Romans Contemporary & Histoires Bully Betrayal

Blurb Serafina Ferraro was born from an affair and raised like trash nobody wanted to throw out. Her stepmother hated her. Her sister mocked her. And Nico Caruso, the man she gave up everything for, drugged her and tried to sell her body to his boss. "You belong to me," Nico snarled, gripping her jaw. "You are like a stray dog. You bite, so you get smacked until you learn to sit still." Then a stranger kicked the door open. "I could have sworn I heard a damsel in distress," Dante Valentino said, calm as ice. He is not a hero. He is the illegitimate son of a powerful family, with his own war to fight. He does not save her out of kindness. "Do you want revenge?" he asked. She trains. She transforms. She becomes the woman nobody dares to laugh at again. But when Nico crawls back begging for forgiveness, old wounds threaten to pull her under, until Dante says three words she never expected. "I want you." Then they take her from him. They should not have done that.

HE KISSED ME IN THE DARK AND FORGOT ME BY MORNING Rebecca Hale has loved Christian Ashworth since she was fifteen years old, standing in the rain in his borrowed jacket, convinced for one perfect night that a boy like him could see a girl like her. He forgot. Or he pretended to. Six years later, they're partnered for a class project neither of them wanted, and Christian remembers everything: her name, her laugh, the rainy staircase she buried to survive without him. In the dark, he's everything she imagined. He notices what she doesn't say. He kisses her like she's the only girl at the party. He makes promises with his hands on her face and his voice low enough that only she can hear them. In the light, she doesn't exist. He denies her to his friends. He looks through her in the quad. He lets the girl everyone expects him to marry humiliate her in public and says nothing, does nothing, while Rebecca stands there and swallows it whole. Every stolen night makes her hope he'll finally choose her when someone's watching. Every public silence proves exactly what those promises are worth. She tells herself private love is better than no love at all. She's wrong. And somebody already knows their secret, sending warnings from a blocked number, threatening to drag every hidden thing they've built into the light. Before Christian can decide if she's worth the fall, Rebecca has to decide something harder: How long can a girl keep loving a boy who only has the courage to love her when nobody's watching? A dark, addictive New Adult romance about secrets, shame, and the terrifying cost of being chosen only in the dark.

Nathan Hills was seventeen when General Kael Varric burned his entire city to ash because they refused to give up their ancestral land. He survived by hiding in a well, listening to his family scream. Three years later, Nathan is no longer a boy. He is a ghost, hunting down everyone who lit the match, one by one. And he is not alone. His childhood girlfriend Ashley Cole stayed behind in the ruined city. Her house was the only one the General spared. She is his eyes, his informant, his last piece of home. She gives him names. He makes them disappear. He thinks he is getting close to the General. But Ashley is hiding who her father really is. And the last name she gives him is not the General at all. It is an innocent man she needs dead. When Nathan pulls the trigger, he finally understands he was never hunting the General. He was being used by him. Now he must take out the real General, not with anger, but with the same cruelty the General showed his city.