Declan + Coraline (part 0.5) takes place 2 years prior to Ruthless People and opens up to when Declan A. Callahan, Liam’s cousin and key member of the Callahan clan first meets heiress, banker and recent college graduate Coraline E. Wilson, Cora.
We get to follow Declan and Cora through ups and downs as they get to know each other and learn about family secrets and painful pasts. Though worlds apart these two souls have more in common than you might think. We also get to meet the rest of the Callahan clan, including a very single and cocky Liam Callahan and even have a cameo by The Boss herself…
Nine words to describe Coraline E. Wilson, Cora: Smart, lonely, meek, naïve, loyal, trusting, dependable and easy-going .
For me, having read book 1-3 first and already being familiar with Declan and Coraline, this novella was icing on the cake, and therefore a 5-star.
Brilliant story-telling! Excellent character development! Scorching sex scenes by a very commanding, assertive and dirty-talking Declan! It’s the final piece in the puzzle of what‘s been an epic 6-star family saga.Kudos JJ!
Declan + Coraline (part 0.5) takes place 2 years prior to Ruthless People and opens up to when Declan A. Callahan, Liam’s cousin and key member of the Callahan clan first meets heiress, banker and recent college graduate Coraline E. Wilson, Cora.
We get to follow Declan and Cora through ups and downs as they get to know each other and learn about family secrets and painful pasts. Though worlds apart these two souls have more in common than you might think. We also get to meet the rest of the Callahan clan, including a very single and cocky Liam Callahan and even have a cameo by The Boss herself…
Nine words to describe Coraline E. Wilson, Cora: Smart, lonely, meek, naïve, loyal, trusting, dependable and easy-going .
For me, having read book 1-3 first and already being familiar with Declan and Coraline, this novella was icing on the cake, and therefore a 5-star.
Brilliant story-telling! Excellent character development! Scorching sex scenes by a very commanding, assertive and dirty-talking Declan! It’s the final piece in the puzzle of what‘s been an epic 6-star family saga.Kudos JJ!
This Duet is a spinoff of the Rook and Ronin trilogy. Ford Aston first appeared in trilogy, but you don’t have to read in order to enjoy his story. Here is reading order: Prequel: Slack Book 1: Taut
Rutherford Aston, Ford is the anti-social guy in the threesome of Ronin (trilogy), Spencer (spin-off) and Ford. Diagnosed with Asperger syndrome (AD) as a child he grew up privileged and very much loved and nurtured by his parents, but a bit of the social outcast amongst his peers.
As documented in trilogy this threesome is wild with them dabbling in all kinds of businesses while making a fortune. This has afforded them a comfortable lifestyle.
Partly due to his Asperger and his anti-social personality he has accepted and settled into the lifestyle of a Dom with his assistant sending subs aka “pets” to his home to play with.
But Ford isn’t happy. He is frustrated because he’s in love with his best friend Ronin’s girl, Rook and nothing seems to be able to soothe his love and desire; Not sex, not excitement, not danger and most of all not the friendship he has with Ronin and Rook.
In Slack (Prequel to Taut) we follow him on Christmas Day as he enjoys his “pet”, catches up with friends and family, goes on a bit of excursion. But most importantly while reflecting on his miserable situation! Something has got to change!
Rutherford Aston, Ford is a compelling hero. Even if you haven’t met him in Ronin & Rook I predict he’ll wrap himself around your heart quickly in spite of or maybe because of his anti-social ways, which of course are attributed to his Asperger.
Eight words to describe Ford: Vulnerable, reflective, blunt, introvert, private, commanding, perceptive and extremely smart..
Slack ends with a huge cliff-hanger leading us right to Ford’s story in book 1: Taut where he will hopefully meet a heroine ready and able to take him on!
Compelling hero! Hawt sex scenes! Great opening for Taut!
This Duet is a spinoff of the Rook and Ronin trilogy. Ford Aston first appeared in trilogy, but you don’t have to read in order to enjoy his story. Here is reading order: Prequel: Slack Book 1: Taut
Rutherford Aston, Ford is the anti-social guy in the threesome of Ronin (trilogy), Spencer (spin-off) and Ford. Diagnosed with Asperger syndrome (AD) as a child he grew up privileged and very much loved and nurtured by his parents, but a bit of the social outcast amongst his peers.
