“I devoured Resurrection in one sitting. It was sinfully sexy, dark, and taboo. I can’t wait for the next book. I might have begged Siobhan for it already.” Ava Harrison, USA Today bestselling author

Resurrection, the first in the all-new dark, reverse harem series The Sainthood-Boys of Lowell High from USA Today bestselling author Siobhan Davis, is available now!

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A new dark romance from the USA Today bestselling author of the Rydeville Elite series.

Everything changed the night my dad died.

The night I met Saint, Galen, Caz, and Theo.

Those manipulative a-holes set out to ruin me after our hot night together, but they didn’t realize you can’t destroy something that’s already broken. And it only works if the victim cares.

Which I don’t.

Because I’ve been in hell for years, and nothing penetrates the steel walls I’ve erected.

Until The Sainthood decides I belong to them and cracks appear in my veneer. Their cruel games, harsh words, and rough touch awakens something inside me, and now, I’m in trouble.

They draw me deeper into their dangerous world, until I’m in the middle of all the violence and gang warfare, tangled up in all the secrets and lies, and there’s no turning back.

Because they own me.

And nothing has ever felt so right.

I’m exactly where I should be.

But with enemies on all sides, survival becomes a deadly game with no guarantees.

And, sometimes, saints become sinners.

Due to mature content, this book is recommended to readers aged eighteen and over. This is a full-length reverse harem dark romance novel with enemies-to-lovers/bullying themes. Cannot be read as a standalone and ends with a cliffhanger. Book 1 of 3.

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The three guys are squished in the back, and Galen sends daggers at me through the mirror as I bite into my burger. I chew my food, and he glares at me the whole time. When I’ve swallowed, I swivel in my seat, the leather squelching with the motion. “What the fuck is your problem with me?”

He sits up straighter, leaning forward so he can pin me with the full extent of his hatred. “Your very existence annoys the fuck out of me. That good enough for you, angel?”

Saint rolls his eyes as he starts the car and glides out onto the road.

“You just need to skullfuck the shit out of someone,” Caz says, and every pair of eyes lands on him.

Saint smirks, Galen snarls, and Theo is passive. As usual.

Caz beams like he just won a fucking award.

“You are so freaking weird,” I admit, taking another bite of my burger.

Saint watches me eat with a wolfish grin on his face.

“It’s his word of the day,” Theo says, and I arch a brow.

Caz elbows Galen in the gut as he leans toward me, his warm brown eyes lit with excitement. “You know what the Urban Dictionary is, princess?”

Now, it’s my turn to roll my eyes. “Well, duh,” I mumble over a mouthful of burger.

“Caz is addicted to it,” Theo continues explaining.

“And he drives us fucking insane,” Saint cuts in. “He picked skullfuck from the list of trending words this morning, and he’s been trying to fit it into the conversation all day.”

I finish my burger, crumple up the empty paper bag, and throw it on the floor of Saint’s pristine new ride. The wolfish grin vanishes from his face, and I silently fist pump the air as I turn to face Caz. “I think that’s pretty cool. And I’m game to play.”

The goofy smile on his face matches the smug glint in his eyes as he flips Saint off. “The princess loves my geekiness. I’ve just died and gone to heaven.”

About Siobhan

USA Today bestselling author Siobhan Davis writes emotionally intense young adult and new adult romantic fiction with swoon-worthy romance, complex characters, and tons of unexpected plot twists and turns that will have you flipping the pages beyond bedtime! She is the author of the international bestselling Kennedy Boys, Saven, and True Calling series’.

Siobhan’s family will tell you she’s a little bit obsessive when it comes to reading and writing, and they aren’t wrong. She can rarely be found without her trusty Kindle, a paperback book, or her laptop somewhere close at hand.

Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Siobhan forged a successful corporate career in human resource management.

She resides in the Garden County of Ireland with her husband and two sons.

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Overall Grade: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Weekend Wife is my first book foray into the Erin McCarthy world. What drew me quickly to this book and piqued my interest in reading an ARC of it is the “opposites attract, rom-com” qualities of its story. As is the case with the best of rom-coms, this story will both tickle your funny bone and offer up a sweet happy ending. 

