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From internationally bestselling author K.A. Tucker, writing as Nina West, comes the dark and sexy Dirty Empire series
Mercy Wheeler and Gabriel Easton’s sordid tale continues in Dirty Empire as Mercy finds her loyalties tested and Gabriel’s attempt to break free of his family’s legacy comes with unexpected consequences.
Dirty Empire is the third book in the Dirty Empire series and should be read after Sweet Mercy and Gabriel Fallen.
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When this book picked up right where book 2 left us, it
didn't stop until the last page AND then it decided that the cliffhanger in
book 2 wasn't enough, that it had to one up it...
I am going to die waiting for book 4...
I MUST KNOW WHAT HAPPENS!!
I have flown through these books. They are deliciously good
with a story line that totally captivates you.
I seriously can't put them down and Dirty Empire was no
different. I truly read it in one sitting because I was so enthralled.
I absolutely loved how so much transpired in Gabriel and
Mercy's relationship during this book. We saw a lot of change in Mercy and it
really propelled their relationship to the next level.
And Gabriel, ahhhh...he really showed a soft side to him in
this book but we still saw that hardcore guy that will do anything to take care
of his loved ones.
I hate that I read this book so fast because now I am having
to wait for the next installment. And Nina West sure killed me with that
ending...Oh man...
Meet Nina
Nina West is the author of the sinfully sexy and highly addictive The Wolf Hotel series and Dirty Empire series. She lives in the city but spends her summers in the wilderness.
The Truest Thing, Book Four in the USA Today bestselling Hart's Boardwalk Series by Samantha Young, is live!
Nine years ago, Emery Saunders moved to Hartwell to start her life over as a bookstore owner. Her inability to trust people made it hard for her to find a place in the small community until Jessica Lawson moved to town and befriended the shy beauty.
But there was one person in Hartwell who tried to befriend Emery long before Jessica arrived…
Jack Devlin has his secrets. One of them is that he fell hard for Emery the moment she appeared in Hartwell. Another is that his father blackmailed him into covering up a dark family tragedy. It forced Jack to sever his relationships to protect the people he cared about. Yet, staying away from Emery has not been easy throughout the years and he hasn’t always succeeded. When Jack’s mixed signals hurt Emery once again, she puts him out of her heart for good.
Until the Devlin family secret is finally revealed, freeing Jack from his father’s machinations. What Jack wants more than anything is to repair his relationships, starting with Emery.
However, Emery isn’t ready to forgive and Jack’s not ready to give up.
And when the town’s latest scandal ties Jack and Emery together, Jack is not above using their new reality to prove to Emery once and for all that their love is worthy of the legend of Hart’s Boardwalk.
I have loved this series!! Each character draws you into their story and you fall hopelessly in love. The Hart’s Boardwalk series has really given us such a lead up to Emery and Jack’s story. The first three books give us glimpses of Jack and truthfully I didn’t think he was likable.. And when we find Emery has been crushing on him?? 😱😱 But The Truest Thing really opens our eyes to Jack. We get to really see the amazing man he is. Yes, he made some stupid decisions but we find out why he did. I gotta say too.. I felt like I was watching tennis at times. lol!! The back and forth with Jack and Emery was hot and spicy but also gut wrenching... We also see so much change in Emery. I LOVED IT!!! Sweet and shy to sassy!! Get it girl!!! Lol!!
So much happens in this book.. and we get all the couples together sharing their lives.
Samatha Young gave us a sweet romantic happily ever after that I am head over heels for!! The epilogue brought overwhelming joy to my heart.. I could feel the warmth of their happiness from these characters through the pages.
Samantha Young is a New York Times and #1 International bestselling author from Stirlingshire, Scotland. On Dublin Street was Samantha's first adult contemporary romance series and has sold in thirty countries. She has since published over thirteen romance titles including the New York Times Bestsellers Into the Deep, Hero, and her most recent contemporary romance Fight or Flight. When writing Adult Paranormal romance she writes under the pen name S. Young.
"Readers are in for a thrilling and emotional ride with this one! The storyline is engrossing, the characters are complex, and the chemistry is off-the-charts palpable. It's my favorite book by Samantha Young to date." -- K.A. Tucker, international bestselling author of The Simple Wild
Black Tangled Heart, by New York Times bestselling author Samantha Young, is LIVE!
To my siblings, Jane was a friend. A pseudo-sister, the girl we grew up with.
To me? She was everything.
Our passion consumed us.
When our world fell apart, I thought our love would be the thing that held us together.
She was the love of my life. But she abandoned me when I needed her most.
