1st book in the 𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐞𝐧 𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 🂡 This is a man's world... 🃑 In a room with vinyl spinning Sinatra, hand-rolled cigars on the table, and blood on the expensive carpet, the woman scrubbing it off would be the reason it spilled at first. La famiglia Battaglia seals deals with violence, stacks chips, and spurs fear. The Patriarch waxes old, but danger adds youth to his days. His eldest son plays wolf but forgets to clean his fangs. His middle son plays a fool but slices necks with a playing card. The youngest? Can't tell a spark from fire. They make up the core of the house, filled with men and ruled by men. The Battaglia women pour drinks, stock up on Chanel No. 5, and zip their lips with vintage rouge. They do not sit at the table surrounded by the men- where's the gossip? They sit at private luncheons and horse rides. The woman scrubbing the floor doesn't matter. She was hired to care for the patriarch, cook dinner for the men, and be another body to ignore. But she watched transactions, learnt routes, how the men breathe, even pulled off her panties for the middle son, not to be loved, but to break boredom. Suddenly, when jokingly asked her opinion on an issue, she responds...and the men straighten up. They clutch their bullets tightly as she stands beside the patriarch. Little comments here, thrown daggers there, the men watch, follow, and hit many targets, all because of...a woman. Rival families catch the scent of the change with La famiglia Battaglia: smooth successes, good hits, deadly reputation. That's dangerous, and that gets attention. Now the woman who's supposed to ensure the Don takes his meds is busy packing magazines. Too bad, too late, too deep to say goodbye. This isn't about power or falling into the shackles of love. It's about what happens when the most ruthless family in New York realizes their biggest threat isn't holding a gun. She's holding a mop. Literally.

If someone offers to pay off your student loans in exchange for signing a non-disclosure agreement and moving into the middle of nowhere, you should probably ask more questions. I didn't. I was a broke grad student desperate for a lifeline, and the contract offered by the elusive billionaire was too good to pass up. My job was simple: live in a sprawling, heavily fortified glass mansion in the mountains, teach his eight-year-old daughter French and mathematics, and never, ever go into the West Wing of the house. I thought my new boss was just an eccentric, reclusive tech genius. He is devastatingly handsome, entirely silent, and moves through the mansion like a predatory ghost. He watches me with cold, pale eyes that make my pulse race for all the wrong reasons, but he is a devoted father, and the paychecks clear every week. I thought I was safe in his snowbound sanctuary. Until the night I accidentally wake up, walk into the wrong room, and see my quiet, eccentric boss standing over a man bleeding out on a plastic tarp, holding a suppressed pistol with the casual grace of a reaper. He isn't a tech genius. He is the head of the most ruthless Russo-American syndicate on the continent, and I have just seen exactly what he does in the dark. I know too much. I am a liability. I should be dead. But as the Don of the syndicate wipes the blood from his hands and locks the heavy steel doors of the mansion, trapping me inside with him, I realize that dying might have been the easier option. Because he doesn't want to silence me. He wants to keep me.

Inspired by the show Tell Me Lies!!!! Featuring the characters: Pippa, Bree, Diana, Wrigley, and Original Characters of my own creation --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Genevieve Laurent has never had trouble being wanted. At Baird, Gen is the girl people stare at twice. The art major with paint on her hands, gold on her fingers, and a reputation no one says quietly. She is sex, impulse, and bad decisions dressed like freedom. She likes women, men, parties, one-night stands, scheduled hookups, and leaving before anyone can mistake the night for something deeper. Then Pippa starts watching. Sharp, guarded, and impossible to read, Pippa is everything Gen usually avoids: complicated, secretive, and already halfway gone before she ever gets close. Their hookups are supposed to be casual. Private. A little dangerous. Nothing Gen can't handle. But Pippa wants like a confession and hides like it's a crime. And for the first time, Gen isn't the one leaving first. Set in the rotten glamour of Baird College, this Tell Me Lies-inspired story is about desire, secrecy, reputation, and the brutal difference between being wanted and being chosen. warnings: explicit language, explicit sexual scenes

