Not-So-Saint-Nick WGrier Bush grew up in a picturesque town in the foothills of the Colorado Rockies much like the ones all those made for television Christmas movies used for their backdrops. Except for her the idyllic life was ruined as a teenager and so doing what any girl from those movies did, she left the small town and moved to the big city. Now Grier was the administrative assistant to the sexiest, and more importantly, the grouchiest man in all of New York State, maybe even America. She spends most of her time smoothing feather’s he’s ruffled and keeping him from firing entire groups of people on a whim. She could never understand her best friend Hazel’s obsession with the man. Sure, he looks good but he’s a jerk of the highest order. Nick Santos has a secret. Not only is he the billionaire CEO of the country’s biggest confectionary company, but he is also the crown prince to the Ice Fairy Queen and to the man the rest of the world knows as Santa Claus. Family pressure and an intense resentment to his parents for putting the children of the world ahead of their own has made him a surly son of a bitch and he wears his title as meanest CEO on earth like a badge of honor. Leaving the family behind to build his empire was easier said than done though and they’re always at his back, chasing him to come home. Losing his creative spirit a long time ago, Nick is surprised when returning his assistant’s laptop bag to her to be struck with the most delicious sense of inspiration. When the woman who for five years has kept him from umpteenth litigation issues, stays ice cold while managing to deal with her boyfriend and her best friend in Grier’s bed together is nothing short of revolutionary. Suddenly he wants to help her burn the world down one bag of prank candy at a time. Grier returns home for the holidays only to find her ever-annoying boss is following her. When he declares he’s going to help her get revenge against her cheating exes and her best friend by posing as her lover, she knows there is no good to come of it. Yet, with her parents and sister egging the billionaire psychopath on, what is a girl to do but join in the chaos the gorgeous man is bringing to the party. Ready to rip her stockings off her body to hang by the chimney without an ounce of care, Grier decides Christmas this year is going to be a whole lot of naughty, not an ounce of nice and maybe, just maybe, a touch of love.

Blurb Delfina Poletti is a twenty-four-year-old woman raised in a strict family by deeply religious but loving parents. Her faith and view of the world is shattered when her cousin tangles with the wrong crowd, putting their lives into danger. Trading her life for theirs, Delfina marries a mob underboss for the Matrone family named Ercole Muraro who is more than fifty years her senior. When he suddenly dies, Ercole’s family starts crawling out of the woodwork and is demanding answers Delfina is not allowed to provide. Furio “The CEO” Matrone, is head of the Matrone family mafia. A billionaire in his own right he is tasked by his father to make sure Delfina never reveals the truth behind her marriage contract, even after her husband’s death. Furio is twice her age, but he’s been her secret crush since the day she met him. While she suffered under Ercole, it was his godson Furio who Delfina dreamed of in her husband’s place. Ruggero Rapallino, a billionaire who has worked hard to keep his businesses distant from his grandfather’s dirty dealings, is desperate. From the day Ercole Muraro introduced him to Delfina Poletti, Ruggero has wanted her, secretly lusting after his grandfather’s wife. Finding out the old man left nothing to the young woman in his will he finds himself provided the opportunity to find out more and to insert himself into her life. He wants to be her savior and to right the wrongs he knows the dead man committed. Delfina finds herself torn between the consummate nice guy and the wickedest man she’s ever met. One can give her peace and a serenity she’s not known for years while the other makes her want to watch the world burn. What’s a girl to do when she has two hot sexy men pounding on her bedroom door? Try them all on for size, of course. Taking her destiny into her own hands, she entertains advances from both men, but she knows ultimately, they won’t share. Delfina is going to have to let her daring heart decide. Let the dating games begin.

