Download or read book Convict Me A Dark Crime Romance written by J. L. Beck and published by Broken Heroes Novel. This book was released on 2019-02-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The day I meet Hero Miller I know he's unlike anyone I've ever met before. Sheltered and raised around no one but my family all my life, his darkness draws me in. He was raised with violence, it oozes from deep within him. I was raised by the bible my naiveness to save him proving just that. He scares me and excites me all at once. He's obsessed and guarded. He protects me and hurts me. He pushes and I pull, but only because he doesn't think he's good enough. His warnings are clear. He tells me about his past, and the people he's killed. He tells me about the things he wants to do to me...about the things he will do if I stay. The goodness in me wants to cure the stain of dark on his heart, but I'm not strong enough. The closer I get to Hero the further I get dragged into his darkness and eventually it starts to swallow me whole. Murder. Crime. Money. Sex. It surrounds us, and when Hero's past comes barreling towards us it won't be him that pays the ultimate price..it will be me.**This is book one in the Broken Heroes Series. It contains a happily ever after and is a complete standalone. It contains dark themes such as dubious content, sexual themes, violence, and swearing.**

Download or read book Convict written by A Zavarelli and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From USA Today bestselling author A. Zavarelli comes an enemies to lovers romance full of blackmail, twists, and deception. From the shadows, I've tracked her every move. I was just supposed to watch her. But now, I can't stop. She's my obsession. My addiction. My poison. Watching her isn't enough. The savage in me won't be satisfied until I take her and make her mine. One taste and I'm hooked. Too bad for her... I'm never letting her go. **Stalked. Hunted. Captured.He took me from my life and locked me away in his compound. The ex-con. The big bad biker. Inked, bearded, and inhumanely sized. And yet, every time he looks at me, I melt. This broken beast hides demons behind those brutal eyes. I hate him... and I crave him. His touch, his words, his lips. When my enemies come for me, he vows to protect me as long as I do what he says. I'll be secure in this prison he created for me. But who will protect me from him? Convict is a full length standalone within the Sin City Series and has a complete ending.

Download or read book Protect Me A Mafia Romance written by C. Hallman J. L. Beck and published by Rossi Crime Family. This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She needed protection from my family... I needed protection from her heart...She was my ex-best friend's little sister. Shy, gorgeous as hell and did I mention completely off limits. Well, that is until she lands on my doorstep begging me for protection from my brother. She has no idea the kind of world she's walked into, or that I'm no better of a man then the one searching for her. But when she offers me her v-card the last thing she has in exchange for protection I can't deny such a tempting offer. She's everything I want, and nothing I can have. When my brother finds out she's under my protection, that I've been hiding her under his nose this whole time he gives me an ultimatum...Marry her, or kill her...and since there's no way in hell I'm going to let him kill her I decide to make her mine...forever.**This is book two in the series but it can be read as a complete standalone. It contains NO-CLIFFHANGERS, NO CHEATING, and has a HEA. It is a dark mafia/crime romance and contains subject matter not suitable for all readers.**

Download or read book Toxic written by Nicole Blanchard and published by EverAfter Romance. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prison nurse Tessa Emerson falls in love with an inmate and helps him to escape. He helps her to escape her abusive husband.

Download or read book A Flicker in the Dark written by Stacy Willingham and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestseller “A smart, edge-of-your-seat story with plot twists you’ll never see coming. Stacy Willingham’s debut will keep you turning pages long past your bedtime.” —Karin Slaughter When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town. By the end of the summer, her own father had confessed to the crimes and was put away for life, leaving Chloe and the rest of her family to grapple with the truth and try to move forward while dealing with the aftermath. Now twenty years later, Chloe is a psychologist in Baton Rouge and getting ready for her wedding. While she finally has a fragile grasp on the happiness she’s worked so hard to achieve, she sometimes feels as out of control of her own life as the troubled teens who are her patients. So when a local teenage girl goes missing, and then another, that terrifying summer comes crashing back. Is she paranoid, seeing parallels from her past that aren't actually there, or for the second time in her life, is Chloe about to unmask a killer? From debut author Stacy Willingham comes a masterfully done, lyrical thriller, certain to be the launch of an amazing career. A Flicker in the Dark is eerily compelling to the very last page.

