Legions worship at my feet, but I only bow to her.


THE SPIDER
I move through Layla’s world in silence, always watching.
It’s incredible where you can hide a camera these days.
She’s the daughter of my enemy, a threat to my flock, and I had a solidplan for her.
The weight of her father’s sin was meant to fall on her shoulders.
Only, the second my world bled into hers, that plan derailed.
I’m hooked on her—this walking enigma with a sharp tongue, a dark sense of humor, and eyes that haunt my dreams.
I’ve accepted that Layla’s awakened something in me.
A hunger that can only be sated by what it craves.
Her.

THE SACRIFICE
I’ve spent my whole life outrunning the darkness woven into my DNA.
But the darkness is his first love.
I’ve been assigned to photograph the trail of bodies he’s left across our city.
With each lifeless victim staring back through my lens, I learn more about the man they call “The Widowmaker”.
He’s cold, he’s calculated, and somehow… he knows me.
Like, really knows me. My secrets. My true self.
Monsters are meant to be slain. Banished to dark, forbidden places.
But the one under my bed won’t go quietly.
He agrees to retreat into the shadows, but there’s one condition…
If he goes, he gets to take me with him.

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Trope List for DEVOTION
Stalker Romance
Dark Romance
Villian gets the girl / Villian Romance
Hero is a: Serial Killer / Cult Leader / Anti-Hero / Walking Red Flag
Obsessed Hero
Jealous Possessive Hero
He falls first
Touch her and die
Dark Nursery Rhyme Reimagining
A note from the author: This is book one in a duet, which means it ends on a cliff. Full list of TWs available on the author’s website.

Lies. Betrayal. Loss. 

They're all I know, see, and feel.
I don't know what is true, or a lie. I don't know who to believe or who what is real.
Broken and grieving I find refuge in an unlikely foe.
A man who claims to be my brother, who vows to protect me, and destroy those that hurt me.
But not even he can't protect me from the nightmare that is Drew Marshall.
Deranged. Psychotic. Immoral.
He broke my heart, and publicly humiliated me. Leaving me shattered and broken when I needed him most.
I should hate him, and I do, but a sick twisted part of me craves him as well.
The harder I fight to escape him, the deeper he digs his claws into me.
They say the truth will set you free, but ours didn't do that.
It locked us inside the cage, and tossed away the key.

When grumpy, muscled-up artist Bennett Bishop bothers to speak, it’s usually to say something you’re not ready to hear.

When he first speaks to Norah Ellis, a rambling runaway bride who hitchhikes a ride from him, it’s to tell her to get out of his truck and walk because she’s a pain in the a-s-s.

By appearance, Norah Ellis is a fancy fashionista who’s spent the last several years living the good life in the city—expensive apartments, highbrow events, and a fiancé with wealth and good looks. The only problem is that she didn’t choose any of it for herself.

On the day of her July wedding, thanks to a letter from a stranger, Norah’s world turns upside down. She runs for the hills of Vermont to start a new life, but what’s waiting for her, between her estranged sister, the townspeople, and bad-boy Bennett Bishop himself, is way more than she bargained for.

Enemies turn to lovers, strangers become friends, dark secrets bust open like cans of worms, and most of all…Summer will never be the same.

Can you whisper?
Something I never thought I’d ask the guy who is exactly my type
but completely wrong for me.
Someone I sneak secret glances at from a distance while vowing to never get too close.
And then I get tossed in jail. With him.
Know how forced proximity and extreme panic go together?
They don’t. And the walls I spent a lifetime erecting around me crack,
giving him an intimate view of all the secrets I work so hard to protect.
Color me surprised when the pierced, tattooed DJ doesn’t recoil or call me a freak.
Arsen gets me through the night, his attention like a match to my insides,
lighting me on fire and making me burn.
Keeping my distance is impossible.
My body begs to be near him, but we just don’t mix.
He’s fire. I’m water.
Sound is his superpower but my kryptonite.
For once in my life, my heart is louder than my head, and I can’t stay away.
But it seems following my heart leads me straight into trouble.
Turns out I’m not the only one who thinks maybe Arsen and I don’t belong together,
and the people who agree will go to extremes to make sure we stay apart.
 
Whisper is a Westbrook Elite standalone novel, a college sports romance featuring:
Opposites attract
A single jail cot
Star-crossed lovers
Auditory disability rep (misophonia & tinnitus)
Hurt/Comfort
Bromance/Found family
OTT possessive MC

Into the Darkness I'll go.

Ember Solis is a sweet girl from a not-so-innocent world.When it comes time for her to venture out to the real world -- to the college of her dreams -- Ember is released from the shelter of her home, straight into bad boy and sworn enemy, Ash Ortiz’s addictive spell.Ash teaches Ember everything he knows but soon, the student becomes the master.Ember emerges from the depths of her inexperience to discover she is stronger than she seems.But there is a bigger price to pay for loving Ash, and the way that Ember views her past, her present and her future will never be the same.She realizes the entire world she once called home is there to drive her and Ash farther apart.What was once shrouded in light is now rooted in the dark.Confronted with the most critical decision of her life, Ember must choose between her family and Ash.But what price will their lives bear as a consequence of her choice?

