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  Reckless Thief, (82 Street Vandals) Heather Long ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon / Goodreads Blurb: The mentor. The doctor. The Vandal. I grew up on the streets despite my older sister’s best efforts to keep my nose clean. I thought I knew better. I worked hard. and made money. Who cared if what I did was a little illegal? Then a little boy paid the price for my carelessness. A little boy and his baby sister. It was the wakeup call I needed, even if the cost came too high. Rough choices made for rough outcomes and when I had the chance to join the military or go to jail to get straight, I went to the military. I paid for my thoughtless actions by becoming deliberate. I paid for my greed by offering service. I paid for my chance at a better life with blood, sweat, and fire. That service left me scarred but determined. Medical school and training taught me I could continue to serve. I walked away from the streets, from the blood, the violence, and costs of doing business. Living a life I ...

  Burn With Me , (Gods of Hazelwood: Icarus ) Lucy Smoke ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon / Goodreads Blurb: Aurora Summers is nothing but baggage. Beautiful, dangerous, off limits baggage. The plan was simple: Destroy the girl. Ruin her life. Make her and her mother leave. Only … she’s not as easy a target as I thought she’d be. She’s nothing but a pawn, a tool for my father to use against her mother. But pawns don’t fight back the way she does. They don’t violate my sanity the way she does. She put herself in the mouth of the beast. I wanted her out of the way, but now … I can’t let her go. *This is a Dark, College, Mafia, Stepbrother, Enemies to Lovers, Forbidden Romance. Icarus retelling/inspired story* Burn with me is the first book in a duet. Well it's supposed to be a duet but we all know Lucy and these characters could decide otherwise. Either way, this is book one. So first things first. If you have read any of Lucy's more recent books then you already know that Lucy's character...

  Merciless Spy, (82 Street Vandals) Heather Long ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon / Goodreads Blurb: The fierce twin. The dark brother. The wild one. I don’t give a damn about labels. I never have. Not when it comes to me. But stay the hell away from my brothers. All of them. I’ve sacrificed a lot for them, and I’m more than willing to give a lot more. If my blood, sweat, tears, and life were needed, I’d give it all up. Every damn drop. For my brothers, there was nothing I wouldn’t lose. Until her. Reckless, ferocious, and seemingly born to match me in temperament and spirit, Hellspawn is not the fragile flower they all think she is. I don’t think she ever has been. She will not be left behind, she will not hide, and she will not take the crap that life has been throwing at her. She’s saved our lives, defended us, fought for us, and sacrificed herself for us. I have no questions about what she would do if they tried to leverage us against her. This is why I won’t allow anyone to put her to t...

  Vengeful Rotten Casualties, (Sick Boys) Lucy Smoke ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon / Goodreads I sold my soul to the devil only to turn around and slit his throat… Thomas Kincaid took everything from me. My mother. My hopes. My innocence. Now, it’s my turn. He thought he was safe. They all did. They were wrong. Men always think they can take without ever having to deal with the consequences. Well, now I’m back, and I'm the last consequence they’ll ever see. *This is a dark romance, and contains dark and very taboo themes which some readers may find uncomfortable or upsetting such as but not limited to SA, murder, violence, child abuse, sexual slavery, misuse of the law, drug use etc. If you do not enjoy these themes, or have triggers, please do not read. Recommended for 18+ due to sexual content and adult situations. Please read responsibly.* This is the final book in the Sick Boys series and focuses on Luc and Micki. Let me start off by saying that while this whole series has been on the ...

  Broken Truths, (Pretty Little Dead Girl) E.M. Moore ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon / Goodreads Blurb: They call them broken. They call them bad. I call them mine. What we have is more powerful than the all the Knights combined. Or at least, I hope so…because they haven’t stopped. Those in power seek to take me down, to use me like I’m just an asset. They want to whittle me down until I comply… I won’t. I refuse to stop until my sister’s murderer is brought to justice. Until I get to walk away from the elite world, forever linked to three men whose hearts are bigger than I ever expected. It’s time to show the Knights what we’re made of…together. Series Hush, Hush  Prequel Pretty Secrets Lovely Deceit   Broken Truths   Broken Truths is the third and final book in the Pretty Little Dead Girl series. It's been a rough ride but we finally made it to the end. What an ending it was.  The secrets are out and Oh My! Gets a little crazy! With all of the darkness in their world and...

