Tatienne Richard
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The Billionaire Playboy's Regret
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Blurb Lark Hoffman spent her entire childhood as the third wheel to the richest and most spoiled twins in the country, the Villeneuve twins, Ollie, and Max. By the time Lark discovered boys, she had eyes only for Max, but Max was interested only in any girl who wasn’t Lark. The night of their senior high school prom, a series of circumstances pointed out with glaring fact, her love was all one-sided. Knowing she couldn’t continue to live her life in the shadow of her crush, she left her friends behind and made a life of her own, cutting off all contact with Max for her own sanity. Twelve years later, after a bitterly failed relationship, she moves back home to lick her wounds. Her parents still living next door to the family her life was once so intertwined with puts her smack dab in the middle of Max Villeneuve’s radar. This time though, Max is no longer the teenage boy behaving like the spoiled brat she was used to. The man presenting to her now was focused, persistent and for the first time in her life, intent on winning her affection. For Lark, trying to recover from a cheating boyfriend, the last thing she wants to deal with is a womanizer possessing skills the equivalent of Max’s. She didn’t walk away from one cheater to get mixed up with another philanderer. However, after Max has a health scare, and at the insistence of the twins, Lark agrees to try over as friends but swears she won’t let the man ever be viewed romantically by her heart again. Unfortunately for her, Max is pulling out all the stops. He lost her once before. He wasn’t going to let her go again without a fight. Can Lark’s fragile heart survive another round of the Villeneuve playboy, or will she remain his greatest regret? With his sister egging Lark on, she is about to find out if time really does heal all wounds.
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Black Widow's Bite
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Blurb Giada Amalfi Puglisi is on a mission. A brilliant woman with a knack for murder and mayhem, all she ever wanted was to work alongside her father in his role as the right hand to a ruthless mafia don. Don Amato was old school, and, in his opinion, women had no place in the life. A princess could not be a soldier. End of discussion. When a one-night stand puts Giada in the crosshairs of the Don’s only heir, Cipriano Amato, Giada knows the best way to get what she wants is to remove him from the equation and plots to have him sent away. Planting ideas and making sure she’s there to pick up pieces, Giada spends ten years making sure the Don considers her invaluable in his son’s absence. Giada’s plans fall into place, until for the first time in her life, she begins to consider there might be more to life than being a soldier in the upper echelons of a mafia family. Falling head over heels for Baldasarre Saputo, the Don of a family from another part of the country, she struggles to remind herself of all she’s worked to achieve. The heart wants what it wants though, and her mind is obsessing over the Don of her dreams in Baldasarre Saputo, and she struggles to stay focused on her career. That is until the prodigal son comes home, and her boss puts a target on her back. When the Don of her family tells Cipriano he’s going to name Giada Donna if he can’t get his act together, he decides the best way to keep his title is to make Giada his woman. He makes it clear, he wants her at his side to rule his family. Suddenly Giada finds herself torn between keeping the career she’s worked ruthlessly to have and sticking with Cipriano or giving it all up for her heart with Baldasarre. Love or career? What’s a girl to choose?
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Betrothed To The Brotherhood
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Blurb Iris Parker has spent her entire life fantasizing about ways to escape her domineering mother. A first-generation Chinese American woman, Iris has never lived up to the standards or expectations of her mother. Every action Iris has ever made has managed to anger her mom and she gave up trying to impress her ages ago. As a receptionist working for a Chinese-owned company in Manhattan, Iris had decided the best way to work her way up from working in the lobby to one of the office spaces, was embarking on a journey of learning Mandarin through an online course. For two years, every week she has worked diligently to learn the language with an older college professor, Jay. In spending this time with him, she has developed a crush which leaves her fantasizing about the older man and all the other things he could teach her. Jay Zhao, leader of the Obsidian Brotherhood, a Chinese mafia with a stronghold in various countries over the world, has been searching for twenty-five years to exact the revenge against Mei Parker and her husband. Jay had once been betrothed to Mei, but she’d been terrified of him and the rumours surrounding him, specifically that he was a beast in man form. She had run away the morning of their wedding with her lover to America. Now he was going to repay her treachery by taking their daughter as his bride. When Iris finds out the man, she’s been fantasizing about had been playing her all along in a sick and twisted game of revenge, her desire to escape her mother is transferred to the man who wants to claim her as a wife. The problem is, each time she runs away, he finds her much too easily. It’s almost as if he were able to scent her out like a wild animal chasing its prey. When Jay reveals his secret and tells Iris the truth of who, and what, he is, the woman’s plans of escape become more elaborate and dangerous. Can Jay save his bride from the traps of his enemies, and more importantly can he convince her he’s not the monster in her fairy tale but rather her knight in golden armour? A tale of revenge, love and a smidge of fantasy will be in the cards for Iris and if she’s lucky, she’ll get her happily ever after too.
