The grumpy billionaire accuses me of stealing, has me fired, and now wants me to be his temporary wife. I think he’s lost his mind.Easton Calloway needs a wifey, pronto, and he chooses me to temporarily fill the position. While I want to tell him to eff off, I can’t walk away from the temptation. So, I do what any broke actress living in New York City would do, and I agree to the terms and conditions.It should be easy—a year of marriage, a cushy penthouse in the city, and a spending allowance. After three hundred sixty-five days, I’ll receive divorce papers and a check in the mail. All I have to do is pretend we’re happily married without falling in love.Doable, right? Wrong.The Wife Situation is a billionaire, age gap, marriage of convenience romance with a happily ever after! It’s a stand-alone with open-door scenes. Included: a rich AF hero who’s a professional on the streets, but a bad boy in the sheets and isn’t afraid to call his little heartbreaker my wife. Read more

In a hilarious short story from New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman, the absurdities of modern life cause one man’s solitary world to spin suddenly, and comically, out of control.Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone?Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.Told in Fredrik Backman’s singular witty style with sharply drawn characters and relatable antics, The Answer Is No is a laugh-out-loud portrait of a man struggling to keep to himself in a world that won’t leave him alone. Read more

LAPD Detective Renée Ballard tracks a serial rapist whose trail has gone cold, and enlists a new volunteer to the Open-Unsolved Unit: Patrol Officer Maddie Bosch, Harry’s daughter.Renée Ballard and the LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Unit get a hot shot DNA connection between a recently arrested man and a serial rapist and murderer who went quiet twenty years ago. The arrested man is only twenty-four, so the genetic link must be familial: His father was the Pillowcase Rapist, responsible for a five-year reign of terror in the city of angels. But when Ballard and her team move in on their suspect, they encounter a baffling web of secrets and legal hurdles.Meanwhile, Ballard’s badge, gun, and ID are stolen—a theft she can’t report without giving her enemies in the department ammunition to end her career as a detective. She works the burglary alone, but her mission draws her into unexpected danger. With no choice but to go outside the department for help, she knocks on the door of Harry Bosch.At the same time, Ballard takes on a new volunteer to the cold case unit: Bosch’s daughter Maddie, now a patrol officer. But Maddie has an ulterior motive for getting access to the city’s library of lost souls—a case that may be the most iconic in the city’s history. Complex, satisfying, and full of dexterous twists, The Waiting demonstrates once more that “you can’t do better than Michael Connelly” (Forbes). Read more

My fake-husband is an Irish billionaire mafia boss—and the stranger I lost my V-card to.Now I’m pregnant, and his vengeful ex is out for blood.When Caleb Murray, the Harley-riding Irish kingpin, saves my brother and offers me a job, I can’t believe my luck.Until he asks me to sign a marriage contract and pretend to be his wife.All to avoid an arranged marriage to his ex, a rival family’s mafia princess.I take the deal. In return, he’ll pay for my niece’s tuition and give me a fresh start.It’s strictly business until the night he carries me home with a bullet wound in my arm.As he cares for me, I’m powerless to resist his green eyes and broad tattooed shoulders.I want forever . . . but now I’m his ex's prisoner.She’ll do anything to get what she wants. Including killing me.He has to save me—I’m not just his missing fake wife—I’m carrying his baby, and he has no idea.Caleb and Victoria's Story. A Standalone: Forced proximity, fake marriage, work place, angsty, spicy, surprise pregnancy, dark mafia romance. Read more

