There Goes My Heart: The Maine Sullivans

A dark romance box set from International Bestselling Author, Nikita Slater. BOOK 1 - Scarred Queen She despised them all, yet she was wife to one. Drifting in a world of glittering diamonds, mansions, lunches and designer clothes, Casey Hernandez could happily disappear, except the life of the mafia wife demanded she remain and play her part. One misstep and she would face the monster who marked her as his own. Reyes wanted the stunning blond with the furious eyes. He was going to ruin her life, take her from everything she knew and own every inch of her. Hard, brutal, mean. Exactly how he was. Exactly how this world had shaped him. Because he could. She was about to become spoils of war. And when he finally had his woman, they would rise up together; the king and his scarred queen. BOOK 1.5 - Alejandro's Prey The rules are simple. Don't talk to the men, don't communicate with the outside, stay...

Coming home from war can be hell.ll Jimmy Dalton wanted after fighting for his country was a quiet life. But a notorious gangster has other ideas and Jimmy finds himself in a war of a different kind.Jimmy Dalton is a man haunted by horrific events in Afghanistan, coming home,all he wants is to get his head together, and spend time with hisfather.Phil Duggan, notorious boss of one of the biggestunderworld crime families in London has other ideas. He is in troublewith the Russian Mafia, who are trying to muscle in on his territory,they have kidnapped his daughter in order to force him to do theirbidding.Dalton is persuaded it would be in his best interests touse his talents to rescue Duggan's daughter, the fact Duggan washolding his father, left Dalton no choice, and so he steps back into aworld he tried to leave behind when he joined the Parachute Regiment.Events spiral out of control, leaving Dalton set on a pathof revenge that may turn the streets of London red with blood, a paththat may not only destroy those he cares about; but also his sanity andhis very soul.But one thing is for sure Duggan will learn, to his cost, the true meaning of family loyalty.

For years Colin Abbott has put his life on hold, living only for his elderly mother. With her gone he is alone, adrift in a world he doesn’t fully understand. On one sunny summer day he sets off from his mother’s grave, and attempts to take control, to learn to enjoy his life and maybe even learn to love again.“Thoughts and feelings, hinted at before, were suddenly blossoming. He knew then that he'd been waiting for his life to begin…”For years Colin Abbott has put his life on hold, living only for his elderly mother. With her gone he is alone, adrift in a world he doesn’t fully understand. On one sunny summer day he sets off from his mother’s grave, and attempts to take control, to learn to enjoy his life and maybe even learn to love again. ‘The Graveyard’ is where Colin takes his first steps away from his old life and towards something completely new and unknown and is the seventh short story in the ‘Diamonds’ Collection that also includes ‘Bewilder’, ‘Heart over Head over Heels’, ‘Bonfire Blues’, ‘Lily Green’, ‘The Devil eats Coleslaw’, and ‘Fading Polaroids in Reverse’.

Melanie Jordan's life seemed perfect.Until masked intruders arrive at her house, demanding gold she doesn't have. A savage blow to the head puts her in a coma for four weeks. When Melanie regains consciousness, she learns her husband has been murdered and her ten-year-old daughter is missing.Private Eye Dan Reno begins investigating, but nothing about the case makes sense. Was there gold at the house or wasn't there? Was Melanie's husband hiding something? And what happened to Melanie's daughter?To complicate things, the case leads to Las Vegas, where Reno's loose-cannon buddy, Cody Gibbons, is trying to repair his relationship with his college-aged daughter, an intern with Las Vegas P.D.When clues implicate Russian mobsters and a mysterious African illegal, Reno tries to stay in the shadows, but once the crooks feel the noose tightening, they raise the stakes to a deadly level.And then, as they say in Vegas, all bets are off.

