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shaira ��'s bookshelf: all en-US Sat, 05 Apr 2025 02:25:44 -0700 60 shaira ��'s bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[5000 Nights of Obsession (Tales of Obsession, #1)]]> 124941172
I felt his eyes on me everywhere I went.
I recognized his smell lingering within my home.
I even sensed his presence in my sleep.
It was too late by the time I found the monster hiding under my bed. He had wedged himself into my life, cornering me with nowhere to run.

The worst part?
The world adored him, but no one knew the devil lurking underneath the beautiful mask—no one except for me.

Manipulative, cold, and remorseless, Axel Trimalchio was a certified psychopath hiding in plain sight. He was fixated on me and would never stop chasing me.
He was determined to make me his... even though I already belonged to someone else.
.
*This book isn't listed in the Romance category, and Axel shouldn't be considered a hero. Check the author's complete content warnings before proceeding.]]> 343 Drethi Anis shaira �� 0 3.84 5000 Nights of Obsession (Tales of Obsession, #1)

5000 Nights of Obsession (Tales of Obsession, #1)

author: Drethi Anis
name: shaira ��
average rating: 3.84
book published:
rating: 0
read at: 2025/03/23
date added: 2025/04/05
shelves: trope-stalker-romance, trope-obsessed-hero-unhinged, kink-cnc-dubcon, kink-dirty-talk-18-plus, kink-spanking
review:
i just can’t with the name axel. it’s giving spreadsheet
]]> Kiss the Villain (Villain #1) 220287670 From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Rina Kent comes a scorching standalone professor/student dark MM romance set in the world of Legacy of Gods.

My darkness meets a darker soul.

I’m a golden boy.
A genius law student, the heir to the Carson empire, and the dutiful son.
Or, at least, that's what it looks like from the outside.
Deep inside, I have the urge to set the world on fire.
I keep these impulses in check, rarely indulging in mayhem.
Until one night of debauchery backfires, and I'm caught by a villain.
I bury the entire ordeal with the rest of my skeletons.
That is, until that night walks into my classroom in the form of my new professor.
Kayden Lockwood.
A criminal who’s teaching criminal law.
I can't expose what he's done without unmasking my secret life.
What I can do, however, is force him to taste the poison he gave me.
In the clash of titans, Kayden and I break and crumble.
And I'm starting to realize this dangerous game may have no winners.

Kiss the Villain is a dark MM romance. Please check the author's note or visit the website for content warnings before diving in. While this book can be enjoyed as a standalone, diving into the Legacy of Gods series will give you a deeper connection to the characters.]]> 514 Rina Kent shaira �� 0 4.18 2025 Kiss the Villain (Villain #1)

author: Rina Kent
name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/04/05
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review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Roommate Risk (The Midnight Heat Collection, #3)]]> 198509636 From New York Times bestselling author Talia Hibbert comes an electric, domestic, roommates-to-lovers romance between a whirlwind party girl and her uptight best friend��

Jasmine Allen believes in bad luck, great wine, and the seductive power of a stiletto heel. What she doesn’t believe in is love. Her life is perfect without all that romance rubbish—until a plumbing disaster screws everything up and leaves Jas homeless. Luckily, she has someone to turn to: her best friend Rahul.

For seven years, Rahul Khan has followed three simple rules.
* Don’t touch Jasmine if you can help it.
* Don’t look at her arse in that skirt.
* And don’t ever��ever—tell her you love her.

He should’ve added another rule: Do not, under any circumstances, let Jas move into your house.

Now Rahul is living with the friend he can’t have, and it’s decimating his control. He knows their shared dinners aren’t dates, their late-night kisses are a mistake, and the tenderness in Jasmine’s gaze is only temporary. One wrong word could send his skittish best friend running.

So why is he tempted to risk it all?

This book was previously published as Wanna Bet?. The Roommate Risk is a steamy, standalone, diverse romance. This book is 75,000 words of fluff, angst, and extreme pleasure, with NO cliffhangers, NO cheating, and a guaranteed HEA. Please be aware: this story contains themes of parental neglect and abandonment, parental death, and alcohol dependence that could trigger certain audiences.]]> 352 Talia Hibbert shaira �� 0 to-read 3.64 2018 The Roommate Risk (The Midnight Heat Collection, #3)

The Roommate Risk (The Midnight Heat Collection, #3)

author: Talia Hibbert
name: shaira ��
average rating: 3.64
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/04/04
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> Play Along (Windy City, #4) 199285128 Kennedy

I’m the only woman on staff for the Windy City Warriors, and after years of putting up with a sexist lead doctor, I’m desperate to land my dream job with a new team next year. All I have to do is maintain my professional reputation for my final season in Chicago.

But a Las Vegas run-in with the team’s shortstop threatens it all, leaving me with a fuzzy memory and a ring on my left hand.

Now, not only am I legally bound to the most persistent man I’ve ever met, but thanks to Isaiah’s scheme to save my job, I have to pretend the whole thing was a planned elopement and not a drunken mistake.

Isaiah Rhodes is reckless, impulsive, and frustratingly charming. He’s also my brand-new husband.

They got the saying wrong. What happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas�� sometimes it follows you right back home.

Isaiah

As the shortstop for Chicago’s professional baseball team, I’ve had my fair share of fun. But that all ended the day Kennedy Kay became a single woman.

I’ve crushed on the team’s athletic trainer for years. I’ve flirted to no avail, so imagine my surprise when I woke up in Sin City with a ring on my finger and my favorite redhead in my bed.

We agree to stay married for one baseball season, just long enough to keep her job safe, but in my mind, I’m using our time together to prove to her I’m husband material.

Kennedy might be reluctant to join in on our game, but it’s one I refuse to lose.

So come on, wife�� play along.]]> 384 Liz Tomforde shaira �� 5 omw to lodge a petition for merriam-webster to update their dictionary definition of the word “perfection�� to malachai and isiah rhodes ]]> 4.44 2024 Play Along (Windy City, #4)

author: Liz Tomforde
name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.44
book published: 2024
rating: 5
read at: 2025/04/02
date added: 2025/04/03
shelves: trope-pining-hero, trope-lessons-in-seduction, contemporary-romance, kink-dirty-talk-18-plus, kink-kitty-pleaser, kink-sexy-self-love, kink-talking-them-through-the-big-o, trope-marriage-of-convenience, kink-in-the-shower-slash-bath, kink-praise, love-language-acts-of-service, trope-friends-to-lovers, kink-voyeurism
review:
omw to lodge a petition for merriam-webster to update their dictionary definition of the word “perfection�� to malachai and isiah rhodes
]]> Great Big Beautiful Life 218559595 Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping new novel from Emily Henry.

Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they’re both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: To write the biography of a woman no one has seen in years--or at least to meet with the octogenarian who claims to be the Margaret Ives. Tragic heiress, former tabloid princess, and daughter of one of the most storied (and scandalous) families of the 20th Century.

When Margaret invites them both for a one-month trial period, after which she’ll choose the person who’ll tell her story, there are three things keeping Alice’s head in the game.

One: Alice genuinely likes people, which means people usually like Alice—and she has a whole month to win the legendary woman over.

Two: She’s ready for this job and the chance to impress her perennially unimpressed family with a Serious Publication

Three: Hayden Anderson, who should have no reason to be concerned about losing this book, is glowering at her in a shaken-to-the core way that suggests he sees her as competition.

But the problem is, Margaret is only giving each of them pieces of her story. Pieces they can’t swap to put together because of an ironclad NDA and an inconvenient yearning pulsing between them every time they’re in the same room.

And it’s becoming abundantly clear that their story—just like the tale Margaret’s spinning—could be a mystery, tragedy, or love ballad…depending on who’s telling it.]]> 384 Emily Henry 059344129X shaira �� 0 to-read 4.26 2025 Great Big Beautiful Life

author: Emily Henry
name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/04/03
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[When She Loves (The Fallen, #4)]]> 182653658 I never wanted the life my parents tried to force on me, so I vowed I’d never marry a mobster.
Yet here I am, walking down the aisle toward mobster of the century, all to save my sister.

Rafaele Messero. Cold, ruthless, and irritatingly handsome.
Not that I’ve noticed.
After all, this marriage is the end of all my hopes and dreams.
And for him, it’s nothing more than a calculated business move.

At least that’s what I think, until he snaps at the priest to hurry up so that he can kiss me.
He’s known as the ice prince, but when his lips crash down on mine, all I feel is searing heat.
That’s when I know I’m in serious trouble.

My plan was to keep my distance from Rafaele, but he’s not interested in that.
He’s interested in me.

Now that I know what he craves, I vow to never give it to him.
I will never submit to my husband, no matter how relentlessly he tries to conquer me.]]> 466 Gabrielle Sands shaira �� 0 4.06 When She Loves (The Fallen, #4)

author: Gabrielle Sands
name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.06
book published:
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/04/03
shelves: trope-mafia-romance, currently-reading
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]]> <![CDATA[When She Falls (The Fallen, #3)]]> 77263943 Gentlemen don’t look at engaged women the way Ras Sorrentino looks at me.

Ras Sorrentino is the underboss of the most powerful clan in the Camorra. He’s also chaos and danger poured into a sleek Italian suit.

The first time I met him, I thought he was there to kill me. The second time, I wanted to kill him.

The third was in Ibiza, where I glared at him across the church as my sister married his boss.

It’s not his sharp tongue or his taunting smirks that I hate the most. It’s his gaze.

How it narrows when I flinch. How it hardens when he notices the bruises on my face. How he stares at my engagement ring like he wants to melt it off my finger.

I know it’s a bad idea to let him push my buttons. After all, the fate of my family rests on my upcoming marriage and my fiancé is only interested in me because of my pristine reputation.

A reputation Ras seems to have no qualms with stomping all over.

It’s a good thing him and I live on the opposite sides of the world.

Until he tells me, he’s coming back to New York with me.

And he’s staying.

~

Tropes: dark mafia romance, enemies to lovers, forbidden romance.]]> 496 Gabrielle Sands shaira �� 3 4.06 2023 When She Falls (The Fallen, #3)

author: Gabrielle Sands
name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2023
rating: 3
read at: 2025/04/02
date added: 2025/04/02
shelves: concept-touch-her-and-ill-kill-you, kink-concept-crawl-to-me, kink-concept-sit-on-my-face, kink-dirty-talk-18-plus, kink-kitty-pleaser, kink-spanking, trope-age-gap, trope-bodyguard, trope-engaged-to-another, trope-forbidden-taboo-love, trope-forced-proximity, trope-mafia-romance, trope-man-on-his-knees, kink-praise
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]]> <![CDATA[Rewind It Back (Windy City, #5)]]> 216156650
When I was eleven, my family moved next door to his.
When I was thirteen, he was my first crush.
When I was sixteen, we fell for each other.
And when I was nineteen, we broke each other’s hearts.

Six years later, I’ve landed an internship with a big-name interior designer in a new city. Unfortunately, that city just so happens to be the one he plays hockey for.

I thought Chicago was big enough to avoid him, until I get the surprise of a lifetime and unknowingly move in right next door. Even worse? The renovation project I’m assigned to in hopes of turning that internship into my full-time dream job...

It’s 𝘩𝘪𝘴 house.

But how am I supposed to update his bachelor pad into a family home when we can’t even stand to be in the same room?

I may have loved Rio DeLuca once, but I’m not that same girl anymore.

𝑹𝒊𝒐

I never thought I’d be the only single one left in my friend group. But after years of trying to find love, I’ve concluded it may not exist for me anymore.

That is, until I accidentally hire Hallie Hart to renovate my house and our jaded history has me rewinding memories I’ve kept secret for years.

You see, there’s something that my friends don’t know.

That connection I’ve been looking for since I moved to Chicago, that one person some search their entire lives to find... I had already found her when I was twelve years old.

And now the only girl I’ve ever loved is moving into the house next door.

Again.]]> Liz Tomforde shaira �� 0 to-read 4.68 2025 Rewind It Back (Windy City, #5)

author: Liz Tomforde
name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.68
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/04/01
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]]> Eleanor & Grey 44804802 350 Brittainy C. Cherry shaira �� 0
we have:
> a grieving widower mourning over the loss of his recently deceased wife
> reconnects with his high school situationship
> meddling child(ren) who try to bring the aforementioned high school situationship and him together
> widower still chasing the ghost of his dead wife and refusing to open his heart to love again
> a lot of crying
]]> 4.22 2019 Eleanor & Grey

author: Brittainy C. Cherry
name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2019
rating: 0
read at: 2025/03/31
date added: 2025/03/31
shelves: trope-love-after-loss, trope-angsty, trope-friends-to-lovers, trope-second-chance-romance
review:
this basically reminds me of the movie kuch kuch hota hai but w more angst (but better than KKHH)

we have:
> a grieving widower mourning over the loss of his recently deceased wife
> reconnects with his high school situationship
> meddling child(ren) who try to bring the aforementioned high school situationship and him together
> widower still chasing the ghost of his dead wife and refusing to open his heart to love again
> a lot of crying

]]> Vows of a Mobster 58714140
�� Mafia romance
�� Age Gap
�� Murder mystery
�� Steamy sex
�� Violence

I knew the past would come back to haunt me. It was only a matter of time before my world came crashing down.

The only thing I didn’t expect was Mateo. The head of the Italian mafia. We were never meant to cross paths; our worlds vastly different.

His green gaze captured me, his touch burning through my defenses. The words he whispered melted away all the years of loneliness. But the secret I kept could get me killed. If he spared me, his rivals wouldn’t. As my secrets unravel, it could cost me everything and everyone I loved.]]> 512 Eva Winners shaira �� 0 4.07 2021 Vows of a Mobster

author: Eva Winners
name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2021
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/03/30
shelves: currently-reading, trope-age-gap, trope-mafia-romance
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Dark Horse (The Quiet Horsemen #2)]]> 219389408 He might be the head of The Quiet Horsemen, the man everyone else in this town fears, but I’m not about to cede a single inch of ground to him.
If I have to lie, cheat, and steal to keep him from finding out my bar’s underwater—well, that’s exactly what I’ll do.
At least until he breaks into my apartment and discovers my secret. One that gives him all the leverage he needs to control my fate.
My only reprieve is that The Horsemen are in the middle of a war, one that’s been spilling blood for the better part of a decade, and his enemies are closing in on our small mountain town.
Which is why I’m taken off guard by the demand he makes in exchange for keeping my secret.
Apparently there are benefits to being at the mercy of the devil…]]> 404 Maggie Rawdon shaira �� 0 to-read 4.25 Dark Horse (The Quiet Horsemen #2)

author: Maggie Rawdon
name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.25
book published:
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/28
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]]> <![CDATA[Hunger In His Blood (Brides of the Kylorr #3)]]> 228927338 An unrequited love. A broken heart. A stolen secret.