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Alex Aster comes her adult debut novel Summer in the City—a swoony, fast-paced rom-com set in New York City in which a screenwriter and a sexy tech CEO go from lovers to enemies and back to lovers again…Twenty-seven-year-old screenwriter Elle has the chance of a lifetime to write a big-budget movie set in New York City. The only problem? She’s had writer’s block for months, and her screenplay is due at the end of the summer.In a desperate attempt at inspiration, Elle ends up back in the city she swore she would never return to, in an apartment she could never afford (floor-to-ceiling windows, skyline views, and a new coffee shop to haunt included). It’s the perfect place to write her screenplay…until she realizes her new neighbor is tech “Billionaire Bachelor” Parker Warren, her stairwell hookup from two years ago. It’s been a lovers-to-enemies situation ever since.When seeing him again turns into a full night of hate-fueled writing, Elle realizes her enemy/twisted muse might just be the key to finishing her screenplay... if she can stand being around her polar opposite. She writes anonymously, and he’s on the cover of every business magazine. He frequents fancy red carpeted events, and she doesn’t like leaving her emotional support five block radius.One summer. One wall apart. He needs to fake a buzzy relationship during his company’s precarious acquisition. She needs to write a movie around a list of NYC locations. Both need a break from their unrelenting schedules, and a chance to rediscover the skyscraper glimmering, pizza crusted, sunlit charms of the city.Summers always end, and so will this agreement. It’s all pretend. Promise.Until it isn’t. Read more

I woke up married to my archenemy, my dad’s billionaire boss.The beast stole my v-card and now…I’m expecting his baby.The grump fired my father then made me an offer I couldn’t refuse.Be his fake fiancée and in return…One million dollars.All so he could mend his bad boy image.Which apparently an innocent wallflower like me can deliver.I took the deal to give my dad a break after mama died.But in a hazy Vegas moment. . .he put a ring on my finger.Now I’m his.Publicly I’m his perfect wife,But behind closed doors, he reveals his dark side.Bound up and pushed to my limits,I’m starting to fall for this dangerous side of him…until,I became a target for his enemies.Now I pray he’ll rescue us in time.Me and the secret growing inside me—his baby.Fake Dark Vows is a spicy Standalone Full Length Enemies to Lovers, Forced Proximity, 'my woman vibes' Possessive alpha hero, Marriage of Convenience, Sudden Pregnancy, Grumpy Sunshine Dark Romance with surprise twists and a Happily ever after. Read more

One wild night gave me more than just regrets.Six years ago, I walked away from Igor Sokolov—New York’s most dangerous Bratva prince—and vowed never to look back.Or so I thought.Now, he’s found me. And worse, he’s discovered my biggest secret: our daughter.Igor doesn’t ask. He takes.With ruthless determination, he drags us back to New York, claiming it’s the only way to keep us safe.Safe from his enemies, maybe. But not from him.He’s possessive, demanding, and dangerously irresistible.And he’s made one thing crystal clear: I’m his.Letting him close is a mistake I never planned on making twice.But resisting him? That might just destroy me.Because when it comes to Igor Sokolov, the real danger isn’t loving him—it’s trying not to. Read more

“Bless me, Father, for I have sinned—and I liked it.”I left my past behind.Then she walked into my church.Once, I was Bane Blackwolf—heir to a legacy of blood and sin. A monster in the making. Instead, I chose the cloth over the crown, buried my name, and became Father Blackwood.For years, I was in control of my darker nature. Until her.Moira.The woman with a sinner’s mouth and a body made for worship. The woman who doesn’t know it was me behind the mask that night—me who had her on her knees, begging.Now she’s here, whispering confessions that twist the knife deeper. Tempting the man I pretend to be and the beast I’ve tried to bury.I vowed to be a good man. I vowed to never take what doesn’t belong to me.But Moira is mine.The moment I touched her, I knew—I’d never crave anything the way I crave her. She’s the only thing that silences my demons and makes me forget the weight of my sins.And I’ll be damned before I let her go.TWs: Please note this is an intense dark romance with characters dealing with mental illness, abuse, and trauma. A full list of trigger warnings can be found on the author’s website. Read more

