Showing results for "Melissa" in Romantic Suspense

Navy SEAL vet turned private investigator Logan Wild has a thirst for justice - and one-time flings. But when he meets Stella "Stormy" Knight, he finds himself craving more from the mysterious beauty….

As the wife of the Fairytale Killer, Melissa is closing out a chapter of her life, one cloaked in horror and guilt. All she wants is to move on and put the past behind her. On leave from his role as a Guardian, an elite group of paramilitary hostage rescue specialists, CJ will finally witness the execution of the man who butchered his baby sister. As Melissa and CJ rebuild the pieces of their lives, a man with the blackest of hearts and an endless capacity to inflict pain changes everything.

What happens when billionaire playboy and heir to family’s company enters a marriage of convenience with a meek intern? Billionaire playboy Deacon Holt hardly takes notice of the meek intern who just joined his company. It is not until he spots Cora out with her friends late one night that he becomes enamored with her and it’s not the skintight dress that has him doing a double take. It is an oddly familiar smile that leaves him desperate to see it again. So desperate that he agrees to ask her to enter a marriage of convenience with him.

When Laurel’s mother’s corpse disappears, the family is determined to recover her and put the deceased to rest, but it isn’t so easy. When a murdered man is found in the graveyard, Laurel is pulled into a deeper mystery—one tangled with ghosts, hellhounds, and the no-good Connor Woodward. Together, they must uncover the truth behind the missing dead. Yet, Laurel begins to question whether some secrets in Tenwich are better off buried.

Power hungry Vincent DeLuca has spent his whole life preparing to take over his family business. Only to find out that his father plans to hand down the reigns to another because of an issue he has with his son's new bride, Melony Spalding. Desperate to prove to his father that he is the right man for the job Vincent volunteers to resolve an ongoing issue with their supplier by securing a new one with the once notorious Golden Triangle.

As a young boy, Gabriel Martinez had his family - his entire life - ripped away from him. Revenge and indignation became his means of survival. Several years later, a series of events leads him to his new family, the Kings of Retribution MC, where he meets Alba Jameson. Heartbreak being the final push, Alba chooses the life her sister worked so hard to give her by going off to college. While trying to bury her feelings for Gabriel, she finds herself faced with the unexpected. Finding strength and courage, she starts to pave her own path in life, until a faceless threat sends her home.

The small town of Paraiso was anything but paradise for Mary. She is the girl from the wrong side of the track with an alcoholic mother and an absentee father. Tihana's is the shy girl that's fear of flying kept her grounded. After a chance meeting in high school, the two became instant best friends. Now as adults the two best friends are more like sisters. Leaning on each other while trying to make their own way through life.

I want him. Unlike I have ever wanted anything before in my entire life. I knew it from the very moment his eyes met mine; the way my skin burned under his dark gaze. I knew nothing would ever be the same again. Decklan Taylor isn’t just tempting; he’s dangerous - a storm who destroys everything in his wake. But even as I stand in the path of his force, I can’t turn away. While he may be the very thing that breaks me, he’s also the only thing that has ever made me feel alive. Sometimes falling in love is more than just crazy, it's downright stupid.

Lipstick. Bright, red lipstick. Nothing but lipstick. Even though it's against our faith to wear a color that screams of sexual promiscuity and deviant behavior, I'm not allowed to protest. But, I want to. So badly.

Fabrication. The one word that describes my entire life. They didn’t want me to know my true identity. Now, I know why.... Abducted. Held against my will. I’ve become a bargaining chip in a blood feud that spans decades. Mateo Rivera is the one calling the shots. His father’s death put him in charge. Now he holds all the power. I should have known that he would ruin me the moment I laid eyes on him. And he did. He introduced me to a whole new world. One filled with danger and desire. I wasn’t just his prisoner. I was his prize.

Months ago, I agreed to help Aspen Black take down the Prophet of the FLDS—to prevent her daughter from being married at an early age, and to save innocent lives from systemic abuse on the compound. The obstacles, in this case, are mounting, as are my feelings for Aspen. The tension between us is palpable and I know there’s more to our connection than the increasingly difficult case at hand.

He stumbled into my life, a high school sweetheart sent to distract me. I had a business to run. He had a heart to mend. And competition. Competition with my best friend. As the streets of Chicago turn to a cool fall, I am left with the ultimate decision. Who will I pick? But my heart wants something my head argues against. When a hooded figure starts stalking my every move, my decision becomes even more important. Love, career, or my safety...why can’t I have all three?

Ryland Thorpe taught me the hard way that good doesn’t always win and sometimes the people we trust the most are the ones that can hurt us the deepest. At 15, my world began and ended with him. He was my older brother’s best friend. He was my protector. He was the boy I had loved since I was old enough to understand what loving someone meant. And he was a liar.... It’s been five years since I’ve seen him. Five long years and the memory of him still haunts me like it was yesterday.

The GEMs play by their own rules. These global problem-solvers combine grace, firepower, smarts, and a healthy dose of audacious attitudes to get the job done—for a price, of course. After all, the M in GEMs stands for Mercenary. Jackson “Jax” Guillion, known as Diamond, leads this group of kick-a-s women behind the front of an elite travel agency. She wouldn’t trade what she has for anything. But when a client hires them to find and return a sick child’s father, all bets are off. She’ll do whatever it takes to bring him back. Too bad nobody warned her he was her type.

When she hears rumors of a new drug about to overtake Chicago, reporter Orla Karlsen is desperate to defend her city and will stop at nothing to halt its distribution, including stepping into Chicago’s underworld. She has a second agenda — to uncover the person dispensing his own brand of justice to those on the wrong side of the law — the Vigilante.

UFC Middleweight fighter Ryley Jameson swore it would never happen again. He was done with his ex, and over the pain she'd inflicted when she left him. At least that's what he tells people. Maybe if he says it enough, he'll begin to believe it himself. Regretting her decision to let Ryley go, Ashleigh Warren comes back into town and confronts him. Holding only one secret back, she puts the rest on the line and asks for a second chance. Too bad he's not going to let her off easy.

In the wild world of modern romance, *Digital Duds: My Misadventures in Modern Dating* takes listeners on a hilarious and cringeworthy journey through the highs, lows, and outrageous misadventures of digital dating. When our witty, sharp-tongued protagonist swipes right on a seemingly charming guy, she never imagines that her night would end with him pulling out her chin hair—with his teeth!

Some threats come at you as friendly fire. Some threats take away everything. Family won't let you go down without a fight. The Secret isn't as secure as Derek's team originally thought it was, and a person on the inside of Alexander-Knight is set on exposing him, breaking him, and taking away all he holds dear.