I’ve loved Kaldur of House Kaalium since the first moment I laid eyes on him. He’s a sinfully charming, lore smoking playboy, with a smile that makes me see stars. As the High Lord of Vyaan, his vast power and wealth extends throughout the entirety of our nation—and he’s as untouchable as he is devastatingly handsome.

Me? I’m a lowly human keeper on his grand estate. An orphan with no family. A dreamer, who lives in the adventure of my own fictional stories. I couldn’t be more beneath his notice or unlike the plethora of pretty, clever socialites that warm his bed.

For two years, he has no idea I even exist…until one afternoon, a tiny cut on my palm changes everything. He discovers that I’m his kyrana, his blood mate. The one female that will sate his vampiric hunger and calm the berserker rages of his race. I thought every dream I’d had was finally coming true—my winged prince finally come.

Until Kaldur breaks my heart so callously, reinforcing every pain and insecurity I’d ever had.

And when he realizes his mistake and sets his mind to winning me back? He’ll have the fight of his life if he thinks I’ll ever give him my heart again.]]> Zoey Draven shaira �� 0 to-read, trope-grovelling 4.08 Hunger In His Blood (Brides of the Kylorr #3)

Hunger In His Blood (Brides of the Kylorr #3)

author: Zoey Draven
name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.08
book published:
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/28
shelves: to-read, trope-grovelling
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]]> At the Mercy of Midnight 223730611
Desperate to break their bond, they discover darker truths and deeper bonds and wonder at whether the Midnight Blades are far more dangerous than either suspected. Hunted by a secret order and racing against the bounds of time, Amelia and Silas must work together or risk losing more than their freedom.

Because if they fail, midnight may never come again.]]> Chloe Cullen shaira �� 0 to-read 5.00 At the Mercy of Midnight

author: Chloe Cullen
name: shaira ��
average rating: 5.00
book published:
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/27
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]]> <![CDATA[Wicked Heir (Chernov Bratva, #1)]]> 69708090 I was here to find the man I’d lost, seven years ago.
I had no idea that he’d already found me.
I had no idea that he was watching me, controlling my every movement.
He was no longer the rebel kid from across the tracks, now, he’s heir to the most brutal bratva the city has ever known.
, and he’s

Wicked Heir is the 1st book in the Vicious Vengeance duet, featuring a dark, tortured anti-hero and the plucky object of his obsession. It is a dark mafia romance, and as such contains themes which some readers may find triggering. Please read with caution.]]> 335 Mila Kane shaira �� 0 to-read 3.79 2023 Wicked Heir (Chernov Bratva, #1)

author: Mila Kane
name: shaira ��
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/27
shelves: to-read
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]]> <![CDATA[Savage Throne (Chernov Bratva, #2)]]> 75368072
He forgave me for running once.
This time, if he finds me, there’ll be no escape.
He’ll make me his wife, even if he has to carry me down the aisle to do it.
And that’s before he knows what I’m hiding from him.
A secret nine months in the making��

Savage Throne is book 2 in the Vicious Vengeance duet, featuring a dark, tortured anti-hero and the plucky object of his obsession. It is a dark mafia romance, and as such contains themes that some readers may find triggering. Please read with caution.]]> 306 Mila Kane shaira �� 0 to-read 3.96 2023 Savage Throne (Chernov Bratva, #2)

author: Mila Kane
name: shaira ��
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/03/27
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Girlfriend Zone (Love and Hockey, #4)]]> 210493954 In my defense, I had no idea the tattooed, glasses-wearing, soulful hottie I spent one perfect day—and one unforgettable night—with was a hockey star on my father’s team.
And Miles didn’t know I was the coach’s daughter.
That’s the point of a “no-work-talk�� date.
But now? He's as forbidden to me as I am to him.
When I land a new gig as the team photographer, we vow to keep it professional. We mostly succeed…except for that time after a game when he couldn’t keep his talented hands off me. And, okay, maybe that other time before a road trip. But I swear, it won’t happen again.
Too much is at stake—I can’t risk my heart or my father’s team.
But when I’m asked to dog-sit Miles’s pack of rescue pups for a few weeks, I discover there’s more to him than I ever imagined—a man who’s genuine, thoughtful, and irresistibly real.
He looks at me like he can’t believe his luck. Touches me like he never wants to let go. And listens to my hopes and fears.
My heart’s getting dangerously attached. But if I follow it�� am I putting everyone’s dreams on the line?

Tropes: coach’s daughter, the one who got away, starts with a bang, second chance vibes, age gap, forbidden hockey romance, forced proximity, workplace romance,]]> Lauren Blakely shaira �� 0 to-read 4.20 The Girlfriend Zone (Love and Hockey, #4)

The Girlfriend Zone (Love and Hockey, #4)

author: Lauren Blakely
name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.20
book published:
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/27
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]]> <![CDATA[Oh, You're So Cold (Bad Boys of Bardstown, #2)]]> 200769681
All I wanted was a harmless kiss from the handsome stranger at my eighteenth birthday party. But when he said �� with a cruel twist of his cigarette smoking lips �� that he doesn’t kiss ‘annoying little girls,�� I stupidly decided to flirt with a random guy to make him jealous.

I never wanted that random guy to fall in love with me. Or worse, accidentally start a relationship with him. But now I have a new boyfriend while I can’t stop thinking about the guy who doesn’t care that I exist.

So it’s time to move on and focus on my new relationship.

Only the moment I make that decision, he decides to notice me.

He decides to stare at me a little too hard and in a way that makes me blush. Oh and one day when my boyfriend isn’t looking, he decides to corner me in a lonely hallway and put his rough and heated hands on me that feels equal parts forbidden and familiar.

But I’m not stupid.

I’m not going to ruin my new relationship for someone that people call Stellan ‘The Cold�� Thorne. Especially not when the random guy I’m dating isn’t random at all.

No, my new boyfriend happens to be the brother of the guy I’m inappropriately obsessed with.

And I’m not the kind of girl who comes between two brothers.

Twin brothers��

Or am I?

NOTE: This book is a complete STANDALONE set in the world of St. Mary's and Bardstown.]]> 442 Saffron A. Kent shaira �� 0
already bored with this one and i have waaay to many books in my tbr to be worrying about finishing this one

also stellan is such a boring MMC like dude if you’re so into her then what are you even doing about it? man is intentionally marinating in his own turmoil and for what?? also what tf kinda nickname is stellan “the cold��? dude acting like he is a knight of the seven realms who fought against the elves to have earned a moniker starting with “The�� with a capital T]]> 3.85 2024 Oh, You're So Cold (Bad Boys of Bardstown, #2)

Oh, You're So Cold (Bad Boys of Bardstown, #2)

author: Saffron A. Kent
name: shaira ��
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at: 2024/12/28
date added: 2025/03/26
shelves: kink-dirty-talk-18-plus, kink-boobies-nipple-play, trope-twin-swap, trope-engaged-to-another, trope-bargain-blackmail, dnf
review:
dnf @ 52%

already bored with this one and i have waaay to many books in my tbr to be worrying about finishing this one

also stellan is such a boring MMC like dude if you’re so into her then what are you even doing about it? man is intentionally marinating in his own turmoil and for what?? also what tf kinda nickname is stellan “the cold��? dude acting like he is a knight of the seven realms who fought against the elves to have earned a moniker starting with “The�� with a capital T
]]> <![CDATA[Fierce Pursuit (Ivanov Crime Family #4)]]> 228982929 I was married to her sister—a woman who died in the crossfire of my Russian mafia world.
To her, I'm nothing but a monster with blood-stained hands.
She doesn't see they're the same hands keeping her alive.
She's fled from me repeatedly, each escape bringing her closer to the enemies hunting us both.
The hatred burning in her eyes only matches the forbidden heat igniting between us.
The rival bratva won't stop until she's eliminated.
My solution? Make her mine—a marriage placing her untouchably under my protection.
She fights me at every turn, fierce and beautiful in her rage, blaming me for her sister's death and her shattered life.
She can't know the truth, that her sister's death wasn't collateral damage but punishment for betrayal.
As danger closes in, I'm torn between my vow and the desperate hunger that consumes me whenever she's near.
When an ambush leaves her bleeding in my arms, everything changes.
This marriage isn't negotiable anymore.
She'll wear my ring and bear my name.
She'll be mine, even if I have to break her to keep her.]]> 395 Zoe Blake shaira �� 0 to-read 4.71 Fierce Pursuit (Ivanov Crime Family #4)

author: Zoe Blake
name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.71
book published:
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/26
shelves: to-read
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]]> <![CDATA[On Wings of Blood (Bloodwing Academy, #1)]]> 210428052 What do you get if you mix Harry Potter with Fourth Wing, Zodiac Academy, a dash of Arthurian legend, and lots and lots of vampires? Bloodwing Academy.

I didn't sign up for this.

A half-fae in a school of highblood vampires? That's a recipe for torment.

I'm Medra Pendragon—last of the dragon riders, or so they tell me. Funny thing is, there are no dragons left. Not a single one. But somehow, that hasn't stopped the vampires from deciding I'm worth capturing. Now I'm stuck at Bloodwing Academy, where the highbloods run everything and blightborn like me? We're just blood in their veins, pawns in their games.

But that's not even the worst part. Enter Blake Drakharrow. Cold, arrogant, and way too gorgeous for his own good. He's been tormenting me since the moment we met, and now, thanks to some ancient ritual, we're betrothed. He acts like he owns me, but I'm not going down without a fight.

Bloodwing isn't just a school—it's a battlefield. Highbloods fight for power, and if you're weak? You're dead.

Between deadly competitions, lies that could get me executed, and a dragon-shaped secret looming over my head, all I have to do is survive. Easy, right? Except I'm starting to think the real danger isn't the academy—it's what I'm becoming in this twisted game of power.

And Blake? He might just be the one who pushes me over the edge.

They think they can control me. They think they can use me.

But they have no idea what they've awakened.

Bestselling epic fantasy author Briar Boleyn returns with a new series perfect for fans of hate to love romance, heart-pounding action, and dark magic.

On Wings of Blood is a dark academia fantasy romance featuring a bully villain with Draco Malfoy energy who (eventually) gets the girl, all the tension and banter, and a tantalizingly dangerous blend of court and school intrigue all set in an intricately crafted world with unique vampire and dragon lore. Bloodwing Academy may have crossover characters from the world of Blood of a Fae, but can be read completely independently. If you're a fan of original mythology, unique world-building, and character-driven romantasy books such as Crowns of Nyaxia, From Blood and Ash, and A Court of Thorns and Roses, you won't want to miss out on this riveting new saga. ]]> 523 Briar Boleyn shaira �� 0 to-read 4.03 2024 On Wings of Blood (Bloodwing Academy, #1)

On Wings of Blood (Bloodwing Academy, #1)

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]]> <![CDATA[Seduce Me at Sunrise (The Hathaways, #2)]]> 2948832 He'd tried so hard to forget her.

Kev Merripen has longed for the beautiful, well-bred Winnifred Hathaway ever since her family rescued him from the brink of death when he was just a boy. But this handsome Gypsy is a man of mysterious origins—and he fears that the darkness of his past could crush delicate, luminous Win. So Kev refuses to submit to temptation . . . and before long Win is torn from him by a devastating twist of fate.

Can she remember the man he once was?

Then, Win returns to England—only to find that Kev has hardened into a man who will deny love at all costs. Meantime, an attractive, seductive suitor has set his sights on Win. It’s now or never for Kev to make his move. But first, he must confront a dangerous secret about his destiny—or risk losing the only woman he has lived for . . .]]> 360 Lisa Kleypas 0312949812 shaira �� 3 ok the angst was goood but i was kinda hoping for something more��? ]]> 4.04 2008 Seduce Me at Sunrise (The Hathaways, #2)

Seduce Me at Sunrise (The Hathaways, #2)

author: Lisa Kleypas
name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2008
rating: 3
read at: 2025/03/23
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ok the angst was goood but i was kinda hoping for something more��?
]]> <![CDATA[The Disappearances of Draco Malfoy]]> 58248000
A Deathly Hallows rewrite in which Draco accepts Dumbledore's offer to fake his death and go into hiding with the Order of the Phoenix]]> 1172 Speechwriter shaira �� 0 to-read, dramione 4.43 2021 The Disappearances of Draco Malfoy

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average rating: 4.43
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]]> <![CDATA[Eyes of Devious Burgundy (Deathcaller Duet, #1)]]> 220277129 In the midst of war, love might be the deadliest weapon of all.

For ten long years, Angels and Demons have waged a brutal war, with one man standing between the Demons and total Rokath, the cruel and merciless general feared for his power to raise the dead.

A prophecy whispers of a woman with eyes of devious burgundy who will shift the balance of power, but Rokath has plans of his own. After a deadly plague wipes out millions of Demons across the realm, Rokath issues an unforgiving command—every family must send one male to the front or face being put to the sword.

Assyria, a sharp-tongued, burgundy-eyed farmgirl, is trapped in an abusive marriage to a nobleman who only values her for the power she could give their offspring. Her life unravels when Rokath’s soldiers arrive with the decree. A violent clash leaves her covered in blood—and running for her life. With her rare magic, she assumes the form of her slain husband and marches off to war, hiding among the very men she’s sworn to hate for killing her family.

In a society where women must remain veiled and pure, Assyria's survival hinges on secrecy. Yet nothing can prepare her for the sharp, sinister gaze of Rokath, whose punishments for disobedience are swift and savage.

