabulous Shifter fun, absolutely awesome from beginning to end.""It's been seven years since Lexi Knight lost her brother in a tragic accident. On the anniversary of his death, her brother's best friend shows up unexpectedly - a man she hasn't seen since the funeral. He is no longer the boy Lexi once knew, but a dangerous-looking man with tattoos and dark secrets. He broke her trust and abandoned her family, yet what he reveals makes it impossible to stay angry. Lexi has been secretly infatuated with Austin since childhood, so finding out he's a Shifter just makes him sexier.Dammit.Austin Cole has returned to the city where he grew up, and just in time. He's lived a hard life these past seven years, and the shadows of his past are threatening to destroy Lexi's family. It's time that she learned the truth about her brother, but there is a shocking twist that Austin never saw coming. Now he must protect her family when her mother and sister wind up in mortal danger. Will Lexi learn to accept the truth about who he is, and can Austin salvage a relationship from the ruins of their past?***BINGEABLE*** SERIES COMPLETE!Audie Awards Finalist+ Cliffhanger-free+ HEA

My name is Gemma Lucas and my life’s a wreck. Alex, the guy I just might be falling in love with, and the father of my unborn child, left me. Not to mention if I do admit I’m in love with him, it could potentially kill us both. My father’s trapped in his own mind and my mom’s working for the dark side.Oh, and did I mention I was being haunted by the ghost of Nicholas, the annoying half-faerie, half Foreseer who won’t leave me alone.The world has entered apocalyptic mode; fires in the streets, mad chaos. Everyday more vampires, witches, and fey get marked by evil. Innocent humans are dying. And I’m the only one who can stop it, which sounds easy, but I have to die in order to save everyone. And I have to let Alex die as well, something I’m not so certain I can do.**Mature Content Warning** 17+ for language and sexual content. (this is a re-imagining of my Young Adult Paranormal book, The Promise (Book 4 in the Fallen Star Series) told as a New Adult Paranormal)

#1 New York Times bestselling author J. R. Ward’s Black Daggar Brotherhood series continues as the cold heart of a cunning predator is warmed against its will...Ruthless and brilliant, Vishous, son of the Bloodletter, possesses a destructive curse and a frightening ability to see the future. As a pretrans growing up in his father’s war camp, he was tormented and abused. As a member of the Black Dagger Brotherhood, he has no interest in love or emotion, only the battle with the Lessening Society. But when a mortal injury puts him in the care of a human surgeon, Dr. Jane Whitcomb compels him to reveal his inner pain and taste true pleasure for the first time—until a destiny he didn’t choose takes him into a future that cannot include her....

New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter returns with her most explosive Lords of the Underworld tale to date, about a fierce warrior on the brink of sanity who will stop at nothing to claim the exquisite human with the power to soothe the beast inside him…Driven to his death by the demon of Distrust, Baden spent centuries in purgatory. Now he's back, but at what cost? Bound to the king of the underworld, an even darker force, he's unable to withstand the touch of another…and he's quickly devolving into a heartless assassin with an uncontrollable temper. Things only get worse when a mission goes awry and he finds himself saddled with a bride—just not his own.Famed dog trainer Katarina Joelle is forced to marry a monster to protect her loved ones. When she's taken hostage by the ruthless, beautiful Baden immediately after the ceremony, she's plunged into a war between two evils—with a protector more dangerous than the monsters he hunts. They are meant to be enemies, but neither can resist the passion burning between them…and all too soon the biggest threat is to her heart.But as Baden slips deeper into the abyss, she'll have to teach him to love…or lose him forever.

"I'd rather be a savage with you...than be civilized on my own." Jameson Briggs grew up in a savage world. A survivor of the pandemic. An orphan at twelve. A brilliant poet, bullied for his words. A cutthroat pirate, ruthlessly hunted. But when a disastrous shipwreck leaves him stranded in a foreign city, Jameson finds himself starting over in a world that is savage in a whole new way. Political maneuvering. Deception. Wealth. Beautiful women. Beautiful, dangerous women. Like Zahara and Petra - daughters of the city's most powerful CEO and heirs to a tech fortune. As Jameson grows closer to their family, his world spirals and he is drawn into a tangled web of lies and corruption. Jameson must decide: will he rise above it? Or will he become a savage? From the author: This is a is a spicy, enemies-to-lovers, forbidden-love romance between a morally-gray pirate and rich man's daughter. In it, you'll find the following tropes: - Touch her and die - Villain gets the girl - Fish-out-of-water - Found family - Badass women - Morally grey men - Love triangle - Pirates - Dystopian world - Plot twists - Fast-paced, high-stakes adventure - More snarky banter than you ever thought possible. TRIGGER WARNING: This book contains cheating. This guy is a villain. He is morally gray (and it is a pretty dark shade of gray.) This is a standalone origin story for the villain in the Thalassic Series. You DO NOT need to read the other books before you read it! In fact, this makes a nice entry point to the series.

I loved her. She left me. She betrayed me but now it's time to open the closed doors. I'll tell her my secret if she tells me hers. Our history, is more than lies. It's our story, and I will do whatever it takes to reveal it all. I'm the Assassin, She's The Poison Princess. We're going to kill the bad guys, but we're still deciding if we're enemies. The one thing for certain, is we're both going to strip down and get bare. ***Part two of the sexy, thrilling three part Poison Kisses serial****

Two deeply scarred souls find love and redemption in the dark world of the Russian Bratva...RAZEConditioned in captivity to maim, kill, and slaughter, prisoner 818 becomes an unrivaled and unstoppable fighter in the ring. Violence is all he knows. After years of incarceration in an underground hell, only one thought occupies his mind: bloody, slow, and violent revenge on the man who wronged him.Kisa Volkova, the only daughter of Kirill 'The Silencer' Volkov, head of the infamous 'Red' bosses of New York's Russian Bratva, lives a life of virtual imprisonment. Her father's savage treatment of his rivals and his lucrative underground gambling ring—The Dungeon—ensures too many enemies lurk at their door.While working for her church, Kisa stumbles across a tattooed, scarred, but stunningly beautiful homeless man on the streets. Something about him stirs feelings deep within her; familiar yet impossibly forbidden desires. She becomes obsessed with this mysterious man... this man they call Raze.REAPRaised as a prototype for the Georgian Bratva's obedience drug, 221 is the perfect killing puppet. Standing at six foot six, 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 Tolstoi dreams of breaking free from the heavy clutches of Bratva life, away from the brutality of her work at The Dungeon, her family's underground death match enterprise. 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.

An Enemies-to-lovers Standalone Once Upon A Cold, Dark Night, A Russian Killer Stole Me From An Alley. I’m Dangerous, But He Is Lethal. I Escaped Once. He Won’t Let Me Do It Twice. The Revenge Is His. The Betrayal Is Mine. But So Are The Lies To Protect The Ones I Love. We’re Cut From The Same Twisted Cloth. Both Merciless. Both Damaged. In His Embrace, I Find Hell And Heaven, His Cruelly Tender Touch Destroying And Uplifting Me At Once. They Say A Cat Has Nine Lives, But An Assassin Has Just One. And Yan Ivanov Now Owns Mine.