Sequel to Betraying The Bratva King Hadlee Orlov spent the last eight years dreaming of having the perfect life. From the time she was a preteen she’d been dreaming of becoming a Broadway star and being married to her mother’s protégé Eric Byrd with a love to rival the one her parents shared. Now as she approaches the age of twenty, she’s realizing dreams and real life are vastly different. Her crush doesn’t know she exists as anything other than an adopted sister, her parents think she’s a flighty airhead and her career dreams have been turned to dust. Deciding she is tired of everyone else dictating her life, she decides to take control of her own life with an impulsive decision which leads to a life-changing epiphany for her. Sometimes growing up means letting go. Eric Byrd has made a name for himself as a rock star with no shortage of women throwing themselves at him on a nightly basis. However, his mind is occupied by a naughty secret admirer who likes to leave him risqué gifts, love letters and poetry which bends his mind. Desperate to make their virtual and pen-pal relationship real, he’s working hard to uncover the woman behind the plume. When Hadlee’s secret comes to light and her family finds out she’s been the secret admirer sending inappropriate gifts to Eric since she was seventeen years old, it throws her family into chaos. For the first time, Eric is looking at Hadlee as something other than a little girl with a big voice. Expecting Eric to balk and run screaming for the hills, Hadlee is stunned when Eric takes control and declares they will be a couple. If Hadlee thought being the only daughter of the Bratva King had her under the control of a domineering man, she hasn’t seen anything yet. Eric is finding his bratva brat needs a firm hand and dominant direction and he’s just the man to guide her. He wants her in his life, on his stage and in his bed and he’s going to have all three, come hell or high water. For Hadlee, she’s going to learn not all dreams need to come true but when the important ones do, they’re better than all the shiny lights on Broadway.

Blurb Following her twenty-first birthday, Essence Angevin is instructed by her grandfather she is to marry his protégé, the terrifyingly austere Vadim Tudor. If she doesn’t, then the old man would cut off not only her trust fund but also the funds which support her mother and two sisters in their lives of luxury. Rather than sacrifice her life, she enlists the help of friends and manages to run away to another country where she hides for nearly seven years before her betrothed snatches her from her life and returns her back to the UK to fulfill her obligations. Vadim Tudor is everything she feared he was and so much more. His cold, standoffish demeanor she’d been subjected to since the day she was born disappeared the moment they were alone and in it’s place a dominant, foul-mouthed, sexy man with a tongue which made her knees weak and her panties wet. Everything about the man is a contradiction. He hates her one minute and in the next adores and pampers her like a princess. He’s declaring they will be together for a lifetime yet reveals he’s pining for the one woman he never had the chance to pursue because of his commitment to their arranged marriage. He wants to dominate her and make her the submissive in a very controlled relationship yet in the next breath, he’s waiting on her hand and foot and doing everything from brushing her teeth to dressing her. He’s a paradox she’s struggling to unravel. When his admirers begin worming their way out of the woodwork, putting her life and love on the line, Essence needs to decide if she can withstand the tough times in order to relish the good. When her family reveals a deep dark secret surrounding her new husband, will Essence be able to look past the depravity of his soul or will she once again run away to let the world burn around her? What Essence doesn’t know is her husband Vadim has made a vow and he intends to keep it, whether she likes it or not. Til death do them part.

Blurb Lark Hoffman spent her entire childhood as the third wheel to the richest and most spoiled twins in the country, the Villeneuve twins, Ollie, and Max. By the time Lark discovered boys, she had eyes only for Max, but Max was interested only in any girl who wasn’t Lark. The night of their senior high school prom, a series of circumstances pointed out with glaring fact, her love was all one-sided. Knowing she couldn’t continue to live her life in the shadow of her crush, she left her friends behind and made a life of her own, cutting off all contact with Max for her own sanity. Twelve years later, after a bitterly failed relationship, she moves back home to lick her wounds. Her parents still living next door to the family her life was once so intertwined with puts her smack dab in the middle of Max Villeneuve’s radar. This time though, Max is no longer the teenage boy behaving like the spoiled brat she was used to. The man presenting to her now was focused, persistent and for the first time in her life, intent on winning her affection. For Lark, trying to recover from a cheating boyfriend, the last thing she wants to deal with is a womanizer possessing skills the equivalent of Max’s. She didn’t walk away from one cheater to get mixed up with another philanderer. However, after Max has a health scare, and at the insistence of the twins, Lark agrees to try over as friends but swears she won’t let the man ever be viewed romantically by her heart again. Unfortunately for her, Max is pulling out all the stops. He lost her once before. He wasn’t going to let her go again without a fight. Can Lark’s fragile heart survive another round of the Villeneuve playboy, or will she remain his greatest regret? With his sister egging Lark on, she is about to find out if time really does heal all wounds.