When their paths cross, fate sets into motion a dangerous chain of events neither of them can control. With tension crackling between them and thousands of lives balanced on a knife’s edge, will their unlikely connection ignite salvation for the Demons—or doom them to destruction?

Eyes of Devious Burgundy is the first book in the Deathcaller Duet, a slow meet, hate-to-love, banter-filled high dark fantasy romance with a vicious, dangerous MMC and a fiery FMC. Perfect for fans of A Choice of Light and Dark, Carissa Broadbent, and LJ Andrews. An Age of War and Prophecy is a series of interconnected duets and standalones centering around the world-altering events of the Great War between the Angels and Demons. It contains mature, dark themes that some readers might find disturbing. A full TW list is available on the author’s website.]]> 754 Lacey Lehotzky shaira �� 0 to-read 4.34 Eyes of Devious Burgundy (Deathcaller Duet, #1)

Eyes of Devious Burgundy (Deathcaller Duet, #1)

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]]> A Vow of Blood and Tears 219513328 Bane

Never did I dream that a woman would cry on our wedding night.

Ten years have passed since humans and vampires allied to defeat the wolves.

Now, to seal the covenant between our people and keep my throne, I must take a mortal bride.

But I’ve gone further than any vampire has gone before—become a fiend, a monster even among my own kind. No woman can lay eyes on me now without horror and fear.

When I first see her, I know I’ve doomed her. But she doesn’t scream in terror.

She fears not my face, but my bestial thirst.

Because of her courage, I will be the remorseless beast who keeps a beauty chained with vows.

And though I crave the taste of her blood��

I will fight the monster within to win her heart and soul.

Cirri

Never did I dream that a monstrous vampire would be the one to hear me.

Voiceless and ignored by the world, I was never considered good enough for anything beyond my indentured servitude—a silent, forgettable shadow.

Until my blood betrayed me.

Chosen by chance as a pureblood bride for the Lord of the Rift, I’ve been sold in marriage to a vampire more hideous than I could’ve imagined.

But despite his savage appearance, he tries to hear my silent words.

He alone learns to read the language of my hands.

He might be a beast, but there is beauty in his soul. For the sake of my people, I will spend a lifetime shackled to this monster��

But for the sake of his heart, I will make myself heard.

This novel is a full-length standalone fantasy romance with a guaranteed HEA. Beauty & the Beast entwines with Dracula in this steamy, slow-burn romantasy for readers 18+.

One-click this MF standalone if you

Dual POVs

Romantasy

Monstrous vampires

Obsessed goth husbands

Arranged/political marriages

Strong, smart heroines ]]> 696 Cate Corvin shaira �� 0 to-read 4.37 A Vow of Blood and Tears

author: Cate Corvin
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average rating: 4.37
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]]> <![CDATA[Coldhearted King (Empty Kingdom, #1)]]> 153174830 I never planned to give my V-card to a gorgeous stranger I met at a bar.

But for once I didn't let myself overthink things. In the few hours we spent together, he managed to push me outside my comfort zone.

And I loved every second.

I never expected to see him again. Let alone sitting at the head of the boardroom table during my architectural firm's pitch to design his new hotel chain.

Turns out the man I spent one steamy night of passion with is Cole King, billionaire COO of the King Group. And unlike our previous encounter, when it comes to business, he’s as cold as ice.

Now I’m working for him, and it’s�� challenging.

He’s arrogant, demanding, and seems to delight in pushing my buttons. But with every “one-on-one�� meeting he insists we have, the memory of that night simmers between us.

I should never have agreed when he proposed a no-strings-attached arrangement, but I wanted to experience more of what he could give me.

I didn’t mean to trade my heart in return.

Now it’s too late.

Because no matter the warmth his touch brings, Cole is as icy in love as he is in business.

And I’m the one who’s going to get burned.]]> 418 L.M. Dalgleish shaira �� 0 to-read 4.18 Coldhearted King (Empty Kingdom, #1)

author: L.M. Dalgleish
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]]> Ten out of Ten 62895868
"Zero."

Hermione's lips pursed in annoyance because she really should have seen that coming. How charming that the extent of his arseholery could still surprise her.

Hermione is determined to find a loophole to free her from a forced marriage with Draco Malfoy. But with only two weeks until they are legally required to consummate, it would be irresponsible not to prepare for every contingency.]]> 256 morriganmercy shaira �� 0 to-read, dramione 3.99 Ten out of Ten

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]]> <![CDATA[Psychotic Obsession (The Edge of Darkness Trilogy)]]> 208177256 TRUST IS A WEAKNESS
POSSESSION IS A TOXIC GAME
Sweet and gentle.
Calm and collected.
Nervous and inexperienced.
He was death cloaked in the form of a handsome man, and instead of running the other way the first chance she got, she fell for him.

Aria Miller is a scientist searching for the cure for a rare genetic disease when her world turns on its head �� she collides with Tobias Mitchell. When she takes him on as her assistant, he becomes infatuated with her in ways he knows he shouldn’t be.

Then, reality hits, and Aria is forced to leave the country. Faced with the thought of losing the object of his obsession, Tobias�� mask slips, showing her his true self for the first time.

Aria is his, and he’ll do anything to make sure she stays that way.

This is an interconnected standalone set before The Edge of Darkness Trilogy]]> 442 Leigh Rivers shaira �� 0 to-read 4.31 Psychotic Obsession (The Edge of Darkness Trilogy)

Psychotic Obsession (The Edge of Darkness Trilogy)

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]]> Timeless 57210152
This story is very complicated and epic, but a fun read, especially if you like the complexity of time paradoxes and plot twists.��

Excerpt From
Timeless
alexandra_emerson
This material may be protected by copyright.]]> 1150 alexandra_emerson shaira �� 0 to-read, dramione 4.35

author: alexandra_emerson
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]]> <![CDATA[Phantom Mine: A Dark Mafia Romance (London Underworld Book 2)]]> 230165974 A year and a half ago, everything changed.
My sister, my best friend, was murdered–and it was my fault.
I brought her to London. I dragged her to the club where she was kidnapped. I lost her.
Adriana paid the price for my mistakes.
The guilt and grief have eaten me alive, but I'm done hiding in the shadows of my failures.
Our brother spent eighteen months chasing ghosts, trying to find her body, her killer, only to come up empty handed.
Now it's my turn.
I won't be sidelined any longer.
I'm going back to Firenze, the club where it all started, and I'm going to find answers. I'll turn over every rock, burn every bridge, and make any enemy necessary to get to the truth.
There's nothing I won't risk and nothing I won't do to avenge Adriana.
Not even if it means going head to head with Matteo Leone, the man second in line to become Don of the Italian Mafia.
If he doesn't get out of my way, I'll make him.
I didn't expect to find a kindred soul behind the mask, a soul I'm quickly learning I can't live without.
There's only one problem–at least one of the Leones is responsible for Adriana's murder.
And it might be Matteo.

Phantom Mine is the second book in the London Underworld series. Although it can be read as a standalone, it's recommended to read Devil Mine first to get a full understanding of the subplots.]]> 576 Khai Hara shaira �� 0 to-read 4.52 Phantom Mine: A Dark Mafia Romance (London Underworld Book 2)

Phantom Mine: A Dark Mafia Romance (London Underworld Book 2)

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]]> Isolation 56048801 He can't leave the room. Her room. And it's all the Order's fault. Confined to a small space with only the Mudblood for company, something's going to give. Maybe his sanity. Maybe not.
"There," she spat. "Now your Blood's filthy too!" DM/HG. PostHBP.

Post Half-Blood Prince. Ron and Harry are Horcrux hunting and Hermione has been left at Hogwarts to help the Order make it safe for the other students. Draco is forced by Snape to stay in Hogwarts for his own protection, but he can't leave the room he is given; Granger's room. Hermione is the only student trusted with this information, so she and Malfoy share the small space, and Draco tries to avoid insanity as he becomes increasingly isolated with only the Mudblood for company. Something's going to give...

Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy
Words: 278,881]]> 1053 Bex-chan shaira �� 0 to-read, dramione 4.11 2010 Isolation

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name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.11
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]]> Meet Me at Midnight 223469051 495 forawhile shaira �� 0 to-read, dramione 3.82

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]]> <![CDATA[The Auction (Rights and Wrongs, #3)]]> 53912089
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy
Words: 181,287]]> 724 LovesBitca8 shaira �� 0 to-read, dramione 4.48

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]]> Meet Me In Dreamland 215003078 Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy

If there’s one thing Hermione Granger is good at, it’s using magic to fix her problems. And this time, her problem is sex.

Luckily, she has the perfect solution: a locket enchanted with the Patented Daydream Charm. Whenever she opens it, she’ll find herself in Dreamland, where she can live out all her filthiest fantasies risk-free.

The magic is a bit tricky, though. For some reason, Malfoy keeps showing up there with her. Thank goodness it’s only an illusion—if that was really him, she would never live it down.

Meanwhile, Draco is determined to figure out who the fuck is cursing him to suffer through highly realistic, erotic hallucinations of his secret childhood crush. When he finds the culprit, there will be hell to pay.

Words: 170,854 (6/18/24)]]> 600 sinflower81 shaira �� 0 to-read, dramione 4.38 Meet Me In Dreamland

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average rating: 4.38
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]]> <![CDATA[Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3)]]> 211164792 Two feuding second-grade teachers (and neighbors) find themselves teaming up in this rivals-to-lovers romance.

Emily Walker hates having her carefully crafted world disrupted by anyone, most of all her legendary nemesis, Jack Bennett. He's the opposite of the wonderful heroes she dreams up in her double life as a romance writer, which is why Emily was perfectly happy when Jack left Rome, Kentucky, mid-school year, with his fiancée. The last thing Emily saw coming was Jack’s return at the start of the summer after calling off the wedding and ending his relationship, but he’s here to stay—as her colleague and her neighbor.

Jackson Bennett is glad to be back, eager to renovate his house and work on the next mystery novel under his bestselling pen name. But when he realizes he’s now neighbors with the one woman who has always pushed his buttons, he discovers something he’s even more excited for—thwarting Emily and her petty plans to sabotage his return.

With their chemistry-fueled animosity at an all-time high, Emily accidentally sends an email to their school’s principal that could reveal her secret literary side hustle. She needs to steal back her manuscript, and Jack—she hates to admit—is just the man to help her. Surprisingly, Jack agrees. Will their unlikely alliance put an end to their rivalry? Or could it lead to a steamy plot twist they never saw coming?]]> 384 Sarah Adams 0593723694 shaira �� 0 to-read 4.08 2025 Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3)

Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3)

author: Sarah Adams
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average rating: 4.08
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]]> <![CDATA[Savage Reign (Bratva Kings #2)]]> 214684271
Once, he saved my life. Now, he owns me. As his wife. As his prisoner.

He tore me from my world and branded me with his touch, a wedding ring inked into my skin.

Trapped in his gilded cage, I’m nothing but a pawn in his brutal war—a means to an end in his deadly game against a rival syndicate.

But he doesn’t just want my submission. He wants to consume me—body, mind, and soul.

I swore I’d fight him, that I’d never give in. But with every heated glance, every forbidden touch, I’m losing ground.

Because monsters like Nikolai don’t just steal hearts.

They destroy them.

*Savage Reign is a forced marriage mafia romance. It has no cheating, no cliffhangers, and a guaranteed happily ever after. Can be read as a complete standalone.]]> 0 Monica Kayne shaira �� 0 to-read 4.16 Savage Reign (Bratva Kings #2)

author: Monica Kayne
name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.16
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]]> <![CDATA[Ruthless Reign (Bratva Kings #1)]]> 220509474
I’m the right hand to the most powerful mob boss in Russia—everything I desire, I get.

Except for her.

Liza Ivanova is pure temptation... and strictly off-limits as my business partner’s fiancée. She looks like an angel with a body made for sin, but nothing about Liza is as it seems.

I vow to stay away, but that becomes impossible when I’m required to act as her bodyguard on a trip to London.

When she sneaks out in the middle of the night, I follow her to an exclusive club and find her on stage, auctioning her innocence to the highest bidder.

As if I’d let another man touch her.

If Liza craves the forbidden, I’ll be the one to indulge her every dark fantasy.

But one taste will never be enough, and this dangerous game threatens to ruin us both.

Ruthless Reign is a forbidden love mafia romance. It has no cheating, no cliffhangers, and a guaranteed happily ever after. Can be read as a complete standalone.]]> 386 Monica Kayne shaira �� 0 to-read 4.11 Ruthless Reign (Bratva Kings #1)

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]]> The Nanny is Off Limits 223437615 a single dad/nanny age gap romance!

Rowan Kincaid hasn’t dated in over a year.
Not since the mother of his children unexpectedly passed away leaving him to parent their three children alone.
Exhausted, overworked and feeling like he’s failing at every turn he’s desperate for help.
The help that shows up?
A gorgeous woman almost twenty years younger than him.
She’s compassionate and charming and the kids fall for her instantly.
And despite the fact that she should be off limits,
he falls for her too.]]> Q.B. Tyler shaira �� 0 to-read 4.35 The Nanny is Off Limits

author: Q.B. Tyler
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average rating: 4.35
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]]> <![CDATA[When She Tempts (The Fallen, #2)]]> 62040146
Martina De Rossi is off-limits, and not just because her brother is about to become the Don.

When I agree to protect her while he’s out waging a brutal war, it isn’t only out of loyalty.

It’s because Martina is the perfect pawn in my game of revenge.

Unfortunately, she’s also temptation personified.

Innocent eyes. A body to die for. Silky blond hair that begs to be wrapped around my fist.

I’m a master of staying in control, but with each day she spends with me inside the walls of my remote Italian castle, I can feel my resolve cracking.

My gaze starts to drift.

My touch starts to linger.

And when she tempts, I realize this game we’re playing might be one I won’t win.]]> 472 Gabrielle Sands shaira �� 5 i fear gabrielle sands is really good at edging the reader (me)

reading romance books during one’s follicular phase is a dangerous undertaking bc wdym you’re emotionally horny (speaking for a friend) ]]> 4.05 When She Tempts (The Fallen, #2)

author: Gabrielle Sands
name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.05
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read at: 2025/03/16
date added: 2025/03/16
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i fear gabrielle sands is really good at edging the reader (me)

reading romance books during one’s follicular phase is a dangerous undertaking bc wdym you’re emotionally horny (speaking for a friend)
]]> Buried Dreams (Dream #3) 218681876 The course of their lives and the trajectory of the town sets them on a collision course for disaster.