The MC SINNERS continues with Cade's story. Continue the love affair as Addison and Cade navigate his past. It'll either make or break them. I guess you'll have to continue to find out. Enter, if you dare. You all know her story.You've lived it. Felt it. Breathed it.The focus has always been on her.Why wouldn't it be? She's the fucking sunshine.She changed my life.She made me the man I am.So, I kept my story hidden, in the darkest depths where it belongs.My life is good, and I have no desire to change it. That is until my feisty, fiery, stubborn woman decides to make it her mission to find out what secrets lie beneath the surface.There is no voice of reason.She won't hear me when I tell her that I don't want her going down that road.Rocky, jagged, and broken – she's tearing us apart in her quest to find answers.She doesn't want those answers, because gone will be the picture she created of me in her already shattered mind.I'll no longer be the man who rescued her, who changed her life, who made her better.Instead, I'll be cast aside with all the other villains in her story.Because, if she keeps on digging, I'm going to become the monster in her mind.I can't let that happen.

Fans of Pamela Kelley and Robyn Carr will love this small-town, feel-good romance! Harper's career as a trauma nurse in New York City has left her exhausted and disillusioned. For the last four months, she's been living in Sapphire Bay with her beloved grandfather, healing her mind and her heart from all the things she's seen. Surrounded by the breathtaking scenery of her hometown, Harper forms a friendship with Owen—her best friend's brother and a former police officer carrying the weight of his own haunted past. As they navigate the challenges of their lives, Harper and Owen are drawn together by their shared compassion and understanding. Amidst the backdrop of a tight-knit community, they embark on a journey of recovery that promises new beginnings and the rediscovery of hope. THE MAGIC OF SUNSHINE is the second book in the Love on Anchor Lane series and can easily be read as a...

'He who fights with monsters best be careful, lest he thereby become a monster’'He who fights with monsters best be careful, lest he thereby become a monster’While on stress leave, Detective Sergeant Mike Bridger is learning about the complexities of life through a book of ancient philosophy. Life was much simpler when Friedrich Nietzsche wrote his quotes, but he can see the obvious parallels between then and now. He knows in some parts of today’s society, filled with fear and intimidation, live many that have made bad choices.A late night phone call drags him back into the real world where an armed robbery has gone tragically wrong. Quick work brings an early arrest, but in the process, a chain of events is set in motion that will rock the Dunedin Police to its core.During a routine enquiry, Bridger comes face to face with an old foe who wants something he can't give. He makes a choice he thought he would never have to make but what he does not realize , is that this time, anyone is fair game...A fast moving story that races towards a tragic conclusion leaves Bridger with one question. Can a monster really be created…?

Bumping into her ex-boyfriend ten years later was unexpected, but having their attraction flare and include two other alphas was shocking, even without the dragons. Eliana was travelling to become her friend’s nanny. The journey on the private plane was long, but the presence of a familiar face made it an eternity. Ten years earlier, her then-boyfriend had marked her and left town. It had been a shocking turn of events. He had told her he loved her, then morphed into a dragon and pressed fire onto her back. Efforts by friends had stilled the fire in her and left the mark hollow, and now... here he was with two friends, and they were all staring at her. Life as a nanny was short. Keahi, Nalu, and Mano all began courting her, and her new boss decided that she could start later or not at all. Dealing with a decade-long hurt was difficult. Dealing with two dragons and a giant shark was easy in comparison. Can the fairy tale restart with a deep dive into the ocean, or will it sink before it swims?

Nothing ever stays calm in Possum Creek for long.After watching her husband make-out with another woman during her best friend's wedding, Katie has been forced to acknowledge that her own happily ever after is more like a B-rated horror movie than a fairy tale. Katie loves her daughter more than life itself, but she's pretty sure that Ian loves his Xbox more than he loves either one of them. Addison, the man Katie's been secretly in love with from the safety of the friend-zone for most of her adult life, thinks she's pathetic. At least, that's what his girlfriend told her.Katie doesn't know what her future holds, but she knows it's past time for a change. She's done wasting her life trying to please Ian while silently lusting after Addy. She's ready to move on and leave her feelings for both of them in the past.Addison Malone thinks the dust has finally settled after his sister's wedding. He couldn't be...