Blurb Giada Amalfi Puglisi is on a mission. A brilliant woman with a knack for murder and mayhem, all she ever wanted was to work alongside her father in his role as the right hand to a ruthless mafia don. Don Amato was old school, and, in his opinion, women had no place in the life. A princess could not be a soldier. End of discussion. When a one-night stand puts Giada in the crosshairs of the Don’s only heir, Cipriano Amato, Giada knows the best way to get what she wants is to remove him from the equation and plots to have him sent away. Planting ideas and making sure she’s there to pick up pieces, Giada spends ten years making sure the Don considers her invaluable in his son’s absence. Giada’s plans fall into place, until for the first time in her life, she begins to consider there might be more to life than being a soldier in the upper echelons of a mafia family. Falling head over heels for Baldasarre Saputo, the Don of a family from another part of the country, she struggles to remind herself of all she’s worked to achieve. The heart wants what it wants though, and her mind is obsessing over the Don of her dreams in Baldasarre Saputo, and she struggles to stay focused on her career. That is until the prodigal son comes home, and her boss puts a target on her back. When the Don of her family tells Cipriano he’s going to name Giada Donna if he can’t get his act together, he decides the best way to keep his title is to make Giada his woman. He makes it clear, he wants her at his side to rule his family. Suddenly Giada finds herself torn between keeping the career she’s worked ruthlessly to have and sticking with Cipriano or giving it all up for her heart with Baldasarre. Love or career? What’s a girl to choose?

Blurb Iris Parker has spent her entire life fantasizing about ways to escape her domineering mother. A first-generation Chinese American woman, Iris has never lived up to the standards or expectations of her mother. Every action Iris has ever made has managed to anger her mom and she gave up trying to impress her ages ago. As a receptionist working for a Chinese-owned company in Manhattan, Iris had decided the best way to work her way up from working in the lobby to one of the office spaces, was embarking on a journey of learning Mandarin through an online course. For two years, every week she has worked diligently to learn the language with an older college professor, Jay. In spending this time with him, she has developed a crush which leaves her fantasizing about the older man and all the other things he could teach her. Jay Zhao, leader of the Obsidian Brotherhood, a Chinese mafia with a stronghold in various countries over the world, has been searching for twenty-five years to exact the revenge against Mei Parker and her husband. Jay had once been betrothed to Mei, but she’d been terrified of him and the rumours surrounding him, specifically that he was a beast in man form. She had run away the morning of their wedding with her lover to America. Now he was going to repay her treachery by taking their daughter as his bride. When Iris finds out the man, she’s been fantasizing about had been playing her all along in a sick and twisted game of revenge, her desire to escape her mother is transferred to the man who wants to claim her as a wife. The problem is, each time she runs away, he finds her much too easily. It’s almost as if he were able to scent her out like a wild animal chasing its prey. When Jay reveals his secret and tells Iris the truth of who, and what, he is, the woman’s plans of escape become more elaborate and dangerous. Can Jay save his bride from the traps of his enemies, and more importantly can he convince her he’s not the monster in her fairy tale but rather her knight in golden armour? A tale of revenge, love and a smidge of fantasy will be in the cards for Iris and if she’s lucky, she’ll get her happily ever after too.

Royal Robinson is devasted when his brother is tragically killed in a car accident but when he learns his niece was not the biological child of his sister-in-law, his world comes crashing down. A man on a mission, he sets out to find out how the man he thought was the most devoted in the world, not only had a child with another woman but had convinced his wife to fake a pregnancy and tell everyone his daughter was hers. Famke Noor is a young woman living paycheck to paycheck, supporting her brother, and doing her best to survive. With a heart of gold, she strongly feels if there is anything she can do to help a person in need, she would do it. It was why she had fought for custody of her brother when she was only eighteen. It was why she sacrificed her own education to take care of his needs when he’d gotten ill. It was why when he was in hospital and she befriended a couple going through failed IVF, she agreed to surrogate for them. Royal is angered to find out the woman his brother had gotten pregnant had never wanted her child and had given her away freely. However, when secrets and past hurts are uncovered, Royal discovers, not everything is what it seems, and Famke was quite possibly as much a victim as his niece was. Desperate to make things right, the man sets on a path which will either make or break Famke’s heart. Can the woman who routinely sacrifices her own happiness for others, finally reach for her own or will she sacrifice her own heart?