As documented in trilogy this threesome is wild with them dabbling in all kinds of businesses while making a fortune. This has afforded them a comfortable lifestyle.
Partly due to his Asperger and his anti-social personality he has accepted and settled into the lifestyle of a Dom with his assistant sending subs aka “pets” to his home to play with.
But Ford isn’t happy. He is frustrated because he’s in love with his best friend Ronin’s girl, Rook and nothing seems to be able to soothe his love and desire; Not sex, not excitement, not danger and most of all not the friendship he has with Ronin and Rook.
In Slack (Prequel to Taut) we follow him on Christmas Day as he enjoys his “pet”, catches up with friends and family, goes on a bit of excursion. But most importantly while reflecting on his miserable situation! Something has got to change!
Rutherford Aston, Ford is a compelling hero. Even if you haven’t met him in Ronin & Rook I predict he’ll wrap himself around your heart quickly in spite of or maybe because of his anti-social ways, which of course are attributed to his Asperger.
Eight words to describe Ford: Vulnerable, reflective, blunt, introvert, private, commanding, perceptive and extremely smart..
Slack ends with a huge cliff-hanger leading us right to Ford’s story in book 1: Taut where he will hopefully meet a heroine ready and able to take him on!
Compelling hero! Hawt sex scenes! Great opening for Taut!
Hands down one of the best series I have ever read. An against-all-odds forbidden love saga gets its extended epilogue in four parts.
❤️ I can never seem to get enough of Alexander Van Dieren. The self-assured, enigmatic, calculated, worldly, ruthless, untouchable larger-than-life man brought to his knees by Petra Van Gatt. ...more
Worship (stand-alone) is the forbidden impossible love between business man and mobster Luca King and marketing professional Gretchen Andrews. He is married with a kid and she is focused on her career. Yet they cannot seem to stay away from each other.
They soon learn their romance has much more the infidelity to overcome when secrets, lies, blackmail and danger threatens everything and the truth only thickens the plot. Get swept off your feet by a dirty-talking, bossy and mature alpha who knows how to worship a woman.
[image] [image] [image] [image] [image] ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️! Boys of Brayshaw (book 1 of 3). Raven defies the town’s ruling boys club & is pulled into a game of sec[image] [image] [image] [image] [image] ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️! Boys of Brayshaw (book 1 of 3). Raven defies the town’s ruling boys club & is pulled into a game of secrets, lies & seduction
Boys of Brayshaw is the edgy first installment opening up to 17-year old Raven Carver aka RaeRae being removed from her mother’s care and taken to a home for troubled kids. She has arrived in a town of many secrets; a decade-old feud and a quest for power and revenge.
Raven quickly catches the attention of the untouchable trio that controls her school lead by student, heir and resident bad boy Maddoc Brayshaw aka Big Man, the town’s most promising basketball star, and his brothers-in-arms Royce and Captain aka Cap.
Told from dual POVs it’s a high school drama with an unfolding mystery. But don’t let the YA setting fool you. It’s a seductive, provocative and dark whirlwind tale featuring a brooding larger-than-life alpha BOY hero and one the (un)lucky girl caught in his web.
Story ends with a shocker leading right to book 2, Trouble at Brayshaw for the continuation of their story promising more lies, secrets, blackmail, jealousy and deception.
[image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️! The Kiss Thief (stand-alone). Senator Wolfe Keaton stole a kiss, he stole her everything,[image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️! The Kiss Thief (stand-alone). Senator Wolfe Keaton stole a kiss, he stole her everything, or did he?!
The Kiss Thief (stand-alone) opens up to the mapped-out-life of nineteen-year-old mob princess Francesca Rossi aka Nemesis. While attending a dinner she is mocked by senator and heir Wolfe Keaton aka Villain. A stolen kiss later and she finds herself engaged to the infuriating senator and thrown into a game of power and a quest for revenge.