This story follows Grant and Leah. Leah is a server at a diner where aspiring actors sing and serve food. Grant is a regular customer and the object of Leah’s eye. She has flirted with him and hoped for a quick romp in the bedroom, but her general impression is that he is a bit uptight and not interested. Until the day that Grant makes it known that he is keen for Leah. Neither of these two is hoping for anything more than a quick connection. However, once they decide to consummate their attraction, their chemistry becomes clear. This leaves the two of them wanting more but afraid to act on it. Unfortunately, Grant, a wealthy real estate developer, receives a summons from his father that, if he doesn’t find a girlfriend, he will remove Grant from the family real estate business. Still feeling attracted to Leah and knowing she’s an actress, he asks her if she will agree to act as his girlfriend at his parents’ anniversary party in the Hamptons for a weekend. Leah agrees with some trepidation because she enjoys her time with Grant. She knows that she needs to be careful because this isn’t a promise of forever; it’s simply a job. However, she knows she could fall for Grant. With her internal fortitude in check, Leah and Grant pretend for his parents’ anniversary, but are they really pretending or has their “relationship” become real?

At its core, Erin McCarthy’s Weekend Wife is a fun traipse through the jungles of a rom-com. Leah and Grant are sweet together. McCarthy crafts their banter in such a way that you read their comfort with each other. She makes it glaringly clear early on that they are destined for couplehood even if they have very different backgrounds and lives. It’s a suggestion on McCarthy’s part that opposites easily attract, and lifestyles and backgrounds don’t create worthy relationships. Instead, easy chemistry, honesty, and lowering one’s boundaries do the trick. 

Weekend Wife is also a $exual romp through the wilds of chemistry. As each page turns, McCarthy illustrates the heavy attraction between Leah and Grant. They land in bed fairly quickly in the story, and they stay there quite a bit through the progression of the story. In fact, you sometimes wonder if they are a true partnership or is it really just their attraction. McCarthy answers this question in the way that Leah burrows under Grant’s skin. This isn’t a negative. Leah brings a lightness to Grant’s dark and heavy life. He begins to change and his journey becomes cemented by the time they arrive at his parents’ party. This is McCarthy’s way of showing there is something more to Leah and Grant beyond the bedroom. Each of them makes the other person a better version of himself/herself. She creates characters that find an ease with each other, making it a pleasurable read for her audience. 

Leah and Grant are not heavy, deep characters, and Weekend Wife isn’t a story fraught with high levels of tension. Instead, McCarthy writes a story that drifts easily over the page, pulling her readers into her story. Do I think she is making dramatic changes to the romantic tropes of her romance? Not particularly. However, Leah and Grant represent the point of intersection between a world of affluence and a world of financial difficulty. At that intersection, they find a deep love easily and beautifully, showing us that there is always a place at the romance table for a sweet story in any form. 

In love and romance,

Professor A

Dear Ava, an all-new emotional and angsty standalone romance from Wall Street Journal bestselling author Ilsa Madden-Mills is available now!

The rich and popular Sharks rule at prestigious, ivy-covered Camden Prep. Once upon a time, I wanted to be part of their world—until one of them destroyed me.

The last thing I expected was an anonymous love letter from one of them.

Please. I hate every one of those rich jerks for what they did to me. The question is, which Shark is my secret admirer: Knox, the scarred quarterback and their leader, Dane, his twin brother, or Chance, the ex who dumped me…

Dear Ava,

Your eyes are the color of the Caribbean Sea.

That’s stupid.

What I really mean is, you look at me and I feel something REAL.

It’s been ten months since you were here, but I can’t forget you.

I’ve missed seeing you walk down the hall.

I’ve missed you cheering at my football games.

I’ve missed the smell of your hair.

The truth is, I wanted you back then—but you had him.

And then everything fell apart that night.

Don’t hate me because I’m a Shark.

I just want to make you mine.

Still.

An excerpt of Dear Ava appeared in the anthology Team Player 2 in 2019. (No longer available.) This full-length version is 100,000 words.

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Wall Street Journal, New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Ilsa Madden-Mills is best known for her angsty new adult romances and romantic comedies.

