❀ FEATURED ON WATTPAD'S EDITORS' PICKS LIST ❀ [The Closer is intended for readers with an appetite for the dark and sexy. Read at your own discretion.] "What about that no fucking colleagues policy, huh? The one you so haughtily rubbed in my face?" The way to wound my heart is through my pride. The bastard knew that. But the look in Hans' eyes told me this wasn't a game to get me all riled up. "If your office ethics involve you getting into Tim's pants, then why don't I get to play too?" His hands flew down to my legs, tickling the bare skin on my legs and shocking me into stillness when I felt him pull up the corners of my dress till they were bunched up at my waist. "You can't," I breathlessly whispered as he forced my legs apart. One hand sauntered up to my neck, resting at my collarbone while the other snaked between my legs, parting my thighs until he had all of me resting at the tip of his fingers. "Is this cause of him," he growled, his finger dipping into my heat just slightly, circling the entrance, "or me?" He sounded so needing, so deprived. It turned me on knowing that I was the one making him feel this way, that despite being the one thrown up against a wall, I had the ultimate power over this man. "It's...It's you." I gulped and met his eyes. "It's all you." ● What happens when an unstoppable, hard-hitting business woman meets an unmovable, chauvinist, and utterly exhausting heir to a multi-million empire? Disaster, of course. For Tris, Hans Castellan proves to be more than a challenge of the heart and of the body. For Hans, Tris Henderson turns out to be a woman worth fighting for, despite a rocky start and more than a few broken hearts. Then again, no one said closing this deal would be easy. ● © Beatrice Manuel, All Rights Reserved

CILLIAN is Book 2 in the Angels / Scorpions / Dusters Crossover Universe. PUBLISHING 14TH OCTOBER 2022 ON KU. IT WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK. MY SAVIOR. MY SIN With blood on my hands, I ran for seven years. Now the prodigal sister has returned to the city that never sleeps. New York. For once, this biker chick needed saving. Turns out my black knight's a mobster. Dirty. Deadly. Irish. Cillian O'Connell's not offering me a happily ever after. All he's offering is sinful, no-strings sex. Run from the big bad Duster wolf? He doesn't realize this little Red is just as fucked up as he is. He'll find out soon enough that we're a match made in outlaw hell. In our world, that makes us perfect.

ACE is Book 1 in the Angels / Scorpions / Dusters Crossover Universe. PUBLISHING ON 26TH AUGUST 2022 ON KU. IT WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK. MY DEVIL. MY ANGEL. MY HEAVEN. MY HELL. Jason Steele. A bad boy biker placed on earth to tempt good girls like me. The future Prez of the Angels of Hellfire didn't want the unattractive best friend he grew up with. Plain Jaine Jones. At least not for keeps. The reason eighteen-year-old me skipped California for New York? Unrequited love. Mr. Ace of Broken Hearts played me, then asked the bitch who made my life a misery to be his old lady. It's been ten years. My father is dead. I need to go home to lay him to rest. Ace won't expect the ugly duckling who's transformed into a swan-the badass queen who's no longer plain. It's time for the fallen angel to be served his penance for what he did. But not by God. By me.

RAZR is Book 3 in the Angels / Scorpions / Dusters Crossover Universe. PUBLISHING 9TH DECEMBER 2022 ON KU. IT WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK. JEKYLL OR HYDE. The Scorpions need me. I'm their prez. But I'm losing control of my sanity, making rash decisions, and costing lives. Two personalities. Inner conflicts. Good versus evil. Right now, my demon is winning, and he's waiting impatiently. What's he chasing? My condemned biker soul. Two women. One unchaste. One pure. One is the angel of death, the other my saving grace. But which is which? Because only one can save me from my nemesis. Only one can save me from me.

Sophie knew her marriage was coming to an end. There had been a heavy weight in the house she shared with her husband and two young children; a quiet she tried her best to ignore. So when Jason sat her down at their dining room table, Sophie was mentally prepared to hear the words that would tear her once happy family apart. What she couldn't prepare herself for was what happened to her life once he walked out the door. Now Sophie must pick up all the broken pieces, and, with the help of an unlikely source, find a little bit of sunlight in the downpour of her broken life.

After one ectopic pregnancy, one miscarriage, and one stillbirth, Bianca has given up her dream of ever having children. And once her husband leaves her in the middle of the night, she's given up on love as well. When her brother offers her a place to start her life over, she's hesitant at first. Anything's better than living with her parents, but the man who comes with this new life has trouble written all over him. Sexy as sin, sweet as candy, and a smile that's melting her heart and doing ungodly things to her body. And therein lies the problem. Kade Calloway is everything she could ever want in a man, but she isn't allowed to want him. After all, he's older than her father. More than that, he's her brother's father-in-law. So what the hell does that make him to her? One hell of a complication. Started: December 14th, 2021 Completed: December 28th, 2021

[SAMPLE - NOW PUBLISHED] Selene Haddad works for the hottest fiction app on the market, tasked with writing romance all day. It's a dream job, minus one little aspect of it: having to work alongside Daniel Santiago, the infuriatingly attractive man who screwed her out of a massive payday. She may have written it a thousand times, but Selene is quick to learn that even in real life there truly is a thin line between love and hate.

DIRTY EOIN is Book 5 in the Angels / Scorpions / Dusters Crossover Universe. PUBLISHING 23RD MARCH 2023 ON KU. IT WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK. AN UNHAPPILY EVER AFTER? My life is no fairytale. I'm no Prince Charming. She's no Disney Princess. She's the femme fatale in the story. Fuck. Marry. Kill. I chose the former. She chose the latter. My family chose the option neither of us wanted. For thirty-eight years, I waited to marry the right woman, and then I was forced to marry the wrong one. I now realize that my temporary paper wife is my equal in every way. My Ma Duster. My fucking queen. Fate may not have chosen me for her, but that doesn't mean he never chose her for me. This future Irish King always gets what he wants, and I want her. Permanently.

All it took was one moment for everything to change. One moment and three dangerous men who emanated equal parts pleasure and pain. Following her father's disappearance, Madelyn Adams takes her travels to New York in pursuit of an unlikely yet desperately needed lead. However, when she soon finds herself witness to murder, everything becomes so much more complex. A "gunshot to the head" was what she relayed to responding officers, yet after a suspiciously brief investigation, results concluded not a single trace of evidence to support the committing of any crime, let alone one as messy as the casualty Madelyn described. No blood, no fingerprints. It was almost as though it never happened. Almost. If it weren't for the lingering memory of that low voice in her ear or the caress of his gloved hands on her body, she would've thought she'd hallucinated. Taken together, that should have been the most complicated part, but it wasn't. Instead, it was the three dangerous men who covered it up and caught interest in her in the process. ____ "I don't know how long it's going to take you to realize this sweetheart, but you belong to us." He says, yanking my head back so that his intense eyes meet mine. "You're ours to fuck, ours to love, and ours to claim in any way we want, isn't that right Madelyn?" "Mmm, yes Sir." "Well it seems to me like you need a reminder." He growls into my ear, before flipping my body to face him. "Now be a good girl and spread your legs. I want to taste what a needy little mess my words have made you." ____ Theirs to Claim is a full length, reverse harem novel with material that may be difficult for some readers. This book ends on a cliffhanger and is recommended for 18+.