Showing results for "Shame" in Romantic Suspense

Declan Cross is powerful, brooding, and his dark eyes speak of damage that my soul begs to unravel. I’ve always been drawn to men who are rough around the edges, the bad guys so to speak, but he’s a kind of brutal that scares me. So I promised myself I’d stay away. I swore up and down that I would never give in to the fantasies that haunt me at night.

Tristan is one of my biggest clients. He always pays on time, and he always keeps his word. But this time, he's short on cash. He needs the shipment now, so he offers me collateral. He loans me his slave, Adelina. Now that Pearl and I are so close, I can't condone this type of exchange. It's wrong. Inhumane. But she wants me. I can tell. And I definitely want her.

Ex-model Paige McCarty is fed up with being just a pretty face. After her ex-husband’s gambling problem left her royally screwed and tragically shoeless, she started Fool Me Once Investigations with her best friends, Lorlei and Kennedy, to prevent other women from being similarly played and dismayed.

For Lorelei Warner, being perfect isn't everything it's cracked up to be. She did what her straitlaced parents wanted: Became a lawyer, married her college boyfriend. But since her husband ran off with another man and her career became a nonstop bore-fest, Lorelei has turned to her best friends and Fool Me Once Investigations to find fulfillment and adventure.

I wish I’d known before it got to this point so I could have stopped it. I'd have chosen her above all else... if only I could go back. Even if it meant never getting to kiss her, to love her, to be consumed by the woman she is and the love she gave me. The only thing I know as truth now is that it’s all my fault and it’s all too late.

When 18-year-old Barbara Edwards agrees to become a model at the Ostia Agency, she quickly discovers that she was recruited for quite a bit more than just some naughty photos. Barbara will be trained by an agent for the secretive, powerful Praetorian Guard - training which will be more shameful than she could have ever imagined - and then she will take part in an ancient game with the fate of the world at stake and her beautiful body as a playing piece.

Shame. It wounds us. It damages us. Or, for the few poor souls out there like me...it defines us. I'm the son of the devil himself - the most feared mob boss who ever lived. I was cursed from the moment I took my first breath. I hate him...and I never wanted to become him. And I sure as hell never, ever, wanted anything of his. Until her. My name is Ricardo DeLuca.

Meet Key West native Renita Daughtry - 22, wide-eyed, gorgeous, and very much in love with love. In other words, an irresistible target for professional impostor and pathological liar Richie Pestucci, who plans to charm her into utter helplessness. But there's just one problem. Renita's seeming naiveté masks a lot of savvy and a will of velvet-coated steel, and it isn't long before Richie, now smitten with his intended victim, starts to wonder just who is gaming who.

Candice has spent her whole life being what she thought everyone wanted her to be. She never got into trouble, never broke a rule, and never asked for anything that she thought her mother couldn't handle. Everything changes when her mother's restaurant is burned to the ground, and she is kidnapped and dropped at the door of Austin Stone.

Pete Amsterdam, world’s most reluctant private eye, is living the bachelor dream in Key West, Florida. Then his mother, the undaunted Gertie, shows up with her new hip, her large suitcase, and her gift for cutting remarks.

Not everyone knows about the Club, which is by design. The main floor entertains the elite. There are dim lights and stolen touches, and the liquor flows to ensure the guests get exactly what they want. But it’s what lies beneath these floors, down the spiral staircase, that intrigues me the most. There’s a man who stays in the corner of the darkest rooms. In this world of sinful tastes, he is the ruler, the devil, the boss. Declan Cross. I knew him once when times were different, and the years have changed everything.

Mitchell Jamel Harding, otherwise known as “Mitch” is a happily married man of 20 years, at least in his mind. The handsome, sexy, real estate broker is just beginning to expand his career but his wife, Kanile, can’t wait. As fast as he makes money, she spends it and then does the unthinkable and the unforgivable. She makes him feel less than a man.

Attorney Isaac Colson only wants to put his tumultuous past in Fog Lake behind him and return to his life in Memphis. But when an ominous text threatens that he must come back or there will be deadly consequences, he knows he can’t take any chances. Rebecca Moreno has only ever loved one man—her high school sweetheart, Isaac Colson. But when his dad went to prison for murder, Rebecca’s father forbade them from seeing each other again. Years later, Isaac is back in town and old feelings are stirring. But Rebecca is harboring a secret that could change everything.

Wren Poe, a self-made executive, doesn't take orders from anyone - especially men. Though beautiful Wren may seem to have it all; success, money, power, and a quirky best friend, the one thing she doesn't have--is love. Wren isn't the type who wants to find love…not until the day she walks into Greenlee Athletics. Talon Greenlee; thirty-nine years old, tall, dark and handsome..Torn between their past that drives them and their future that fuels their passion, join Wren and Talon on their journey in this three part series.

Is all the stalking and cryptic messages being sent by ghosts from her past or forces in her present who have something even more sinister in mind? When independent Wren signed up to join the commanding Talon Greenlee's state-of-the-art facility, she had no clue the past they secretly shared would lead them both to a future filled with mystery, danger, and possibly death. While their past continues to plague them, Wren discovers their story is not limited to her hometown but bridges from Seattle to San Francisco.

Jayne has hidden behind a disfiguring facial birthmark. Nothing has helped to overcome a scar she cannot hide from. Tortured by peers, and even in her adult life, Jayne has finally accepted the hand she’s been dealt. She’s vowed never to let anyone under her skin again. Trust is for the foolish.

I've fallen in love with Lou-Lou. And I'll stop at nothing to keep her away from you. But there's one thing I never counted on.... The moment when our "truths" would turn into lies. I thought Bruno DeLuca was our biggest threat. I was wrong. Because the fire burning between us would end up destroying us. And killing me. People think love conquers all. What they don't know is that for some of us...it comes at a price. The ultimate price.

Now that Wren and Talon have finally found each other, one particular ghost from both of their pasts has come back to haunt them. Once his intentions are finally revealed, it becomes clear that there are other forces that are hard at work to come between them. But why? As Wren tries to sort out her feelings for her previously dead fiancée, she comes closer to losing Talon. Torn between her past and her future, it feels like a triangle that is not entirely built out of love but rather something she can't put her finger on.