#septemberupdateprogram Dr. Sienna Lawrence is a self-professed introvert who prefers studying people on paper instead of dealing with them personally. The exception to this were her three best friends from college. While they had all come from wealthy backgrounds and fancy lifestyles, she had been born and raised in small town Maine. When her mom takes ill and the nurse absconds with her mother\'s money, Sienna turns to her friends for help. She makes a deal to pretend to be Dimitra Lykiaos-Laskaris to fool the heiress\' new bodyguard. In exchange, she gets to keep Dimitra\'s spousal support payments to use for her mom\'s medical care. She agrees and over time falls in love with the man who shadows her. When Jonas finds out the truth, he walks away. Despite his feelings for Sienna, eight years of lying is a hard pill to swallow. While reeling from Jonas\' absnece, Sienna continues her search for the nurse who stole her mother\'s money and turns to the enigmatic Alvar Caputo. Mafia kingpin. Wanted man. Dangerous criminal. When Jonas comes back to tell Sienna he is ready to try to forgive her for the lies and move forward, she is knee deep in Caputo\'s capers. Will the overprotective guard keep her safe from the dangers of the man dubbed "The Ghost" or will his behavior catapult her into his arms. Sienna is torn between a man she feels irrationally comfortable with and the butterflies and excitement of forbidden love. Never had she imagined a shy girl from the backwoods of Maine would ever be in such a situation. They say still waters run deep. Nobody ever mentioned how murky the water can get.

#summerupdateprogram “I’m coming for you Briar. I hope you know you’re going to make up for the ten years you stole from me.” When Briar Rose, choir director extraordinaire, is required to fly to Paris with her students for an international singing competition, she pleads with her boss to get out of the event. France was the last place she ever wanted to return. France was where she had left her criminal background behind and had grown into an upstanding servant of her community back in Baltimore, Maryland. However, her boss wouldn’t take no for answer. Briar finds herself, back in the City of Love, praying the mistakes of her past, specifically, the ruthless businessman she had tried to blackmail for ten million dollars, doesn’t find out she’s in Europe. When Liev Orlov finds out the woman, he’s been desperately searching for over ten years has arrived in Paris, he knows it is fate bringing her back to him. He corners her and reminds her nobody crosses the king of the Bratva and gets away unscathed. There had been a time when he had considered Briar his perfect match and he remains convinced it won’t take much to remind her in whose arms she belongs. However, when Liev realizes Briar’s betrayal in the form of extortion was only the tip of the iceberg of her treachery, there will be hell to pay. Briar realizes the price of betraying the powerful mogul might be too steep for her to pay with anything other than her life. Liev makes it clear, this time, he’s entering the relationship with his eyes wide open and for Briar there is no means of escape. Can Liev forgive the greatest love of his life for her sins of the past or will Briar need to serve a lifetime of penance to the King of Bratva?

Darya Pappas is a highly intelligent woman with an axe to grind. After being kicked out of her family at the age of eighteen, the actions of her father and the man he was indebted to put her on a course of employment which left a bitter taste in her mouth. Despite finding out during the course of her work in the streets, how much she enjoyed wielding a whip, the rest of it left her with anger and bitterness and a desire for revenge. Her plan was simple. She would find a way to ruin her family for disowning her and when she finished this task her next plan was to take on the man who precipitated her father's rejection of her. It was of course Kostas Masalis' fault for not only refusing to consider using her as a bargaining chip in her father's attempt to recoup the money he'd lost to Kostas, but also for trying to force her to marry his scumbag of a brother. Had he simply pointed out to her father the insanity of offering a child up for cash, perhaps her life would have been different. When billionaire aeronautical engineer Kostas Masalis learns the outcome of his involvement in the life of Darya Pappas, he immediately feels regret. When he sees her again eight years after the first and only time he'd seen her, he is struck with the realization he'd made a grave mistake. The little quiet nerd was actually a vibrant, beautiful sexy woman who he knew would be a perfect submissive to his dominant needs. He erred in not taking her for his wife eight years ago and it's a mistake he intends to rectify. Darya sees the opportunity to begin exacting her revenge the moment Kostas sets his sights on making her his submissive. She will play his game as long as he plays hers and, in the end, she will destroy his pride. Now all she has to do is keep her heart from being destroyed along with him because she is about to learn not everything about revenge is clear cut and when the heart is involved, even the gentlest of whips can leave lasting scars.

