The Control (The 4Horsemen, #4) by Elena Monroe

Title: The Control
Series: The 4Horsemen #4
Author: Elena Monroe
Genre: Dark Forbidden Love Romance

Release Date: May 4, 2021

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My demons will ruin whatever is left of her halo.

BOWEN

I was living on borrowed everything: time, feelings, motives, even these stale breaths.

I was expired in every way.

No saving me.

He should have lived instead.

He deserved to squeeze every drop out of life and rub it in my face the way he always did.

I was stuck here as half of a person and Eve expected me to be whole enough to fix her.

We were too shattered to ever be put back together again.

I was her demon.

EVE

I was wasting every second of every day trying to make time move faster.

I was ready to throw away this life as the Princess of Denmark and go back home where Bowen would be waiting for me. There was no stopping me.

I had been promised to Bowen since our births.

I was determined to save myself for him and only him - my life line.

I may be bruised and broken but that only dirtied up my angel wings.

Nothing he couldn’t handle.

I would always be his angel.

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I should have given him the truth. Anything but the silence lurking inside my mouth making me mute.

Just as I pulled the band away from his body his grip crushed my small hands so hard I felt myself wince. “We aren’t doing that here… I don’t need your pity,” his words might as well have been venom.

It was well-deserved, my body screamed: use me to bury the pain and my eyes were glazed over in sympathy.

“Bowen…” I was trying to slice through the immediate anger cocooning him when his grip didn’t let up, holding my hands still too tightly.

He looked down on me like I personally insulted him in less redeemable ways. “It doesn’t matter how damaged you are when you look at me like that. It would have been easier to just sit pretty and be the wife I don’t want. No demons except me. Now there is nothing holding me back from making sure that fake halo is replaced with horns.”

Standing up right instead of looking down at me like a silly girl who couldn’t handle his demons, his fists clenched making the wraps get even more taunt around his hands.

My mouth was still gaping open but no syllables or sounds came out. Not one word while I watched him square up to the bag hanging in its place. “You always wanted to match.”

My eyes stung with tears and I felt myself suck in my bottom lip like it was the key to holding back tears.

Hitting a small remote in his pocket music flooded his home gym, too loud to think or talk anymore.

Bowen’s fist drove into the bag over and over making me flinch every time. I pushed him to be someone to me and didn’t take into account how askewed how my expectations were.

My expectations were soul crushing.

My expectations were selfish.

My expectations disregarded trauma altogether.

I mumbled a quick sorry around my trembling bottom lip hoping that would suffice.

Few steps forward and ten back seemed to be the dance with the devil. He promised to fuck my halo into horns and now I felt overwhelmed by the need to be just as broken as him.

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Elena Monroe grew up in Florida scribbling down stories from a very young age. These stories were really just wavy lines filling the paper, but she knew each word, each emotion, each character's name, and there was no tricking her into forgetting what each line signified. Just like her unconventional way of writing as a toddler Elena is setting her own rules and just telling stories. 

Much like her debut novel, The Best Years, life certainly imitated art. Transplanting from the South to the East Coast, Elena currently lives in Connecticut with husband, reformed bad boy. 

Find her on her social media through Twitter at @elenamonroe, Instagram at @elenamonroewrites, Facebook at @elenamonroewrites, and more

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"My expectations were soul-crushing. My expectations were selfish. My expectations disregarded trauma altogether. I mumbled a quick sorry around my trembling bottom lip hoping that would suffice."

5 Tormented Stars!!  This book is not for the faint of heart!!!  It will kill you!

Bowen has a dark and complicated past and he will do anything and everything to forget it.  And that's usually by getting drunk and drinking alcohol every day... all day.  Eve is Bowen's childhood love, who was ripped out of his life suddenly with no explanation.  Years later she's back in his life, but she's not the same bubbly girl he knew.  She too is battling some dark demons and together they have to navigate how to get through this.

This book is heartbreaking, dark, and triggering.  Out of the four books in this series, this one broke me in half!  It's gut-wrenching and so sad... but I couldn't get enough.  I had to know what was going to happen with Bowen and Eve.  I can't recommend this book enough or the series for that matter!