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The Surrogacy Secret
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Royal Robinson is devasted when his brother is tragically killed in a car accident but when he learns his niece was not the biological child of his sister-in-law, his world comes crashing down. A man on a mission, he sets out to find out how the man he thought was the most devoted in the world, not only had a child with another woman but had convinced his wife to fake a pregnancy and tell everyone his daughter was hers. Famke Noor is a young woman living paycheck to paycheck, supporting her brother, and doing her best to survive. With a heart of gold, she strongly feels if there is anything she can do to help a person in need, she would do it. It was why she had fought for custody of her brother when she was only eighteen. It was why she sacrificed her own education to take care of his needs when he’d gotten ill. It was why when he was in hospital and she befriended a couple going through failed IVF, she agreed to surrogate for them. Royal is angered to find out the woman his brother had gotten pregnant had never wanted her child and had given her away freely. However, when secrets and past hurts are uncovered, Royal discovers, not everything is what it seems, and Famke was quite possibly as much a victim as his niece was. Desperate to make things right, the man sets on a path which will either make or break Famke’s heart. Can the woman who routinely sacrifices her own happiness for others, finally reach for her own or will she sacrifice her own heart?
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The Billionaire’s Prodigal Wife
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Fall for a billionaire- Redeem Ex's Love Mackenna Giordano had been swept off her feet at the age of nineteen by Alessandro, the billionaire CEO of Giordano Fashion House of Milan. In a whirlwind romance, they married after two short weeks. Initially her life was perfect. Then it was not. A year into their marriage, Alessandro hired a new model as the face of the company, a woman who made no efforts to hide she was sleeping with Mackenna's husband. When Mackenna gave Alessandro an ultimatum, her or the other woman, he refused to choose. He seduced Mackenna and left her sleeping in their bed to go dancing with his lover with the tabloids documenting ever moment of the party. With her dignity in tatters, Mackenna ran away to America, knowing the possessive and domineering Italian would never let her go. Five years later, Mackenna is desperate to move on and returns to Italy to file her divorce to begin the next chapter in life, but will Alessandro let her go? Tragedy and the ever-present lover in Alessandro's life break Mackenna's heart a second time. Can Alessandro convince his wife he deserves a second chance and he's not the scoundrel she believes him to be? Will the billionaire playboy husband succeed in winning back his prodigal bride? For the first time, all the balls are in Mackenna's court and she's the one in control. Power is seductive.
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The Girl, The Guard & The Ghost
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#septemberupdateprogram Dr. Sienna Lawrence is a self-professed introvert who prefers studying people on paper instead of dealing with them personally. The exception to this were her three best friends from college. While they had all come from wealthy backgrounds and fancy lifestyles, she had been born and raised in small town Maine. When her mom takes ill and the nurse absconds with her mother\'s money, Sienna turns to her friends for help. She makes a deal to pretend to be Dimitra Lykiaos-Laskaris to fool the heiress\' new bodyguard. In exchange, she gets to keep Dimitra\'s spousal support payments to use for her mom\'s medical care. She agrees and over time falls in love with the man who shadows her. When Jonas finds out the truth, he walks away. Despite his feelings for Sienna, eight years of lying is a hard pill to swallow. While reeling from Jonas\' absnece, Sienna continues her search for the nurse who stole her mother\'s money and turns to the enigmatic Alvar Caputo. Mafia kingpin. Wanted man. Dangerous criminal. When Jonas comes back to tell Sienna he is ready to try to forgive her for the lies and move forward, she is knee deep in Caputo\'s capers. Will the overprotective guard keep her safe from the dangers of the man dubbed "The Ghost" or will his behavior catapult her into his arms. Sienna is torn between a man she feels irrationally comfortable with and the butterflies and excitement of forbidden love. Never had she imagined a shy girl from the backwoods of Maine would ever be in such a situation. They say still waters run deep. Nobody ever mentioned how murky the water can get.
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Betraying The Bratva King
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#summerupdateprogram “I’m coming for you Briar. I hope you know you’re going to make up for the ten years you stole from me.” When Briar Rose, choir director extraordinaire, is required to fly to Paris with her students for an international singing competition, she pleads with her boss to get out of the event. France was the last place she ever wanted to return. France was where she had left her criminal background behind and had grown into an upstanding servant of her community back in Baltimore, Maryland. However, her boss wouldn’t take no for answer. Briar finds herself, back in the City of Love, praying the mistakes of her past, specifically, the ruthless businessman she had tried to blackmail for ten million dollars, doesn’t find out she’s in Europe. When Liev Orlov finds out the woman, he’s been desperately searching for over ten years has arrived in Paris, he knows it is fate bringing her back to him. He corners her and reminds her nobody crosses the king of the Bratva and gets away unscathed. There had been a time when he had considered Briar his perfect match and he remains convinced it won’t take much to remind her in whose arms she belongs. However, when Liev realizes Briar’s betrayal in the form of extortion was only the tip of the iceberg of her treachery, there will be hell to pay. Briar realizes the price of betraying the powerful mogul might be too steep for her to pay with anything other than her life. Liev makes it clear, this time, he’s entering the relationship with his eyes wide open and for Briar there is no means of escape. Can Liev forgive the greatest love of his life for her sins of the past or will Briar need to serve a lifetime of penance to the King of Bratva?