Everleigh

One night changed my whole life.
After the truth about that night came out, I knew I had to leave.
Taking my broken heart with me.
I had no choice but to go back.
I knew it would slice me back open again.
But sometimes, the root of the flower you planted starts to grow again, no matter how many times you’ve cut them down.
He was my everything, and then he was my nothing.

Brock
My father taught me honor and integrity.
And in one split second, I ruined it all.
I lost everything I ever wanted.
But I had no choice.
I tried to go on with my life.
And the only good thing I had was my daughter.
Never expected to see the one woman who I’d loved and lost here again.
They say time heals old wounds.
They were wrong.
It just splits you open, making you bleed out.
I just have to survive again.]]> 296 Natasha Madison shaira �� 4 4.23 2025 Buried Dreams (Dream #3)

author: Natasha Madison
name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2025
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/15
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]]> <![CDATA[Deep Pockets (Kings and Rivals #1)]]> 217554324
I’ve built a legitimate empire in New York, far from the life of shadows and violence in which I was raised. I'm heir to a dark throne.

When she needs temporary shelter, I allow her to crash at my place. Being this close to her, without touching her, hurts like hell. But I can play the white knight for a few weeks.

I have to stay away from her, even while I keep her safe.

Even if it means not touching her beautiful body.

Even if it means seeing the hurt in her eyes.

Then my former life comes crashing in. She doesn’t know how deep the stakes go—and I can't afford to let her find out. Protecting her means keeping her close, even if it means risking everything, including my own heart.

Deep Pockets is a steamy enemies-to-lovers romance filled with high-stakes tension, passion, and the thin line between loyalty and love. It’s a journey of tragic pasts, fierce protectiveness, and the realization that sometimes, the heart wants what it has secretly craved all along.]]> 292 Nana Malone shaira �� 0 to-read 4.21 Deep Pockets (Kings and Rivals #1)

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]]> <![CDATA[Beautiful Beast (Perfectly Imperfect: Mafia Legacy, #1)]]> 209685756 But when the most beautiful woman is brought to face my fury,
My dead heart suddenly begins to beat again.

There are no fairy tales in this life.
Beauty will never fall for the beast.
But this monster doesn't intend to let her go.

Everybody has a price.
It's just a question of currency.
My sweet little hacker can't be swayed by money,
But she will do whatever it takes to save her family.]]> 372 Neva Altaj 1961423405 shaira �� 5 they’re perfect your honour ]]> 4.30 2024 Beautiful Beast (Perfectly Imperfect: Mafia Legacy, #1)

Beautiful Beast (Perfectly Imperfect: Mafia Legacy, #1)

author: Neva Altaj
name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2024
rating: 5
read at: 2025/03/15
date added: 2025/03/15
shelves: trope-beauty-and-the-beast, trope-pining-hero, trope-obsessed-hero-unhinged, trope-mafia-romance, trope-kidnapped, trope-j-p-ott-heroes, trope-grumpy-sunshine, trope-grand-gestures, trope-forced-proximity, trope-fairytale-inspired, trope-angsty, trope-age-gap, lover-provider-protector, love-language-acts-of-service, kink-talking-them-through-the-big-o, kink-in-the-shower-slash-bath, kink-dirty-talk-18-plus, kink-kitty-pleaser
review:
they’re perfect your honour
]]> <![CDATA[Nightshade (Sorrowsong University #1)]]> 221609337 *Book one of a duet*

When Ophelia Winters accepts a scholarship at a prestigious Scottish university to prove that her parents' death was the fault of Cain Green, an American aviation tycoon, her plan is simple; keep her grades up and her head down. The last thing she wants is to wind up in a mafia war or step on the toes of royalty.

Her plan gets off to a rocky start when the mysterious man that almost kills her on her first day turns out to be Cain's eldest son. As far as she’s concerned, Alex Corbeau-Green is a younger version of his billionaire father. A monster hiding beneath a beautiful facade.

Loneliness has been Ophelia’s only dependable companion for years, but when anonymous threats and mysterious occurrences start to haunt her time at Sorrowsong, she wonders if she really can survive there on her own.

Between being paired together for a project and ending up as each other’s alibi for a murder, avoiding Alex becomes increasingly impossible. She begins to fall for the soft heart that hides beneath his hard exterior.

Tormented by a malicious stalker and growing closer to Alex, Ophelia’s desperation for revenge wavers for the first time. Can she really bring herself to pull the trigger on Cain now that she knows the family it’ll split into two?
__________

Dark Academic Romance - Enemies to Lovers - Slow Burn - University Setting

This work is dark in places and contains several triggers throughout. Please heed the warnings before reading.]]> 359 Autumn Woods shaira �� 0 to-read 4.21 Nightshade (Sorrowsong University #1)

author: Autumn Woods
name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.21
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]]> Corrupted Chaos 61757380 My enemy doesn’t make the rules behind closed doors��
Even if he’s my boss.

Cade Armanelli might be an infamous hacker with billionaire status who operates better alone, but I earned my spot working alongside him...
Whether he likes it or not.

It’s precisely why I’m on the first plane to an undisclosed location for our cybersecurity team retreat. I’m ready to prove to our company that I can handle anything��
Except sharing a cabin and a bed with my meticulous, elusive boss.

He’s antisocial.
Ruthless.
Enemy number one.
Unfortunately, he’s also number one in tatted, dark, and dangerous. I quickly come to find that not only are his hacking skills perfection, but so is his performance in the bedroom.

Not that it matters. I have a job to keep, a heart to protect, and our nation’s data to secure.
Cade can’t help me with any of that.
He’s a distraction. One I have to avoid��
Even if it means I’m spray painting a red line down our bed and keeping my boss on his side.

Corrupted Chaos is a light mafia standalone romance with forced proximity, steam, and a tech mogul that will fight and grovel for a HEA with his spitfire woman.]]> 374 Shain Rose 1956810072 shaira �� 0 to-read 4.02 2022

author: Shain Rose
name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/14
shelves: to-read
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]]> <![CDATA[Blood of My Monster (Monster Trilogy, #1)]]> 63368678 From the USA Today bestselling author Rina Kent comes a new dark mafia romance.

I’m out for revenge. He’s out to rule the world.
Kirill and I are as different as day and night.
We shouldn’t have been in the same frame or universe.
But we meet under the strangest circumstances.
He’s my superior in the military and the man who’ll introduce me to carnage.
His charm and exterior perfection shouldn’t have tempted me.
Behind the smokescreen lurks a manipulative emotionless monster.
And that monster might find out all my secrets, including the reason why I’m pretending to be a man.
He might also lure me to the point of no return.

This book is part of a trilogy and is not a standalone.]]> 349 Rina Kent shaira �� 4 4.19 2023 Blood of My Monster (Monster Trilogy, #1)

Blood of My Monster (Monster Trilogy, #1)

author: Rina Kent
name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2024/03/27
date added: 2025/03/13
shelves: trope-secret-identity, trope-heroine-in-disguise, kink-kitty-pleaser, kink-mirror-katoptronophilia, trope-obsessed-hero-unhinged, trope-mafia-romance, concept-touch-her-and-ill-kill-you, kink-sexy-time-in-a-moving-vehicle, kink-dirty-talk-18-plus, kink-breath-play-hand-necklace, trope-revenge-plot, trope-j-p-ott-heroes, concept-joe-goldberg-level-obsessed, kink-in-the-shower-slash-bath, concept-crack-back-like-glowstick, kink-cnc-dubcon, kink-degradation, kink-boobies-nipple-play, kink-tied-up
review:
to whomever is reading this: if i ever lose my memories plz put the monster trilogy in my hands as food for my addled brains
]]> <![CDATA[Duke with a Reputation (Wicked Dukes Society #1)]]> 218678501 From USA Today bestselling author Scarlett Scott comes a scorching-hot enemies-to-lovers romance between a single dad duke and the fiercely independent countess who has vowed to guard her heart at all costs...

The Duke of Brandon is London’s most infamous rake. But his world crashes to a decided halt when the sins of his past come back to haunt him in the form of one small she-devil of a child who has green eyes just like his. To make matters worse, his disapproving grandmother has decided that he must marry or forfeit his inheritance.

Now, he has no choice but to raise a daughter, find a wife, and keep his harridan grandmother from discovering his sordid secrets as the founder of the Wicked Dukes Society. So when the tempting, fiery-haired Countess of Grenfell propositions him, he offers her something else instead—a marriage of convenience.

Lottie, Countess of Grenfell, is London’s most notorious widow. Her doomed, one-sided marriage left her with a broken heart and a determination to never wed again. What she wants is simple—passion, independence, and one night in the Duke of Brandon’s bed. Or in his scandalous chair. Perhaps even against a wall. She wouldn’t marry him, however, if he were the last man on earth.

Brandon is quickly running out of time and his troublemaking daughter has decided no one else shall do as her step-mama but the maddening countess. He must persuade Lottie to become his duchess with all haste or risk losing everything. As he sets out to seduce her into marriage, he’s shocked to realize that he’s done the one thing he previously believed himself incapable of along the way—he’s fallen in love. But Lottie’s bruised and battered heart is more guarded than his, and she has vowed to never allow another man to hurt her again.

Heat Scorching hot! Don't say you weren't warned. ]]> 313 Scarlett Scott shaira �� 0 to-read 4.40 2024 Duke with a Reputation (Wicked Dukes Society #1)

Duke with a Reputation (Wicked Dukes Society #1)

author: Scarlett Scott
name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/13
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]]> <![CDATA[A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3)]]> 62816044 Two villains, one girl, and a deadly battle for happily ever after.

Evangeline Fox ventured to the Magnificent North in search of her happy ending, and it seems as if she has it. She’s married to a handsome prince and lives in a legendary castle. But Evangeline has no idea of the devastating price she’s paid for this fairytale. She doesn’t know what she has lost, and her husband is determined to make sure she never finds out . . . but first he must kill Jacks, the Prince of Hearts.

Blood will be shed, hearts will be stolen, and true love will be put to the test in A Curse for True Love, the breathlessly anticipated conclusion to the Once Upon A Broken Heart trilogy.]]> 386 Stephanie Garber 1250851203 shaira �� 4 fantasy-scifi, trope-amnesia and they lived happily ever after (thank god) ]]> 4.14 2023 A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3)

A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3)

author: Stephanie Garber
name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/13
date added: 2025/03/13
shelves: fantasy-scifi, trope-amnesia
review:
and they lived happily ever after (thank god)
]]> <![CDATA[The First Kind of Love (Riverside Reapers #5)]]> 219844622
Fulton Cazzarelli—well-known nervous wreck and bearer of the dreaded virgin title—has been crushing on the pretty barista who’s been serving him dairy-free coffee for the last four years. He never thought he’d muster the courage to ask her out…until one of his teammates springs a destination wedding on the entire team. Now, with his friends goading him into bringing a plus-one, Fulton takes a quantum leap of courage to get the girl of his dreams.

A hesitant Shiloh agrees to three weeks in Cabo with the Riverside Reapers�� biggest sweetheart, yet her work obligations simmer on the back burner the moment her feet hit that golden sand. But as she gets closer to Fulton—and she discovers they’re more alike than she thought—Shiloh is caught in a crossfire of loyalty to her parents and loyalty to her heart. Playing pretend isn’t on her itinerary, and neither is prioritizing a short-lived relationship. Fulton, however, knows what lies in his future, and it consists of one brown-eyed brunette.

Will Shiloh finally find the balance between business and pleasure, or will she let the best thing that’s ever happened to her drift out to sea?

The First Kind of Love is a laugh-out-loud hockey romance featuring a socially awkward virgin, the strong-willed barista of his dreams, a destination wedding, beachside tomfoolery, a boatload of secondhand embarrassment, spice hot enough to make you question your religious values, and a soul-deep connection between two lost—yet likeminded—individuals. It’s the fifth book in a series but can be read as a standalone.

The First Kind of Love is a friends to lovers, one bed, soulmates, forced proximity, destination wedding, virgin MMC, hockey romance with no cheating, and a satisfying happily ever after. ]]> 356 Celeste Briars shaira �� 0 3.36 The First Kind of Love (Riverside Reapers #5)

The First Kind of Love (Riverside Reapers #5)

author: Celeste Briars
name: shaira ��
average rating: 3.36
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date added: 2025/03/12
shelves: to-read, trope-v-cardholder-hero, trope-surprise-virgin
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]]> <![CDATA[Problematic Summer Romance (Not in Love, #2)]]> 228691356 What is wrong meets what feels right in this romance set in Italy by the New York Times bestselling author of Deep End.

Maya Killgore is twenty-three and still in the process of figuring out her life.

Conor Harkness is thirty-eight, and Maya cannot stop thinking about him.

It’s such a cliché, it almost makes her heart implode: older man and younger woman; successful biotech guy and struggling grad student; brother’s best friend and the girl he never even knew existed. As Conor loves to remind her, the power dynamic is too imbalanced. Any relationship between them would be problematic in too many ways to count, and Maya should just get over him. After all, he has made it clear that he wants her gone from his life.

But not everything is as it seems—and clichés sometimes become plot twists.

When Maya’s brother decides to get married in Taormina, she and Conor end up stuck together in a romantic Sicilian villa for over a week. There, on the beautiful Ionian coast, between ancient ruins, delicious foods, and natural caves, Maya realizes that Conor might be hiding something from her. And as the destination wedding begins to erupt out of control, she decides that a summer fling might be just what she needs—even if it’s a problematic one.]]> 416 Ali Hazelwood shaira �� 0 to-read ok daddy 4.79 2025 Problematic Summer Romance (Not in Love, #2)

Problematic Summer Romance (Not in Love, #2)

author: Ali Hazelwood
name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.79
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/10
shelves: to-read
review:
ok daddy
]]> <![CDATA[Once Upon a Broken Heart (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1)]]> 55987278 How far would you go for happily ever after?

