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When marrying your enemy is only the beginning....Once upon a time, there lived a princess so cruel that even her husband tried to destroy her. The results left her without a father, her husband without a memory, and herself as queen to a kingdom on the cusp of war.Even so, after learning of her treasonous husband's upcoming nuptials, she set out to find him and locked him in her dungeon. There, and only there, would she unveil a time when she once allowed herself to be vulnerable. A past detailing how her heart was coaxed to beat outside her chest, only to have it crushed by the cold hands of betrayal. But true vengeance will need to wait. War is coming, and with it, decisions and danger masked in treacherous beauty. All too soon, the young queen will learn that time could be the most dangerous foe of all. For it is time that would reveal all the ways a dead heart can beat anew.Contains dark themes and a HEA. Recommended for 18+
Jackson Thorn was my best friend and worst enemy, but that didn't stop me from wanting him.From first words to high school halls, our childhood years braided a bond that wove in a direction neither of us could predict or outgrow. Forbidden became a word we ignored. It wasn't that we didn't care. It was that we cared too much.We had it all planned out. We thought we could make it. We thought we'd been careful.But all we managed to do was prolong the inevitable. Our destruction.
Treacherous, sexy, and highly addictive. USA Today bestselling author Ella Fields delivers the conclusion to Audra's story in this fast-paced fantasy romance.I have your queen. If you wish to see her again, you know what you need to do...After months of burgeoning peace, Queen Audra is doing her utmost to help Rosinthe further cleanse itself of the stains her father left in his wake.With the steadfast lord of the east at her side, and her estranged husband returning to his duties in the Sun Kingdom, it would appear that order has finally been restored.But nothing is ever as it seems.A mystical land has awakened, and after being locked unto itself for many years, its king wants more than answers.He and his realm are in need of something else, and he'll stop at nothing to retrieve it.Hearts will break. Blood will spill. Desire will destroy. When two worlds collide, can love endure when vengeance must reign?Recommended for 18+ and that book one, A King So Cold, be read first.
There was a time Jude Delouxe didn't hate me, and I'm fairly certain it was when he didn't know I existed.Senior year, I finally caught his eye long enough to throw word vomit at him like the obsessed teenage girl I was.That was then.You see, the most wanted guy in school blamed me for losing his second chance with his girlfriend. Ex-girlfriend? Whatever. Point is, the Adonis loved to hate me.It wasn't my fault he'd followed me. It wasn't my fault he'd stared too long and stood a little too close, just daring me to accomplish my wildest dreams.And it most certainly wasn't my fault his ex-girlfriend arrived when he'd decided to kiss me back.Then the cruelty began.I'd thought I could handle it...
Fresh out of college and headed straight for my dream job, I didn't think things could get any better.Then I met my dream man. In an instant, my happy ever after had begun.The life I'd stumbled into was beautiful, and the man I loved was perfect. But perfection comes at a cost, and I'd slumbered through all the alarms. Then I met my nightmare. The man whose bright eyes held untamed darkness. The man who disarmed me with his peculiar behavior. The man whose cold, merciless hands shook me awake. In an instant, questions started to dismantle my happy ever after.But whoever said the truth would set you free was wrong.It wasn't going to repair the cracks in my naive heart. It wasn't going to caress my face with comforting hands and reassure me it was all just a dream.No, the truth shoved me down a rabbit hole, and I landed in the lair of a real-life monster.
Our marriage wasn't just in trouble-mere threads were all that held it together.What was once my perfect happily ever after had dissolved right before my eyes.I can tell you when it started to happen.What I can't tell you is why. And after seven months of watching my husband turn into someone I didn't recognize, I'd given up hope in finding answers. So I decided to break his heart... and he did nothing to stop me.
Heartless. Conceited. Shallow.Three simple words to describe me. I had everything a girl could ask for, yet nothing I truly needed.I'd made peace with who I was and the expectations set upon me long ago.Only to have that peace shattered when a nameless hero rode into my world. I wasn't allowed to have him.Too bad I never cared much for the word no.Because I'd soon learn the hard way that too much self-indulgence could result in incurable consequences.
Lars Bradby was supposed to be my forever.That was before we found out he would become a father at the tender age of eighteen. For years, he'd watched me.For months, he'd wanted me.For weeks, he'd chased me. Relentless and infuriating, he turned my stubborn heart into something pliable and weak. Sly and honest, he worked his way into my life as though he'd always planned to be the focal point of it.In love and naive, even when our future seemed bleak, I believed in us. Heartbroken and desperate, I tore my bleeding heart from my chest, wanting only the best for him. In doing so, our forever wasn't just interrupted. It was chased away with one irreversible decision after another. And now, we could no longer see it beneath the heaping piles of debris we'd left in our wake.
I thought he'd always be mine, even when I was forced to say goodbye. We were never meant to let go, but it happened anyway. Too bad I didn't know someone was waiting to take my place, or I would've held on a lot tighter. Two years later, we were exactly where we'd always planned to be. I'd kept my promise. He'd forgotten all about his. Not only had he moved on, but the person he'd moved on with was my best friend, leaving me to begin college with a broken heart. I guess this is the part where I'm supposed to tell you some other guy stepped in, repaired my shattered pieces, and made me smile again. This isn't that kind of story. My heart might have been broken, but it refused to fall out of love.
Callum Welsh perfected the art of hating me when we were two kids who believed we'd be forced into marriage. He thought I wanted it, but my only wish had been for him to leave me alone. Then one afternoon, he stole my first kiss. Despite all he'd done, everything changed after that. As the years passed, our hearts thawed, and he no longer hated me. In fact, he loved me enough to make me his wife. Until I ruined everything with one stupid mistake. That hatred returned in the form of cruel words and even crueler deeds. But we weren't kids anymore. I could handle his brand of venom. He would be mine again, even if it cost me the remains of my heart. Warning: contains cheating and an anti-hero who might make you throw your kindle.