Eight of her eleven novels have placed in the Amazon Top 10 Best-seller List: Dirty English #1; Fake Fiancée and I Dare You #2; I Bet You, Filthy English, and Very Bad Things #6; Boyfriend Bargain #8; The Last Guy, her collaboration with Tia Louise, #4.

A former high school English teacher, she adores all things Pride and Prejudice, and of course, Mr. Darcy is her ultimate hero.

She’s addicted to frothy coffee beverages, cheesy magnets, and any book featuring unicorns and sword-wielding females. Feel free to stalk her online.

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“Weekend Wife is the perfect, irresistible romantic comedy!”

—Erin Nicholas, New York Times bestselling author

Weekend Wife, an all-new flirty and hilarious stand-alone rom com from New York Times bestselling author Erin McCarthy, is available now!

Billionaire businessman in need of a fake fiancée…

It should be the easiest job ever for an out-of-work actress, right?

All I have to do is pose as Grant Caldwell (the Third)’s fiancé for a fancy-pants weekend in the Hamptons. Easy. Wear designer clothing and sip champagne? Don’t mind if I do. Flirting with Grant? It’s so delicious I should be paying him.

Nothing can go wrong as long as I can just keep my hands off of him.

But that’s the hard part. And I do mean hard.

Because Grant is sexy.

And bossy.

And surprisingly sweet, a real rarity in his pretentious family.

Oops. I’m not as good at faking it as I thought. Or maybe they call this method acting. Because it’s getting harder to figure out where my character ends and I begin…

It just might be the role of a lifetime.

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USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Erin McCarthy sold her first book in 2002 and has since written over seventy-five novels and novellas in the romance and mystery genres. Erin has a special weakness for high-heeled boots, martinis, and Frank Sinatra. She lives with her renovation-addicted husband (he built her a bar, so it’s all good!) and their blended family of kids and rescue dogs.

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“Bromberg is the master of making hearts race and pulses pound.” -Jay Crownover, New York Times bestselling author

Then You Happened, an all-new “steamy and full of heart” standalone romance from New York Times bestselling author K. Bromberg, is available now!

Jack Sutton was the man I didn’t want to need.

His know-it-all attitude. His annoying suggestions. His outlook on life.

He was determined to help me while I had resolved to figure it out on my own.

But he taught me things I’d forgotten.

How to trust. How to believe in myself. Who I was.

The problem?

I went and fell in love with him.

—

Tatum Knox was the disaster I should have walked away from.

Her ruined reputation. Her failing business. Her chaotic life.

She hated me at first sight and yet intrigued me all at the same time.

I was only supposed to be there six months.

I was supposed to use that time to make amends for things I’d done wrong.

Instead I fell in love with her.

—

They say it’s better to have loved and lost, then not to have loved at all. Does that hold true when the love is based on a lie to begin with?

(THEN YOU HAPPENED is a STANDALONE enemies to lovers, small town romance. Full-length at one hundred and seven thousand words)

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New York Times Bestselling author K. Bromberg writes contemporary novels that contain a mixture of sweet, emotional, a whole lot of sexy, and a little bit of real. She likes to write strong heroines, and damaged heroes who we love to hate and hate to love.

A mom of three, she plots her novels in between school runs and soccer practices, more often than not with her laptop in tow.

Since publishing her first book in 2013, Kristy has sold over one million copies of her books across sixteen different countries and has landed on the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestsellers lists over twenty-five times. Her Driven trilogy (Driven, Fueled, and Crashed) is currently being adapted for film by Passionflix with the first movie slated to release in the summer of 2018.

She is currently working on her Everyday Heroes trilogy. This series consists of three complete standalone novels—Cuffed, Combust, and Cockpit (late spring 2018)—and is about three brothers who are emergency responders, the jobs that call to them, and the women who challenge them.

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“Bishop and Stevie’s relationship is pure, raw, can’t-take-your-eyes-off-the-the-page kindle crack. One of my favorite books by this brilliant author.” – LJ Shen, USA Today bestselling author

A Favor for a Favor, all-new standalone slow burn romance from New York Times bestselling author Helena Hunting, is available now!

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A new stand-alone romance about trading favors, battling wills, and winning love.