Broken Fighter (Mafia Wars, #2) by Maggie Cole

Title: Broken Fighter

Series: Mafia Wars #2

Author: Maggie Cole

Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release Date: May 1, 2021

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He’s my brother’s best friend, a Russian killer, and boxer with no ties to the O’Malley crime family—my family.

I’ve loved and studied him forever. I witnessed him change when I was only thirteen. He doesn’t know I’m aware he kills, or how I notice once a year he gets a call and disappears.

For years we fight our attraction. One night, we succumb to our desire.

Every touch he gives me is electric. Each moment deepens our addiction.

If it were only us, life would be perfect.

Unfortunately, our union creates targets on our backs from multiple crime families. It puts our loved ones at greater risk. Wars from each of our enemies now plague the O’Malleys and Ivanovs.

Every time the annual call comes to pay off his debt, he crumbles further. I’m not sure how much more either of us can take.

He’s my broken fighter…

Broken Fighter is the jaw-dropping second installment of the Mafia Wars series. It’s an interconnecting, brother’s best friend, stand-alone Dark Mafia Romance, guaranteed to have an HEA.

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We had a conversation once. I caught her in a weak moment. She drank too much at her older brother Sean's funeral. Killian and his other brothers were too distraught to notice she went off. I followed her, worried. She told me she could see the killer in my eyes and not from the boxing ring. "You've killed men. I saw the change in you years ago. You were seventeen."

I stood in shock then tried to cover it up. "You don't know what you're talking about. You're drunk."

She sadly laughed, and through tears, said, "I'm an O'Malley. I see all the males in my family morph from boys to men and what that means. And no matter what you do, Boris Ivanov, I see you. The real you."

To this day, I'm unsure why I did what I did next. Touching her opened Pandora's box. It was a dip into the well of pleasure I craved but couldn't have. I tucked her silky red hair behind her ear and possessively cupped her porcelain cheeks, as if she were mine, wiping her tears with my thumbs. "Then you should want to stay away from me."

More tears fell as her green eyes pierced mine. "Why?"

"You know why."

"I've tried. You keep coming in to see me." It was an intoxicated admission. She wouldn't have ever said it if she weren't. But there it was, out in the open. I wasn't imagining things. She wanted me as much as I was dying to have her. And she knew I wasn't only coming to see Killian.

If she hadn't been drunk, I wouldn't have stopped myself. The craving I had for her deepened with the unhidden truth. I would have put my mouth over her hot, juicy one and tasted everything I had been obsessing over.

I was still fighting the lust within me when the sound of the metal door shutting, followed by my brother clearing his throat, pulled me out of my dilemma. I released her and spun.

"Killian's looking for you," Dmitri said. I avoided his "what the hell are you doing expression" and went inside. But the damage was done. I had gotten too close to everything I had banned myself from having. I told myself to stay away from her. I couldn't even last twenty-four hours. The next day, I went straight back to Nora's pub, pretending to look for Killian, knowing he wouldn't be there but she would.

Time did nothing to quench our attraction. Anything with her was taboo in too many ways. Our families shouldn't mix, besides Killian and my friendship. It doesn't matter if she and her brothers try to stay out of the O'Malley crime family business. It's in their blood. No matter how hard they try to escape it, I see what's coming.

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Maggie Cole is committed to bringing her readers alphalicious book boyfriends. She's been called the "literary master of steamy romance." Her books are full of raw emotion, suspense, and will always keep you wanting more. She is a masterful storyteller of contemporary romance and loves writing about broken people who rise above the ashes.

She lives in Florida with her husband, son, and dog. She loves sunshine, wine, and hanging out with friends.

Her current series were written in the order below:

All In (Stand alones with entwined characters)

It's Complicated (Stand alones with entwined characters)

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Releasing now: Mafia Wars

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"He's an unfed animal. I'm his prey and he tears me to shreds with his mouth."

5 Arranged Stars!!!  Sexy, Passionate, and twisted. I couldn't put it down!

Boris is the brother of the Ivanov brothers and the known fighter of the group.  He's a hothead with a short fuse and everyone knows it.  He's also the mafia boss of the Zamir family and every year, he's expected to torture, kill or "take care of" anyone who's in their way.  Nora a passionate girl that knows what she wants.  She's inherited her family's pub and she loves her job.  Boris and Nora have been in love forever but have never acted on it but when things get complicated for her that's when things change.

