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📚 : Ballrooms & Blackmail, the final installment of the Oak Ridge Vineyards series by Elise Faber, is NOW LIVE! https://geni.us/BallroomsBlackmail What's inside: 💎 Billionaire Romance 🤎 He Falls First 👌🏻 Protective Hero 🫶 Found Family 🔥 He Pines for Her 🙃 He Can't Stop Watching Her Blurb This was supposed to be a simple bargain… Falling in love wasn’t part of the plan. I know better than to trust powerful men—especially one whose world is built on secrets and careful control. He wanted a way to get close to me. I only wanted to keep my distance. But someone out there is watching us. Waiting to destroy everything I’ve fought to keep safe. Now the only person standing between me and ruin is one I can’t dare to trust…the man who makes me believe in stolen kisses, whispered promises, and moments that feel too much like forever. Walking away will keep us safe. But some risks are impossible to ignore…even when the cost could be everything. From the ...

Callous Love (New York Underworld #5) by Charmaine Pauls is NOW LIVE! https://bit.ly/4ttNF8M Tropes inside you'll love: ⚡ Enemies to lovers 🖤 Morally gray antihero 👶 Secret baby 👑 Strong heroine ☠️ Touch her and die ⏳ Second chance 🚫 Forbidden love 🐺 Possessive and protective hero 💔 Betrayal 🔥 Revenge ✨ Redemption Blurb He can never know about the life we created in a bed of lies, because the man I called my lover is the monster who killed my parents, and I’m next on the list. I know what it’s like to be used. Dante ruined me for the sake of his revenge. He destroyed me for his selfish gain without thinking twice. What he doesn’t know is that we created something pure and innocent in that bed of lies. We made a new life, one I have to hide from him at all costs, because the man I called my lover is the cold-hearted monster who killed my parents, and I’m next on the list. He left me with no choice but to run. For five long years, I’ve been hiding, bar...

CALLOUS DESIRE is now available in ebook, paperback, and audiobook everywhere you read and listen! 👉 https://charmainepauls.com/books/new-york-underworld/callous-desire-book-4/ Tropes inside: ♡ Dark mafia romance ♡ Heroine on the run ♡ Strong, intelligent FMC ♡ Morally gray antihero ♡ Possessive & protective alpha male ♡ Mine ♡ Secret baby ♡ Second chance ♡ Forbidden love ♡ Forced marriage ♡ Enemies-to-lovers ♡ Touch her and ☠️ ♡ Soulmates ♡ Betrayal, revenge & redemption Blurb My mother raised me on knights in shining armor and happily-ever-afters. She groomed me to be the perfect mafia princess. It was only natural that I’d believe in fairy tales. Only, I didn’t fall for the prince. I fell in love with my father’s enemy. I’ve never deluded myself about the man Dante is. Powerful. Cold. Ruthless. Brutal. Bad doesn’t come close to describing him. But when he held me in his arms in a rented room, he showed me that he could be good. Just for me. He alwa...

Title: Crooked Authors: Vi Keeland & Penelope Ward Genre: Standalone Contemporary Romance Tropes: Bodyguard, Close Proximity Mafia Daughter, Forbidden Release Date: March 29, 2026 BLURB A new, sexy standalone novel from New York Times Bestsellers, Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward… The last thing I needed was a live-in bodyguard. And I definitely didn’t want him. Six foot two, with broad shoulders that were impossible to ignore and a talent for getting in my way, Wes Callahan was a walking bad decision. But when you’re the daughter of a notorious mob boss, apparently your opinions stop mattering the moment your father ignites another war. I’d spent my entire life trying to escape that crooked world—new name, new city, newfound freedom. At least until I was suddenly shacked up with my new bodyguard. Wes knew exactly how to push my buttons. He was also infuriatingly protective. And smart. And funny. And thoughtful when he thought I wasn’t paying attention. Little by lit...