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Dominating the Dominatrix
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Darya Pappas is a highly intelligent woman with an axe to grind. After being kicked out of her family at the age of eighteen, the actions of her father and the man he was indebted to put her on a course of employment which left a bitter taste in her mouth. Despite finding out during the course of her work in the streets, how much she enjoyed wielding a whip, the rest of it left her with anger and bitterness and a desire for revenge. Her plan was simple. She would find a way to ruin her family for disowning her and when she finished this task her next plan was to take on the man who precipitated her father's rejection of her. It was of course Kostas Masalis' fault for not only refusing to consider using her as a bargaining chip in her father's attempt to recoup the money he'd lost to Kostas, but also for trying to force her to marry his scumbag of a brother. Had he simply pointed out to her father the insanity of offering a child up for cash, perhaps her life would have been different. When billionaire aeronautical engineer Kostas Masalis learns the outcome of his involvement in the life of Darya Pappas, he immediately feels regret. When he sees her again eight years after the first and only time he'd seen her, he is struck with the realization he'd made a grave mistake. The little quiet nerd was actually a vibrant, beautiful sexy woman who he knew would be a perfect submissive to his dominant needs. He erred in not taking her for his wife eight years ago and it's a mistake he intends to rectify. Darya sees the opportunity to begin exacting her revenge the moment Kostas sets his sights on making her his submissive. She will play his game as long as he plays hers and, in the end, she will destroy his pride. Now all she has to do is keep her heart from being destroyed along with him because she is about to learn not everything about revenge is clear cut and when the heart is involved, even the gentlest of whips can leave lasting scars.
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Chasing His Brother's Bride
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Jolie Segreto Haversham had once been a young woman with the world at her feet, happy and thriving. Her world came tumbling down when her father, a bookkeeper for the Cacciola family was caught skimming the books. When the youngest son of the Don demanded Jolie be given to him as payment, there was nobody to stop the mafia son. For eight months, Valentin Cacciola used Jolie however he saw fit. One night, after he’d passed out after a drug fueled rage, someone put a bullet in his forehead, leaving Jolie battered and bruised in the bed next to his cold body. Escaping from the hospital knowing the Cacciola family was on the hunt for her, she left the bright lights of Vegas to hunker down in the city of Boston. Brixton Beckwith, older half-brother to Valentin and heir to the Cacciola throne was given an order by his father. Find the girl his younger brother had tortured and make sure she didn’t spill their secrets to the feds. For six years she is the only one he, the bounty hunter in his family, never found. Purely by happenchance, Brixton stumbles across his brother’s bride working in the realty firm he’s just taken control of. When the Cacciola family find out Jolie’s secret, they insist she be brought into the fold and what better way than to marry the eldest son of Don Cacciola. Jolie had already married one brother against her will and the bitter taste of having her freedom ripped away again should be resting unfavorably on her tongue. What then did it mean when Jolie finds herself strangely attracted to the over-protective, domineering muscular man who took control of every aspect of her life? Jolie is going to find out, not everything in the Cacciola is what it seems and when she least expects it, life can throw the most incredible surprises. It’s up to her whether to catch it or let it go. What is a runaway bride to do?
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The Billionaire and the Banker
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Money doesn’t always make the world go ‘round. Occasionally, it brings it all to a screeching halt. Magda Onassis and her two best friends have developed an application which has caused a frenzy amongst the banking world and will make her a billionaire at twenty-six. Since the age of eighteen when her family cut her off financially, all she has ever wanted was to gain her own financial independence and tell her parents to shove her rescinded trust fund up their haughty posteriors. When presenting the project and a sales pitch to the company who beta-tested their app, Magda comes face-to-face with chairman and CEO of Winter Financials International, Ares Winter and sparks fly. A notorious playboy according to the tabloids, Ares flirts hard with Magda with the intention of making her his next lover. It’s been a long time since a woman has captivated his attention the way she has and he will stop at nothing to make her his. Magda finds herself caught between wondering if the handsome billionaire is trying to use her obvious attraction to him as a bargaining chip in their negotiations or desperately wanting to believe he is as attracted as she is. Magda is no stranger to challenges in her life. Having an unsupportive family who have consistently tried to force her to do what she doesn’t want and dating experiences equivalent to scraping the bottom of the barrel in the cesspool of life, she is highly suspicious of the wealthy man’s intentions. With her best friends’ encouragement though she is ready to engage in the battle of wills with the man of her dreams. The moment Magda becomes a billionaire, her life explodes. Her once quiet life of beaches and surfing is now filled with tabloid reporters, angry family, and a persistent beau. Moreover, ghosts of Ares’ past are haunting them and Magda’s life is on the line when their privacy is breached by the press and their relationship revealed. Time is not on their side when Magda disappears and it’s unclear if she’s gone out of her own volition or if the culprit is the one person Ares has diligently worked for fifteen years to keep locked up and out of his life. Either way, urgency is paramount as Ares’ first chance at true love is at risk. He’s going to learn the hard way not everything in life is for sale, no matter how much money you have.
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