Jolie Segreto Haversham had once been a young woman with the world at her feet, happy and thriving. Her world came tumbling down when her father, a bookkeeper for the Cacciola family was caught skimming the books. When the youngest son of the Don demanded Jolie be given to him as payment, there was nobody to stop the mafia son. For eight months, Valentin Cacciola used Jolie however he saw fit. One night, after he’d passed out after a drug fueled rage, someone put a bullet in his forehead, leaving Jolie battered and bruised in the bed next to his cold body. Escaping from the hospital knowing the Cacciola family was on the hunt for her, she left the bright lights of Vegas to hunker down in the city of Boston. Brixton Beckwith, older half-brother to Valentin and heir to the Cacciola throne was given an order by his father. Find the girl his younger brother had tortured and make sure she didn’t spill their secrets to the feds. For six years she is the only one he, the bounty hunter in his family, never found. Purely by happenchance, Brixton stumbles across his brother’s bride working in the realty firm he’s just taken control of. When the Cacciola family find out Jolie’s secret, they insist she be brought into the fold and what better way than to marry the eldest son of Don Cacciola. Jolie had already married one brother against her will and the bitter taste of having her freedom ripped away again should be resting unfavorably on her tongue. What then did it mean when Jolie finds herself strangely attracted to the over-protective, domineering muscular man who took control of every aspect of her life? Jolie is going to find out, not everything in the Cacciola is what it seems and when she least expects it, life can throw the most incredible surprises. It’s up to her whether to catch it or let it go. What is a runaway bride to do?

Money doesn’t always make the world go ‘round. Occasionally, it brings it all to a screeching halt. Magda Onassis and her two best friends have developed an application which has caused a frenzy amongst the banking world and will make her a billionaire at twenty-six. Since the age of eighteen when her family cut her off financially, all she has ever wanted was to gain her own financial independence and tell her parents to shove her rescinded trust fund up their haughty posteriors. When presenting the project and a sales pitch to the company who beta-tested their app, Magda comes face-to-face with chairman and CEO of Winter Financials International, Ares Winter and sparks fly. A notorious playboy according to the tabloids, Ares flirts hard with Magda with the intention of making her his next lover. It’s been a long time since a woman has captivated his attention the way she has and he will stop at nothing to make her his. Magda finds herself caught between wondering if the handsome billionaire is trying to use her obvious attraction to him as a bargaining chip in their negotiations or desperately wanting to believe he is as attracted as she is. Magda is no stranger to challenges in her life. Having an unsupportive family who have consistently tried to force her to do what she doesn’t want and dating experiences equivalent to scraping the bottom of the barrel in the cesspool of life, she is highly suspicious of the wealthy man’s intentions. With her best friends’ encouragement though she is ready to engage in the battle of wills with the man of her dreams. The moment Magda becomes a billionaire, her life explodes. Her once quiet life of beaches and surfing is now filled with tabloid reporters, angry family, and a persistent beau. Moreover, ghosts of Ares’ past are haunting them and Magda’s life is on the line when their privacy is breached by the press and their relationship revealed. Time is not on their side when Magda disappears and it’s unclear if she’s gone out of her own volition or if the culprit is the one person Ares has diligently worked for fifteen years to keep locked up and out of his life. Either way, urgency is paramount as Ares’ first chance at true love is at risk. He’s going to learn the hard way not everything in life is for sale, no matter how much money you have.

