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Cruel King of New York (The Accardi Twins, #2) by Siobhan Davis

A new dark mafia romance from USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Siobhan Davis.

The boy I grew up loving is now the made man who broke my heart.

I had one primary goal in life: to marry Don Caleb Accardi, give him lots of babies, and live happily ever after.

Until he shattered my fantasy and destroyed my belief in love.

His playboy status isn’t the issue. I learned to live with his womanizing while patiently waiting on the sideline for him to truly notice me.

But he never has. Not the way I want him to.

One promise. That’s all I asked of him, and he couldn’t even keep it.

Something inside me dies when I learn the truth, and I reach my breaking point.

This is the last time he hurts me.

I’m not saving myself for him anymore.

So, I cut him out of my life and begin dating.

Caleb sure doesn’t like that, and a switch has flipped in his brain.

Now, he wants me. And he’s pulling out all the stops to win back my heart.

Too bad it’s too late—for him and for me.

Because Caleb has powerful enemies who are aware he loves me, and now I’m fair game.

This is book two of two and it cannot be read as a stand-alone.

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Penalty to the Heart (Puckered Hearts #3) by Ivy Fox

 

 

Never fall in love with a client.
I care deeply for all my patients, but falling in love with one was never a risk.
My heart had closed up shop years ago.
As the Boston Guardians’ in-house therapist, I was perfectly content helping athletes deal with their pain and trauma, happy to see others thrive and overcome life’s obstacles.
I was content…until I wasn’t.
Everything changed when a devastating accident shattered the life of the club’s star goalie—Caleb Donovan.
I was tasked with saving him from his self-sabotaging ways and told to become his beacon of hope and savior in the darkness.
How could I have ever predicted that as I delved deeper into the tangled mess of his fractured emotions, I’d find that his broken spirit mirrored mine?
That his heart would call out my name in the dark, pulling me in?
On the hard, paved road to healing, Caleb changed courses on me, preferring my ruin over his salvation.
And now…my career, my reputation, and my very sanity are all in jeopardy.
In a world where love can be the ultimate downfall, do I have the courage to risk it all for a glimpse of happiness, or will I succumb to the shadows of guilt and fear that threaten to consume us both?

What can you expect from Penalty to the Heart:
– Forbidden Romance
– Reverse Age Gap
– Slow Burn
– Hero Falls First
– Strong heroine
– Tearjerker
– And a whole lot of ANGST!

Author note: Please be aware that Puckered Hearts is an interconnected standalone series. Though you do not need to read the first two books in the series to start Penalty to the Heart for full enjoyment, it is highly recommended you do so, as there will be significant spoilers in this book. If you love your book boyfriends a little broken and love a good ugly cry, this book baby is definitely for you.
Happy Reading!
xoxo
Ivy

*Penalty to the Heart is a hockey standalone romance with a guaranteed HEA.
*Recommended 18+ due to mature language and situations.

 

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Bump and Run (Branston Bandits #2) by Piper James

 

Clean cut, all-American, hot as sin, and sweet enough to lick all over.

That’s how my friend Skye describes Miles Blake. It’s how I’d describe him, too, if I didn’t just find out the one-night stand that rocked my world is my best friend’s fiancé’s best friend…God, what a mouthful.

Now, the cat’s out of the bag, and despite the lingering attraction between us, I’ve locked him firmly in the friend zone.

What else am I supposed to do? If I allow myself to enjoy Miles the way I want to, what will happen when things inevitably go bad? We’d be putting our prospective best friends in the middle, that’s what. And I refuse to be the cause of tension between my bestie and the love of her life.

No way. No how.

But it doesn’t take long for the desire simmering inside me to come to a head. Miles is charming, funny, gorgeous, and kind…everything I could want in a man wrapped in a sexy package that makes my body revolt against my mind and its ridiculous decision to keep things friendly.

So we make a deal––we’ll remain friends, but with…ahem…benefits. Nothing changes outside of the bedroom, and when we end the physical stuff, we’ll remain friends. No harm. No foul.

It’s the perfect plan, right?

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The Turnover (Branston Bandits #1) by Piper James

Riggs Malone. Star quarterback and captain of the football team. The boy all the girls wanted and all the boys wanted to be. My first love.
And the only person who ever broke me.

I have a great life. I’ve fulfilled my dream of running my own coffee shop-slash-library in my hometown, I own my own home, and I have the best group of friends a girl could ask for. Everything is perfect.

Or it was.

When a neighboring town starts its very own professional football franchise, he gets himself traded to be the starting quarterback of the Branston Bandits. And before I know it, he’s purchased the house next door, moving in with a neighborly smile like he didn’t destroy me all those years ago…

…when he made a disgusting bet with his teammates to take my V-card, which I was eagerly and naively willing to give him before I found out the truth.

Well, if Riggs Malone thinks it’s all water under the bridge, he has another thing coming. I don’t forgive easily, and I never forget. I’m about to make his life a living hell.

Let the prank war begin.

The Turnover is a steamy, enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy with lots of laughs, plenty of heat, and more than a few cookies that are…ahem…anatomically correct. And if you’re worried about Riggs’ ability to be redeemed, don’t worry. While he did, in fact, make the bet, all wasn’t as it seemed…

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Of Song and Scepter by Liesl West

She’s a killer in disguise. He’s determined to make her his queen.

As a deep sea death-dealer, Enna Valomir’s life is simple: kill the siren, deliver the body, collect the reward. There’s just one problem. Enna owes a mermaid her life, and in the cutthroat waters of the Abyss, that’s a lifelong blood oath of service.

