Heartless Beloved

I sent a psychopath to prison. Now he's out and back for revenge.They call me Kayla 'The Ruthless' King. The Queen of the North Shore and leader of the Kings' Crew.Because of the sacrifices I've made and the merciless way I run my crew, the North Shore belongs to me.In our town, you can only thrive if you're the worst of the worst. But that all ended when the psychopath I put away returned with a target on my back.If I'm The Ruthless King, Nathan White is The Lawless God. The biggest and baddest of them all. He's heartless and cruel, and everyone is safer out of his way. Including me.When he comes back to the North Shore with only my name on his lips, I know my days are numbered. Or so I thought until he took me.Nathan doesn't want me dead. He wants me to suffer. And what better way than to keep me captive as he destroys my crew and legacy.I'm fighting a war that I'm unprepared for, and in the midst of chaos, my feelings blur with the need for survival. My secrets aren't safe anymore, and neither is my heart.You know what they say? Never fall in love with the enemy.Too late for that.

Ich bin aus North Shore geflohen, als ich gemerkt habe, dass ich dort nicht mehr sicher bin.Vor allem habe ich den beiden Männern den Rücken gekehrt, die mir einst alles bedeuteten.Ich kannte Elliot und Ethan zwar seit meiner Kindheit, aber ich habe die Brüder in mehrfacher Hinsicht betrogen. Zumindest möchte ich, dass sie das glauben.Es spielt keine Rolle, dass ich so weit wie möglich geflohen bin, sie haben mich gefunden und bringen mich zurück in eine Stadt, die meine dunkelsten Geheimnisse und schlimmsten Erinnerungen birgt. Elliot und Ethan lassen mich nicht gehen.Zumindest nicht, bis ich für meine Sünden bezahlt habe.

Ich war schon immer ein hartes Mädchen von der North Shore. Kämpfen liegt mir im Blut, das Überleben in den Genen.Aber vor zwei Jahren hat Caden King mich gebrochen, und er hat den Beweis dafür.Jetzt erpresst er mich. Ich soll etwas für ihn tun. Etwas, das meine Chance, der North Shore zu entkommen, gefährdet. Etwas, das bedeutet, meine eigene Crew zu verraten.Alle sagen immer, es wäre sinnlos, gegen Caden anzutreten. Er trägt den Wahnsinn in sich, der die Grenze zwischen Recht und Unrecht verschwimmen lässt. Jetzt hat er mich in seiner Gewalt, und ich habe nichts und niemanden, der mich vor ihm beschützen könnte.

He is everything she's been warned against. She is everything he hates.I'm from a place where you eat or get eaten. Two gangs are at war, and I'm hungry for survival.Growing up in a broken town doesn't make you a good man. In fact, the North Shore of the Falls has made me merciless.I survive because I'm a good soldier for the North Shore Crew. I'm cool-headed, I never lose sight of my goals, and my only obsession is to wrench our town from the clutches of our sworn enemies, the Kings.Alexandra Delacroix is just a job. Plain and simple. She lives in our neighboring town, in the millionaires' heaven they call Stoneview.The plan is straightforward: charm her, uncover incriminating information about her senator father, and tip the balance of power in our favor.But unlike the other rich girls from Stoneview I use as toys, Alexandra is kind, selfless... sweet. Sickeningly so. A bright pink cupcake with glitter and sprinkles on the icing. That kind of sweet.We have nothing in common. Nothing but the secrets we keep.And before I know it, my priorities change.Before I know it... Alexandra Delacroix is my new obsession.