  Last Word, (Cardinal Sins) Heather Long & Blake Blessing ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon / Goodreads Blurb: Kill them all It was always me and Daddy, but now I have another family to protect. From the day my father didn’t come home, my life changed irrevocably. From my earliest memories, I’d always known what I would do. Daddy hunted the monsters and when I was old enough, he let me help. Under his tutelage, I trained, studied, and learned. I was his apprentice, his partner, and eventually, I grew up enough to strike out on my own. It was always the two of us. Sometimes we shared targets, but more often, he had his and I had mine. I always thought we had no secrets, but my hunt uncovers more and more questions. Then I met Rick, Fletcher, and eventually Cash. Rick shattered the loneliness around me and for him, I broke Daddy’s rules. Fletcher burrowed into my heart with his quirky mannerisms and vulnerability, and for him, I threw the rules out entirely. And Cash? His relentless, damn ne...

  Dangerous Renegade, (82 Street Vandals) Heather Long ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon / Goodreads Blurb: The mute twin. The strange brother. The broken one. I’d been called so many names over the years. None of them mattered. My mirror cared more than I did. But he never treated me as less. None of them did. My brothers were the Vandals. They didn’t always understand, but they never judged and they always had my back. I would always have theirs. They were my life until Starling came to us. Quiet. Hurt. Broken. Those words were tossed around along with stubborn, fierce, impossible, and beautiful. I’d studied her from afar for years, but to have her close changed everything. Trust. Acceptance. Understanding. She colored in all my missing pieces. My other half needed her too. We all did. She fought her way back to us, continues to fight to stay, and more she fights for us. She belongs. My name is Rome Cleary. Starling is ours. She has always been a part of us, even when she didn’t know our n...

Bloody Cruel Monster, (Sick Boys) Lucy Smoke ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon / Goodreads Blurb: It will end the same way it started … with death. Clover I gave Braxton Smalls everything. I sacrificed myself and all I ended up with was a broken heart and a shattered soul. Now, I’ve got bigger things to worry about than an angry Eastpoint Heir hot on my trail. Brax may be the psycho who kidnapped me–but he’s nothing compared to the organization my brother works for. And me? I’m the monster ready to wreck them all. Braxton I live for vengeance. That's all I know, all I see. Until her. Until Clover La Roux. No … until Evgenia Volkov. Daughter of a Russian mobster. Sister to the man who tortured one of my best friends. The only woman to ever satisfy the cruel desires inside of me. Whoever took her will pay with their lives. And once I have her back, I’ll make sure she can never leave me again. Consequences be damned.   Pretty Little Savage Stone Cold Queen Natural Born Killers Wicked Dark Heathens ...

  High Note, (Cardinal Sins) Blake Blessing & Heather Long ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon / Goodreads Blurb: Carve up the world… From the moment my sexy death angel strode through that door, I’d been in lust. Or at least that was what I told myself. Beautiful, powerful, and far too dangerous for me, and I was hooked. Utterly, irrevocably hooked. Course, she had her own personal psycho puppy and, man, as much as I’d like to hate him, I didn’t. The dude was OCD to the point of painful when it came to cleaning, and he had the best skills in the kitchen. He also worshiped the ground she walked on. Same, man, same. We were making this work, even with the Fed in the dungeon. Then she didn’t come home. I didn’t care what I had to do, I was going to get her back. If that meant letting the Fed out and working with him, then I was down. He could kick down the door and break the bones, whatever it took. If we had to take the world apart, well, then that was what we’d do. Rick needed her. Mr. Call ...

  Make Me Wild, (Rich Demons of Darkwood) C.R. Jane & May Dawson ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon / Goodreads Blurb: Stellan’s always been a pretty horrible ex-boyfriend, but he takes it to a new level when he kidnaps me. I wake up in a trunk, determined to make him pay. But Stellan needs answers about his sister’s disappearance. And I need them too. So even if he does deserve to die for what he’s done to me, we form a tentative alliance. We go back to where it all began, Stellan’s childhood home. The Demon’s house, next door, watches over our search. It’s not only the house that seems to loom over us. Ghosts from my past know everything that happened to Sophia… And they want to see me embrace my father’s legacy. Or die. They aren’t too picky. My other a**holes aren’t too happy with Stellan’s disappearing act, but they’ll go along with helping…for now. Can Stellan and I find what happened to Sophia, despite the hate and lust that pulses between us? Or will my father’s old friends leave...