When I joined Seattle’s NHL expansion team, I thought it was the start of something great. But nothing ever goes the way you expect. Take my introduction to my new neighbor. She came rolling in on the hot mess express at midnight, making a racket while she tried to get into my team captain’s apartment. Did I mention that he’s married to a woman who definitely was not her?

Imagine my surprise when I end up with an injury that has me out of the game for weeks, and she’s the one to offer to help me. I should probably add that she’s not the captain’s mistress. She’s his sexy, pastel-haired younger sister.

So we come up with an arrangement: she rehabs me so that I can get back on the ice sooner, and she can add a professional athlete that isn’t her brother to her client list. Seems simple enough. As long as I can keep my hands to myself and my hormones in check.

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Excerpt

She makes me lift my arm and drapes it over her shoulder. She’s incredibly small compared to me. She tucks one arm under my knee and gently grips the back of my calf with the other. “On the count of three,” she orders. I tense up when she hits three. She gets my leg about six inches off the floor, which is when I scream bloody murder again and grab on to her with both hands.

“Okay. That’s not going to work. The angle is too awkward.” She taps her lip and holds her finger up. “I have an idea.”

She ducks out from under my arm and hooks her fingers in the waistband of her yoga pants.

“What the hell are you doing?”

“Calm down. Some bathing suits have less coverage than my underwear. Besides, it’s nothing you haven’t seen before.”

She kicks off her yoga pants, leaving her in a T-shirt and panties. They’re plain cotton boy shorts, which should be a good thing, but apparently my body doesn’t care that it’s not a satin or lace thong. All it cares about is the proximity of almost-naked pussy.

Rook’s sister is standing in my bathroom in her underwear. If I had a sister who looked like Stevie and I knew that she was standing in one of my teammate’s bathrooms half-naked, I would probably kick the shit out of the guy. Thankfully, I have a brother.

I try to keep my eyes averted, sort of, but I catch her reflection in the vanity mirror.

She has fantastic legs. Athletic. Strong. And her ass. Goddamn. She definitely does a lot of squats, based on how round and firm it looks. The ache in my groin turns into that stabbing pain again because I’m getting hard. I think about my grandmother in a bathing suit to counteract the effect of Stevie being partly undressed.

She steps into the tub, and I force myself to keep my eyes down, bringing up the image of that hot chick in the tub who turns into a rotting old lady in The Shining. That helps a bit. At least until Stevie moves into my personal space and starts touching me again. I mutter a string of profanity, especially when I feel her boob pressed against my arm for a few seconds. I have no choice but to latch on to her shoulder as we lift my leg over the edge of the tub. I’m sweating, I’m angry, and I hate my dick.

“I need you to stop touching me!” It’s stupid because I’m still holding on to her, not the other way around.

“Why are you yelling at me?” she shouts back.

“Because you’re half-undressed in my tub, and I’m a guy, and apparently my dick is a fucking sadist. It honestly feels like my balls are on fire right now. A semi has never] been this painful.”

“Well, close your damn eyes and think about dead things.”

“It doesn’t matter if I close them. The image of you in panties is burned into the back of my lids, probably for the rest of my fucking life. It’s all I can see.”

“You’d think you’d never seen a set of bare legs before.” She helps me lower myself into the tub and steps out.

“It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a pair up close,” I grumble.

“Such a surprise, with your warm, fuzzy personality.”

About Helena Hunting

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of PUCKED, Helena Hunting lives on the outskirts of Toronto with her incredibly tolerant family and two moderately intolerant cats. She writes contemporary romance ranging from new adult angst to romantic sports comedy.

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Overall Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Ilsa Madden-Mills is one of my top favorite authors. She writes contemporary romance in such a way that connects so deeply with my heart that I have read her entire book list, and I continue to download any new book she publishes. She has this way of magnifying the human condition that, while the characters’ experiences might be vastly different from our own, their truth connects with our personal truths. 