ANTONIOThe moment I tasted her, I knew one thing—she was mine.I stole her from her wedding and put a ring on her hand.But there’s an ache I can’t ignore—I might never have her heart.Vivienne Cole is my enemy’s daughter. My perfect revenge.And now… my wife.I planned to use her as my weapon to rip her father’s world apart.But marrying Vivienne wasn’t supposed to feel this good.Her fire tempts me.Her defiance dares me.Her laugh makes me forget I’m a monster.I should break her. Instead, I crave her.She calls me a beast. She’s right.She hates me. She should.But every time she runs, I hunt her down.She doesn’t know that there’s no way out.Then I see one of my men standing speechless at the door—and I know.They took her.And she’s keeping a secret from me—one I’ll kill for.I’m going to be a father.And I’ll spill oceans of blood to protect what’s mine.VIVIENNEThe moment I kissed him, I knew—I was his obsession.He stole me from my wedding, and now I carry his child.Now I don’t know if I want to run… or stay.One stolen moment with a dark stranger, and my life was no longer my own.Antonio Mancini is a ruthless monster made of secrets and sins.He doesn’t ask. He takes.And on the night of my wedding—to another man—he does exactly that.Ripped me from my world and chained me to his.I swore he could have my body, my name, my vow…but he’d never have me.But the more I fight him, the more I crave him.And every battle ends the same. He owns me. And I let him.I should hate him. And I do… until I don’t.I let him steal something even more dangerous than my freedom—my heart.But how can I trust a man who was born to destroy?I thought I could escape him.Then I saw the test—two pink lines.Antonio is about to become a father.He’ll never let me go.Readers note: This is the third book in the Mafia Vows Series. It is a full-length standalone, dark mafia, possessive alpha hero, age-gap, surprise baby romance. Read more

OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “Stunning.” —People * “Dazzling yet devastating...Tóibín is simply one of the world’s best living literary writers.” —The Boston Globe * “Momentous and hugely affecting.” —The Wall Street Journal * From the beloved, critically acclaimed, bestselling author comes a spectacularly moving novel featuring Eilis Lacey, the complex and enigmatic heroine of Brooklyn, Tóibín’s most popular work in twenty years. Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony’s parents, a huge extended family. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis is now forty with two teenage children. Though her ties to Ireland remain stronger than those that hold her to her new land and home, she has not returned in decades. One day, when Tony is at work, an Irishman comes to the door asking for Eilis by name. He tells her that his wife is pregnant with Tony’s child and that when the baby is born, he will not raise it but instead deposit it on Eilis’s doorstep. It is what Eilis does—and what she refuses to do—in response to this stunning news that makes Tóibín’s novel so riveting and suspenseful. Long Island is a gorgeous story “about a woman thrashing against the constraints of fate” (Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air). It is “a wonder, rich with yearning and regret” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis). Read more

A Wall Street Journal and South Florida Sun-Sentinel Best Book of the Year“A masterpiece” - LAPD detective Renée Ballard must join forces with Harry Bosch to find justice in a city scarred by fear and social unrest after a methodical killer strikes on New Year’s Eve (Publishers Weekly).There’s chaos in Hollywood at the end of the New Year’s Eve countdown. Working her graveyard shift, LAPD detective Renée Ballard waits out the traditional rain of lead as hundreds of revelers shoot their guns into the air. Only minutes after midnight, Ballard is called to a scene where a hardworking auto shop owner has been fatally hit by a bullet in the middle of a crowded street party.Ballard quickly determines that the deadly bullet could not have fallen from the sky and that it is linked to another unsolved murder - a case at one time worked by Detective Harry Bosch. At the same time, Ballard hunts a fiendish pair of serial rapists, the Midnight Men, who have been terrorizing women and leaving no trace.Determined to solve both cases, Ballard feels like she is constantly running uphill in a police department indelibly changed by the pandemic and recent social unrest. It is a department so hampered by inertia and low morale that Ballard must go outside to the one detective she can count on: Harry Bosch. But as the two inexorable detectives work together to find out where old and new cases intersect, they must constantly look over their shoulders. The brutal predators they are tracking are ready to kill to keep their secrets hidden.Unfolding with unstoppable drive and nail-biting intrigue, The Dark Hours shows that “relentless on their own, Ballard’s and Bosch’s combined skills … could be combustible” (Los Angeles Times). Read more