Stephen DeMarco has always known how to ruin people. After burning his old life to the ground, Stephen enters the legal world polished, charming, and convinced he is still untouchable. He knows how to find a wound. How to press on it. How to make control feel like love. Then he meets Camille Voss. Soft-spoken, lonely-looking, and beautiful enough to make men careless, Camille seems like exactly the kind of woman Stephen knows how to break. Big green eyes, silk blouses, old relationship baggage, and a sadness he mistakes for weakness. Stephen thinks he is studying her. He thinks he is undressing her secrets one by one. He thinks he is teaching her what it means to need him. But Camille has secrets of her own. And by the time Stephen realizes this was never his game, it may already be too late. A Tell Me Lies-inspired psychological thriller about obsession, manipulation, sex, power, and the terrifying moment a man who ruins women finally meets his match.

Yi Jun's father died two years ago, succeeding Yi Jun to the throne. A whole kingdom at his fingertips for him to rule, maids and servants that do whatever he asks for. A bride that's thrusted into his hands. Foreign. Indian. Asha Kaur. ☆

Jade Eadwald is an only child born to multi-billionaire parents with a load of murky, dark secrets and a past they would do anything to keep their only daughter from finding out. The Eadwalds move from house to house every year, constantly running from their past. But this fall, they have decided to move back to London, and Jade is set to join 'Bloodstone Academy' for the fall term. 'The Vampires of Ruin' have come to reside within the walls of Bloodstone Academy, and they seem to be on the hunt for something, or rather, someone important. The Blood Prophecy that was once told a hundred years ago has been retold, and vampires all over the world have grown agitated. Tension that's been building up for a century is at its peak, and The Vampires of Ruin are relentless in their search for the one the Prophecy speaks of. Until Jade walks into the school hallways on an early September morning. Wild-haired, with a mysterious, radiant beauty that makes the world swoon, Jade quickly catches the attention of two vampires. Finding herself trapped in the webs of a dangerous love triangle, Jade realizes the boys she's falling for are not human, and her new school is no regular high-school either. Something bigger than all of them is brewing, and Jade seems to be the sole catalyst to a disastrous event that will come to threaten the existence of all Vampires. Dark secrets are suddenly being dug out of the graves and tombstones, and the Eadwald's family secrets seem to be right in the mix, too. Will Jade survive being in the center of so much turmoil and destruction? Or will her heart be able to bear loving two immortals she might end up having to destroy? Warning: This book contains mature content!!!

Just moments before walking down the aisle, Justine froze. Standing at the closed doors, she couldn't help but remember spoken words. Words that haven't penetrated since her college days. "Promise me your 'I Do' okay?" Just silly promises of first loves, but yet she couldn't bring herself to walk. Standing outside the church, Kallen held his head back towards the sky, praying for his feet to move. As if magically answered, he opened the church does, coming face to face with his first love, Justine. Does a silly promise of first love mean anything? Or is it all a mistaken case of cold feet?

She was born to kill him. He was destined to own her. Sabel Rivers is a vampire hunter, trained to spill blood and sworn to destroy the creatures of the night. But when she crosses paths with Kael D'Arion, the devastatingly beautiful Vampire Prince. The hunt turns into something far more dangerous. Every encounter is a game of cat and mouse. Her blades are sharp, but his smile is sharper. And when Kael finally catches her, he doesn't kill her... he bites her. Now cursed with the very darkness she spent her life fighting, Sabel has to choose: finish her mission, or give in to the forbidden hunger tying her to the prince who made her his.

Tragedy. Phobias. Trauma. Nightmares. It was all that Amil and Khalil Bleu knew, and life made it difficult to escape the chains that had them bound since childhood. Aside from their only aunt and living relative, all they had was each other. In the life of brotherhood, you were your brother's keeper no matter the circumstance. Most importantly, blood was thicker than water and should always come before anyone else. The question is, what happens when it doesn't?

Greta is gone. War has broken out. The Goddess wants Judith to bring order to chaos- but all she wants is to bring Greta back home. *This is the sequel to Unholy