For as long as she can remember, Evangeline Fox has believed in true love and happy endings... until she learns that the love of her life will marry another.

Desperate to stop the wedding and to heal her wounded heart, Evangeline strikes a deal with the charismatic but wicked Prince of Hearts. In exchange for his help, he asks for three kisses, to be given at the time and place of his choosing.

But after Evangeline’s first promised kiss, she learns that bargaining with an immortal is a dangerous game—and that the Prince of Hearts wants far more from her than she’d pledged. He has plans for Evangeline, plans that will either end in the greatest happily ever after or the most exquisite tragedy...]]> 408 Stephanie Garber 1250268397 shaira �� 3 fantasy-scifi 4.06 2021 Once Upon a Broken Heart (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1)

Once Upon a Broken Heart (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1)

author: Stephanie Garber
name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2021
rating: 3
read at: 2025/03/06
date added: 2025/03/10
shelves: fantasy-scifi
review:
what i feel reading this book is the same way i feel when listening to by enya
]]> Say You'll Remember Me 216437557 From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Just for the Summer comes a new playful yet deeply emotional contemporary romance.

There might be no such a thing as a perfect guy, but Xavier Rush comes disastrously close. A gorgeous veterinarian giving Greek god vibes—all while cuddling a tiny kitten? Immediately yes. That is until Xavier opens his mouth and proves that even sculpted gods can say the absolute wrong thing. Like, really wrong. Of course, there’s nothing Samantha loves more than proving an asshole wrong��

. . . unless, of course, he can admit he made a mistake. But after one incredible and seemingly endless date—possibly the best in living history—Samantha is forced to admit the truth, that her family is in crisis and any kind of relationship would be impossible. Samantha begs Xavier to forget her. To remember their night together as a perfect moment, as crushing as that may be.

Only no amount of distance or time is nearly enough to forget that something between them. And the only thing better than one single perfect memory is to make a life—and even a love—worth remembering.]]> 416 Abby Jimenez 0349442827 shaira �� 0 to-read 4.36 2025 Say You'll Remember Me

author: Abby Jimenez
name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Ballad of Never After (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #2)]]> 59808071 Not every love is meant to be.

After Jacks, the Prince of Hearts, betrays her, Evangeline Fox swears she'll never trust him again. Now that she’s discovered her own magic, Evangeline believes she can use it to restore the chance at happily ever after that Jacks stole away.

But when a new terrifying curse is revealed, Evangeline finds herself entering into a tenuous partnership with the Prince of Hearts again. Only this time, the rules have changed. Jacks isn’t the only force Evangeline needs to be wary of. In fact, he might be the only one she can trust, despite her desire to despise him.

Instead of a love spell wreaking havoc on Evangeline’s life, a murderous spell has been cast. To break it, Evangeline and Jacks will have to do battle with old friends, new foes, and a magic that plays with heads and hearts. Evangeline has always trusted her heart, but this time she’s not sure she can...]]> 416 Stephanie Garber 1250268427 shaira �� 4 4.49 2022 The Ballad of Never After (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #2)

The Ballad of Never After (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #2)

author: Stephanie Garber
name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.49
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/09
date added: 2025/03/10
shelves: trope-slow-burn, trope-nurse-back-to-health, trope-angsty
review:
if i were jacks this would be my villain origin story .. oh wait
]]> Wild Card (Rose Hill, #4) 227948548 Sebastian Rousseau is a grumpy, hot as hell fire pilot who is too damn good with his hands.

It’s the perfect combination. But unfortunately for me, he’s also my ex-boyfriend’s dad.

A chance meeting brought us together and a missed connection has kept us apart.

One year later, a stroke of fate has us living under the same roof—which makes everything between us downright messy.

Because even after all this time, he’s still the man I think about when I fall asleep. The one I can’t get over no matter how hard I try.

He’s working on mending a fragile relationship with his son and we both know acting on these urges would be the ultimate betrayal.

But I see the heat in his eyes. That look of need that never fails to send a shiver down my spine.

The mutual longing is borderline unbearable and the simmering heat between us is downright palpable.

We both know there are rules when it comes to situations like this.

But then again…following the rules never has been my strong suit.]]> Elsie Silver 1464247862 shaira �� 0 to-read 4.33 Wild Card (Rose Hill, #4)

author: Elsie Silver
name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.33
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]]> Left of Forever 217388096 An emotional, spicy, second-chance romance from USA Today bestselling author Tarah DeWitt.

This time, they'll get it right.

Wren and Ellis Byrd fell in love as kids, had their son Sam when they were only teenagers, and built a life together in the coastal town of Spunes, Oregon. They were made for one another…until they fell apart.

Now divorced and in their 30s, Wren runs the bakery in town, while Ellis works as a firefighter. They live separate lives, though they are hardly off each other’s minds.

When Sam gets accepted into college and the pair help him move in together, Ellis convinces Wren to take an extended road trip back to Spunes with him to see if they can give their relationship one last chance. Amid the gorgeous scenery of the California coastline, dreamy destinations, and a great deal of long-yearned-for proximity, Wren starts to think it just might be possible. But the two still have to contend with their tumultuous past in order to move forward. And when spoken words fail, sometimes the written word must bridge the gap.
Will they make the most of what’s left of forever? Or will they let each other go for good?

Brimming with big feelings and packed with steam, Left of Forever is bestseller Tarah DeWitt at the top of her game.]]> 336 Tarah DeWitt 1250329442 shaira �� 0 to-read 4.62 2025

author: Tarah DeWitt
name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.62
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/09
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]]> <![CDATA[Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)]]> 58684524
While her ultra-wealthy parents want her to carry on the family legacy of world-renowned surgeons, Alexis doesn’t need glory or fame. She’s fine with being a “mere�� ER doctor. And every minute she spends with Daniel and the tight-knit town where he lives, she’s discovering just what’s really important. Yet letting their relationship become anything more than a short-term fling would mean turning her back on her family and giving up the opportunity to help thousands of people.

Bringing Daniel into her world is impossible, and yet she can’t just give up the joy she’s found with him either. With so many differences between them, how can Alexis possibly choose between her world and his?

The New York Times bestselling author of Life's Too Short delivers a refreshingly modern fairy tale perfect for fans of Casey McQuiston and Emily Henry.]]> 389 Abby Jimenez 1538704374 shaira �� 0 to-read 4.26 2022 Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)

Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)

author: Abby Jimenez
name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/08
shelves: to-read
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]]> <![CDATA[We'll Prescribe You a Cat (We'll Prescribe You a Cat, #1)]]> 209891170 A cat a day keeps the doctor away��.

Discover this utterly charming, vibrant celebration of the healing power of cats in the award-winning, bestselling Japanese novel that has become an international sensation.

Tucked away on the fifth floor of an old building at the end of a narrow alley in Kyoto, the Nakagyō Kokoro Clinic for the Soul can be found only by people who are struggling in their lives and who genuinely need help. The mysterious clinic offers a unique treatment to those who find their way there: it prescribes cats as medication. Patients are often puzzled by this unconventional prescription, but when they “take�� their cat for the recommended duration, they witness profound transformations in their lives, guided by the playful, empathetic, and occasionally challenging yet endearing cats.

Throughout these pages, the power of the human-animal bond is revealed as a disheartened businessman finds unexpected joy in physical labor, a middle-aged man struggles to stay relevant at work and home, a young girl navigates the complexities of elementary school cliques, a hardened handbag designer seeks emotional balance, and a geisha learns to move on from the memory of her lost cat. As the clinic’s patients grapple with their inner turmoil and seek resolution, their feline companions lead them toward healing, self-discovery, and newfound hope.]]> 297 Syou Ishida 0593818741 shaira �� 0 to-read 3.79 2023 We'll Prescribe You a Cat (We'll Prescribe You a Cat, #1)

We'll Prescribe You a Cat (We'll Prescribe You a Cat, #1)

author: Syou Ishida
name: shaira ��
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/08
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]]> Forbidden Dreams (Dream, #2) 218681594 Montgavin Township will never be the same when one night changes the lives of six people.

When the single mom moves in next door, it's your enemy's soon-to-be ex-wife.

Lines are drawn, and I have to remember not to cross them.

Brady
For once, my life was calm.
Behind us was the threat our distillery was going to be shut down.
Now we could focus on growing our brand exactly the way I dreamed of doing it when I took it over.
Nothing was going to stop me.
Until she moved in next door.
My enemy’s wife with her seven-year-old son.
I don’t need this right now.
But everything inside me pulled me toward her.
Even offering her a job. Little did I know, again, I was starting a war.
However, I’m ready for it this time.

Harmony

It was no secret my husband had a wandering eye.
Leaving him shouldn’t have been a shock to anyone.
For Winston, it was more about failing at something that got under his skin.
Besides, he had to make his parents happy.
Which means he’s going to make my life unhappy.
When the pounding starts at my door one night, I’m ready to ignore it.
Until the stranger next door comes to our aid.
He’s everything you want in a man.
I know I shouldn’t involve anyone else in my life.
But maybe it’s time for me to see what dreams are made of.]]> 395 Natasha Madison shaira �� 0 4.23 2025 Forbidden Dreams (Dream, #2)

author: Natasha Madison
name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2025
rating: 0
read at: 2025/03/08
date added: 2025/03/08
shelves: kink-dirty-talk-18-plus, trope-close-proximity, trope-single-parent
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]]> <![CDATA[Save Your Breath (Kings of the Ice, #4)]]> 209740135 THIS JUST IN: HOCKEY BAD BOY AND POP STAR EXTRAORDINAIRE ENGAGED!

That was the headline we wanted. If only I’d known the cost to get it.

Aleksander Suter has been my best friend since high school �� and the only man who’s ever been able to truly get under my skin. With his reputation for trouble and a smirk that could melt ice, he’s also the NHL’s favorite bad boy.

When my publicist’s plan to fix my image collides with his need to clean up his own, we find ourselves in a fake engagement that feels too real from the start.

Now, I’m releasing my new album, putting on a show for the paparazzi I usually try to dodge, and falling too fast for a man who never falls for anyone. Every stolen glance, every heated touch blurs the lines between us until I’m wondering where the lies end and the truth begins.

And when a hurricane traps us together in his high-rise condo, all my carefully built walls collapse, and resisting the pull between us becomes a losing game.

Suddenly, the stakes are higher than just headlines, and the risks feel more personal than ever.

But as our past resurfaces and old feelings reignite, I realize the biggest risk isn’t losing my career �� it’s losing my heart to the one person I thought would never be mine.

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TROPES:
Pro Hockey Romance
Fake Engagement
Athlete & Pop Star
Childhood Friends to Lovers
Forced Proximity
Unrequited Love (or so they think)
Opposites Attract
Slow Burn
___________________________________________

Save Your Breath is book four in the Kings of the Ice series:��a series of interconnected standalones��following a team of professional hockey players and the women who bring them to their knees.��They do not need to be read in order, but you will gain glimpses of future characters/couples in each book.]]> 442 Kandi Steiner shaira �� 0 4.18 Save Your Breath (Kings of the Ice, #4)

author: Kandi Steiner
name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.18
book published:
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/06
shelves: to-read, trope-marriage-of-convenience, trope-sports-romance
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]]> <![CDATA[The Pucking Wrong Rookie (Pucking Wrong, #5)]]> 216524700 An NHL star could never fall for a girl like me��

I never wanted this life, but the choices I made led me here—caught in a world I can't escape. Then Logan York, the Dallas Knights' rookie sensation, spots me in the crowd.

When I refuse to date him, he hires me and promises I’ll fall in love with him.

Arrogant. Reckless. Completely impossible.

I tell myself it’s just another job, that I can keep my heart out of it.

But as the lines blur and the stakes get higher, I wonder if being his is the only choice I ever really had.

Logan isn’t just any man, though.

He’s relentless, possessive, willing to tear apart the world to keep me close. He tells me I’m his obsession, his only priority, and I want to believe him.

But the shadows of my past are always lurking, and Logan doesn’t play fair when it comes to keeping what’s his.

He says he’ll save me, even if he has to destroy everything in his path.

And maybe, just maybe, being his feels so wrong that it’s the only thing that’s ever been right.

*Note: Logan York is a morally grey antihero who is obsessed with his girl and will do anything to keep her. This is a darker hockey romance.

The Pucking Wrong Rookie is a hockey romance standalone from USA Today and International Bestselling Author C.R. Jane.]]> C.R. Jane shaira �� 0 to-read 4.32 The Pucking Wrong Rookie (Pucking Wrong, #5)

The Pucking Wrong Rookie (Pucking Wrong, #5)

author: C.R. Jane
name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.32
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]]> Deep End 212808709 A competitive diver and an ace swimmer jump into forbidden waters in this steamy college romance from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis.

Scarlett Vandermeer is swimming upstream. A Junior at Stanford and a student-athlete who specializes in platform diving, Scarlett prefers to keep her head down, concentrating on getting into med school and on recovering from the injury that almost ended her career. She has no time for relationships—at least, that’s what she tells herself.

Swim captain, world champion, all-around aquatics golden boy, Lukas Blomqvist thrives on discipline. It’s how he wins gold medals and breaks records: complete focus, with every stroke. On the surface, Lukas and Scarlett have nothing in common. Until a well-guarded secret slips out, and everything changes.

So they start an arrangement. And as the pressure leading to the Olympics heats up, so does their relationship. It was supposed to be just a temporary, mutually satisfying fling. But when staying away from Lukas becomes impossible, Scarlett realizes that her heart might be treading into dangerous water...]]> 464 Ali Hazelwood shaira �� 3 honestly penn can go eat some bricks ]]> 3.96 2025 Deep End

author: Ali Hazelwood
name: shaira ��
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2025
rating: 3
read at: 2025/03/03
date added: 2025/03/06
shelves: trope-sports-romance, kink-dirty-talk-18-plus, kink-degradation, kink-dom-sub, kink-kitty-pleaser, kink-pleasure-dom, kink-talking-them-through-the-big-o, kink-edging-o-denial
review:
honestly penn can go eat some bricks
]]> <![CDATA[Angelic Vengeance (GodHood, #1)]]> 214585422
Nicknamed The Angel of Death for her lethal beauty, an ex-assassin cannot seem to escape her past.