  Lovely Deceit, (Pretty Little Dead Girl) E.M. Moore ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon / Goodreads Blurb: Growing up in the elite world, I’ve been taught not to trust. Still, I did it anyway. Silly, silly me. I should’ve known how it would end… Blindsided by their broken parts and their similarities to my own story, I let my guard down. I put my faith in them—my gorgeous Economics professor and the Knights’ bad apple. And was rewarded with the ultimate betrayal. Not again. Never again. It’s time for my revenge. It won’t be pretty. It won’t be sweet. But it will be one-hundred percent satisfying. I can promise them that. Series Hush, Hush  Prequel Pretty Secrets Lovely Deceit   Broken Truths  12/1 Lovely Deceit is the second book in the Pretty Little Dead Girl series and yes you must read them in order. Pretty Secrets left Eden in an incredibly bad situation. Lovely Deceit picks up from there. What little bit of trust she had been building with Alaric and Leo is gone. Done. While...

  Brutal Fighter, (82 Street Vandals) Heather Long ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon / Goodreads Blurb: Broken dreams. Broken lives. Broken bird. Our feelings for her were like wild animals finally freed from their cage. But my sparrow, she was the most brutal fighter of us all. She’d had to be. The battles she’s survived, she’s done in silence and alone. Not anymore. Never again. Milo let her go. Jasper took her. Vaughn sheltered her. Liam taught her. Rome connected with her. Doc pushed her away. Freddie went after her. All because we wanted what was best for her. Me? I was in this fight. Our promises might lie shattered in the debris of the life we’d thought she had, but we weren’t abandoning them or her. Oh no, I would never leave her again. My name is Kellan Traschel, I will be whatever she needs me to be. And if war is what must be waged, then hell was what we would rain down. BRUTAL FIGHTER is a full length mature college/new adult romance with enemies-to-lovers/love-hate themes. T...

  Her Rebellion, (The Rite Trilogy) A Zavarelli & Natasha Knight ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon / Goodreads Blurb: I am a Sovereign Son. A king within The Society. With a look I send men to their knees. Yet she stands tall against me, taunting me with her rebellion. But we all have rules we must live by. Even me. And I have broken the most sacred. I took her to my bed. I claimed that which did not belong to me. And now that the beast within has had a taste, it wants more. Trilogy Order His Rule Her Rebellion   Their Reign   6/21 Her Rebellion is the second book in The Rite Trilogy and yes they absolutely must be read in order. So Her Rebellion picks up right where we left off in His Rule. With that major cliffhanger. So no spoilers here but Judge is one bad A$$ when he loses control.  I don't want to give anything away by talking about what happens so I will talk about the characters instead. Judge will drive you absolutely insane. You want to love him, and you do, but you al...

  Bloody Cruel Psycho, (Sick Boys) Lucy Smoke ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon / Goodreads Blurb: A life for a life … will kill the both of us in the end.   Clover  I know nothing of the Sickness at Eastpoint University. I know only the backroads that slip past the southern beaches and the gators that make their way onto the swamps shores. Until him. Until the killer known as Braxton Smalls finds his way into my stilted trailer on the coast of Port Charlotte. He came looking for Ace, but he found me instead…   Braxton   I’m a monster. Always have been. Always will be. The only people I’ve ever given a shit about are my boys and their girls. No one hurts my family, and knowing that someone has … and that they’ve gotten away with it plagues me. Ace Volkov will pay for what he put Avalon through and if I have to use his most precious weakness to draw him out, I will. She thinks she can bargain for his life with her own, but I mean to show her that there’s nothing I...

  His Rule, (The Rite Trilogy) A Zavarelli & Natasha Knight ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon / Goodreads Blurb: I live in a world where secrecy reigns. A Society rooted in power, wealth, and long-held dynasties. Where men are Kings, and women are pawns. For as long as I can remember, I’ve dreamt of escaping the shackles of my expectations. But it can only ever be a dream. I made a fatal mistake, and those shackles became a cage. Now I’m trapped in a war with a man who controls my every move. He’s my brother’s best friend. My enemy, my tormentor, and my solace. His words have the power to wound me. His touch just might break me. But this is his kingdom, and as long as I’m here I only have one choice. I’ll play by his rules. Note from the authors: The Rite Trilogy is set in the world of The Society. It is the story of Mercedes De La Rosa and Judge Montgomery. The trilogy can be read on its own. If you’re new to The Society and would like to read the first series of books in the world...

