suspense romance
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The Forbidden Love Affair by Aria Emend
Zarayah Mello knows the love she dreams of is doomed from the start…
But the heart wants what the heart wants.Thirteen-year-old Zarayah Mello knew she loved fellow karate class student Zaire from the moment she laid eyes on him. She also knew that her parents, siblings, and even her beliefs would never accept her love for him.
But after she turns fifteen, they cross paths more and more and form a friendship, her improper love for him only grows.
Torn apart by life and circumstance, she’s brokenhearted. Until she turns eighteen and he comes back into her life, sweeps her off her feet, and makes secret plans to propose to her on graduation day. But Zarayah doesn’t know that Zaire is hiding a secret from her—the kind of secret that rips solid marriages apart, never mind their budding love. Besides, will anyone forgive her for falling for her older brothers’ friend? And will she still love him when she learns the truth he’s been hiding from her? The Place That Sleeps by L.R. STARR
Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack. All dressed in black, black, black.
He likes to watch.
The place that sleeps, that’s what the natives call it. A sweet little coastal coast town on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia.
Piper decides it’s time for a seaside visit, she’s a frustrated investigative journo who’s on a quick getaway with her girlfriends. She picks a holiday house that’s owned by a wealthy barrister. The overpriced oceanfront rental mysteriously goes on the market every two years, except it never sells.
The walls are dripping wet with secrets that threaten to overflow from its cracks.
Then there’s Jack McMaster, the hot boy broody surfer and son of the owner. He’s drawn to Piper for more reasons than one. Locals start whispering in her ear about the house amongst the dunes, as a monster lurks and her investigative nose starts sniffing.
She might break the story of the year, but when her friends go missing and she unravels one deadly secret after another the monster wants to take her to a watery grave.
What will she discover about the broody McMaster from the sleepy side town?
You can only cover things up for so long…
200 Letters by Amy Watkins
200 Letters is a spirited novel about two people trying to escape abusive relationships and finding love, strength, and endurance through their struggle. They are faced with the harshest of obstacles (hatred, jealousy, manipulation, physical danger, and social injustice) on their journey. This page turner is filled with passion, drama, suspense and spiritual enlightenment. Check out 200 Letters by Amy Watkins, available on Amazon and free with Kindle Unlimited.
A Dangerous Man by Rachel Cade
Let’s embrace the point of no return.
Ciara Kimball’s privileged life seems to be crashing around her. Everything’s out of control and it’s about to get worse.
Jack Turner is in complete isolation in the backwoods of Maryland. The silence and the trees don’t bother him – people do. Fortunately, he’s an expert at taking them out.
The adventure begins on a hot day in August, when a D.C. socialite crosses paths with a 6’5 drifter.
Vanity and Humility (Sins of the Virtuous Book 7) by Faye Hall
What if vanity threatened to destroy the only love you’ve ever known?
Detective Ethan Brant is on the hunt for a murderess who is seducing her victims and stealing collections of diamonds from each one. When the woman he suspects becomes his father’s newest wife, Ethan’s fears multiply. He’s determined to protect his only remaining family member, no matter the cost.
All of his attention is focused on bringing the guilty party to justice. He has no time for, or interest in, women. But when he discovers a beautiful, young woman swimming at the lake on his father’s property he feels an instant attraction.
Cady Eldon’s history with men taught her it was foolish to lose her heart to one. But when she meets Ethan, she can’t ignore the fire that burns inside her, making her long for the feel of his skin against hers. Discovering that he’s a police detective, she becomes intrigued. Why would a man whose family is wealthy want to live so humbly?
Her attraction to him, and her interest in the murder case he’s working on, pulls them together on a journey north where they become entangled in the manipulative web of the murderess Ethan is chasing. Ethan and Cady soon learn just how cruel one woman’s vanity can be and how she will stop at nothing to get the riches she believes she deserves.
Will their love survive, or will they fall victim to the greatest sin of all?
The Girl in the Scarlet Chair by Janice Tremayne
She was unlucky in love, recently separated and desperately searching for the man of her dreams. For Clarisse, life became so lonely that she fell in love with his picture on a dating site. For Harry, recently divorced, it carried risk and uncertainty? In this heart-rending search for passion, he travels to Manila, and the city of our affection to meet Clarisse; a woman of immense beauty and problematic past.
In this journey of cross-cultural love, Harry leaves his western-centric norms behind. He is immersed in the city of affection—vibrant, alive, bustling and enjoying the pleasure of being. But will Clarisse have the courage to tell him everything; her past secrets, fears, and inhibition. She has never dated a foreign man before and how will this relationship play out?This time it’s not just a picture on a dating site and they don’t have the safety of distance to rely upon. They have five days to decide if they are made for each other before Harry leaves back home; or will the mysterious chair of desire decide their fate?
