Beg For Mercy
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After a brush with death, Lyra Hart fled to New York City with nothing but a single suitcase and her best friend by her side. Years later, she's become one of New York City's top lawyers, and a bona fide badass with a need for control. She's fierce, independent, and cold as ice.
Determined to stay single after her harrowing experience, Lyra keeps her heart well guarded, suspicious of everyone and trusting of no one. But what happens when girls' night out goes awry, and Lyra ends up in the arms of the only man who challenges everything she thought she knew? Will she give in to temptation? Or can she fight the magnetic force that draws them together?
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Wren Munro is a powerful businessman. He's arrogant, broody, and hot as hell... And completely unattainable. He prefers his bachelor life, entertaining the company of women only when the mood strikes.
Until he sees her. Lyra Hart.
She's sassy, stubborn, and everything he never knew he wanted, yet more than he ever expected. But then she disappears, leaving him with nothing but unquenched desire and an insatiable need to have her. Just once. A single night, and then he can move on and go back to life as he knew it.
Or can he?
When two unexpected worlds collide, who will lose first in this seductive battle of the sexes?
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