DEADLY. COLD. STOICAL.

MARIA PÉREZ has survived the criminal underworld by following one simple rule: trust no one. Raising herself on the streets of New York City has taught her everything she knows, from believing the worst in people, to destroying anything and anybody standing in her way.

However, after escaping a world where the only way to leave safely is in a casket, she is constantly looking over her shoulder.

She is a heartless killer incapable of emotions. The last thing on her mind is love.

That is until she meets her match, The Devil, who sets her whole world on fire. He is the first to make her cold eyes burn. And she hates him for it.

RUTHLESS. FATAL. TEMPTING.

ZACHARY DI’ABLO, a notorious yet faceless gangster, sees straight through the cracks of Maria’s icy heart.

After an unfortunate incident leaves him fixated for years on a pair of emerald eyes, he vows to avenge his honor by taking away their life. Though, once he realizes his grudge has been one-sided, his priorities shift.

Once they meet, their lives unwillingly intertwine.

Or so she thinks.

Maybe she was right about not trusting people, after all.]]> 425 Cristina Russo shaira �� 0 to-read 3.74 Angelic Vengeance (GodHood, #1)

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]]> Wait and Hope 53123770
Harry's green eyes blew wide. Healer Lucas pinched the bridge of her nose, painfully displeased with the recent series of events.

“He was referring to you, my dear,�� she said. “That was the other question you got wrong. Your name is Hermione Jean Granger-Malfoy.��

Hermione had to be sedated again.

[In which Hermione loses the last six year's worth of her memories, including the entirety of her relationship and marriage to Draco.]

Fandom: Harry Potter
Relationships: Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley
Rating: Mature
Wordcount: 94,946

Post Hogwarts, EWE

Tags: memory loss, romance, slow burn, draco is trying so hard, hermione is so confused, harry is so harry, ginny is so tired because toddlers, ron is very uncomfortable, lavender is there, pansy goes nuclear, theo is trawling for a boyfriend, blaise just wants to have a drink]]> 671 mightbewriting shaira �� 0 to-read, dramione 4.14 2020 Wait and Hope

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]]> <![CDATA[Draco Malfoy and the Mortifying Ordeal of Being in Love]]> 60127763
Features hypercompetent, fiery Hermione and lazy, yet dangerous, Draco. Slow burn.

Rating: Explicit
Fandom: Harry Potter
Relationship: Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy

Tags: Healer Hermione Granger, Researcher Hermione Granger, Auror Draco Malfoy, Slow burn, unresolved sexual tension, eventual smut, POV Draco Malfoy, Forced Collaboration, Romance, romcom, Action/Adventure, EWE, HEA, reckless overuse of author's favorite tropes, oblivious idiots, All aboard the SS Denial, late-stage pining, what is pining if not denial persevering, no first names we die like men, do not look too closely at the plot you will only hurt yourself, scandalous ankle touching, misuse of whirlpool baths, graphic depictions of competent women, eroticized arithmancy, Crookshanks will fight god or become him, human on mushroom violence, Schrodinger's ethics, nuns]]> 593 isthisselfcare shaira �� 0 to-read, dramione 4.57 2021 Draco Malfoy and the Mortifying Ordeal of Being in Love

Draco Malfoy and the Mortifying Ordeal of Being in Love

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]]> Secrets and Masks 58823695
Hermione is the most lethal soldier in The Order, spending her days on rescue missions to free captured Muggleborn slaves and fight on the front line.
For years, she's been meeting in secret with a spy within Voldemort's ranks to exchange information.

But, when she's captured and made prisoner at Malfoy Manor, of all the dark and evil ways she'd envisioned Malfoy would torture her, she never quite imagined anything this horrific.]]> 1399 Emerald_Slytherin shaira �� 0 to-read, dramione 4.43 2021 Secrets and Masks

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]]> Measure Of A Man 217775832 and who they're capable of being. Hermione realises the duality of one man as she rectifies
what she knows of the past and begins to understand the pieces of who Draco Malfoy is now:
a father, a son, and a man.]]> 1308 Inadaze22 shaira �� 0 to-read, dramione 4.32 Measure Of A Man

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]]> <![CDATA[Shattered Obsession (Hudson Yards #1)]]> 196819972 She’s starting over in NYC and helping clear his name.
They’re navigating a dangerous game, torn between loyalty, love, and a life-changing secret from the past.

Zoe

Everything in life is temporary; and eventually everyone leaves. Everyone except for my older brother Aaron, who is a billionaire realtor residing in New York City. We haven't seen each other in a while but that’s about to change. Thanks to my PR company relocating me to our NYC office, which means I will be moving in with Aaron.
And guess who lives in the same building? His best friend, Dominik Lewis, the captain of the NY Slashers pro hockey team and the guy who has had a grudge against me forever. To make matters worse, Dominik recently got himself into some trouble for being a notorious player, and I’ve been reluctantly assigned to help clear his name.
But how do you pretend to date someone who can’t even stand to be in the same room as you?

Dominik

She is the sole object of all my pain and desire.
I’ve spent years trying to let go of my obsession with my best friend’s sister. Especially after that night in Boston, at a masquerade ball where a terrible secret was born. I’ve pushed everything aside and focused on what truly matters: hockey.
It was all going well until Zoe showed up out of the blue, throwing my life into complete disarray. The past and present are intertwining, but I need to forget the night she unknowingly revealed her darkest fantasies to me.]]> Tina Spencer shaira �� 0 to-read 3.90 Shattered Obsession (Hudson Yards #1)

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]]> <![CDATA[Fifth Avenue Fling (Billionaires in Charge)]]> 219743872 This gorgeous grump is now my boss…and my new ‘housemate.��

I need a visa �� like, yesterday. I’m not ready to leave the bright lights of New York for my seaside hometown in Ireland.

So, when the opportunity arises to become a live-in nanny maid for a billionaire single dad, I jump at the chance. How hard can it be, right?

Harder than I thought.

The first time I meet Killian Quinn, I get kicked out of his fancy hotel.

The second time we cross paths, the guy looks ready to slam the door in my face.

Yet, by some miracle (call it the luck of the Irish), he agrees to give me a chance. He’s desperate too.

But when Killian makes it clear that I’m the worst nanny maid in all of Manhattan, I’m one wrong move away from being deported.

So why is it when his eyes flash with anger, it feels like there’s something hotter than his temper under there?

And more importantly �� can I take the heat?

Fifth Avenue Fling is a standalone romantic comedy with heat, banter, and a happy ending.]]> 435 Rosa Lucas 1739351304 shaira �� 0 to-read 4.11 2023 Fifth Avenue Fling (Billionaires in Charge)

Fifth Avenue Fling (Billionaires in Charge)

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]]> <![CDATA[Mafia and Maid (Marchiano Mafia)]]> 223090794 Camillo
She’s from a wealthy and privileged background.
And she never imagined she’d end up as a maid to a fierce mafia boss like me��
But she’s on the run and desperately needs to find safety.
And when I find out what she’s been hiding, it’s bigger than anything I’d ever imagined.
Because she has a small son—and he’s just as fragile as she is.
As I get to know them, I start to win their trust.
And my heart can’t help surrendering as it melts and thuds too fast for them both.
Because when I hold her in my arms, it finally feels like I’ve come home��
But I should have known we’d never get our happily ever after.
Because someone else is after her...
And he’ll stop at absolutely nothing to ensure he gets the evil ending he desires.

“What do I have to do to make you feel beautiful? What do I have to say to make you see yourself through my eyes? Whatever it is, I’ll do it a million times over until you believe me.��

A mafia-lite romance.
Standalone.
Books in Isa Oliver's mafia world can be read in any order.
HEA. No cheating by main characters. No cliffhanger.
Tropes and themes: single mom romance; Italian mafia romance books; curvy girl romance; forced proximity.
Please refer to the content note at the start of the book (via the Look Inside feature).]]> 412 Isa Oliver shaira �� 0 to-read 4.02 Mafia and Maid (Marchiano Mafia)

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]]> Confess 22609310
For once, Auburn takes a chance and puts her heart in control, only to discover that Owen is hiding a huge secret. The magnitude of his past threatens to destroy everything Auburn loves most, and the only way to get her life back on track is to cut Owen out of it—but can she do it?]]> 306 Colleen Hoover 1476791457 shaira �� 0 4.14 2015 Confess

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]]> <![CDATA[Noire Moon (Port Macabre #0.5)]]> 219182172 YOU HAVE BEEN SELECTED.

The Noire Moon is upon us.

I found myself with a ticket I couldn't refuse.

An invitation I couldn’t give away.

An unwanted gift I was unable to return.

Attending a haunted house party at Port Macabre’s most exclusive and notoriously private sex club? My head tells me this is insanity.

This is a part of the city outskirts, where rumors run wild of missing persons and a secretive society overseeing all that transpires during these evenings.

However, the allure of what this night might bring draws something out in me.

Dark desires I shouldn’t have.

Tastes I shouldn’t risk indulging.

Now I find myself at their mercy. Three masked strangers, who might just end my life�� if I don’t concede to their demands.

Noire Moon is a PROLOGUE NOVELLA and ends on a cliffhanger. It is a MMFM Why Choose/Reverse Harem Dark Secret Society Romance 18+

The Port Macabre world is full of ruthless, morally gray, poly love interests, and this novella introduces you to the main characters who will feature in the continuation of their story during BOOK TWO. This book contains themes and scenarios common in dark romance.

Please check the author’s website for CWs.]]> 109 Elliott Rose 1991281188 shaira �� 0 to-read 4.23 Noire Moon (Port Macabre #0.5)

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]]> Indigo 1371137 When the notorious Black Daniel is carried, badly injured, into Hester Wyatt's home, there is no question that he will be cared for and protected. Once a slave herself, Hester regularly gives shelter to runaways, yet the man of mysteries she now harbors brings greater danger than she's ever known...

Love Awaits
He is Galen Vachon, a member of a unique elite class of pre-Civil War blacks. Handsome, arrogant, and accustomed to lavish living, he fears he's been betrayed in his work with the underground and wants to move on quickly. Yet the magic healing caresses that flow from Hester's lovely indigo-stained hands tear at his heart and torment his very soul. And even as Hester tries to deny the passion this highborn, bronzed Adonis fires within her, Galen is setting his sights on making her his...forever.

--back cover]]> 359 Beverly Jenkins 0380786583 shaira �� 0 to-read 4.34 1996 Indigo

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]]> Peep Show 36433506 She's stripping.
I'm watching.
She's playing.
I'm watching.
She's mine, I'm coming...

Bebe Hall is a heartbreaker. She's the it girl of the moment, a partygirl nobody can stop in her path of self destruction. Bebe Hall isn't the star of her own story.
She's the star of mine.
My name is Miles O'Reilly. I'm a photographer. An agoraphobic. A millionaire. A womanizer. I'm confined to my apartment. I don't leave. Ever.
But when she sees me with my latest online conquest in the window of my apartment, my attention shifts to Bebe.
And once I see something I want, I don't give up until it's mine.
Forever.

Peep Show is a 90,000 word novel with themes of voyeurism and dark scenes that may be upsetting to readers. If you are brave enough, come meet Miles. He's been waiting for you.]]> 313 Isabella Starling shaira �� 0 to-read 3.56 2018 Peep Show

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average rating: 3.56
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]]> People Watching 222684223 In this sexy and emotional romance from the acclaimed author of Out of the Woods and Out on a Limb, a small-town woman’s journey to spread her wings intertwines with the arrival of an adventurous newcomer who brings out the best in her.

Prudence Welch has found solace in her introverted life in Baysville, a charming tourist town in Northern Ontario. Despite once dreaming of a life beyond its borders, she now finds contentment in her working at her father’s gas station, writing poetry, and caring for her mother, who was diagnosed with Early Onset Alzheimer's shortly after Prue’s nineteenth birthday. But as her mother’s condition worsens and her father’s concerns about her future intensify, Prue feels her world slipping further out of control.

Enter Milo Kablukov, an enigmatic wanderer whose beat-up van covered with ill-advised bumper stickers rolls into town just when Prue needs a change. It’s all too easy to let go with him, and Prue can’t help but strike up an unlikely friendship with Milo, which leads to a wild and sexy agreement between them.

Milo, a man of many adventures and countless stories, is not one to settle down. However, his brother’s urgent need for help has brought him to Baysville, and now the intriguing Prue has given him more reason to stay. Especially once they start spending more time together, their chemistry intensifying, and casual-sex lessons start at Prue’s request.

But as their temporary arrangement blossoms into something deeper, Prue and Milo discover that getting out of their comfort zones is one thing . . . taking that leap together is something else entirely.]]> Hannah Bonam-Young 0593871898 shaira �� 0 to-read 4.46 2025 People Watching

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]]> <![CDATA[Kiss of the Basilisk (Split or Swallow, #1)]]> 221548497 From internet sensation and Amazon bestseller Lindsay Straube comes the first book in the sexy, biting Split or Swallow series, featuring dangerous basilisks, competitive seduction, and a love triangle that could destroy kingdoms.

Twenty-year-old Temperance Verus has never been kissed. But that's what the basilisk is for.

Along with thirteen other contestants, Tem must train with a basilisk to learn the power of seduction and win the prince's hand in marriage. When Tem is matched with Caspen, the Serpent King, she realizes she might actually stand a chance.

But with tensions rising between the basilisks and the humans, Tem is suddenly torn in two directions. As her bond with Caspen deepens, so does her connection with the prince. When she uncovers a terrible secret about the royal family, Tem finds herself caught between two worlds, neither of which she can survive without.]]> 525 Lindsay Straube 1464247587 shaira �� 0 to-read 3.78 Kiss of the Basilisk (Split or Swallow, #1)

Kiss of the Basilisk (Split or Swallow, #1)

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ready for all of the danger noodle shlong euphemisms
]]> Be With Me 221042764 She’s the mayor-to-be’s perfect daughter. He’s the ruthless villain set to ruin her.I’ve spent my life putting others first. So when my father runs for New York City mayor—on a promise to take down the city’s most notorious crime family—I do what I always push my own dreams aside to help him win.