I don't want to give too much away except to say that if you like a good, twisted arranged marriage book with heat, then this is the book for you!!!  

Playboy Pitcher (A Cocky Hero Club Novel) by Cora Kenborn

Title: Playboy Pitcher

A Cocky Hero Club Novel

Author: Cora Kenborn

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: May 2, 2021

Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward are excited to bring you the Cocky Hero Club: original works from various authors inspired by Keeland and Ward's New York Times bestselling Cocky Bastard series.

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The first time I met Benson LaCroix, he sat in a bar wearing “cocky player” like a cheap cologne.

The second time, he stood in a locker room in nothing but a jockstrap and a scowl.

Apparently, the Miami Storm’s star pitcher isn’t too thrilled his new boss is the woman who turned him down.

That makes two of us.

I never asked to inherit my father’s baseball team. It’s the one thing I despised more than him.

I’m just here to sell, sign on the dotted line, and get out.

Until I’m hit with Dad’s final parting gift—a buyer’s clause.

Enter Satan—otherwise known as my ex.

I should swallow my pride and just accept his offer. Instead, I tell him where to shove it.

It can’t be that hard to turn the major league’s biggest joke into a winning team.

Right?

With only four weeks to do the impossible, I’ll need more than a miracle.

I’ll need a secret weapon. Someone ruthless enough to marry me for my money.

Like a playboy pitcher with a wicked curveball.

Two quickie vows and one hostile truce later, and it’s game on.

Ben and I can do this.

I just have to keep my eye on his balls.

I mean the ball. The prize.

Oh hell. We’re in trouble.

Playboy Pitcher is an enemies to lovers/sports romance inspired by Park Avenue Player.

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Cora Kenborn is a USA Today Bestselling author who writes in multiple genres from dark and gritty romantic suspense to laugh-out-loud romantic comedy. Known for her sharp banter and shocking blindsides, Cora pushes her characters and readers out of their comfort zones and onto an emotional roller coaster before delivering a twisted happily ever after.

Cora believes there’s nothing better than a feisty heroine who keeps her alpha on his toes, and she draws inspiration from the strong country women who raised her. However, since the domestic Southern Belle gene seems to have skipped a generation, she spends any free time convincing her family that microwaving Hot Pockets counts as cooking dinner.

Oh, and autocorrect thinks she's obsessed with ducks.

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"His kisses are are both oxygen to my soul and the most delicious death."

5 Playboy Stars!!!  The angst the passion, I couldn't get enough!

Willow is a passionate business lady and knows what she wants.  What she doesn't want is this baseball team she's now the owner of, since her dad left it to her after he passed.  She hadn't spoken to her dad in 10 years, and for whatever reasons, he's left her this team.  This being the last thing she wants, she wants to sell it, but the only one she can sell it to is her ex, is this the choice she really wants to make?  Ben is the pitcher of the baseball team that Willow owns.  And these two butt heads constantly, but there's a reason for that.  Ben met Willow at a bar before and when he hit on her she turned him down, which he's not used to.  So now with a bruised ego, he has to figure out how to keep his team intact and keep the owner happy... but these two just can't seem to get it together.

This book was so much fun!  I loved the unexpected twists it brought and the passion that exudes from the pages!  Cora Kenborn definitely knows how to write characters that you can't help but love, which is definitely the case with Playboy Pitcher!

Rush: A Rockstar Daddy Romance by Brianna Hale

Title: Rush: A Rockstar Daddy Romance

Author: Brianna Hale

Genre: Steamy Contemporary Romance

Release Date: April 21, 2021

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Rush Osman probably watches himself in the mirror while he screws and kisses his biceps good morning. An arrogant, domineering, over-dressed rock star. The sort of man I’ve had my fill of for a hundred lifetimes.

And yet.

Rush has an energy about him that pulls me in. Captivating energy. Dark, magnetic energy. Big Daddy energy.

I feel it crackling between us every time I’m close to him. Now, my only choice is to get far, far away from him, or be pulled into a world that I swore I’d never set foot in again. A world that thrashed me, body and soul.