Into the Darkness is College Romance-Romeo & Juliet Inspired-Forbidden Love-Dueling Families-Mafia/Cartel-Hispanic MMC Rep-Plus Size FMC Rep-Initiation Scene

Jimmy

Another headline. What else was new?

You’d think reporters could focus on the important things in the world. But they loved to write about me, Jimmy Hall, the best pitcher in the league . . . especially when I got caught screwing up.

Thanks to the incriminating pictures from my last trip to Vegas, the team’s general manager assigned me a branding expert. I was ready to tell him I was fine on my own, but then my expert walked in, and I practically forgot my own name.

Sommer Bennett had curves in all the right places and lips that could make a man stupid. Too bad she couldn’t stand me. Even worse, she was the owner’s granddaughter, making her off-limits.
Or was she?

Sommer

When Granddad said he had a job for me, I couldn’t have been more excited. I pictured myself as the vice president of player relations or next in line to take over the Hawks. Instead, he wanted me to babysit the most arrogant player on the team: Jimmy Hall.
It didn’t matter that the man was drop-dead gorgeous or had the most strikeouts in the league. He was a PR nightmare—and now my nightmare. I’d graduated top of my class and have a master’s in business, yet I still needed to prove myself. Jimmy Hall would not be the reason I didn’t get the title I deserved. I just couldn’t fall for his charm.

Some things are easier said than done.

A brooding billionaire. A beautiful young nurse. Obsessive love. I’m spending the summer working as a private nurse for a wealthy patient. Until a chance encounter with wealthy Lucien Winter changes everything.

He’s an experienced man who uses women as his playthings.

I know better than to trust him.

Except he keeps showing up. On the plane…on the cruise…in my thoughts.

Our chemistry burns hot and fierce, but I have to resist him.

A man like that belongs to a world of opulence and indulgence. A man who has a past that’s haunting him. No matter how hard I fall for him.

FILTHY RICH is a billionaire, age-gap romance with a possessive hero and a strong young heroine. It’s book one in the brand-new Winter Trilogy. For fans of REBECCA.

Help Wanted: Grumpy Mountain Man seeks baby momma. Job is an incubator position only. Surrogate must be impervious to grunting in the form of communication and nosey brotherly neighbors. Rustic mountain range housing available upon request.

I wanted to pummel my irritating brothers when they posted their own version of a wanted ad to help me with my life.

But I can’t fault the results once the right woman lands on my lap.

Becoming a single father is not a decision I made lightly. In fact, it’s the biggest decision of my entire life.

Which is why when I interview Trista, I know she’s perfect.

She’s wild, she’s opinionated, she wears cowboy boots. Even my pet goat loves her…

She’s the exact type of person I was holding out for.

And to my great horror, I realize on our first night of attempting this baby making dance…when the lights are low, the cheap wine is flowing, and the home insemination supplies are laid out on the kitchen counter…

I want to do a lot more than just make her my surrogate.

I want to make her mine.

Gideon:

For the past five years, all I’ve thought about is revenge.

Shot and left for dead by the people I trusted, only to be saved and taken to an even worse hell, I vowed to make them pay. To make them suffer as I once did. To listen to their pleas for mercy as they draw their final breath.

But to do that, I need her.

Which comes with its own risks.

I may be able to make everyone else believe my lies, but Imogene’s not like everyone else.

And if anyone might recognize me beneath my carefully planned disguise, it’s the woman I once planned to marry.

Imogene:
 
I moved to California for a fresh start. After the past five years, I was desperate to finally leave the past behind me. What better place to do that than Southern California?

Until I’m attacked and nearly killed in a dark alley.

I would have been if he hadn’t intervened.

Gideon Saint. Mysterious. Dangerous. Lethal.

And possessing eyes that look far too much like the man I lost all those years ago.

But that’s impossible. Samuel Tate is dead. Apart from those haunting blue eyes, he bears little resemblance to the man I once gave my heart.

At least that’s what I try to tell myself. Because if he is Samuel, where has he been the past five years?

And why did he make the world believe he was dead?

LUCA
 
Created from darkness and light, I face each day determined not to repeat history.
My DNA is equal parts Satan and Saint.
I will not allow another woman to suffer at the hands of my family.
 
So why am I irrevocably drawn to her?
 
This strong, determined angel deserves so much more than she’s been given. The very last person she should open her heart to…
 
Is me.
 
But I can’t fight the feeling,
that no matter how risky this is,
she’s mine.
 
JILLIAN
 
My life is a fusion of sun and storm.
But I’ve learned you have to take the good with the bad.
 
But that doesn’t mean I have to keep inviting it in.
We’ve been through enough. The very last person I need in my life…
 
Is him.
 
But despite the secrets, the heart wants what it wants.
 
And it wants Luca.