  Blade of Iris, (Mafia Wars) K.A. Knight ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon / Goodreads Blurb: I was sold to my enemies. The Volkov’s are the nightmares they warned me of as a child, the ones they spoke of in the dark in hushed tones. Traitors, killers, the boogeymen themselves sent to scare children like me. Children of their enemies. A Kelly. A family that they have been at war with since before I was born, and now? Now I am to marry into the Bratva Pigs. To become their blushing bride. My fathers plan, theirs as well. A marriage to create peace. To unite the families and end the bloodshed once and for all. We are a symbol of hope, of the future, of harmony. I have other ideas. I’m going to make these Vegas Kings fall. I’m going to kill the Volkov’s and serve their hearts up on a platter for my father. They won’t see it coming… The Blade of Iris will be their end. Even if it starts the Mafia Wars. *Blade of Iris is a full-length reverse harem novel in the dark and twisted Mafia Wars wo...

First Chorus, (Cardinal Sins) Heather Long & Blake Blessing ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ It's a... undefined Protect her at all costs… The last thing I was looking for when I left the facility was a new woman, a new relationship, and a new cause. I found all three in a dark alley. Saving her life was the best choice I’ve ever made. Now, Vienna is the center of my world. I’ve never met anyone so perfect for me and for whom I am perfect. Where others see flaws, she finds strength. When my demands and needs drove others away, she drew boundaries. In protecting her, I’ve found my purpose in life and I won’t let anything come between us. That goal required me to deal with flirty Fletcher with his irritating concepts and desire to live dangerously. The past he was on the run from could come for him. That would make them her problem. Not acceptable. Yet as long as she wants him with us, then I’ll protect him and protect her from him. Keeping them safe will take everything I know how to do and the thing...

  Forget-Me-Not Bombshell, (Mafia Wars) Caroline Peckham & Susanne Valenti ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon / Goodreads Blurb: A dark Mafia STANDALONE romance from Amazon.com and Wall Street Journal #1 bestselling authors Caroline Peckham & Susanne Valenti I was sold to my enemies. The Butchers of the London mob who run an empire built on sin and greed. The stories I’ve heard about the way they rule their underworld are enough to make my heart race. But those rumours have nothing on the truth. Danny, Church, Frank. The three men who own me now. The head of this so-called kingdom and the two savages who enforce his wrath. They made a peace deal with my family which came at a cost – me. A mafia princess gifted to them as a bride. So here I am in my white dress with a gun to my head and a knife in my garter. I won’t become their plaything. I won’t become their prize. The war between our families might have ended with this union, but I’m starting a battle of my own. And I’ll trade my body ...

  Make Me Beg, (Rich Demons of Darkwood) C.R. Jane & May Dawson ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon / Goodreads Blurb: The monsters almost made me love them. And now I’m paying the price. But so are they. Stellan, Cain, Remington, Paxton and I are locked together in a war that I refuse to lose. They’ve taken my freedom, my money, my reputation…but they can’t take my soul. They keep forgetting I was forged in fire by a demon. Monsters don’t scare me. They think I’m trapped in their mansion with them. They think every time I seek their mouths, their hands, it means something. They think they can break me with their punishments…and their pleasures. But I’m only playing their game to win our war. One by one, I’ll find their secrets, however bloody they are, and make them think I’m saving them…only to use those dark secrets against them. Death. Bloodshed. Betrayal…and now Sex. That’s all my life will ever be. Now it’s time to welcome these men into my nightmares. These monsters think they’re t...

  Wilted Orchid, (Mafia Wars) Loxley Savage ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon / Goodreads Blurb: I was sold to my enemies… The rivalry between the Italians of the Outfit and the Cosa Nostra has been ongoing for decades. So imagine my terror when I find myself, the daughter of the Cosa Nostra's boss, at the bitter end of a raw deal with the heirs of the Outfit. Now I’m a casualty of a so-called ‘peace treaty,’ forced into the calloused, blood-stained hands of the Moretti brothers. Salvatore, Armani, and Fausto. The handsome faces of the Outfit bosses don’t hide the monsters that lurk beneath. They claim I’m theirs, that my life was forfeited to them in a pact sealed with my dead father’s blood. But they’re not the only ones who want to own me. When someone from my past lurks in the dark corners of my new existence, things turn from bad to worse. My cries for help are lost, buried among the chaos of the Moretti's dark world. My life was never mine. And now, if I don’t figure a way out of this,...