A swoony billionaire romance prequel to USA Today bestselling author K.A. Linde's Cruel Truth. I’m not prepared to meet someone as sexy as Sam Rutherford on the first day of my new job. Then I find out we’re sharing an office…for the next year. I can’t deny that I’m intrigued by his charming Southern drawl and rugged good looks. Normally I would have jumped at the chance. But there’s only one problem. He has no idea who I am. I’m not just Lark, the cute girl at work. I’m a multibillion-dollar heiress. And I made a deal with my parents: one year away from the city and then I take over the family business. Despite everything, I want to risk it for him. I don’t care if I break my cruel promise.

A Beauty and the Beast retelling... Now available in audio!  Most fathers do not gamble all their money away, then appease the notorious Alekseev brothers by promising their daughter in exchange for their debts. Most daughters are more lucky than I am, because my father did exactly this. I, Charleigh Gates, am bound to three Bratva hitmen in the cruelest of trades, headed to auction to pay for my father’s sins. My virginity will be bartered away in a wicked and sordid exchange to erase my father’s debts. I will be ruined. Disposed of. At the mercy of these men. Payment for a debt to be settled. While their menacing presence surrounds me and their icy gazes pierce my soul, I vow not to let them crush me. In an act of rebellion, a middle finger to these men who care nothing for me, I vow to escape. I don’t know when. I don’t know how. Just that I will. I may die trying, but I’ll also die if I don’t. This spicy, over-the-top Russian Mafia romance is about sexy, dangerous men who'll stop at nothing to pursue and protect the woman they want. If you love outrageously naughty stories as a way to indulge your not-so-secret bad girl side, this Why Choose romance is for you. 1) Cruel Promise 2) Brutal Ruin 3) Vicious Revenge This book is intended for adults. It features a heroine with multiple love interests as well as mature themes including kidnapping, murder, spanking, edging, and page-turning sexy times.

These spicy, over-the-top Russian Mafia romances are about sexy, dangerous men who'll stop at nothing to pursue and protect the woman they want. If you love outrageously naughty stories as a way to indulge your not-so-secret bad girl side, these Why Choose romances are for you. 1) Cruel Promise 2) Brutal Ruin 3) Vicious Revenge Note: while not required, you may like to read the novella, My Bratva Christmas, first. These books is intended for adults. They feature a heroine with multiple love interests as well as mature themes including kidnapping, murder, spanking, edging, and page-turning sexy times.

Dominique Price. Good looking. Arrogant. Football-God and my brother's best friend. He hates me. He wants me. He can never have me. Everything comes so easy for him. I refuse to be just another game for him to win. "Someone needs to pour a bucket of cold water over my head because Cruel Devil was spicy as all hell!" ★★★★★ -Short & Sweet Reviews by Sam

“McMahon unfurls a whirlwind of suspense...Combining murder mystery and coming-of-age tale with supernatural elements, this taut novel is above all a reflection on the haunting power of memory.” –Entertainment Weekly A woman’s past and present collide in terrifying ways in this explosive debut by New York Times bestselling author Jennifer McMahon. Forty-one-year-old school nurse Kate Cypher has returned home to rural Vermont to care for her mother, who's afflicted with Alzheimer's. On the night she arrives, a young girl is murdered—a horrific crime that eerily mirrors another from Kate's childhood. Three decades earlier, her dirt-poor friend Del—shunned and derided by classmates as "Potato Girl"—was brutally slain. Del's killer was never found, while the victim has since achieved immortality in local legends and ghost stories. Now, as this new murder investigation draws Kate irresistibly in, her past and present collide in terrifying, unexpected ways. Because nothing is quite what it seems . . . and the grim specters of her youth are far from forgotten. More than just a murder mystery, Jennifer McMahon's extraordinary debut novel, Promise Not to Tell, is a story of friendship and family, devotion and betrayal—tautly written, deeply insightful, beautifully evocative, and utterly unforgettable.

A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing. Offering bold new ways of conceiving the present, Lauren Berlant describes the cruel optimism that has prevailed since the 1980s, as the social-democratic promise of the postwar period in the United States and Europe has retracted. People have remained attached to unachievable fantasies of the good life—with its promises of upward mobility, job security, political and social equality, and durable intimacy—despite evidence that liberal-capitalist societies can no longer be counted on to provide opportunities for individuals to make their lives “add up to something.” Arguing that the historical present is perceived affectively before it is understood in any other way, Berlant traces affective and aesthetic responses to the dramas of adjustment that unfold amid talk of precarity, contingency, and crisis. She suggests that our stretched-out present is characterized by new modes of temporality, and she explains why trauma theory—with its focus on reactions to the exceptional event that shatters the ordinary—is not useful for understanding the ways that people adjust over time, once crisis itself has become ordinary. Cruel Optimism is a remarkable affective history of the present.

Rylie has it all - great friends, dream boy, loving family. But on the eve of her sixteenth birthday, her perfect little world shatters. A stranger claiming to be her real mother appears with a secret: Rylie is a faery whose powers will be unleashed on her birthday. Captured and forced into a new life, Rylie struggles to keep everything she loves and discovers a terrifying truth: some promises cannot be broken.

Dive back into the sexy side of the Upper East Side with the second billionaire romance from USA Today bestselling author K.A. Linde. I finally have everything I ever wanted—fame and fortune and literary success. Only one problem: I lost my muse. He was tall, dark, and handsome. Broody, enigmatic, alluring, and right for me in every way. Until he wasn’t. Until I lost everything. And I can’t lose it all again. I’ll do anything to keep it. Even seeing him again…

If you’re excited about the upcoming Disney film Beauty and the Beast, starring Emma Watson, don’t miss Cruel Beauty. The romance of Beauty and the Beast meets the adventure of Graceling in this dazzling fantasy novel about our deepest desires and their power to change our destiny. Perfect for fans of bestselling An Ember in the Ashes and A Court of Thorns and Roses, this gorgeously written debut infuses the classic fairy tale with glittering magic, a feisty heroine, and a romance sure to take your breath away. Betrothed to the evil ruler of her kingdom, Nyx has always known that her fate was to marry him, kill him, and free her people from his tyranny. But on her seventeenth birthday when she moves into his castle high on the kingdom's mountaintop, nothing is what she expected—particularly her charming and beguiling new husband. Nyx knows she must save her homeland at all costs, yet she can't resist the pull of her sworn enemy—who's gotten in her way by stealing her heart.