[BOOK 1 OF VALENTINO SERIES] #1 in Wealth - 08/21/2020 #1 in New Years - 02/09/2021 #7 in Young Romance - 02/12/2021 Began: December 2017 Completed: --- • • • Vera Bernacelli had successfully hidden away from the overwhelming fame for some time that her parents' name brought. She had left her home state, New York, to listen to what her heart was urging to do; to follow her dreams out across the coast. She had ran away from her father's pressure to follow in his footsteps, the one thing she desperately didn't want to do. She saw this as an opportunity to bury her dreadful past and move into the future full of new opportunities. When she decided it was the right time to come back into the spotlight, she didn't expect the drastic turn her life would take. The night of her parent's annual New Year's Eve party, she meets an alluring yet mysterious, dominating yet infuriating, wealthy yet arrogant man. Blinded by each other's sexual appeal, they had decided to spend one night together thinking it would be their last. One hookup is what they agreed on. One night was all they needed to satisfy each other's desires. But who would've thought something would have them string back along with each other again? Something that would turn their lives around to leave a permanent mark on them forever? Or rather who? • • •

BOOK ONE OF THE BLACK SERIES -- "Well, behalf of my dick, who cannot speak for himself," Kade said simply as he watched over my face, one of his eyebrows risen, "I would like to say for him that he doesn't care about my brother's feelings at this current moment - or his reaction to the photo." "Well, I do," I muttered, my sentence coming out muffled in my hands as they covered my face. "Do you know how this makes me look to the public eye? To be sleeping with my boyfriend's older brother?" "Look on the bright side, Em." I didn't even spare him a glance as I shook my head, grunting. "Emara, look at me." My hands were pulled away and Kade stared at me, his vibrant blue eyes twinkling and his dirty blonde hair covering his eyebrows. The sight of his effortless beauty made my hard glare slightly soften. "You know I won't tell him if he finds out, you know me," he mumbled to me, "but I'm not going to lie to him when he finds out and say that if I had the chance to change what we've been doing, I wouldn't - because I would do it again without a second thought."

The Underlord pushes Ava against the wall. She stares up at him with wide eyes, suddenly trapped between the hard wall and him. He is a foot taller to her, if not more. Chevalier exhales roughly, searching her eyes. Suddenly heavy with all of his attention, a tremble forms in her knees. This is so wrong. She should pull away. "Stop me." Chevalier's voice comes out steady and hard. Ava stays quiet. Consent. Chevalier lowers his mouth until his hot breath caresses the tender flesh of her neck. Ava's eyes fall shut. His hand comes up to stroke the channels of her throat, his thumb on one side and the four fingers on the other. Finally, his soft lips come down on her skin. Ava drags a jagged breath into her lungs. His hand holds her in place from one side of her neck while his mouth assaults the other. He begins with kisses, then his teeth graze her before he bites down a little. She has to think her way out of this. But how? Her body has betrayed her already.