An angsty, secret society, dark romance from best-selling author, Lola KingHe lost her once. Now he will do anything to have her back. Anything.Welcome to Silver Falls University, where the elite comes to thrive.My life as a queen bee was always traced for me. I'm rich, I come from an influential family, and I constructed my personality to become the girl everyone wants to be. I rule Silver Falls University with bright smiles and the pretense of being everyone's friend.But in a place where toxic rich kids love to see others fall, no one is safe.Especially when my family loses its power and someone threatens to spill all my secrets.In the blink of an eye, my life as I knew it crumbles, and to save the people I love, I'm forced to initiate into the one place I thought I'd never be-the same Secret Society who betrayed my family.Powerless, I'm thrown into a world of men who want nothing but to use and break me, and only one person can save me.My ex.He wants to take care of me even though I hate him.He wants to protect me when he's not allowed.And he wants to make me his even if it puts us both at risk.I have no hope of surviving a secret society.But if Christopher Murray makes me his...I have no hope of surviving him.Loving The Liar is a dark romance intended for readers over 18. Please, read the CW in the book.This is the first book in a series of 3 interconnected standalones.

An angsty, best-friends-to-lovers, dark romance from best-selling author, Lola KingHe waited years for her to choose him. His patience has run out.Welcome back to Silver Falls University. There is a murderer among us.I've been best friends with Wren Hunter for sixteen years. The boy who chased me in our schoolyard, kissed my scraped knees, and always swore to protect me grew into the god of Silver Falls University: admired by his peers, desired by every woman on campus, and feared by anyone who gets in his way.Wren knows me better than anyone. He sees through every wall I build. He can handle my fire and my stubbornness. Sometimes I believe he can even tame it. This is why I thought we would never cross the line between friendship and more, no matter how many times we teetered on the edge of it.I was wrong.The mask he wore around me is gone, and what's underneath is dangerous, unrelenting, obsessive.Wren doesn't just want me-he decided I'm his.And in his world, no one says no.There's a secret society behind him, powerful enough to cover up anything-or anyone-standing in their way. Now, I'm trapped in his game, bound to a man I don't recognize, in a world where nothing is what it seems.Bodies are piling up.Trust is a luxury.And Wren Hunter might be the one thing that destroys me.Loving The Reaper is a dark romance intended for readers over 18 only. Please, read the trigger warnings in the book.This is the second book in a series of 3 interconnected standalones.

She betrayed them and ran away. They want their revenge.In a town where all that matters is loyalty to your gang, I've been labeled a traitor.I ran away from the North Shore the day I knew I wasn't safe there anymore. I left behind the people I thought were my family, my friends, my crew: the Kings.Mainly, I turned my back on the two men who once meant everything to me.I might have known Elliot and Ethan since we were children, but I betrayed the brothers in more ways than one. Or at least I would rather them believe that than know why they should truly want me dead.I should have known no one escapes the Kings. The most powerful gang on the North Shore never planned on letting me go.It doesn't matter that I ran as far as I could, they found me now, and they're taking me back to a town that holds my darkest secrets and most haunting memories. Where everyone hates me, where people who were once my allies are now my enemies.A place where they can do anything they want with me.I'm stuck with a master manipulator and his antisocial brother.With two men who only want one thing: to make me hurt.Elliot and Ethan are not letting me go.At least not until I've paid for my sins.

She only wants one thing; to leave their broken town. He only wants one thing; her.When you were born on the North Shore of the Falls, that's where you stay. There is no way out, no fairy-tale-like escape, no hope. Our broken town has always been at war. Two gangs fighting to take over the shithole we're all stuck in. I only know one girl who wants to leave this place. Me.I've always been a tough, North Shore girl. Fighting is in my blood, survival in my DNA.But two years ago, Caden King broke me, and he has proof of it.Now he wants to blackmail me into doing a job for him. The kind that puts my chance of escaping the North Shore at risk. The kind that means betraying my own crew.He's on me at all times, his dangerous mind always working on ways to torment me further.Caden is wicked, unhinged. The North Shore Kings wear his name because of the vicious ways his family has been leading their crew.Everyone always says there's no point in fighting him. He has that madness in him that blurs the line between right and wrong. Now he's got his hold on me, and I have nothing and no one to protect me from him.There's no way to win.No way to escape him.I'm left with no choice but to do exactly what I'm told.This book is the first in a series of four interconnected standalones. Beautiful Fiend is a dark enemies-to-lovers romance intended for readers over 18. It contains scenes that some readers may find triggering. Please check CW in the book.