Told from dual POVs it’s an enemies-to-lovers, May-December romance set in the mob world. Though it may come across as a triangle, to me there was never any doubt that Wolfe could be the only hero. He’s ruthless, cunning, aloof, mysterious, blunt yet possessive. He manipulated every situation while the truth behind his contempt for the young heiress is slowly revealed.
Spectacular! Seductive! Sex-on-a-stick hero! A glued-to-your-kindle read!
Purchase: | MOBI | EPUB | [image] ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️! Twist, book 4 of 5. The reckless, secret & ultra-forbidden affair between 17-year old gymnast & as hotter-Purchase: | MOBI | EPUB | [image] ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️! Twist, book 4 of 5. The reckless, secret & ultra-forbidden affair between 17-year old gymnast & as hotter-than-sin Russian coach!
Twist, told from Adrianna’s POV, is an ultra-forbidden secret affair that skates and crosses the line of what’s appropriate, even lawful. A glued-to-your-Kindle, butterflies-in-your belly addictive affair driven by the anti-hero of all anti-heroes, the reckless, mercurial, conflicted yet ruthless Kova.
Taboo! Risky! Suspenseful! Scandalous! Controversial! *** Hero: ★★★★★ Heroine: ★★★★★ Plot: ★★★★★ Storytelling: ★★★★★ Sexual tension: ★★★★★ Sex scenes: ★★★★★ Story ending: ★★★★★ ****************************************** OVERALL RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Angst: | HIGH FOCUS | Darkness: | LOW FOCUS | Humor: | LOW FOCUS | Kink: | HIGH FOCUS | Romance: | HIGH FOCUS | Sex frequency: | HIGH FOCUS | Suspense: | HIGH FOCUS |
[image] [image] [image] [image] [image] ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️! Mercenary Princess (stand-alone). Princess on secret mission is swept off her feet by off-limits Russion [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️! Mercenary Princess (stand-alone). Princess on secret mission is swept off her feet by off-limits Russion playboy!
Mercenary Princess (stand-alone) appears, at first glance, to be the collision of two worlds. We have the prim and proper, good-girl, real-life princess Crown Princess Sophia Helena Loredan. Her life has been mapped out for her and it does not include a notorious playboy.
Russian investor, with a secretive past, Viktor Petrovich Popov has not given much thought to the much younger royal, but upon discovering she may be living a double-life he is intrigued, determined to learn the truth and quite turned on.
The story goes on to follow as Victor tries to unravel all Sophia’s secrets while she has a mission to complete. It’s a whirlwind race, in and out of the bedroom, with seduction, secrets, scandal, betrayal, blackmail, conspiracy and more…
Told from dual POVs, it’s a steamy opposite attracts, forbidden and impossible romantic suspense featuring a hotter-than-sin Russian billionaire who will stop and nothing to get what he wants and a mercenary princess hell-bent on righting a wrong.
*** Hero: ★★★★★ Heroine: ★★★1/2 Plot: ★★★1/2 Storytelling: ★★★★★ Sexual tension: ★★★★★ Sex scenes: ★★★★1/2 Story ending: ★★★★1/2 ****************************************** OVERALL RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Angst: | LOW FOCUS | Darkness: | LOW FOCUS | Humor: | LOW FOCUS | Kink: | MEDIUM FOCUS | Romance: | HIGH FOCUS | Sex frequency: | MEDIUM FOCUS | Suspense: | HIGH FOCUS |
Thank you Liz for our ARC(F)BR. Sorry it took me so long to post my review…
ARC provided to me by author Setta Jay in exchange for an honest review....more
[image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2! Pretty Reckless (stand-alone). Spoiled heiress & her love-hate with the bad boy her fami[image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2! Pretty Reckless (stand-alone). Spoiled heiress & her love-hate with the bad boy her family has taken in!
Books in All Saints High series are stand-alones: Book 1: Pretty Reckless - Daria’s story Book 2: Broken Knight - Knight’s story Book 3: Angry God - Vaughn’s story
Pretty Reckless (stand-alone) follows the unpredictable, volatile and doomed secret romance between high school student Daria Fallowhill and the boy from the wrong side of the tracks, student and football player Penn Scully.