When the mermaid orders her to kill the Abyssal Princess, Enna is pulled into an impersonation scheme with no choice but to infiltrate a gaudy surface court and help the mermaid win the heart—and throne—of its unwitting future king.

But Prince Soren isn’t interested in courting the so-called Abyssal Princess, or any power-hungry princess, for that matter. He’s finally met his match in her fierce and mysterious handmaid, and he’ll be damned if he can’t have Enna for his queen instead.

Breaking a blood oath means death, but Enna falls for Soren anyway. Now she must watch him descend into a ruin of her own making, or warn him of the ruse—and die.

Part of the Sirens of Adria dark fantasy romance series, Of Song and Scepter is a standalone little mermaid retelling intended for mature audiences.

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Bound to the Shadow Prince by Ruby Dixon

The exclusive print edition of a Yonder original story from the bestselling author of the Ice Planet Barbarians series.

In order to protect her kingdom from the wrath of a vengeful goddess, Princess Candra must remain locked inside a tower for seven years. Seven long years without a friend―or a lover―by her side. And shut inside the tower with her? A Fellian, the enemy of her people, a fearsome warrior race complete with wings and claws and fangs. Nemeth is terrifying, cruel, and disturbingly magnetic. Candra should kill him for his supplies, but she’s desperate for his company…and his touch.

As time inside the unchanging tower rolls on, Candra uncovers the man behind the stony facade. And when their tenure hits an unexpected snag, Candra and Nemeth are forced to make a difficult choice. They’ll need to face an outside world they no longer recognize, one that threatens their lives and their surprising love.

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All Too Well by Steph Macca

I know all too well the pain and torture of love…

After my breakup hits me from out of the blue, I’m left in pieces – wondering where it all went wrong.

It’s another strike to my self-esteem, coupled with the job from Hell and seventeen dollars to my name.

When I find myself trapped in the flood waters of St. Devil’s Creek, I think it can’t get any worse. The last thing I expect is to be rescued. But I am – in more ways than one.

We always promise to protect our hearts from love, but after each massacre, we silently hope that we are wrong. We cling to the possibility of our happy-ever-after.

But that’s the thing about new beginnings. Sometimes they are life lessons in disguise.

They say you have three great loves in your lifetime.
What are the chances I’d meet all three great loves in the same year?

All Too Well is Book 1 – Lust in the Deadly Sinners Collection. This book can be read on its own and is a completed standalone. While the main female character has multiple potential love interests, it is a heart breaking journey that ends in a M/F HEA.

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The Marriage Auction by Audrey Carlan

From #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Audrey Carlan, discover The Marriage Auction

You can now dive into the Kindle Vella phenomenon with over 2 MILLON READS. This saga has ranked #1 for over a full year and continues to break records each month as America’s favorite serial. Each volume contains more than 10% new content that includes two never before seen scenes from some of our favorite couples.

What would you do for three million dollars?

Four young women enter into a clandestine auction to be married to the highest bidders. For no less than a million dollars a year, for three years, each woman will do what it takes to secure her future. Entangled in a high-stakes game of money, lust, power, and the hope for absolution, this group of women becomes a sisterhood unlike any other.

Once chosen by a man she’s never met and agrees to marry sight unseen…there is no going back. Hidden secrets, wicked desires, fiery couplings and intense family drama are all part of the deal when you willingly enter into The Marriage Auction.

You may now kiss the bride…

 

 

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One Cursed Rose (Grimm Bargains #1) by Rebecca Zanetti

For fans of Scarlett St Clair and Sarah J Maas, New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Zanetti explores the forbidden and the taboo in this modern twist on Beauty and the Beast – the first in a seductive new dark romance series set in a world where information is power, and those who control the flow of information live like gods…

“Sexy and utterly engrossing!” — J.T. Geissinger, bestselling author of The Queens and Monsters series

They christened me Alana—and while the name means beauty, beneath that surface is a depth I allow very few to see. I’m sole heir to Aquarius Social, a media giant about to succumb to an unseen enemy. My father’s solution is to marry me off to the son of a competing family. My reaction? Not a chance. Now I have just a week before the wedding to change my fate.

Who knew the unforeseen twist would be an assassination attempt on me and an unwanted rescue by Thorn Beathach, the head of the rival social media empire driving Aquarius under? The richest, most ruthless of them all, the Beast protects his realm with an iron rule: no one sees his face. When he shows himself to me, I know he’ll never let me go.

Thorn may think he can lock me in his enchanted castle forever, but I’m not the docile Beauty he expects. If the Beast wants to tie me up, I’m going to take pleasure from every minute of it . . .and we’ll just see who ends up shackled.

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REPULSE by Lesley Jones

A weekend stripped of her inhibitions was all bored housewife, Mila was looking for.

It was never meant to become what it did.

But the two seductive strangers unlocked more than just her base desires with their very first caress.

The forehead kisses, their gentleness, the way they call her ‘Mils’, the care and consideration to her needs, has emotions rising to the surface she’s spent her life hidden behind a very carefully constructed wall.

All leaving her wondering how she’s going to return to her cold, uncaring husband, and her loveless marriage, in a small country town.

When events in her life take yet another unexpected turn and shocking secrets are revealed, Mila’s offered a way out, but no one and nothing is as it seems, leaving her unsure of who she can trust.

Choices have to be made, and she’s no idea which is the right one.

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