Download or read book The Sun Does Shine written by Anthony Ray Hinton and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit"--

Download or read book Desperate Measures written by Katee Robert and published by Trinkets and Tales LLC. This book was released on 2020-12-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time, I was a princess in a tower. One night, and my entire life went up in flames. All because of him. Jafar. As my world burned down around me, he offered me a choice. Walk away with nothing but my freedom… Or rise to his challenge and win my fortune back. I bargained. I lost. Now Jafar owns me, body and soul. Even as my mind rails against his rules, my body loves the punishments he deals out when I break them. But a gilded cage is still a prison, I’ll do anything to obtain my freedom. Even betray the man I’m falling for. In DESPERATE MEASURES, you’ll find: -> Enemies to lovers -> Captive Heroine -> Kinky Roleplay -> Daddy/baby girl -> Alpha hero

Download or read book The Convict and Other Poems written by Edwin Mays and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-07 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Download or read book Guard Me A Mafia Romance written by Cassandra Hallman and published by Rossi Crime Family. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was a tiny little lamb that claimed my heart with one fearful look. I was her captor, the man responsible for breaking her, for preparing her for auction. She was taken, plucked right off the street and brought to me to be sold at the next auction.Rescuing her from my men was never part of the deal, and neither was bringing her up to my room. Yet, night after night I did this, refusing to give up the way she made me feel. When I'm with her I feel less like a monster. I can remember the man I used to be before the mob got to me, before all the bad tainted my soul. But wanting her is forbidden, and keeping her unthinkable. If they find out what I'm doing they'll kill both of us. And still... I want to save her. I want to love her. I was to cherish her. When the time comes will I be able to let her go? Or will I risk both our lives for a love that I may not deserve? **This is book four in the series but it can be read as a complete standalone. It is a full length novel (85k+ words) that contains NO-CLIFFHANGERS, NO CHEATING, and has a HEA. It is a dark mafia/crime romance and contains subject matter not suitable for all readers. **

Download or read book If We Were Villains written by M. L. Rio and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Much like Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, M. L. Rio’s sparkling debut is a richly layered story of love, friendship, and obsession...will keep you riveted through its final, electrifying moments.” —Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, New York Times bestselling author of The Nest "Nerdily (and winningly) in love with Shakespeare...Readable, smart.” —New York Times Book Review On the day Oliver Marks is released from jail, the man who put him there is waiting at the door. Detective Colborne wants to know the truth, and after ten years, Oliver is finally ready to tell it. A decade ago: Oliver is one of seven young Shakespearean actors at Dellecher Classical Conservatory, a place of keen ambition and fierce competition. In this secluded world of firelight and leather-bound books, Oliver and his friends play the same roles onstage and off: hero, villain, tyrant, temptress, ingénue, extras. But in their fourth and final year, good-natured rivalries turn ugly, and on opening night real violence invades the students’ world of make-believe. In the morning, the fourth-years find themselves facing their very own tragedy, and their greatest acting challenge yet: convincing the police, each other, and themselves that they are innocent. If We Were Villains was named one of Bustle's Best Thriller Novels of the Year, and Mystery Scene says, "A well-written and gripping ode to the stage...A fascinating, unorthodox take on rivalry, friendship, and truth."

Download or read book The Convict and Other Stories written by James Lee Burke and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists offers a selection of a dozen short stories set in James Lee Burke’s most beloved milieu, the Deep South. “America’s best novelist” (The Denver Post), two-time Edgar Award winner James Lee Burke is renowned for his lush, suspense-charged portrayals of the Deep South—the people, the crime, the hope and despair infused in the bayou landscape. This stunning anthology takes us back to where Burke's heart and soul beat—the steamy, seamy Gulf Coast—in complex and fascinating tales that crackle with violence and menace, meshing his flair for gripping storytelling with his urbane writing style.

Download or read book Convict Me written by J. L. Beck and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was a shy little virgin, looking to rebel. I was a bad accident waiting to happen. I'm the bad boy your parents warn you about. I've been to prison, killed for someone I love and now I'm suffering through college. Then I see her--sweet, so naïve it hurts, and of course beautiful. She's scared of me the moment we lock eyes, but beneath that fear is curiosity. From that moment on I'm consumed with need to make her mine, to claim her--but when my past collides with my future will I risk the chance of going back to prison to protect yet another person I love? **This is a complete standalone. It contains NO CHEATING, NO CLIFFHANGERS and a HEA. It also contains dark material not suitable for some readers.**