It’s not so much that her parents are unaware of the sexual tension brewing in the house after Penn comes to live with them. It’s more about Penn and Daria’s inability to recognize it and the journey they must both take to fully embrace it.
Told from dual POV it details their adolescent years from first kiss to high school and beyond and give glimpses of the cast of Sinners of Saint and their kids. Love, hate, lust, secrets, insecurities, rivalry, lies and ultimately self-reflection and truth signify their road to adulthood and surrender to love.
*** Hero: ★★★★ Heroine: ★★★★ Plot: ★★★★ Storytelling: ★★★★★ Sexual tension: ★★★★★ Sex scenes: ★★★★1/2 Story ending: ★★★★ ****************************************** OVERALL RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2 Angst: | MEDIUM FOCUS | Darkness: | MEDIUM FOCUS | Humor: | MEDIUM FOCUS | Kink: | LOW FOCUS | Romance: | HIGH FOCUS | Sex frequency: | MEDIUM FOCUS | Suspense: | MEDIUM FOCUS | ...more
[image] [image] [image] ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️! Facing the music, book 4.1 of 4.1. Novella following Dante recording a music video!
The Broken Lives series it’s an ultr[image] [image] [image] ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️! Facing the music, book 4.1 of 4.1. Novella following Dante recording a music video!
The Broken Lives series it’s an ultra-forbidden romance following student, drug dealer and poet, Dante Ivan Rata from the age of fifteen into adulthood as he copes with family, life, school, drugs, women, sex and more sex. Born and raised into violence, drugs, gangs and crime, but underneath the rough exterior is a complex and reflective young man marred by the devastation of murder, helplessness of drug addiction and unspeakable secrets.
[image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️! I Dare You (stand-alone). Dark erotic suspense centered around a group of high school seniors, s[image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️! I Dare You (stand-alone). Dark erotic suspense centered around a group of high school seniors, sinister dares, seduction & deadly secrets!
I Dare You (stand-alone) opens up to 17-year old student Austin Anne Lowes moving in with her wealthy father in a new town. After witnessing a crime she is becomes the target of pursuit and seduction by 17-year old heir, high school senior and swimmer Cole Ethan Reynolds.
At first Cole just wants to toy with Austin, but his plan is quickly derailed by mind-blowing sex and possessiveness. Follow them in wicked and dangerous games of I dare you hiding dangerous truths, sinister revenge, decade-old cover-ups, envy, jealousy, love, hate and murder….
Told from dual POV, it’s a is a dark erotic suspense thick on plot and mystery. Don’t be fooled by their age, these teenagers get it on; no expense spared, nothing off-limits. Set against the backdrop of the games they play it’s a race against time with shocking pasts, buried secrets and sinister forces out to hurt them.
[image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2! Even Money, book 1 of 2. Dario Capece’s relentless pursuit stalking of Bell & their dang[image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2! Even Money, book 1 of 2. Dario Capece’s relentless pursuit stalking of Bell & their dangerous affair!
Books in All IN duet should be read in order: Book 1: Even Money Book 2: Double Down
Even Money (book 1) is the whirlwind romance between cocktail waitress and college student Bell Hartley and Vegas’ most powerful man, hotelier and businessman Dario Capece.
Their eyes met and held.
Bell knew he was off-limits and Dario should have known better when, for the first time in his life, a woman made him possessive and reckless. Instead they both fall fast and hard.
Neither can walk away.
While they try to keep their hands off each other, all of Vegas is watching. And while they fall into an affair, many are unhappy to see them together. Some will go as far as murder…
A love worth fighting for.
Story is effortlessly told in Alessandra’s signature style mostly from Bell’s POV, but sprinkled in with Dario’s POV in third person. The perfect blend of suspense, intrigue, danger, conspiracy, deception and romance with a to-die-for hero and a heroine who can hold her own. Though their feelings were insta- they took their time seducing each other. The ending was brilliant leading right to book 2, Double Down for the conclusion of their story.
[image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2! Dark Side (stand-alone). Forbidden May-December: Destined to cross paths, cursed to never forge[image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2! Dark Side (stand-alone). Forbidden May-December: Destined to cross paths, cursed to never forget!