And I’ll never forgive her.
For years I’ve been planning my revenge against the people who took everything from me.
Jane won’t be an exception. I’m coming for her.
She knows it.
She says she wants to help me serve my version of justice on the people who hurt me.
I’ll let her.
She probably thinks it will save her from me.
It won’t.
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I stared dully at my painting. My creative mood had left the building, under the weight of the many questions going around and around in my head. Adrenaline made it hard for me to sit still. Cursing Jamie under my breath, I grabbed my laundry basket and headed toward the front door. Peering through the peephole, I double-checked his door was shut before I left my apartment. Glowering at his door as I passed, I hurried downstairs. How the hell had he maneuvered himself into my building? And why?
To my gratitude, the laundry room was empty as I crashed around inside it. I hauled out my stash of detergent and softener from my allocated locker and started separating my whites. That rat bastard. My heart raced, sweat gathered under my arms, and it agitated me. An encounter with Jamie was the equivalent of fifteen shots of caffeine.
And I hated that he knew I was lying to Asher. Something he could easily hold over my head.
“You are a very angry laundry doer.”
Jamie’s deep, rich voice startled me. Trying to control my breathing, I glared over at him standing in the doorway. Arms and ankles crossed as he leaned casually against the jamb. He wore a T-shirt and jeans. Nothing had changed there.
He was still the sexiest man I’d ever seen.
God, I hate him.
“What the hell are you doing in this building?” I turned my back on him, marching over to the stacked washers and dryers.
“I had no idea you lived here,” he lied, his voice growing closer as he crossed the room toward me.
Attempting not to react physically, to not hunch my shoulders in tension, I stared unseeing at the machines. What was I in the middle of doing again?
“What a surprise to find out you’re my neighbor.”
I snorted in disbelief and turned around, shocked to find him already in my personal space. “Liar.” I dragged my gaze insolently down his body and back up. “Move away. And I mean that in more ways than one.”
“Oh, does my presence bother you?” His wicked smile caused somersaults in my belly.
“What are you doing here?” I ignored his proximity. Okay, I tried to ignore his proximity.
In answer, he stepped into me and I stumbled against the machines at my back. Jamie pressed the palms of his hands on the dryer, caging me in. My breath caught and held as his scent flooded me. That dark, earthy scent was enticing, and my body betrayed my emotions.
Feeling panic rise, I pushed at his chest, but he wouldn’t budge. “Jamie?”
Those ocean eyes wandered over my face, cold, calculating. “He doesn’t know who I am. You haven’t told him.”
I lowered my hands. Touching him was even more discombobulating. “No.”
He bent his head toward mine until our noses almost touched. I sucked in a breath. “I wonder why you’re keeping it from him?”
Determined not to let him see how much he affected me, I glared up at him. He’d only have to touch me, hold my hand, to realize I was trembling. His face was so familiar. His lips were lips I’d thought I’d kiss for the rest of my life. Why did the pain of it never dull? Why did it still feel like a shard of glass through my chest? “Did you leak those tapes of Foster Steadman to Asher’s mom?”
Something menacing flashed in his eyes before he banked it. “And if I did?”
“Are you being smart, Jamie?”
“Are you asking out of concern for me or for your billionaire boy toy?”
“Jamie.”
“Never mind. I don’t care.” The bastard dipped his nose to my throat, and I tensed against the stacked machines. He inhaled, his nose brushing my skin, and my fingers bit into the washer behind me. “You smell different,” he whispered, lifting his head to my ear. “Expensive perfume. You’ve come up in the world.”
I felt his breath caress my skin seconds before his teeth touched my earlobe. Gasping, I instinctively pushed my palms against his stomach as he bit down hard, causing a flush of heat between my legs.
With a dark chuckle, Jamie released my ear after one last nibble and whispered, “Is he the jealous type, Jane?”
Samantha Young is a New York Times and #1 International bestselling author from Stirlingshire, Scotland. On Dublin Street was Samantha's first adult contemporary romance series and has sold in thirty countries. She has since published over thirteen romance titles including the New York Times Bestsellers Into the Deep, Hero, and her most recent contemporary romance Fight or Flight. When writing Adult Paranormal romance she writes under the pen name S. Young.
BRILLIANT... CAPTIVATING... INTENSE...PASSIONATE...This book had me in twisted knots all the way through. I literally couldn’t put it down. I had to wait to write my review once my head and emotions settled... just wow!!!