Sinful by Katherine Hawthorne
Xander was a dream that would never be.
One catastrophic night left me orphaned at the age of seventeen. Hunted by a murderer, Xander saved me from the pits of hell, braving a fire that would have ended my life. Hiding me from a killer, he became my protector, my best friend, but never anything more.
Sin was a nightmare waiting to happen.
Six years later, a friend is murdered at the hottest nightclub in Manhattan, again thrusting me into a killer’s crosshairs. Now a detective with the NYPD, I refuse to hide, unyielding in my pursuit of justice, which has eluded me for so long. Determined to keep me safe, Sin forces me from the case. Defying him at every turn, our contentious relationship finally explodes in the most scandalous way conceivable, leaving me devastated.
I wanted them both.
Xander, sophisticated and elegant. My hero, the man who owns my heart. Sin, dominating alpha-male. My lieutenant, forbidden in so many ways. One dangerous kiss changes everything, catapulting me into a war between the two, neither of them willing to let me go. I become a pawn in their game until they join forces in a way I never saw coming. But lies and deception threaten to destroy us, leading to a betrayal that cuts so deep, I wonder if I’ll ever survive.
AUTHOR’S NOTE: This book is intended for mature audiences due to explicit language and sexual content and is perfect for fans of Lexi Blake’s Masters of Ménage fans. Sinful is all about the girl. There are NO M/M scenes.
The Doctor’s Inn: A Private Practice by Nataisha Hill
What a Complicated Web We Weave!
With the purest intentions in love, we sometimes fall into an unexpected snare of deception…
There isn’t a better way to describe RosaBella’s introduction of romance with the good doctor.
Dr. O’Donnell continues to take RosaBella to different heights of exoticism and companionship beyond her experiences. The indecencies in their separate personal lives that have repelled them have coincidentally brought them together.Despite her tragedies, RosaBella found the endless and unconditional love that she yearned for. The luster that she has found in the good doctor is provocatively explosive. It’s a tantalizing distraction that prohibits them from noticing the prominent danger that lies before them.
If you enjoy Urban Fiction Thrillers with a touch of Exoticism, you will enjoy this Erotic Suspense!
Samsara by Lorraine Margaret
Rays of golden light shine from his ocean blue eyes but is he a gift from God or is she even crazier than she thought?
Discover the powerful magic of sexual healing with a truly heavenly romance… Enchanting, haunting and intensely sensual, Samsara will captivate you with the infinite spiritual beauty of physical love.
A traumatised mind, an impossible choice… Will Ailith turn towards light and love or is she destined to live in darkness and despair forevermore?
Ailith returns to the small town where she was gang raped nine months earlier, physically transformed by surgery and spiritually transformed by her trauma. Before her ordeal she was idealistic and full of dreams, now she is driven by hatred and anger and lives only to fulfil her mission of revenge. She has a little bag of torture hidden in her holdall and conflicting personalities vie for precedence in her disturbed mind. The Avenging Warrior is a potential serial killer, Feminism fears and despises all men and the ‘little piece of abused meat’ is the terrified, broken spirit her attackers created. Somewhere within this twisted mess dwells a tiny spark of the real Ailith, who still believes in the possibility of love.
Ailith is in the forest, stalking her first victim, when she meets Ryan, an angelically beautiful man. Everywhere he goes the sun appears to follow, creating an ethereal halo around his exquisite head; he is warm, empathetic, intuitive and gentle, everything she thought was lost to her and to the world. His very existence threatens her mission as the conflict begins between good and evil, rebirth and revenge…
When strange, inexplicable events happen in the sleepy little town, Ailith is in turmoil and turns to Ryan. She is captivated by the raw sensuality that effortlessly coexists with his spiritual nature but can she ever overcome all her sexual fears to fulfil her dream of being fully intimate with him? And why is she developing an obsession with the beauty of his penis and a reverence for his bodily fluids? Why does she persist with her embarrassing habit of calling him master? And what exactly is being discussed in the cryptic phone conversations she overhears? Is Ryan really a gift from God? Or has she gone completely mad?
Ailith experiences hell as her tormented mind is torn between good and evil, healing and vengeance. As events spiral out of control and threaten to destroy her new found love, will she carry out her hideous mission of revenge or trust Ryan to help her heal herself instead? The Silent Santa (A Sea Oak Mystery – Book Four) by Adele M. Cooper
It’s Christmas in Sea Oak!
Investigative reporter April Longmont is collecting funds for the needy as a ringing, singing, dancing volunteer Santa. When fellow Santa, Joe Dinera, disappears from his corner, April’s concern leads her down an alley and to the gruesome scene of Joe’s lifeless body.
April and her fiancé, private detective Clay Augustine, are determined to find out who, and why, someone would kill such a nice guy.
This is the fourth book in the Sea Oak Mystery series.