Download or read book The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict written by Austin Reed and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The earliest known prison memoir by an African American writer—recently discovered and authenticated by a team of Yale scholars—sheds light on the longstanding connection between race and incarceration in America. “[A] harrowing [portrait] of life behind bars . . . part confession, part jeremiad, part lamentation, part picaresque novel (reminiscent, at times, of Dickens and Defoe).”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE In 2009, scholars at Yale University came across a startling manuscript: the memoir of Austin Reed, a free black man born in the 1820s who spent most of his early life ricocheting between forced labor in prison and forced labor as an indentured servant. Lost for more than one hundred and fifty years, the handwritten document is the first known prison memoir written by an African American. Corroborated by prison records and other documentary sources, Reed’s text gives a gripping first-person account of an antebellum Northern life lived outside slavery that nonetheless bore, in its day-to-day details, unsettling resemblances to that very institution. Now, for the first time, we can hear Austin Reed’s story as he meant to tell it. He was born to a middle-class black family in the boomtown of Rochester, New York, but when his father died, his mother struggled to make ends meet. Still a child, Reed was placed as an indentured servant to a nearby family of white farmers near Rochester. He was caught attempting to set fire to a building and sentenced to ten years at Manhattan’s brutal House of Refuge, an early juvenile reformatory that would soon become known for beatings and forced labor. Seven years later, Reed found himself at New York’s infamous Auburn State Prison. It was there that he finished writing this memoir, which explores America’s first reformatory and first industrial prison from an inmate’s point of view, recalling the great cruelties and kindnesses he experienced in those places and excavating patterns of racial segregation, exploitation, and bondage that extended beyond the boundaries of the slaveholding South, into free New York. Accompanied by fascinating historical documents (including a series of poignant letters written by Reed near the end of his life), The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict is a work of uncommon beauty that tells a story of nineteenth-century racism, violence, labor, and captivity in a proud, defiant voice. Reed’s memoir illuminates his own life and times—as well as ours today. Praise for The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict “One of the most fascinating and important memoirs ever produced in the United States.”—Annette Gordon-Reed, The Washington Post “Remarkable . . . triumphantly defiant . . . The book’s greatest value lies in the gap it fills.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “Reed displays virtuosic gifts for narrative that, a century and a half later, earn and hold the reader’s ear.”—Thomas Chatterton Williams, San Francisco Chronicle “[The book’s] urgency and relevance remain undiminished. . . . This exemplary edition recovers history without permanently trapping it in one interpretation.”—The Guardian “A sensational, novelistic telling of an eventful life.”—The Paris Review “Vivid and painful.”—NPR “Lyrical and graceful in one sentence, burning with fury and hellfire in the next.”—Columbus Free Press

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Download or read book Caged written by Ellison Cooper and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FBI profiler Sayer Altair hunts a brilliant serial killer with a dangerous obsession in Caged, a gripping thriller from debut author Ellison Cooper. In a residential Washington, D.C. neighborhood, a young woman's body is found in the basement of an abandoned house--starved to death in a cage, along with the video footage of a dark and deadly ritual. The victim is identified as the daughter of a prominent D.C. politician, and it falls to the FBI to track down the unconscionable psychopath who murdered her. FBI special agent Sayer Altair would rather conduct research on criminality than catch actual criminals. But when she's offered a promotion hinging on her next assignment, she reluctantly accepts the "Cage Killer" case. Taunted by a photo of another victim at the mercy of this vicious killer, Sayer and her team are driven to put an end to these grisly homicides. During the investigation, clues emerge connecting the murders to Sayer's past. Now, the stakes are personal, and the deeper Sayer is drawn into the deadly web, the more she believes she is the only one who can uncover the killer's identity. Told with devastating detail, shocking twists and unrelenting suspense, Cooper proves her exceptional ability to entertain and enthrall.

Download or read book Prison Fling a Dark Bad Boy Romance written by Cassandra Dee and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prison made me an animal. And the beautiful brunette's my first victim. I've been locked up for a year now. For a crime I didn't commit. But an innocent girl began writing me, pen pal style. Laney Evans, with big brown eyes and a trusting smile. So pure. So sweet. So true. And when we finally meet, it's wrong. Because prison's made me into a beast, hungry and ravenous. I'm pushed over the edge. Ruthless. Dominating. Savage as hell. And Laney? The sweet thing will be mine. Every which way. Twisting and turning. Screaming my name. Because walls will never come between us ...

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