I was so excited to dive into this new book from Samantha Young. I’ve truly enjoyed this series and has an idea of what I thought this book would be like.. Well excuse me.. this book was nothing like I expected.. it blew me away!! (Not to say my idea of it wouldn’t have blown me away.. just that it was not what I expected) You are captivated with the relationships in this book.. truly so caught up emotionally with these characters. I felt everything Jane went through and the relationships she had truly had her shine as a character. So complex and dynamic. I won’t do details but I will say.. she is amazing...such growth from her.. I love her!! Jamie.. oh my.. HOLY FREAKING WOW!! The first half of this book was FIRE!! He is the epitome of a book boyfriend and I think he has bumped some of the others off their pedestals.. *swoon* But when I said this book was nothing like I expected Samantha Young threw a curve ball and amped up my anxiety while reading. By this point, I was hunkered down and had to finish.. I HAD TO KNOW.. My only regret is I am now done and I feel such a loss for having to leave these characters.. Samantha Young did a fabulously ingenious job with this story.. These characters are a part of me and I may even say this is my favorite book by Samantha Young.. I’m still thinking about it.. feeling that draw to still be with these characters.. I highly recommend that you read this one!! And you do not have to read the others in this series to read this one.. stand alone..
About Samantha Young:Samantha Young is a New York Times and #1 International bestselling author from Stirlingshire, Scotland. On Dublin Street was Samantha's first adult contemporary romance series and has sold in thirty countries. She has since published over thirteen romance titles including the New York Times Bestsellers Into the Deep, Hero, and her most recent contemporary romance Fight or Flight. When writing Adult Paranormal romance she writes under the pen name S. Young.
From the internationally bestselling author of The Simple
Wild comes the continuation of a woman’s journey to the Alaskan wild and a life
she never imagined for herself.
Calla Fletcher returns to Toronto a different person,
struggling to find direction and still very much in love with the rugged bush
pilot she left behind. So, when Jonah arrives on her doorstep with a
proposition she can’t dismiss, she takes the leap and rushes back to Alaska to
begin their exciting future together.
But Calla soon learns that even the best of intentions don’t
always lead to the intended outcomes, and that compromise comes with a hefty
price tag—and a log cabin in rural Alaska that feels as isolating as the
Western tundra.
With Jonah gone more than he’s home, one neighbor who
insists on transforming her into a true Alaskan, and another who seems more
likely to shoot her than come to her aid, Calla grapples with forging her own
path. In a world where with roaming wildlife and harsh environmental
challenges, just stepping foot outside her front door becomes daunting some
days.
Leaving her to wonder if perhaps she is doomed to follow in
her mother’s fleeing footsteps after all.
The Simple Wild, book 1 to Wild at Heart, was an emotional
and just overall phenomenal book. It left us at the end wanting so much
more...HOPES of a romance between two characters that you loved to watch argue
and then loved to see them explode off the page with their intense chemistry.
And then VOILA!! KA Tucker gives us the best thing ever..the
sequel to The Simple Wild..
AHHH!!!
Wild at Heart picks up right where we leave Calla and Jonah
the end of The Simple Wild. We are over the moon happy because they literally
can't live without each other..
I cannot tell you how many times I die from swoon in this
book. Jonah has completely captured my heart and I am going to go on record now
and say that he is my favorite book boyfriend from KA Tucker.. Gah... I just
want to reread and reread this book just so I can keep reading about
him...*swoons*
But don't mistake me here. I love Calla too! She changes so
much throughout this book and I enjoyed seeing each moment bring her in to her
own.
The relationship with her and Jonah is truly magical. While
it is so real, it is also so full of love and thoughtfulness. Yes, there are
mistakes made, misunderstandings, but what relationship doesn't have those??
And the way KA Tucker writes, I could FEEL every emotion. I
swear it was just bleeding off the pages and straight in to my heart.
Although Jonah and Calla are the focus of the story, we get
to meet some amazing new characters that add so much spice, as well as, revisit
with old friends that captured our hearts from The Simple Wild.
Just a brilliantly beautiful love story that will span the
ages of time!!
New York Times
bestselling author Samantha Young returns to Hart’s Boardwalk with a searing and emotional new standalone
romance…
Local metalsmith and
gift shop owner, Dahlia McGuire, likes her quiet life in Hartwell, Delaware.
It's the perfect place to hide from her family in Boston and the tragic events
that led to their estrangement. However, when her father, the person she loves
most in the world, needs her, Dahlia has no choice but to return to Boston to
face her ghosts. One of those ghosts happens to be her ex-boyfriend's best
friend, Michael Sullivan. The man she was never supposed to fall in love with.