Her newest book, Dear Ava, continues in this tradition. In a similar vein as her Briarwood Academy series, this book is set in high school which might turn away a reader. Don’t fail to read this book because the characters are high school students. Beneath this facade lies truths about self-respect and empowerment: two ideals desperately needed in a #metoo world. We may have left high school many years ago, or we might have left it recently, but the characters of this story, Knox, Ava, and Dane, evoke the same struggles of women and men in our modern day. Whether you are a high school student or a woman in the workplace or a person online in the cancerous Twittersphere, you’ve encountered bullies and/or the commoditization of the female body and consent. These are profound messages in this book. To not read Dear Ava is to miss the power of this book to articulate the need for women to own their own happiness for themselves, regardless of one’s connection to another. 

Here’s a warning: Dear Ava deals with difficult topics, namely sexual assault. If you’ve had this experience, you should be prepared going into this book. Madden-Mills does such a beautiful job of safely presenting this topic, including resources at the end for anyone who may need them. Additionally, for me, Dear Ava is a book wherein you need to be patient. I read this book in its short story anthology form, so I was familiar with some of the bigger moments of the story in the first half of it. That made it, at times, a little slow for me. Yet, it’s important to recognize that Madden-Mills needs to build the relationships of her characters. There is romantic suspense, enemies-to-lovers, young adult, and second chance tropes developed in her story. She masterfully intertwines these tropes, offering a little something for everyone. In my opinion, the big emotional pay-off lies in the last third of this book. I found myself waiting to connect emotionally to this version of Dear Ava, after having read the first conception of it. Since I was familiar with its first part, I found myself emotionally suspended, so to speak. When Madden-Mills begins revealing more of the story that I had yet to read, she drowned me in my emotions. As Ava learns the truth of her story, my heart broke, and I cried for her. Madden-Mills empathically connects you with Ava’s trauma even if you have never lived her experience. 

Ava is the true hero of this book. Honestly, the male characters cannot hold a candle to her depiction. She is everything you hope for in a romantic heroine: inner strength, resilient, willing to face her demons, insightful, and brave. She is the most capable, self-sacrificing heroine that I’ve read in some time. When Knox, the hero, tells us he’s not worthy of her, so he shouldn’t be with her, believe him. In her, Madden-Mills offers insight into the difficulties of poverty and the lower socio-economic class. Yet, she doesn’t suffocate her with it. Instead, she shows Ava’s resiliency in taking control of her situation. Ava is empowered, even when it seems the opposite. In one of the biggest turns of the story, Ava takes full control of her life when her choice may seem unpopular to Madden-Mills’s readers. For me, while my heart hurt, it was my favorite moment of the story. It shows that Ava has finally taken back what was stolen from her, and she makes the choice to love herself (and her little brother) first before the hero. There is a bravery in that choice, and don’t worry, Madden-Mills rewards her readers for bearing it through to the end. 

The male characters, Knox, Dane, and Chance, seem ancillary to this story even though we need heroic figures to tell romantic stories. Those typical moments occur in Dear Ava, but the male characters act as representations of the ways in which men often fail women. Don’t get me wrong: I don’t believe that women can only find completion in a romantic connection with men (or a significant other). Instead, in this story, Madden-Mills shows the personal implications of “not acting” when someone needs you. This is probably the biggest insight that comes from Dear Ava. When we see someone wronged, Madden-Mills suggests through her story that we MUST act even when the circumstances seem muddled. This storyline provides the biggest insight into the power behind this book, and it is what makes Dear Ava a necessary read in the romance community.

Once again, Ilsa Madden-Mills proffers a story that both engages us emotionally and intellectually. I do think Dear Ava has a different voice from Madden-Mills’s other books, and I appreciate it when a storyteller is willing to try something new. While this book may seem slow to start (and again, for this reader, it could be that I had read some of the story previously), its last third will flay you open and make you question the purpose of romance. Many times, the happy ending of a romance seems elemental to the romantic heroic arc. Yet, Madden-Mills plays with us in Dear Ava, asking us to never take our happy endings for granted. That we should remain vigilant to the second, standing up for ourselves first and others who need us in moments of trouble.  There is beauty in that truth, just as there is a beauty in the strength of character that lives a life that is brave and honest, as evidenced by Ilsa Madden-Mills’s book, Dear Ava.