#DreameLoveStoryContest Lolita O’Malley has secrets. Lots of secrets. Being a pyromaniac when her dad was an ex fire chief was a big one. Being an assassin under The Bellona Collective was infinitely bigger. Bellona helped her manage her impulse control disease and kept her focused on her future while maintaining her ability to never let her secrets into the light. She has no time for serious relationships considering her last foray into love led her into a world of trouble. Diarmid Clooney is a federal fire marshal and a new case has landed on his desk, moving him back to New York. In reconnecting with his closest friend and mentor he’s reacquainted with Conor’s daughter Lita and she’s all grown up. When Lita reveals her childhood crush on him was the catalyst to one of the most horrific nights of her life and the cause of her current dark path, Diarmid believes he can help Lita overcome some of the pain in her past. Convincing Lita not everything needs to go up in flames is a hard task but what else is a firefighter good for if not controlling blazing infernos, especially when the heat between them is just too hot to avoid. Lita needs to tread carefully because it’s her fires in the files on his desk and her future at risk. Will she surrender peacefully or will Lita do what she does best and let the world burn?

#DreameLoveStoryContestBrokenBillionaire #SummerUpdate "I'm going to bring that man to his knees, and I will get my divorce and I will have my freedom, if it's the last thing I do." Dimitra was no ordinary mafia princess. Unlike other families, the head of her family, her father had always insisted she do as the boys do and was an enforcer for the family from a young age Her only saving grace was the son of her father’s best friend and advisor, Miklos Laskaris. While her childhood had been fraught with violence, she has always looked up to him for guidance and support and, admittedly she’d had a childhood crush When she had turned eighteen her father informed her, she would marry Miklos to join the two families once and forever and solidify Miklos role as the head of the family and her role to rule at his side While he agreed to the marriage on paper, he made it clear to the Dimitra, he could never consider her more than a bratty little sister and their marriage would never be a real one With her childhood crush shattering her heart, Dimitra forged a life for herself at college and made new friends who helped her realize the only thing she ever needed was away from the Laskaris and Lykiaos families. Now eight years later, Dimitra is no longer a blushing eighteen-year-old girl. She’s a woman with a plan. All she needed to do was convince her brother-figure to divorce her, give her the freedom she wants and let her walk from the family. When he decides his little wife is no longer a child and his affection is no longer brotherly, Miklos has a plan of his own. He wants to keep his wife, make their marriage real and never let her go For Dimitra it’s game on. All’s fair in love and war but she’s not above fighting dirty. Her only hope is the casualties of war won’t include her heart. Let the battle begin

#Dreame Writing Marathon - Love Story Contest #summerupdate The CEO’s Contracted Mistress When Bobbie Caron was twenty-one years old, billionaire tycoon Olivier Villeneuve had swept into her world and flipped it upside down. With her sister dying in a care home, when he made her the offer to spend thirty days with him for sixty thousand dollars, she knew she couldn’t refuse. Then he had double-downed and extended her contract by another thirty days. The charming charismatic man with the filthy tongue easily had Bobbie eating out of his hand and stealing her heart. Just shy of the sixty-day mark, with Olivier away on business, she finds out he has not only abandoned her in their hotel suite, but he’s passed her contract on to someone else to finish out. With the help of a security agent, she made her escape, but the damage was done. The realization she had almost been sex-trafficked by the man she had fallen in love with was devastating. She turned tail and ran as far away as her bank balance would allow. Olivier Villeneuve was a financial genius with a love for numbers unlike anything else. When he sets eyes on a gorgeous blonde barista, he knew he had to have her. When he returns from his trip to his family’s estate to learn she’d run off with his security agent, he was incensed. Nobody takes what is his and makes a fool of him in the process. He spends nine years searching for them both. When Olivier is seated in his hotel his eyes clash with a set of familiar eyes and all bets are off. He will do anything to get Bobbie back in his bed, including demand she finishes out the five days of her contract she never fulfilled. When the man realizes the children, she is traveling with, are not her employer’s kids but his, twins with his eyes and his cocky smirk, he’s found his key to success. He’s going to have his contracted mistress back with the bonus of his babies, whether she likes it or not. For Bobbie the problem isn’t whether she likes it, it’s whether her heart can survive another round as the CEO’s contracted mistress. All’s fair in love in war, until it isn’t. When the truth comes out, how far will Olivier go to protect what is his and can Bobbie survive the fallout?