A buried secret. A mafia heir. When past love becomes a lethal threat...Kieran CallahanIn the ruthless world of Boston's Irish mafia, I shield the Callahan legacy, no matter the cost.Now my brother has tasked me with ruining Ruby Marquez, the prosecutor running for District Attorney.She’s clean, untouchable, and a threat we can’t afford. But Ruby isn’t just any enemy.She’s the one I can’t forget—I shouldn't have touched her years ago. If Tristan uncovers my past with her, I'm as good as dead.I know she's hiding something, though.Something that could destroy everything. And God help me, I might torch everything for her—and torch us both in the process.Ruby MarquezRunning for District Attorney is my chance to fight for justice, but Kieran Callahan is back, and he's threatening everything I've fought to build.He's here to destroy me, but the way he watches me feels like something else.He doesn't know the secret I’ve been keeping—the truth I’ve protected for years. The girl calling me “Mami” is his daughter.What happens when the man sent to hurt me finds out the truth?Fans of Zoe Blake, Navessa Allen and Sam Mariano will love this second chance, surprise pregnancy, morally grey mmc, stalker romance book!Buy Velvet Corruption to start this spicy mafia prince series today! Read more

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He ruined my plans for revenge—calls it ‘saving me’.And now he demands payment. Me.Two years ago, my husband was gunned down in cold blood.The justice system failed me. So I took the law into my own hands.I was ready to pull the trigger when Dario di Cecco—with his broad chest wrapped in an Armani suit—stepped between me and my vengeance.Dario is the silent power behind a mafia empire soaked in blood.He says he saved me from a mistake.But this man doesn't do anything for free.Now, he’s locked me in his world—under his control, his constant eyes.He doesn’t just want my body. He wants my loyalty. My soul.Dario’s obsession will be my ruin.I should hate him. Fight back. Run.Instead, I’m caged between his body and the wall—back arched, legs trembling, breath stolen.And when he finds out I’m carrying his child…He’ll never let me go.Relentless Oath is a brutal tale of a mafia king who’s spent years watching his future queen. It’s a standalone romance with no cheating or cliffhangers. But it does have an obsessive antihero and a surprise pregnancy tangled in secrets and danger. Don’t be scared. It’s morally gray and twisty here, but there’s always a happy ending. Read more

ETTOREIt’s the morning of my wedding.I don’t look like the ruthless mafia boss who rules the underworld.No matter how fake this marriage might seem, by the end of the day, she’ll be my wife.Until… she’s gone.They call me the Reaper. Feared. Ruthless. Untouchable. I don’t save people. I bury them.Until she stumbled into my world. Fiery. Untamed. A mess I should’ve walked away from.Instead, I rescued her and made her mine—for one night.One taste of her, and I was addicted.But danger follows her like a shadow. And I don’t leave loose ends.Marrying her was supposed to be a business deal. One year. No strings.I didn’t expect to crave her. I didn’t expect to keep her.And now that she’s carrying my child… She’s never getting away.Yet in the shadows, someone else has set his eyes on her…And I’ll burn the whole world to protect what’s mine—even if it means dragging her into my darkness.MIRABELLAIt’s the morning of my wedding.One that ties me to a man I don’t know…and one I will not attend.But the devil claimed my innocence…and now I’m pregnant.It was only supposed to be one night.A reckless mistake with the most dangerous man who saved me.Ettore Greco—cold, controlling, and devastatingly irresistible.A man who doesn’t take no for an answer.The next morning, I ran. But you don’t escape a man like Ettore.He found me before they could.Now I’m wearing his ring and carrying his child.Bound to him by a deal I couldn’t refuse.He’s my savior and my nightmare. My protector and my captor.I should hate him.But when he touches me, I forget everything— Except how badly I want him.But I should’ve known that a happy ending was nothing more than a dream for us…Because someone else was after me...and I needed to protect at all costs the twins growing inside of me.Readers note: This is the second book in the Mafia Vows Series. It is a full-length standalone, dark mafia, possessive alpha hero, age-gap, surprise baby romance. Read more

