Tatienne Richard
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Badgering My Billionaire Bully
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Blurb Presley Brookmore was bullied by her older half-brother Odin and his two best friends Cruz and Anderson, all of her life. They made it their life mission to humiliate her at every turn. Was it her fault her father carried on an affair with her mother who got pregnant with her and wrecked Odin’s idyllic life? She didn’t think so but apparently, Odin and his cronies did, and so they bullied her at every turn. When an opportunity to get back at Odin’s best friend Cruz Hawley presents itself in a serendipitous moment, she doesn’t let it slip away. Taking full advantage of the fact as a billionaire, an attractive one at that, all eyes are on him and people are snapping photos and videos of the celebrity in the restaurant, she makes a scene straight out a daytime soap opera. Cruz Hawley returned to Vancouver with the intent to take his billion-dollar medical equipment company to the next level. When his childhood best friend’s younger sister pops out of the woodwork and not only destroys his chance at a connection with a client, but makes him a social media sensation, his businesses take the hit. His PR team urge him to fix it. Their solution? Fake date the red-haired demon, who he believes strongly was birthed straight from the pits of hell and create a narrative that the scene in the restaurant was simply two lovers role-playing. When despite agreeing to the plan to do four dates, Presley skips town and embarks on a four-week vacation to Europe, Cruz is fit to be tied. Especially when he learns she didn’t simply play him, she went all in on her revenge before leaving town. Now, not only are his stocks taking a hit, but his family’s companies are suffering as well. He’s told to get this situation under control and now. What’s a man to do but crash a vacation and play as dirty as the woman herself. Cruz is going to teach the troublemaker a lesson but it’s his heart on the line when he finds himself looking forward to every challenge she is presenting. It’s win, lose, or draw and as a former Olympian, there is no way he can lose. Let the game of hearts begin. Winner takes all.
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Not So Saint Nick
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Not-So-Saint-Nick WGrier Bush grew up in a picturesque town in the foothills of the Colorado Rockies much like the ones all those made for television Christmas movies used for their backdrops. Except for her the idyllic life was ruined as a teenager and so doing what any girl from those movies did, she left the small town and moved to the big city. Now Grier was the administrative assistant to the sexiest, and more importantly, the grouchiest man in all of New York State, maybe even America. She spends most of her time smoothing feather’s he’s ruffled and keeping him from firing entire groups of people on a whim. She could never understand her best friend Hazel’s obsession with the man. Sure, he looks good but he’s a jerk of the highest order. Nick Santos has a secret. Not only is he the billionaire CEO of the country’s biggest confectionary company, but he is also the crown prince to the Ice Fairy Queen and to the man the rest of the world knows as Santa Claus. Family pressure and an intense resentment to his parents for putting the children of the world ahead of their own has made him a surly son of a bitch and he wears his title as meanest CEO on earth like a badge of honor. Leaving the family behind to build his empire was easier said than done though and they’re always at his back, chasing him to come home. Losing his creative spirit a long time ago, Nick is surprised when returning his assistant’s laptop bag to her to be struck with the most delicious sense of inspiration. When the woman who for five years has kept him from umpteenth litigation issues, stays ice cold while managing to deal with her boyfriend and her best friend in Grier’s bed together is nothing short of revolutionary. Suddenly he wants to help her burn the world down one bag of prank candy at a time. Grier returns home for the holidays only to find her ever-annoying boss is following her. When he declares he’s going to help her get revenge against her cheating exes and her best friend by posing as her lover, she knows there is no good to come of it. Yet, with her parents and sister egging the billionaire psychopath on, what is a girl to do but join in the chaos the gorgeous man is bringing to the party. Ready to rip her stockings off her body to hang by the chimney without an ounce of care, Grier decides Christmas this year is going to be a whole lot of naughty, not an ounce of nice and maybe, just maybe, a touch of love.