Michael Sullivan has
never forgotten Dahlia McGuire. Some might say he's never gotten over her. For
years he lived with the anger of her desertion and now newly divorced he's
finally ready to move on. That proves impossible when Dahlia returns to Boston
and reawakens their explosive connection. Despite everything, Michael wants her
back, butDahlia can't seem to let go of
the tangled emotions of the past.
She flees home to Hartwell.
Determined to fight
for their second chance, Michael follows Dahlia to Delaware, takes a job with
the local police department, and does everything in his power to convince her
they belong together.
However, when the unthinkable
hits the quiet seaside town, Michael finds himself trying to unravel more than
the mystery of Dahlia's McGuire's broken heart. It's time for truths left
unsaid to finally be spoken or Michael and Dahlia might find themselves torn
apart forever…
What people are saying about Things
We Never Said
“Samantha Young once again delivers
the perfect balance of emotion and wit, tension and levity… a visceral,
beautifully penned story.” Vilma Iris
“The love and pain that went into
writing this story is so evident throughout that you just don’t want to put the
book down… Another MUST read by Samantha Young.” Badass Bloggettes
“Dahlia and Michael have chemistry
that is explosive… I loved how they loved each other.”— Kathryn, Tsk, Tsk What
to Read?
“Oh my word, I can’t even begin to
explain how much I loved and devoured this book… Things We Never Said deserves
ALL the stars.” —Lucie Lu’s Book Reviews
“Angst and heartache. Drama and
suspense. Steam and longing. Slow burn and the most swoon-tastic hero... Things
We Never Said HAD IT ALL.”— Angie’s Dreamy Reads
“Oy, what a beautiful yet
heartbreaking story is this one.” — BJs Book Blog
“This is a great addition to this
series… highly recommend!” —Reading with 2 Book Lovers
“This is a second chance love story
at its finest.” — Amy, Garden of REden
Samantha Young is the New York
Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of adult
contemporary romances, including the On Dublin Street series, Hero, and Fight
or Flight. Samantha’s crossover romance/women’s fiction novel titled Much Ado
About You will be published by Berkley (release date tba). Her debut adult
paranormal romance novel War of Hearts releases under the pen name S. Young in
October 2019.
Samantha is currently published in
30 countries and is a #1 international bestselling author. When she’s not
writing books, she’s buying shoes she doesn’t really need and searching for
nooks and crannies to shelve her ever-expanding book collection.
Title: From Smoke to Flames Series: The West Brothers Series #3
Author: A.M. Hargrove
Genre: Standalone Contemporary Romance
Release Date: January 23, 2019
Blurb
They say there’s a fine line between love and hate.
Ours was a mile wide.
To put it bluntly, my life sucked.
When I finally got up the courage to divorce
my jerk of a husband, never in a million years did I imagine his prick of an
attorney would gain him full custody of my daughter.
My scant two weekend visits per month killed
me.
And my ex made it as difficult as possible on
me every single time.
So imagine my shock when said attorney’s name
appeared at the top of the list at the in-patient substance abuse clinic where
I worked as a counselor.
My list.
The first thing that occurred was I completely
lost my Zen.
Then my blood boiled.
Then his chart flew across the room and
slammed into the wall.
How could this possibly be happening?
Karma couldn’t be this cruel.
How in the world could I be an empathetic
abuse counselor to the cocky Pearson West who destroyed my life?
I would rather become an addict myself, or
better yet, strangle him first.
I have loved getting to know all the West brothers in this series. Each one had their own unique story bringing romance and love to each one. As we come to Pearson now, his life has hit some troubling bumps and we are drawn in to story from the very beginning. And Rose... goodness.. she had such a difficult life... but when these two come together.. they are a pair that will melt your heart and warm your soul. And don’t let me forget to mention the precious Montana.. (I think she stole the show.. LOL) I definitely won’t go in to many details but let’s just say this is a story you don’t want to miss. A.M. Hargrove has provided a fantastic tale that touches on some tough subjects all the while creating a nail biting, emotional, humorous story.
One day on her way home from work as
a sales manager, USA Today bestselling author, A.M. Hargrove, realized her life
was on fast-forward. If she didn't do something soon, it would be too late to
write that novel she had dreamt of her whole life. She slammed on the brakes,
made a crazy decision, and quit her job. Then she reinvented herself as a
Naughty and Nice Romance Author.
She fancies herself all of the
following: Reader, Writer, Dark Chocolate Lover, Ice Cream Worshipper, Coffee
Drinker, Grey Goose Aficionado, and #WalterThePuppy Lover. If you’re around her
for more than five minutes, you’ll soon notice she has a tendency to talk your
ear off.