Sniping her Mafia King; Book 4 of the Bellona Collective Series #summerupdate Arwen Beddoe was not your typical assassin, though she would argue there was no such thing. Raised in a household where strong, dominant men took care of their own yet demonstrated unconditional love to their girls, she had always dreamed she would find the kind of man who would love her the way her dad and uncle had loved their wives. As someone who practiced gymnastics as a child, she had no issues with bending or conforming to a demanding man. A strong man needed to be able to handle a strong woman and she was stronger than most. At nineteen her aunt and uncle were murdered, and her cousin left for dead. Using the skills, her marine sharpshooting father had taught her, she hunted down the men who had destroyed her family and in doing so found herself suddenly supported by a group of female assassins. The Bellona Collective had helped her with her mission and then made her their own. Bellona was her family. Adrianu “Addy” Cavallaro had been borne into a world of violence. His first breath had been taken from his father’s firm hand on his buttocks and brutality had followed him every day since. For him, family is everything and he tows the family line, just as he was raised to do. Newly appointed as the head of his family’s business, he is thrust into cleaning up the mess his predecessor had left behind. Unlike his father who abused women and considered them nothing more than commodities, he feels it is his duty to protect the women in his circle. He would never underestimate any woman, especially the ones who are friends with his only female cousin. When Addy locks eyes with a beautiful blonde during an underground fight, he recognizes the look in her eyes as one he has seen many times in them mirror. As a Cavallaro, Addy is used to getting what he wants, when he wants it, but he knows, to win this fiercely independent woman over, he’s going to need to be patient. As the Mafia King, he knows to get results sometimes a man must wait for the perfect moment to strike. He would give her all the time she needed but he knew, she would come to him willingly and once he had her, she would never leave. Arwen is torn by the sudden interest in her by the King. After all, she was the reason he was suddenly thrust into the role he’d been born to play. Would Addy still want her once he found out her secret? For him, family is everything and she had murdered his. What was an assassin to do?

BLURB # Dreame Writing Marathon – Love Story Contest Jesse Chavez has a dark past and a darker future. A smart, strong, independent woman she has no need for the intricacies of dating or relationships. She’s a forensic language pathologist with an ability to suss out bullshit from a mile away. As an assassin for the Bellona Collective, she is ruthlessly determined to rid the world of the pain caused by men who abuse their power. Her body count increases each time she takes a mission, and she has no regrets. Doctor Torben Haugen is a brilliant pharmacologist and CEO of one of the biggest creators and distributors of medications in the world. Intensely private and reclusive, he’s choosy about who enters his home and his life. When he has an internal security issue, he demands the best of the best and he hires a cyber security company to assist in sorting through the issues. When Jesse’s mother falls ill and demands she cover her shifts cleaning the home of Doctor Haugen, Jesse is incapable of refusing the woman. Instantly sparks fly between the reclusive doctor and the assassin but when Jesse’s friend Clara realizes the doctor is in danger, she immediately employs Jesse to keep him safe. Now Jesse is torn between protecting the man and protecting her heart. Jesse will have to decide if she’s willing to risk it all, including her heart, for the man. Doctor Haugen is speaking her love language but it’s a language even she didn’t know she knew.

Dreame Writing Marathon -- Love Story Contest Caris Walker is a feisty, ambitious lawyer who has spent the entirety of her life thumbing her nose at her wealthy stepfather and his rules. She’s plus-sized, fabulous, strong-willed, and much to her mother’s horror, has a side career as a plus-sized model. She’s always fantasized about living out a romance story but those are just pipe dreams, or so she thought. The only good thing to come from her mother’s marriage to her stepfather was her younger sister and Caris would do anything for her, including marry billionaire Killian Young. He’s the man her stepfather insists one of the girls marries in order to save the family company from financial ruin. When her biological family come out of the woodwork and reveal secrets about her stepfather, Caris does what any rational, reasonable woman does. She runs away with a playboy billionaire who’s been chasing her for years knowing full well it will throw her family into chaos. Her friends had dubbed the bad boy the Spawn of Satan and for good reason. He is infinitely naughty. The bold man does what he does best. He gets under Caris’ skin and before she knows it, the bad billionaire has negotiated a seven-kiss agreement, with the feisty lawyer. Caris’ preconceived notions are shaken when the billionaire turns out to be far more than she had ever realized. Caris needs to decide whether she believes the man to be the villain or the hero in her story. Every girl deserves a happy ending, but Caris isn’t convinced she’s going to get hers. It’s up to Malachi Blackwood to show her even a villain deserves love.

