If You Fight: Corrupted Love #2

Love is a tragedy designed for two. All his pretty lies disguised the ugly truths. I'm nothing but a puppet. He's the puppeteer. His dark twisted game is just getting started. Reader Advisory18+ This is a disturbing love story that has nothing to do with romance.

Analyzes the feelings and problems involved in different types of human love, including familial affection, friendship, passion, and charity.

My best friend's sister needs protection and I need a wife. Kyla Costigan. I can't even say her name without my mouth twisting like I've just tasted poison. Because that's exactly what she is - vicious and stubborn enough to battle the devil himself. She also happens to be the sexiest, most gorgeous woman I've ever laid eyes on...and my best friend's little sister. Time has transformed every inch of her into a sultry vixen, but she still has a black heart trapped inside a body I'd die for. Kyla is also the only woman who can to turn me into a power-hungry and ruthless animal, and right now, that's exactly who I have to be if I'm going to save my family. Turns out, we need each other. So the arrangement has been made. She-Devil is about to become a Mrs. My Mrs. That is, if we don't kill each other first. I'm going to need a bigger pitchfork if I have any shot of surviving. CORRUPTED CROWN is the jaw-dropping and explosive first book in the RECKLESS REIGN trilogy by USA Today Bestselling author Kristen Luciani and the first book of Patrick and Kyla's story. It is an Enemies to Lovers, Arranged Marriage, Second Chance Dark Mafia romance that fans of Nicole Fox and Faith Summers are sure to enjoy! This epic family saga ends with a guaranteed HEA in book three, TARNISHED THRONE. Each trilogy in the MAFIA CRIME KINGS series is about one couple and their journey toward HEA. For the best reading experience, it is suggested that you read the trilogies in order, beginning with CORRUPTED CROWN. Publisher's Note: CORRUPTED CROWN contains adult themes, mature content, and graphic violence some readers might find offensive and/or triggering.

Dreams might be a heart’s desire, but nightmares are its obsession in the first novel of a dark romance series from New York Times bestselling author Penelope Douglas. Erika Fane’s boyfriend's older brother is handsome, strong, and completely terrifying. The star of his college's basketball team gone pro, he's more concerned with the dirt on his shoe than he is with her. But she saw him. She heard him. The things that he did, and the deeds that he hid... For years, Erika bit her nails, unable to look away. Now, she’s in college, but she hasn’t stopped watching him. He’s bad and the things she’s seen aren’t content to stay in her head anymore. Because he's finally noticed her. But Michael Crist knows the hold he has on Rika, how much she fears him. She looks down when he enters the room and stills when he’s close. He knows she thinks only of him. When Michael’s brother leaves for the military, leaving Rika alone and unprotected, he knows the opportunity is too good to be true. Three years ago she put Michael’s friends in prison, and now they’re free. Every last one of her nightmares is about to come true.

Many Christians are familiar with the story Jesus told about the rich young ruler. He said a camel would sooner pass through the eye of a needle than the rich man would enter the kingdom of Heaven. What some people don’t realize, when it comes to finances, is that in the same book of the Bible Jesus also told the parable of the three servants given gifts by their master according to their abilities. When the master returned from his travels, he demanded an accounting of those gifts. The master praised the two who had multiplied their gifts, but cast the third out into the darkness and gnashing of teeth because he had not grown his gift. This book, The Love of Money not only explains that it’s OK to be a Christian and build wealth, but it also teaches you how to do it effectively while focusing your efforts on serving God.

A beautifully packaged edition of one of García Márquez's most beloved novels, with never-before-seen color illustrations by the Chilean artist Luisa Rivera and an interior design created by the author's son, Gonzalo García Barcha. In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs—yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.

Bennie Rosato the founder of the Rosato & DiNunzio law firm hides her big heart beneath her tough-as-nails exterior and she doesn't like to fail. Now, a case from her past shows her how differently things might have turned out in Lisa Scottoline's New York Times bestseller, Corrupted. Thirteen years ago, Bennie Rosato took on Jason Lefkavick, a twelve-year-old boy who was sent to a juvenile detention center after fighting a class bully. Bennie couldn't free Jason, and to this day it's the case that haunts her. Jason has grown up in and out of juvenile prison, and his adulthood hasn't been any easier. Bennie no longer represents those accused of murder, but when Jason is indicted for killing the same bully he fought with as a kid, she sees no choice but to represent him. She doesn't know whether or not to believe his claims of innocence, but she knows she owes him for past failures-of the law, of the juvenile justice system, and of herself. Forced to relive the darkest period of her life, Bennie will do everything in her power to get the truth, and justice.

Pastor John Piper shows how to sever the clinging roots of sin that ensnare us, including anxiety, pride, shame, impatience, covetousness, bitterness, despondency, and lust in Battling Unbelief. When faith flickers, stoke the fire. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it offers some promise of happiness. That promise enslaves us, until we believe that God is more desirable than life itself (Psalm 63:3). Only the power of God’s superior promises in the gospel can emancipate our hearts from servitude to the shallow promises and fleeting pleasures of sin. Delighting in the bounty of God’s glorious gospel promises will free us for a less sin-encumbered life, to the glory of Christ. Rooted in solid biblical reflection, this book aims to help guide you through the battles to the joys of victory by the power of the gospel and its superior pleasure.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "This cook knocked me off my feet! It's flipping brilliant!" Goodreads Reviewer. The truth is never what it seems. Neither are the people, regardless of who they are. ✅ 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.