Until I wind up at the wrong party. Trapped in a bedroom with Romolo Ferraro—the dangerous, merciless youngest son of the man my father has sworn to destroy.

He terrifies me. He fascinates me. Six foot four and covered in tattoos, he’s everything I should avoid.

When he starts pursuing me, I know I’m just a pawn in his game. A means to an end. And yet�� part of me wants to play along.

I tell myself it’s to protect my father’s campaign. But I’m not thinking about politics when Romolo’s rough hands slide over my skin, teaching me how good it feels to burn.

They say good girls don’t fall for the villain.

But maybe, I’m tired of being good.

~

Be With Me is book 1 in House of Ferraro, a series of interconnected standalones following the Ferraro brothers, where dark and sensual romance plays out against a backdrop of family secrets and mafia intrigue. ]]> Gabrielle Sands shaira �� 0 to-read 5.00 Be With Me

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]]> <![CDATA[A Little Complicated (The Little Things Book 1)]]> 202154181 Wreaking havoc. Playing hockey. Causing chaos.
Almost all of my memories involve Archer and Maverick.
Then I started dating one of them.
Archer Buchanan is perfect.
He’s sweet. Attentive. Passionate.
He’s everything a girl could ask for in a boyfriend.
And I love him so much.
The problem is…I love his twin brother even more.]]> 482 Kelsie Rae shaira �� 0 to-read 4.38 A Little Complicated (The Little Things Book 1)

A Little Complicated (The Little Things Book 1)

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]]> Does It Hurt? 60034351
I've forgotten the answer to that question long ago. Ever since I ran from that house, so desperate to escape, I left with only the clothes on my back and socks on my feet. After that day, I've only ever walked in stolen shoes.

Could I be a girl who is searching for the meaning of life in faceless men? They were all so forgettable. Until he came along. He took me under a waterfall and made me forget my name, and in return, I took his instead.

Enzo Vitale.

An enigmatic man that will only ever love the deep sea. Or rather the predators that inhabit it. Turns out, he's not so different than the monsters he feeds. He lured me onto his boat like a fish in the ocean, seeking vengeance for my crime. Had I realized his intentions, and that a massive storm would leave us shipwrecked, I would've ran.

Now, I'm a girl who's seeking refuge in a decrepit lighthouse with a man who loathes me almost as much as he craves me. He wants to hurt me, but the old caretaker of the abandoned island may have intentions far more sinister.

It's no longer a question of who I am, but rather, will I survive?]]> 432 H.D. Carlton shaira �� 0 to-read 3.90 2022 Does It Hurt?

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]]> <![CDATA[Trial of the Sun Queen (Artefacts of Ouranos, #1)]]> 191755077 Ten women. A deadly contest. Only one can win the Sun King's heart.

Lor has endured twelve long years of torment under the Aurora King’s rule. Her only desire is to escape and pay him back for every moment of misery she's endured.

When a surprise release finds her in the hands of the rival Sun King, Lor is thrust into the spotlight as she competes against nine other Tributes for the role of queen. If she wins his heart, she'll earn her freedom and finally get her revenge.

But Lor doesn't belong in the Sun Queen Trials. Not only does she not understand why she was freed, she isn’t a citizen of the Sun King’s court. The other Tributes resent her presence and will stop at nothing to ensure Lor is removed from the competition, permanently.

Now Lor must win, because if she loses, she dies. Or worse, she'll be returned to the evil—and now vengeful—Aurora King.]]> 400 Nisha J. Tuli 1538767481 shaira �� 0 to-read 3.81 2023 Trial of the Sun Queen (Artefacts of Ouranos, #1)

Trial of the Sun Queen (Artefacts of Ouranos, #1)

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]]> <![CDATA[Bride by Initiation (The Underworld #1)]]> 223351293 From International bestselling author Maggie Cole comes her highly anticipated secret society, deliciously dark, next-generation Mafia series about two lifelong friends. Sean O’Malley Jr. and Zara Marino have a similar obsession with their fathers�� secrets, but discovering the truth requires them to surrender to each other and the unknown of their Underworld vows.

If secrets and lies, desires and denials, bonds and betrayal didn’t exist, Sean O’Malley would stay my friend forever.

That’s not the case.

There are two things we’ve always wanted but were off the table.

The truth about our fathers.

Each other.

So when a mysterious man shows up with a branded skull on his hand, speaking in riddles about an Underworld he claims we’re meant to reign in, it’s too tempting not to get sucked into the forbidden.

Even if it means sinking deeper into the darkness, testing all our boundaries, and clinging to the friends we used to be and the vows we’re now bound to for eternity.

Bride by Initiation is a standalone with interconnected characters, and book one of The Underworld series. This dark, secret society, Mafia, friends to lovers, forbidden, first real love, marriage pact romance is not meant for the faint of heart. Expect violence, taboo, and graphic scenes.]]> 502 Maggie Cole shaira �� 0 to-read 3.95 Bride by Initiation (The Underworld #1)

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]]> Island Captive 41425309
But then our plane back to the States crashes.

We are the only two survivors.

And the monster will make me wish I'd died along with the rest of them...

Please note: This is a dark romance which includes kinky, sexual content and dubious consent.

]]> 334 Jane Henry 1961866234 shaira �� 0 to-read 3.99 2018 Island Captive

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]]> Wolf.e 219328559 Always ride faster than your angel can fly.
-Gabriel Wolfe

As president of the Hounds of Hell motorcycle club, my life has been infused with darkness and trauma since the day I was born. Chaos is my birthright. I crave it to feel stable. Secure. Whole.
The only people I care about are the ones who don my cut.
Women are just a tool.
Never to covet, only to use, each face blending into the next.
The formula I live by is simple.
Death is always at my door.
I am a soldier of bedlam.

Until a little hummingbird flies into my crosshairs, and I’m forced to feel something I haven’t felt for as long as I can remember…alive.

Let the hunt begin.]]> 416 Paisley Hope shaira �� 0 to-read 4.15 2024 Wolf.e

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]]> Forget Me Not 61618737 An ambitious wedding planner must work with her grumpy florist ex, whose heart she broke, on the most high-profile wedding of her career, in this spicy and emotional romance from popular fanfic author Julie Soto.

He loves me; he loves me not...��

Ama Torres loves being a wedding planner. But with a mother who has been married more times than you can count on your fingers, Ama has decided that marriage is not the route for her. But weddings? Weddings are amazing. As a��small business owner, she knows how to match her clients with the perfect vendor to give them the wedding of their dreams. Well, almost��perfect��

Elliot hates being a florist, most of the time. When his father left��him the flower shop, he considered��it a burden, but he’s stuck with it. Just like how he’s stuck with the way he proposed to Ama, his main collaborator and girlfriend (or was she?) two years ago. But flowers have grown on him, just like Ama did. And flowers can’t run off and never speak to him again, like Ama did.��

When Ama is hired to plan a celebrity wedding that will bring her business national exposure, there's a catch: Elliot is already contracted to design the flowers. Things are not helped by the two brides, who see the obvious chemistry between Ama and Elliot and are determined to set them up, not knowing their complicated history. Add in a meddling ex-boss, and a reality TV film crew documenting every step of the wedding prep, and Ama and Elliot's hearts are not only in jeopardy again, but this time, their livelihoods are too.]]> 341 Julie Soto 1538740885 shaira �� 4 julie soto! girl i get the hype now ]]> 3.94 2023 Forget Me Not

author: Julie Soto
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average rating: 3.94
book published: 2023
rating: 4
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julie soto! girl i get the hype now
]]> <![CDATA[Possess Me (Masters of Corsica #3)]]> 81068320 And the father of my unborn baby.

I should have known he was a monster when I betrayed him.
I should have realized that in the ruthless world of the mafia, my actions would be met with punishment.
But I fell for the wounded bad boy who knew just what I craved.

Now, I am his possession, and he’s determined to make me pay for my sins��

On my knees.
Bent over his desk.
Tied to his bed.

I shouldn’t want this—shouldn’t want him —yet part of me yearns to submit to his dark, depraved demands.

But in Lyam’s world, loyalty is everything. And when he uncovers the truth I’ve been hiding all along, I know that will be the end of us��

Because it will be the end of me...

Please This is a dark, anti-hero romance with elements of violence and consensual non-consent. Please read at your discretion.

This is a fully stand-alone novel in the Masters of Corsica series]]> 364 Jane Henry shaira �� 0 4.26 Possess Me (Masters of Corsica #3)

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]]> The Fabric of Our Souls 210219490 Two troubled souls find solace in each other at a rehabilitation facility in this��spellbinding dark romance sizzling with angst. I’m twenty-six years old, and I want to die.

So when I wake up at the hospital with my brother weeping over me, I know my life is about to change. What I didn’t expect was to get a nurse with cruel eyes and a morbid sense of humor that surpasses my own.

I’m even more surprised when I arrive at Harlow Sanctum and realize that my brother selected an unorthodox rehabilitation center that rooms people based on their treatment plan. And my roommate is none other than the man with cruel eyes I met the day prior.

I crave death—he craves life.

Can two people like us cure each other?]]> 364 K.M. Moronova 153877173X shaira �� 0 to-read 4.17 2023 The Fabric of Our Souls

author: K.M. Moronova
name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> Mate (Bride, #2) 228256271 A Human hybrid and an Alpha Were claw against the bonds of fate in the highly anticipated companion novel to the New York Times bestselling Bride.

Serena Paris is orphaned, pack-less, and one of a kind. Coming forward as the first Human-Were hybrid was supposed to heal a centuries-long rift between species. Instead, it made her a target, prey to the ruthless political machinations between Weres, Vampyres, and Humans. With her enemies closing in on her, she has only one option left—if he’ll have her.

As Alpha of the Northwest pack, Koen Alexander commands obedience. His authority is so absolute, only a fool would threaten his mate. It doesn’t matter if Serena doesn’t reciprocate his feelings, nothing will stop him from keeping her safe.

But power-hungry Vampyres and Weres are not the only threats chasing Serena. Sooner or later, her past is bound to catch up with her—and Koen might be the only thing standing between her and total annihilation…]]> 432 Ali Hazelwood 0593955013 shaira �� 0 to-read 4.46 2025 Mate (Bride, #2)

author: Ali Hazelwood
name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.46
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]]> <![CDATA[First-Time Caller (Heartstrings, #1)]]> 213243908 A hopeless romantic meets a jaded radio host in this cozy, Sleepless in Seattle-inspired love story from beloved author B.K. Borison.

Aiden Valentine has a secret: he's fallen out of love with love. And as the host of Baltimore's romance hotline, that's a bit of a problem. But when a young girl calls in to the station asking for dating advice for her mom, the interview goes viral, thrusting Aiden and Heartstrings into the limelight.

Lucie Stone thought she was doing just fine. She has a good job; an incredible family; and a smart, slightly devious kid. But when all of Baltimore is suddenly scrutinizing her love life-or lack thereof—she begins to question if she's as happy as she thought. Maybe a little more romance wouldn't be such a bad thing.

Everyone wants Lucie to find her happy ending... even the handsome, temperamental man calling the shots. But when sparks start to fly behind the scenes, Lucie must make the final call between the radio-sponsored happily ever after or the man in the headphones next to her.]]> 448 B.K. Borison 0593641191 shaira �� 0 to-read 4.10 2025 First-Time Caller (Heartstrings, #1)

author: B.K. Borison
name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.10
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]]> <![CDATA[Keep Me (The Fox Family Crime Syndicate, #3)]]> 122911884 276 Summer O'Toole shaira �� 3 3.97

Keep Me (The Fox Family Crime Syndicate, #3)

author: Summer O'Toole
name: shaira ��
average rating: 3.97
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date added: 2025/02/24
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]]> <![CDATA[Own Me (Masters of Corsica, #1)]]> 123002841 I need her.

They say I’m jealous.
Possessive.
Obsessed.

I say I know what I want,
And I want her.

She’ll be my submissive.
My property.
I’ll teach her what it means to submit,
I’ll show her what it means to obey.

So I hire her for a job.
To be my accomplice
We’ll pull off the biggest heist known to Corsica.
They say money doesn’t buy love��
But it can buy her.]]> 390 Jane Henry shaira �� 0 to-read 4.02 2023 Own Me (Masters of Corsica, #1)

author: Jane Henry
name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.02
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]]> <![CDATA[Master Me (Masters of Corsica, #2)]]> 76588075 She’s also way too young for me and practically family.
But she’s in trouble.

When she witnesses a murder at the hands of rival mafia, Savannah flees to the only safe refuge she knows �� my family.

My life is ordered. Careful. Disciplined. But when Savannah needs protection, I can’t turn her away.

I offer her a deal: I’ll take her into my custody. Hide her in plain sight at Le Luxe, the club I own and operate for those who understand the pleasure that comes with total surrender.

I’ll keep her safe, no matter the cost.

In return, she'll follow my rules. Masquerade as the perfect submissive.
Obey me.

Our ruse might save her life…but will it save her from me?

"Master Me" is a stand-alone novel in Jane Henry's new series, "Masters of Corsica.”]]> 368 Jane Henry shaira �� 0 to-read 4.30 Master Me (Masters of Corsica, #2)

author: Jane Henry
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]]> Sanctum (Wicked Vows #2) 206165187 Where I go, he always follows.
Primal, Powerful, Possessive.
Aleksandr Romanov is my nemesis...
And my new husband.

He thinks I’m the spoiled mafia princess.
That I have the world at my fingertips.
I may be his new wife,
But he doesn’t know the real me.
No one does.

But when Aleksandr touches me,
He cuts me wide open,
As if trying to see the secrets I hide.

Every touch becomes foreplay,
Every look stokes our passion.
Our hatred turns to obsession.

But when he unearths the secrets I’ve kept well hidden from the world��
I have nowhere left to hide.
No one to save me from the truth,
No one to save me from my enemies��
No one to save me from the only man I’ve ever loved.