A world that Rush promises to protect me from, if only I surrender myself to him.

I’ve only ever trusted myself, but Rush is battering against my defenses. He pushes me to the brink and then holds me there until I shatter. His punishment is a rush. Falling for him is a rush. Loving him is a rush.

But being destroyed by him is the biggest rush of all.

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“Cut that out. You haven’t said one word apart from Glastonbury.”

Pushing his sunglasses to the top of his head, Rush smiles. “Daddy missed you, baby.”

My insides turn to honey. “That’s no excuse for coming to my home and kidnapping me.”

“What else was I supposed to do when you don’t answer my calls? There are going to be two hundred thousand people watching us tonight, but that place would feel empty to me if you weren’t there. I’m not performing tonight without my girlfriend with me.”

“I’m not your—”

His mouth slants over mine and his tongue parts my lips. It’s getting harder and harder to pull away the more he kisses me.

“Rush! You can’t just kiss me every time I say something you don’t like.”

“Watch me.” His mouth claims mine again. I’m not strong enough to survive this assault on my senses. A moment later I’m kissing him back as he hauls me up on his lap. He puts a hand under my skirt and strokes my clit, making heat cascade through my body.

“You can’t do that here.”

“Fucking, can’t I?” He pulls my underwear aside. Looking me dead in the eye, he sucks on his middle and ring fingers, getting them wet. Too shocked and turned on to react, I watch as he puts them down between my legs and slides them straight into my pussy.

“Rush.” I bury my face in his chest as he pumps his fingers into me. My body must think that being carried around on his shoulder was foreplay because I’m so close to coming all over his hand. I brace one foot against the window and lean into it. Taking a deep breath, I’m able to open my eyes and ask. “Did you miss me?”

Rush looks ferocious, his face just inches from mine. “Did you miss me, Daddy?”

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There's nothing Brianna Hale likes more than a large, stern alpha male with a super-protective and caring streak, and when she's not writing about them she can usually be found with a book, a cocktail, planning her next trip to a beautiful location or attending the theatre. She believes that pink and empowerment aren’t mutually exclusive, and everyday adventures are possible. Brianna lives in London.

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“Rush! You can’t just kiss me every time I say something you don’t like.” “Watch me.” His mouth claims mine again.

5 Rush Me Stars!!!  If you like your books with lots of kink and a dash of heart... then this is the book for you!

Rush is the lead singer of Saint Cyprian and like most lead singers he's not used to hearing the word no and he knows he can always get his way.  Dree is a dancer with a traumatic past and after her last dancing gig, she's not sure if she's ready to jump back into the dance world.  But Rush isn't used to getting no's from people.  Rush wants Dree to choreograph his new music video and she's the only one he wants for it.  And as much as she doesn't want to do it, she knows she can't say no.  Now you add in "daddy" kink and you've got yourself one spicy book.

This book was EVERYTHING!  I finished it in one sitting. It's explosively hot and sinfully sexy!  Brianna Hale knows what she's doing with this book and I'm here for it!!  I can't wait to read more!

I Pucking Love You (Copper Valley Thrusters, #5) by Pippa Grant

Title: I Pucking Love You

Series: Copper Valley Thrusters #5

Author: Pippa Grant

Genre: Romantic Comedy

Release Date: April 8, 2021

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You know those stories where an adorably misunderstood clumsy girl needs a fake date to a wedding so she asks her brother’s best friend and they accidentally fall in love?

I wish that was the kind of life I lead, but it’s not.

I don’t need a date to a wedding. I need a date to a funeral.

Clumsy sometimes fits, but then, that’s true for all of us, right? But adorable? No. Misunderstood? Nope again. I’m just your average girl, standing in front of a funeral invitation, asking it to be a winning lottery ticket instead.

And I don’t have a brother, or a best friend with a brother available, which means I’m stuck with Tyler Jaeger.

Sure, he’s a professional hockey player who also knows advanced calculus, but let’s say we’re not compatible and leave it at that. I should know. I am a matchmaker.

Not a very good one, but that’s beside the point.

I know a mismatch when I see one.