Fall for a Billionaire- Billionaire Romantic Suspense Writing Contest Isabella Ruiz is a twenty-six-year-old brilliant risk analyst for the biggest technology security company in the world, Draxton Enterprises. By night, a ruthless assassin bent on eliminating sex offenders from the world as part of a collective of supremely trained women known as Bellona. Camden Torres is a thirty-eight-year-old billionaire CEO of Juggernaut, a security company specializing in providing security services to exclusive clientele all over the world. The rumor factory alleges he is also a mercenary for hire, providing contract services with his team to eliminate designated targets. When Cam Torres’ nineteen-year-old daughter Portia is caught up dating Isabella’s ex-boyfriend, a narcissistic thirty-year-old man with ties to the Russian Mafia, he asks Isabella for her help in keeping them apart. Cam’s plan is simple. Date the billionaire to convince his daughter Isabella is not behind her ex’s callous mistreatment of the younger woman. Isabella soon realizes dealing with a demanding wealthy man used to having his own way does not always blend with her lifestyle and soon their identities clash. Will their plan work or will it put them all in far more danger than any of them realized? Isabella is about to learn whether love and honesty can triumph over pain and secrets as she sets her sights on having it all while she fears losing everything.

Fall for a billionaire- Redeem Ex's Love Mackenna Giordano had been swept off her feet at the age of nineteen by Alessandro, the billionaire CEO of Giordano Fashion House of Milan. In a whirlwind romance, they married after two short weeks. Initially her life was perfect. Then it was not. A year into their marriage, Alessandro hired a new model as the face of the company, a woman who made no efforts to hide she was sleeping with Mackenna's husband. When Mackenna gave Alessandro an ultimatum, her or the other woman, he refused to choose. He seduced Mackenna and left her sleeping in their bed to go dancing with his lover with the tabloids documenting ever moment of the party. With her dignity in tatters, Mackenna ran away to America, knowing the possessive and domineering Italian would never let her go. Five years later, Mackenna is desperate to move on and returns to Italy to file her divorce to begin the next chapter in life, but will Alessandro let her go? Tragedy and the ever-present lover in Alessandro's life break Mackenna's heart a second time. Can Alessandro convince his wife he deserves a second chance and he's not the scoundrel she believes him to be? Will the billionaire playboy husband succeed in winning back his prodigal bride? For the first time, all the balls are in Mackenna's court and she's the one in control. Power is seductive.

FALL FOR A BILLIONAIRE: ROMANTIC SUSPENSE WRITING CONTEST Sapphire Yates was born destined to be the High Priestess of her Coven, fate and destiny determining her the one that would be the most powerful sorceress of all her kind. There was one catch though; she had to marry one of two men that were preselected for her. Fate would only allow her to choose her mate, but only when the choice was ultimately made, when she was mated with the man of her choosing, would fate reveal if she'd lead the world into a lightness and prosperity or darkness and despair. To make matters worse, Sapphire finds herself strangely attracted to her billionaire playboy boss, a mortal human who should have been a fun distraction. When her heart is forcing her to choose between three men, will she make the choice to save her world or plunge them into chaos?

GIRL POWER- CHASING HER APOLLO WRITING CONTEST Clara is a billionaire heiress who had survived a kidnapping attempt as a teenager. Her survival awakened a need in her to save others from the evil that men do. By day, she was the CEO of her grandfather's tech company, which is the perfect cover for her role as an assassin for an elite team of women assembled to save other women from the pitfalls of a bad relationship. Elian is a self-made restauranteur. His work ethic, drive and determination all elegantly balanced on the pride of his reputation. He doesn't like risk and has his life planned to the very fine details. He would never risk having his empire fall apart because of risky behaviors. When he first meets Clara, he is confident they are a perfect match. Will this hold true when he finds out his match is cold-blooded assassin?