Cruel Throne by Ava Harrison is LIVE! Amazon: https://amzn.to/4aNQXf0 What's inside: 🖤Mafia Romance ✨Second Chance 🖤Forced Proximity ✨Forced Marriage 🖤Boss’s Daughter/Help ✨Rich/Poor 🖤Revenge The first time I met Lorenzo Amante, he walked onto my family estate as the help. He was everything I didn’t know I needed. Sweet. Passionate. And most importantly, mine. But my parents decided he was beneath me and made sure we didn’t survive the summer. The next time I saw him, he wasn’t a boy anymore. He was ruthless. Untouchable. The devil that burned my parents’ empire to the ground. He destroyed everything they built. Everything…except me. Now I’m forced into a marriage with the boy I once loved—and should now hate. Lorenzo Amante is no longer sweet. He is vengeance and death. A man built from betrayal. A monster with one goal… Revenge. MY REVIEW Victoria's life has always been controlled by her Mafia family. Everything was arranged, even her marr...

Law Maker (Aristocrats of London #1) by Susie Tate is NOW LIVE! Amazon: https://mybook.to/u8UG3ip What's inside: ❤️ struggling Cinderella ❤️ misunderstood heroine overcoming trauma ❤️ aristocratic billionaire single dad hero ❤️ age-gap ❤️ nanny / boss ❤️ betrayal / grovel ❤️ grumpy boss ❤️ protective hero Invisibility has been Clara’s go-to survival skill since childhood. So she hides behind her thick glasses and heavy fringe, working as a teaching assistant at the exclusive Molton Prep, happy with her seven-year-old pupils and avoiding their posh parents. Her one secret indulgence? Watching the gorgeous but wildly intimidating Lord Rafe Sterling sweep into school to collect his son. Her crush on him is ridiculous. Lord Sterling is way older than her, aristocratic, terrifying, and tipped to be one of the UK’s youngest judges. Even if she did stand a chance, a girl with a background like hers should avoid him at all costs. Rafe can’t believe the school has the ball...

Title: Crooked Authors: Vi Keeland & Penelope Ward Genre: Standalone Contemporary Romance Cover Design: Sommer Stein, Perfect Pear Creative Photographer: Michelle Lancaster, @lanefotograf Model: Andrew Murray Release Date: March 29, 2026 BLURB A new, sexy standalone novel from New York Times Bestsellers, Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward… The last thing I needed was a live-in bodyguard. And I definitely didn’t want him. Six foot two, with broad shoulders that were impossible to ignore and a talent for getting in my way, Wes Callahan was a walking bad decision. But when you’re the daughter of a notorious mob boss, apparently your opinions stop mattering the moment your father ignites another war. I’d spent my entire life trying to escape that crooked world—new name, new city, newfound freedom. At least until I was suddenly shacked up with my new bodyguard. Wes knew exactly how to push my buttons. He was also infuriatingly protective. And smart. And funny. And thoughtfu...

Pretty Prey (Empire of Kings #2) by A. Zavarelli is NOW LIVE! Amazon: https://geni.us/PrettyPrey 𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐒: Stalker Masks Obsessive/Possessive Book Boyfriend Touch Her and 💀 Mafia/Secret Society Protective Hero Neurodivergent FMC Storm X Sunshine Tortured Artsy Hero Friends to Enemies to Lovers Second Chance It started with a message from a stranger. Or so I thought. Beneath a veil of anonymity, he lured out my secrets, fears, and desires. Behind the mask, he could be anyone. And somehow, it felt safer not knowing. He comes to me under the cover of darkness, pulling me deeper into this forbidden game. I give myself to him, knowing the consequences could destroy my life. I just didn’t expect him to be the one to ruin me. When the mask comes off, the truth cuts deep. He isn’t just a man obsessed. He’s the same man who’s hated me for the last nine years. In the Cosa Nostra, they call him Il Lupo. The wolf. And all this time… I’ve been his prey. MY R...