Still, Tyler’s what I’ve got, and I am not going to this funeral solo, so he’s what I’ll take.

After all—what could go wrong at a funeral?

I Pucking Love You is a hilariously wrong romantic comedy about the world’s worst matchmaker, a hockey player with a problem he doesn’t want to talk about, and an awkward date-of-convenience that everyone would prefer to forget. It comes complete with a cat working his way through his nine lives, all the sexy times, fish and chips, and a swoony happily-ever-after.

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Tyler

We all have to be at practice tomorrow morning—check that, this morning, as it’s shortly after midnight—but I don’t want to go home.

I don’t want to drink. I don’t want to talk. I don’t want to screw.

I want—

Dammit.

I want a bucket of greasy fried fish and chips, because it’s what my big brother used to take me to get every time he came home on leave from the Marines and got annoyed at being hen-pecked by the four sisters between us.

My car’s cold, thanks to the early November weather, and no, I’m not telling you what kind of car I drive, because yes, it very much feels like compensation tonight.

It gets me where I want to go.

That’s all that matters.

That, and getting my ass to Cod Pieces before they close for the night.

Could I stay at the bunny bar and get fried fish and chips?

Yes.

Will I?

No fucking way.

I’m still stewing in my own misery when the bright neon sign with the armored cod and the storefront that looks like a medieval castle comes into view at the edge of a strip mall four miles the wrong direction from my downtown condo. I roll the window down, letting in a blast of chilly air and the scent of fries.

Just in time.

I holler my order over the sound of my engine, then pull around to the window to get my fish.

Debate calling my brother in Miami.

It’s one AM. He and his wife recently celebrated their kid’s first birthday, and I think they’re working on baby number two.

If I call him in the middle of the night to bitch about how I can’t get it up, he’ll probably hang up on me, then tell our sisters.

And Mom.

She’s a professional comedienne with her own popular Netflix special. There’s no damn way I’m bothering West in the middle of the night for this.

I’ll talk to the fried fish and call it even.

Has as much personality as West had before he married Daisy.

The window swings open. “That’ll be fourteen seventy-three, please.”

My car lurches forward before I remember to put it in park, and I gape up at the woman staring down at me. “Muffy?”

My brain is playing tricks on me.

It has to be.

Because there’s no way the curvy, clumsy, smart-mouthed goddess who’s haunting my dick is standing there wearing a Cod Pieces polo and hat.

But she is.

And I swear to god, her long brown braids are recoiling in horror as her whole face twists, her lip curling, her left eye squeezing shut, before she snaps herself together. “For the hundredth time today, I have no idea who this Muffy person is. My name is Octavia Louisa Beaverhousen.”

Fuck me.

There are two of them? She looks exactly like Muffy. I’m not seeing things, and I’m not projecting just because I want my dick to work again and the bunnies made me think about screwing Muffy in the walk-in fridge at the bunny bar.

“Fourteen seventy-three, please.” She turns away as she holds out a hand, twitching her fingers like she’s waiting for cash or a card.

And that’s when I see the tattoo.

Rufus.

Her cat’s name. It’s on her wrist.

Octavia Louisa Beaverhousen, my ass. This is Muffy.

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Pippa Grant is a USA Today Bestselling author who writes romantic comedies that will make tears run down your leg. When she's not reading, writing or sleeping, she's being crowned employee of the month as a stay-at-home mom and housewife trying to prepare her adorable demon spawn to be productive members of society, all the while fantasizing about long walks on the beach with hot chocolate chip cookies.

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"I don't think Tyler Jaeger likes me.  I think he like-likes me."

5 Pucking Stars! Such a sweet romance with heart!  

Muffy and Tyler hooked up months ago and while she was unimpressed with him, he can't figure out why they didn't work.  And since then Tyler refuses to get into a relationship.  He's sworn off women.  That is until Muffy needs a date to a funeral.  Tyler jumps at the chance to be her date, not knowing what he's getting into, but wanting to know why they didn't work out.  Which just spells disaster right?

I have to say I really loved Muffy and Tyler's story.  It's full of heart and passion.  Everything you need in a book.  I'm such a huge fan of Pippa Grant and this book is the reason why!!  Bravo!