In love and romance,

Professor A

Overall Grade: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Siobhan Davis is one of the reigning queens of the dark bully/high school romance. When you enter one of her stories, you know that you are going to encounter some dark stuff. And you ask yourself, “why?” Quite honestly, romance is the type of genre where there is a little something for everyone. Even more, one of the most popular tropes involves the redemption of a bully.  There is power in that journey, and there is nothing better than a heroine bringing an alpha-domineering male to his knees. 

I read Davis’s Rydevill Elite trilogy. In that trilogy, the heroine struggled between her inner strength and her overwhelming chemistry with the bully (along with other bullish male characters). For me, reading that trilogy was a battle for the end. Now, Davis is releasing a new dark high school romantic trilogy, The Sainthood – Boys of Lowell High. With this trilogy, Davis has stepped up her game because she calls this a reverse menage dark high school romance. Here, we are treated to our heroine, Harlow “Lo,” and four men, the guys of the Sainthood. This story follows their erotic night together and the aftermath of that night. To be fair, while this has been labeled a reverse menage, there are only a few aspects of it here, rather Lo seems destined for Saint, the leader of the junior Sainthood. It will be interesting to see how this progresses with the next two books in the series. 

What did I like about Resurrection over Cruel Intentions, the first book of the Rydeville Elite series?

1. Lo. As a heroine in this story, she works. She reads stronger than Abigail, the heroine of Cruel Intentions. As I read Resurrection, it read as though Davis upgraded her heroine to handle the emotional and physical demands of the quartet of men. Davis also offers us more insight into her mind, illustrating the contradictions between her lust for the men and her disdain for them. Multiple times she tells the reader that she hates women who act like her, and it makes you connect to her. She shows us her foibles, so it’s easy to accept when she readily falls into their arms. 
2. The guys. These are the worst types of heroes. In fact, these guys are anti-heroes. Davis makes it clear in this book that they can be redeemed on some level, but it won’t happen until much later. Until that time, Davis offers us glimpses of their humanity as they overwhelm Harlow with their alpha-male tendencies. Thankfully, Lo is tough, and she can handle their censure and their interest in her. Additionally, each male character is a type, so you can find your favorite kind of guy in this book, as you have choices.
3. The story. Just as she does with most of her books, Davis crafts a turn at every corner. From one minute to the next, you have no idea where the story will take you, and you cannot trust anyone. This keeps you glued to the page, waiting to work it out until the end. For Resurrection, Davis, as she did with the Rydeville Elite series, leaves you on a nice cliffhanger, which means we have to be patient for the resolution. 

It can be difficult to read a dark high school romance because it shows the worst parts of humanity. I think that’s what I find interesting about Siobhan Davis’s books, books such as Resurrection. She magnifies the parts of humanity that we like to hide, and she illuminates it in her characters, only to wrap it in romance with a big pink bow. You will appreciate Harlow and her female empowerment, you will hate to love Saint, Galen, Caz, and Theo, and you will be captured by the twisty storytelling of Davis. Even more, this is one hot tamale of a book (as are Davis’s other ones). If you are willing to suspend your disbelief, Resurrection makes for a satisfying bedtime read.

In love and romance,

Professor A

Creole Kingpin

by Meghan March

Coming March 20th!

About Creole Kingpin:

New York Times bestselling author Meghan March goes back to New Orleans and the world of Lachlan Mount with a dangerous and bold new anti-hero. 

The thing about ghosts is they’re supposed to stay dead. 

That’s exactly what I am, but I can’t stay away from Magnolia Marie Maison for one more day, let alone another year.

We’ve already got fifteen of those between us.

As it stands, she’ll want to kill me as soon as she lays eyes on me. And knowing her, she’s completely up to the task.

But I’m a man on a mission, and I’ve got everything riding on this.

So, here I come, Magnolia. This ghost is ready for whatever you got.

After all, there’s only one way I want this to end—’til death do us part.

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About The Author

Making the jump from corporate lawyer to romance author was a leap of faith that New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author Meghan March will never regret. With over thirty titles published, she has sold millions of books in nearly a dozen languages to fellow romance-lovers around the world. A nomad at heart, she can currently be found in the woods of the Pacific Northwest, living her happily ever after with her real-life alpha hero.

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