Welcome to the Dark Side (stand-alone) Yeah welcome! You have entered into forbidden territory!
He is 19 years her senior, a divorced father and the leader of an illegal motorcycle empire. She has gone to school with his kids, is the daughter of the mayor and the granddaughter of a preacher. They have nothing in common…
Except for a bullet that pierced their hearts in a church parking lot, on a sunny day long ago.
Their road ahead is long and traitorous. She is fighting an illness that has come to take her life. His life is on the other side of the law and he is in the midst of two battles for dominion. She is a virgin, he’s a manwhore. They should never cross paths…
But this is not a lovey-dovey story, this is a forbidden love that has crossed over on the dark side.
Nine words to describe Zeus Garro, Z, Guardian Monster: Focused, loyal, reckless, trusting, observant, forward-thinking, possessive, manwhore and ruthless.
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Eight words to describe Louise Margaret Lafayette, Little Lou, Loulou aka Little warrior, Foxy: Brave, strong, feisty, stubborn, pliant, smart, secretive and determined.
Welcome to the Dark Side, told from dual POVs, is an ultra forbidden May-December in the violent world of bikers, traitors, greed, drugs, crime, power, lust, sex and betrayal. A love doomed before it begun yet destined to conquer against-all-odds!
[image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2! Viole[n]t Obscurity, book 1 of 2. Dr. Violet is swept into a seductive, sinister [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2! Viole[n]t Obscurity, book 1 of 2. Dr. Violet is swept into a seductive, sinister game by her hot-cold patient!
Viole[n]t Obscurity (book 1) is a dark and twisted tale that takes place at Silent River Psychiatric Hospital. Psychiatrist Dr. Adeline Violet, Adie aka “Violet, one letter away” has been promoted and is starting her new position in the isolated Ward Z. Nothing, I repeat nothing, could have prepared her for patient, inmate and leader of Purgatory Brotherhood Aaron Whitman.
M.I.N.D.F.U.C.K.!
The mercurial, sinister, mysterious and seductive Aaron plays Adeline like a violin while they are both swept into a web of secrets, lies, obsession, conspiracy and danger. Told from Adeline’s POV, with flashbacks into both of their lives, it’s a roller-coaster ride of waiting for the other shoe to drop. I cannot wait for book 2, Viole[n]t Oblivion for the conclusion of their story.
Release, told from Adrianna’s POV, is an ultra-forbidden affair that pushes the envelope of right and wrong, skates and crosses the line of what’s appropriate even lawful. A glued-to-your-Kindle, butterflies-in-your belly roller-coaster addictive affair driven by the anti-hero of all anti-heroes, the reckless, mercurial, conflicted and ruthless Kova.
[image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️! Midnight Blue (stand-alone). British bad boy rocker must be on his best behavior with innocent g[image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️! Midnight Blue (stand-alone). British bad boy rocker must be on his best behavior with innocent girl hired to baby-sit him while on tour!
Midnight Blue (stand-alone) takes us on a world-wide tour with British bad boy rock Alex Winslow aka The Little Prince and his new “baby-sitter” aka assistant Indigo Bellamy, Indie aka Stardust aka New Girl.
Indie is to help keep the fresh-out-of-rehab Alex out of trouble and work closely with his management team. But first she must pass a-hole Alex bully-test. Alex goes easy on her and off on tour they go. Along the way a friendship is forged when Indie becomes Alex’s muse.
A journey of coping with addiction and painful pasts complicated by vindictive exes, traitors, lies, betrayal, shockers, surprises and jealousy. Indie is in over had head and Alex’s he’s in no shape to handle her fragile heart. A love doomed...
Eleven words to describe Alex Winslow aka The Little Prince: A-hole, brooding, mercurial, complex, broken, flawed, aloof, unpredictable, selfish, reflective and unforgettable.
Midnight Blue, told from dual POVs, is an opposite attracts against-all-odds-love. Apart they are two lost souls with demons, together they are dynamite; combustible, powerful and devastating. The story-telling is effortless with poetry from Alex’s song-writing during their travels. The sexual tension is palpable. Their love inevitable. Their destiny inescapable. Spectacular!