Sanctum is a standalone dark bratva, arranged marriage romance with a fiery, quick-witted heroine, and an irascible, smoldering-hot hero with “look at her and I’ll destroy you�� spirit. No cliffhanger. HEA included.]]> 350 Jane Henry 1961866048 shaira �� 0 to-read 3.95 Sanctum (Wicked Vows #2)

author: Jane Henry
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]]> Unsteady (The Undone, #1) 198853583
During last year’s Frozen Four, the Waterfell University hockey captain, and NHL legacy, took a brutal hit that left him with a concussion and a new discomfort on the ice. Plagued by nightmares and panic attacks every time he attempt to skate, Rhys wonders if he’ll ever play again �� if he’ll ever want to.

Sadie Brown is staying focused this semester �� no matter what.

Currently drowning in debt, custody hearings for her younger brothers and skating practices, she's just trying to make it to the next day. A spitfire figure skater known for her bad attitude and frequent disappearing acts, she has a reputation on campus. And it’s not a pretty one.

When she accidentally witnesses one of the golden boy hockey captain’s panic attacks and attempts to help him, a strange sort of understanding strikes up between them.

No questions asked. Just comfort.

But Rhys finds himself drawn to Sadie. Where he feels empty, a shell of the man and player he was before, Sadie is so full of everything it bursts from her; every emotion she feels seems like it’s blasted at max. Rhys is desperate to feel anything, Sadie wants to stop feeling so much.

But healing doesn’t mix with secrets, and they’re both skating a thin line, unsteady .]]> 384 Peyton Corinne shaira �� 0 to-read 3.82 2023 Unsteady (The Undone, #1)

author: Peyton Corinne
name: shaira ��
average rating: 3.82
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]]> The Banker (Banker, #1) 43185790
My father has chosen a life of crime in the underworld, but I’ve made a different choice for myself. His past has caught up to him, and now I’m the only one who can save him. They make their demand in exchange for my father’s life—Cato Marino. One of the richest and most powerful man in Italy.

Ruthless and powerful, I have no chance of capturing him. The only way to get close to a man like Cato�� is to seduce him. Get in his bed and make him beg to keep me there. I do the unthinkable�� and sleep with him.

But now I’m the one begging to stay. Cato has become everything I’ve ever wanted in a man. Masculine but affectionate. Reserved but assertive. He wants me at his side always, in his bed every night, and he’s erased the memory of every man that came before him. I burn in his fire and dance in the ashes. I’m the one that’s supposed to seduce him�� but he’s made me head-over-heels.

Now I’m faced with the horrible betrayal I’m supposed to commit.

The men demand the exchange—Cato Marino for my father. Now I’m forced to choose between love and family. And if I don’t decide my answer soon, something worse could happen.

Cato could discover my treason—and he’s the not the kind of man you cross.]]> 364 Penelope Sky shaira �� 0 to-read 4.27 2019 The Banker (Banker, #1)

author: Penelope Sky
name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2019
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]]> His Reluctant Lady (His, #2) 50461354
David Kittridge, the Earl of Westwood, is deep in the throes of heartbreak, as the woman he loves has recently become engaged to someone else. Engaging in meaningless trysts seems as good a way as any to cure himself of lovesickness, but after mistaking Poppy for a woman in search of a touch of scandal, and a kiss that leaves him reeling, he finds that he can’t quite get her out of his head.

David is incensed when he discovers that he has been used as material for a Gothic novel, and is determined to ferret out the culprit. But when he comes into possession of Poppy’s writing notebook and learns of her secret career as a Gothic novelist, he realizes the notebook comes with an unexpected boon—the leverage he needs to lure in the reluctant Poppy. If anyone should discover her secret, it would destroy her reputation and ruin her sisters�� chances of making decent matches. But David’s blackmail leads them down a path that neither would ever have expected.]]> 403 Aydra Richards shaira �� 0 to-read 4.00 2020 His Reluctant Lady (His, #2)

author: Aydra Richards
name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2020
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]]> <![CDATA[The Butcher (Fifth Republic #1)]]> 221784786 because he didn’t have the balls to do it himself.

I move out and get a new apartment, a job as a bartender, and try to move on with a broken heart. I wonder where it all went wrong, if I hadn’t been enough for him, if I’d been stupid for marrying him in the first place.

I’m at work one night when he walks inside��the most beautiful man I’ve ever seen. He sits at the bar and a forest fire burns between us. I was depressed the moment before he entered, but the second I look at his blue eyes, I forget the dumpster fire that my life has become. I invite him back to my place and it’s the most passionate night of my life. I expect to never see him again.

I just want him as an anti-depressant—but he wants me all to himself. I just got my heart ripped out of my chest so I want something easy and no-strings-attached, but he wants all the strings because he’s hooked.

I don’t get much of a say in the matter, and that’s not surprising when I learn why—because he’s the Butcher. The crime lord of all crime lords, the boss that overshadows all of Paris, that makes everyone abide by his rules—or pay.

And now I’m his.]]> 302 Penelope Sky shaira �� 0 to-read 3.95 The Butcher (Fifth Republic #1)

author: Penelope Sky
name: shaira ��
average rating: 3.95
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]]> <![CDATA[10 Days to Ruin (Ozerov Bratva #1)]]> 228202709 This is my story of how to lose a mob boss in ten days.

I have a
I’ve been arranged to marry a monster.

Run away? Good idea. Tried that. Didn’t work.
Because in my family, my father makes the rules.
And he says this wedding is happening .

But he still has a soft spot for me, his last remaining daughter.
So he offers me a deal.
Take ten days.
Get to know Sasha.
See if you change your mind.

Yeah, right.
Sasha Ozerov is a beast in Brioni.
He’s ruthless, flawless, utterly unconcerned with mortals like me.
All he wants is what our marriage would bring
My family’s power and the city in the palm of his hand.

But maybe, if I can make him back out of the deal��
I’ll keep my freedom.
So I set out to do everything I can to drive him crazy.

I have ten days to make my husband hate me.
What happens if I start to love him instead?

10 Days to Ruin is Book 1 of the Ozerov Bratva Duet. The story concludes in Book 2, 10 days to Surrender. ]]> 482 Nicole Fox shaira �� 0 to-read 4.32 10 Days to Ruin (Ozerov Bratva #1)

author: Nicole Fox
name: shaira ��
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]]> Enchantra (Wicked Games, #2) 217182344 Ready or Not meets Throne of the Fallen in a spicy, enemies-to-lovers fantasy romance, where an Italian getaway turns deadly after a young woman is trapped in her host family's cursed game.

Ready or not, the game has begun.

Genevieve Grimm has felt adrift ever since her sister became the head of the family. So when a mysterious friend of their mother's invites her to Italy, she accepts. She arrives at his grand palace, expecting passion and magic, decadence and luxury... perhaps even a midnight ball.

She doesn't expect the owner's ruthlessly handsome son to slam the door in her face. Rowin Silver is tall, dark, and exceptionally rude, and invitation or not, he demands Genevieve leave and never come back. But Genevieve follows nobody's orders, especially those of arrogant rich boys. She slips inside—and immediately discovers her mistake.

Rowin and his family are caught in an insidious game of hide and seek, where only one can win. The rest will be trapped in Hell... until the competition begins again.

Genevieve must either join the hunt or forfeit any hope of escaping. But to her dismay, her best chance of survival lies with Rowin. Since lovers may play as a pair, Rowin and Genevieve agree to form an alliance under the guise of a fake courtship. However, as they race through the game's elaborate labyrinth, trapped among gleaming gold and shining marble, their loathing gives way to irresistible attraction. Only Rowin is keeping secrets, especially when it comes to his ruthless family, and Genevieve can't help but wonder if she's trapped in two treacherous games: Enchantra and the one Rowin is playing with her heart.]]> 448 Kaylie Smith 1538770806 shaira �� 0 to-read 4.47 2025 Enchantra (Wicked Games, #2)

author: Kaylie Smith
name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.47
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]]> Into Ruin (Hockey Titans) 205883172 Hockey guys are off limits—and yet, one has set me in his sights, and I have no chance of escaping.

Camden Church is the guy I should’ve stayed away from. But when he mistakes my identity, I don’t correct him. I let him break all my rules.

It’s a night I’ll never forget—not that he’ll ever let me.

If my brother discovers our secret, he could jeopardize Camden’s pro hockey career and end it before it’s begun.

Camden thinks I’m going to rat him out, but he’s wrong.

I’d rather let him drag me into ruin than admit my most hidden desire: I like the dark, twisted things he does to me.

There’s nothing worse than falling for your tormentor�� unless he also happens to be your brother’s best friend.]]> 127 S. Massery shaira �� 0 to-read 4.05 Into Ruin (Hockey Titans)

author: S. Massery
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]]> Phantasma (Wicked Games, #1) 204593914 Caraval meets Throne of the Fallen in this spicy dark romantasy where a necromancer needs help from a dangerous phantom to win a deadly competition, only to find their partnership puts her at risk of breaking the game’s most vital rule: don't fall in love.

When Ophelia and her sister discovers their mother brutally murdered, there is no time to grieve: Ophelia has inherited both her powerful death-driven magic and enormous debt on their home. Circumstances go from dire to deadly, however, when Ophelia’s sister decides to pay off the loan by entering Phantasma—a competition where most contestants don’t make it out alive and the winner is granted a single wish.

The only way to save her sister is to compete. But Phantasma is a cursed manor, with twisting corridors and lavish ballrooms, and filled with enticing demons and fatal temptations. Ophelia will need to face nine floors of challenges to win... if her fears don’t overtake her first.

When a charming, arrogant stranger claims he can protect and guide Ophelia, she knows she shouldn’t trust him. While Blackwell may not seem dangerous, appearances can be deceptive. But with her sister’s life on the line, Ophelia can’t afford to turn him away. She just needs to ignore the overwhelming, dark attraction drawing them closer and closer together.

Because in Phantasma, the only thing deadlier than losing the game is losing your heart.]]> 497 Kaylie Smith 1538769255 shaira �� 3 legendary) but nevertheless still enjoyable and like that it wasn’t too serious for a standalone ]]> 4.06 2024 Phantasma (Wicked Games, #1)

author: Kaylie Smith
name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2024
rating: 3
read at: 2025/02/20
date added: 2025/02/20
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review:
ooh how the plot twisted at the end (kinda predictable ngl and reminded me of legendary) but nevertheless still enjoyable and like that it wasn’t too serious for a standalone
]]> <![CDATA[The Fake Out (Vancouver Storm, #2)]]> 184591636 The best way to get back at my horrible ex? Fake date Rory Miller--my ex's rival, the top scorer in pro hockey, and the arrogant, flirtatious hockey player I tutored in high school.

Faking it is fun and addictive, though, and beneath the bad boy swagger, Rory’s sweet, funny, and protective.

He teaches me to skate and spends way too much money on me.

He sleeps in my bed and convinces me to break my just-one-time hookup rule.

He kisses me like it’s real.

And now I wonder if Rory was ever faking it to begin with.

The Fake Out is a pro hockey fake dating romance. It is the second book in the Vancouver Storm series but can be read as a standalone.

Tropes:

Fake dating
Ex’s rival
Pro hockey
Golden retriever hero
Boy obsessed
Forced proximity]]> 428 Stephanie Archer shaira �� 0 trope-sports-romance, to-read
have waay to much shit to read atm]]> 4.09 2023 The Fake Out (Vancouver Storm, #2)

author: Stephanie Archer
name: shaira ��
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2023
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shelving this one back to "to-read" (for now) - will come back later

have waay to much shit to read atm
]]> Bull Rush 218454362 Those words change everything.

Now my should-be ex-husband, Ramsey Stockton, the former pro football star turned felon and hero who left this town—and me—behind years ago, is at my door offering me a deal with the devil.

If I let him stay and play his wife again for ninety days, he’ll give me a quiet divorce and his family ranch—the one my inn is on.

When I scoff at the idea, he offers a million-dollar bonus to help my business float through this rough patch, but only if I’m his.

Then he’ll walk away, and I can walk down the aisle with my fiancé. Or I can say no and watch everything I’ve worked so hard for fall apart.

There’s only one answer I can afford to give him. But he knows everything about me—every hurt, every secret, and every single weakness I have, including him.

And while Ramsey might want me, his brothers want him back in the family business.

If there's one universal truth in this town, it's that Stockton men stop at nothing to get what they want.]]> 402 Maggie Rawdon 1959523317 shaira �� 0
have waay to much shit to read atm]]> 3.76 Bull Rush

author: Maggie Rawdon
name: shaira ��
average rating: 3.76
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review:
shelving this one back to "to-read" (for now) - will come back later

have waay to much shit to read atm
]]> <![CDATA[Patience (Passion Quartet, #2)]]> 48593221
Patience Emmalina Dare has been pursued by admirers ever since coming of age. But as suitor after suitor fails to inspire her love—or her desire—she is certain she will never find someone who touches her deeply. Until a passionate kiss with an enigmatic man awakens a powerful need in her. But can she reconcile her desire for him with her desire for a life that’s her own? And what will she do when he shows her a part of herself she never knew existed?

When the secret of his illegitimate birth pushes Matthew Morgan Hawkmore from his place in society, the darkly handsome half-brother of the Earl of Langley plots his resurrection and his revenge. Betrayed and abandoned by the women he believed loved him, he swears never again to be controlled by love. But despite his vow, he is unable to resist Patience, whose strength and self-reliance mask a need that he is perfectly suited to fulfill��

Also by Lisa Valdez:

PASSION ~ Book One of The Passion Quartet
THE TOWER ~ An Erotic Bedtime Story

Praise for PASSION

“Passion is that special book that mixes a sizzling romance with an intriguing story, and it’s a real treat for readers.�� —The Romance Reader

“Valdez is able to combine a tender love story with numerous erotic scenes more successfully than any author I have read.�� —All About Romance
]]> 364 Lisa Valdez shaira �� 0 trope-angsty, to-read
have waay to much shit to read atm]]> 3.41 2010 Patience (Passion Quartet, #2)

author: Lisa Valdez
name: shaira ��
average rating: 3.41
book published: 2010
rating: 0
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review:
shelving this one back to "to-read" (for now) - will come back later

have waay to much shit to read atm
]]> <![CDATA[Maddox's story: Manhattan Ruthless]]> 219289126 Maddox's Story Sadie Kincaid shaira �� 0 to-read 4.40

author: Sadie Kincaid
name: shaira ��
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