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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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Daring Delfina's Heart
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Blurb Delfina Poletti is a twenty-four-year-old woman raised in a strict family by deeply religious but loving parents. Her faith and view of the world is shattered when her cousin tangles with the wrong crowd, putting their lives into danger. Trading her life for theirs, Delfina marries a mob underboss for the Matrone family named Ercole Muraro who is more than fifty years her senior. When he suddenly dies, Ercole’s family starts crawling out of the woodwork and is demanding answers Delfina is not allowed to provide. Furio “The CEO” Matrone, is head of the Matrone family mafia. A billionaire in his own right he is tasked by his father to make sure Delfina never reveals the truth behind her marriage contract, even after her husband’s death. Furio is twice her age, but he’s been her secret crush since the day she met him. While she suffered under Ercole, it was his godson Furio who Delfina dreamed of in her husband’s place. Ruggero Rapallino, a billionaire who has worked hard to keep his businesses distant from his grandfather’s dirty dealings, is desperate. From the day Ercole Muraro introduced him to Delfina Poletti, Ruggero has wanted her, secretly lusting after his grandfather’s wife. Finding out the old man left nothing to the young woman in his will he finds himself provided the opportunity to find out more and to insert himself into her life. He wants to be her savior and to right the wrongs he knows the dead man committed. Delfina finds herself torn between the consummate nice guy and the wickedest man she’s ever met. One can give her peace and a serenity she’s not known for years while the other makes her want to watch the world burn. What’s a girl to do when she has two hot sexy men pounding on her bedroom door? Try them all on for size, of course. Taking her destiny into her own hands, she entertains advances from both men, but she knows ultimately, they won’t share. Delfina is going to have to let her daring heart decide. Let the dating games begin.
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Rocking With The Bratva Brat
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Sequel to Betraying The Bratva King Hadlee Orlov spent the last eight years dreaming of having the perfect life. From the time she was a preteen she’d been dreaming of becoming a Broadway star and being married to her mother’s protégé Eric Byrd with a love to rival the one her parents shared. Now as she approaches the age of twenty, she’s realizing dreams and real life are vastly different. Her crush doesn’t know she exists as anything other than an adopted sister, her parents think she’s a flighty airhead and her career dreams have been turned to dust. Deciding she is tired of everyone else dictating her life, she decides to take control of her own life with an impulsive decision which leads to a life-changing epiphany for her. Sometimes growing up means letting go. Eric Byrd has made a name for himself as a rock star with no shortage of women throwing themselves at him on a nightly basis. However, his mind is occupied by a naughty secret admirer who likes to leave him risqué gifts, love letters and poetry which bends his mind. Desperate to make their virtual and pen-pal relationship real, he’s working hard to uncover the woman behind the plume. When Hadlee’s secret comes to light and her family finds out she’s been the secret admirer sending inappropriate gifts to Eric since she was seventeen years old, it throws her family into chaos. For the first time, Eric is looking at Hadlee as something other than a little girl with a big voice. Expecting Eric to balk and run screaming for the hills, Hadlee is stunned when Eric takes control and declares they will be a couple. If Hadlee thought being the only daughter of the Bratva King had her under the control of a domineering man, she hasn’t seen anything yet. Eric is finding his bratva brat needs a firm hand and dominant direction and he’s just the man to guide her. He wants her in his life, on his stage and in his bed and he’s going to have all three, come hell or high water. For Hadlee, she’s going to learn not all dreams need to come true but when the important ones do, they’re better than all the shiny lights on Broadway.
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Dom Vadim's Vow
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Blurb Following her twenty-first birthday, Essence Angevin is instructed by her grandfather she is to marry his protégé, the terrifyingly austere Vadim Tudor. If she doesn’t, then the old man would cut off not only her trust fund but also the funds which support her mother and two sisters in their lives of luxury. Rather than sacrifice her life, she enlists the help of friends and manages to run away to another country where she hides for nearly seven years before her betrothed snatches her from her life and returns her back to the UK to fulfill her obligations. Vadim Tudor is everything she feared he was and so much more. His cold, standoffish demeanor she’d been subjected to since the day she was born disappeared the moment they were alone and in it’s place a dominant, foul-mouthed, sexy man with a tongue which made her knees weak and her panties wet. Everything about the man is a contradiction. He hates her one minute and in the next adores and pampers her like a princess. He’s declaring they will be together for a lifetime yet reveals he’s pining for the one woman he never had the chance to pursue because of his commitment to their arranged marriage. He wants to dominate her and make her the submissive in a very controlled relationship yet in the next breath, he’s waiting on her hand and foot and doing everything from brushing her teeth to dressing her. He’s a paradox she’s struggling to unravel. When his admirers begin worming their way out of the woodwork, putting her life and love on the line, Essence needs to decide if she can withstand the tough times in order to relish the good. When her family reveals a deep dark secret surrounding her new husband, will Essence be able to look past the depravity of his soul or will she once again run away to let the world burn around her? What Essence doesn’t know is her husband Vadim has made a vow and he intends to keep it, whether she likes it or not. Til death do them part.
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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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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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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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