I'm about to marry my worst nightmare, and he doesn't know I have his daughter.Elio Rossi is a dream on paper.He's rich, handsome and head of his family's multi-billion dollar business.He's also a ruthless Mafia Don, and my older brother's best friend.But even that isn't a huge issue to me.No, Elio is my nightmare because he used to be my dream man.We've been betrothed since childhood.But the night of our engagement years ago, our parents died in a tragic accident.One that I'm sure Elio's family planned.In a moonlit sky he claimed my innocence.Now he says I'm his, and no one can save me.But I'll do anything to save my family.My brothers will do anything to protect me.And they'll have to.Because while we try to get revenge on the Rossi family, there's one secret that Elio doesn't know.She's about five years old, and has his eyes.And I'll burn the world down to keep her safe from him.Publisher's Note: Mafia King's Secret Baby is the second installment in the Ruthless Mafia Kings Series that follows the Vittorio and Rossi Italian Mafia Kingpin families.It's a standalone Dark Mafia Romance and can be read in any order.Elio and Caterina's story is simply unputdownable, watch Elio earn his way back to her heart and his place as Luna's dad. Prepare for unexpected twists and turns and a heart melting happily ever after you can't afford to miss. Read more

She’s perfect. Pure. Mine. But she’s forbidden…the enemy’s daughter.The moment I crash into Ruby Jackson, I know it’s over.She’s mine. The chemistry? Explosive.But there’s a problem—she’s not just any woman.Our bloodlines are tangled in betrayal, vengeance, and secrets too dark to see the light.And I just discovered; her mother killed mine.What I didn’t expect? The brutal truth behind that murder—and how it ties to Ruby now.A crash leaves us both in the hospital.I propose. She thinks I’m high on meds. I’m not. I’m dead serious.She can try running, but I’ll never let her go.Because there’s more at stake than revenge.Ruby’s carrying my baby. And someone from our past is coming for her—ready to finish what was started.The question isn’t whether I’ll claim her—It’s how far I’ll go to keep her.Readers notes: A Standalone Dark Romance, angsty, spicy, fake relationship, surprise pregnancy, protective hero, feuding families.Expect HEA. No cheating by main characters. No cliffhanger. Read more

She’s my enemy’s sister, but that only makes me want her more.Her brother sold her off, and now she belongs to me—she just doesn’t know it yet.Ginevra Bianchi is nothing like the spoiled billionaire princess and politician's fiancée I thought she'd be.She doesn’t bow, doesn’t break, and that smart mouth of hers is going to get her into serious trouble—my kind of trouble.Her family owes me, and I always collect.An arranged marriage to the woman I can’t stop thinking about? I’ll take that deal.The more she fights, the more I want to break her, make her bend to my will.I see the fear in her gaze when I get too close, but I see the fire too.Now, I don’t just want her submission. I want all of her.She doesn’t understand—I always win.And when it comes to her, I won’t stop until she’s mine in every way that matters.She thinks she can escape me, but what she doesn’t realize is, I’d burn the whole world down to keep her—and protect our unborn child at any cost.Readers note: This is the first book in the Mafia Vows Series. It is a full-length standalone, dark mafia, possessive alpha hero, age-gap, surprise baby romance. Read more

I was never supposed to be his wife.When my perfect older sister flees her arranged marriage, my father shoves me in her place—offering me up like a pawn to Dario Costa, the most feared Mafia Don in Philadelphia. Cold, ruthless, and eleven years my senior, he takes one look at me and sees nothing but a broken substitute.A wife unworthy of him.He refuses to annul the marriage but makes his stance clear—this will never be real. No love. No future. Just a one-year arrangement to save his reputation. But the more I push, the more possessive he becomes. The more I fight, the harder he holds on. Until one night changes everything.Then, someone tries to kill me.At first, Dario thinks I’m just an inconvenience—until the first assassin comes for me. Until my survival becomes a threat. Until the secrets I was never meant to know start to unravel.Dario swears I mean nothing to him, but his rage turns deadly. His touch turns possessive. And just when I think I might finally belong to him, a baby appears on our doorstep.A baby from his past.A baby that could derail everything… or finally make him realize I was never meant to be his temporary wife at all. Read more

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