He’s a gorgeous, sensual mountain man, who seems totally fixated on me.
I’m not sure which is stronger – those layers of muscles or his passion.

When I needed help, Kingston appeared like a knight in a shining pickup truck, and pulled me from the mess I was in.

From the moment we locked eyes, I was a goner. He’s charming and bold. Unflinchingly honest. And he makes his intentions known from the very beginning. He’s an open book about his dreams, his life, his…desire.

He doesn’t need to pursue me. Kingston simply assumes that we’re together for good.

Will he still be interested when he discovers I’m kind of directionless, kind of avoiding my family, and kind of… without a real job? Considering that he’s a billionaire with a huge family, that might not be important.

Kingston doesn’t want me for one night. He wants me forever.

Can a relationship built on lust… last?

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This two-hour romance short read is filled with feel good moments and small town charm. Don’t miss Kingston’s brothers in Wolfish Heart, Wolfish Hunger, Wolfish Grin and Wolfish Eyes.

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New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Kristen Proby returns to Triple Creek Ranch with a sizzling romance between a brooding ex–Secret Service agent and the president’s daughter he’s sworn to protect.

Five years ago, Secret Service Agent Gideon James took a bullet to protect me.

It haunts me every single day.

As the president’s daughter, my life has never truly been my own. But when a traitor in my security detail tries to kidnap me, Mom sends me to Montana—to the one man who’s never failed to keep me safe.

These days, Gideon runs an elite security training facility on his family ranch. He’s not exactly thrilled to see me, and his family trusts me even less. But during our intense self-defense sessions, something electric ignites between us. Those steel-gray eyes see past my title to who I really am. For the first time, I’m discovering my own strength—and a desire I can’t deny.

Just as I’m falling hard, betrayal strikes again, threatening everything Gideon and I have built. Now I must choose between protecting my heart and fighting for the man who’s always protected me—and the only place I’ve ever truly belonged.

What’s worse than being hunted by the Mafia?
Being the reason they’re hunting you—

and not knowing why…

Look, I didn’t do anything wrong.
I was just doing my job.

Until I found the drugs.
Hidden inside the plane.

Then everything went wrong.
The crash. The fire. The screams.

I should have died with everyone else.

Instead… I woke up accused.

My father murdered.
My mother barely alive.

And the world calling me the traitor.

That’s when he found me.

Ruslan Zaytsev.
Cold. Controlled. A man who looks at me like I already belong to him.

He doesn’t rescue me.
He takes me.
He says it’s protection.
But his protection feels like a cage.

Everywhere else… survivors are being erased. One by one.

And when I try to run, he drags me back—
voice low, lethal, unshakable.

“You don’t get it yet, do you?”

I shake my head.

His grip tightens.

“You weren’t meant to survive that plane.”

Now I’m trapped between a war I don’t understand
and a man who refuses to let me go—

Because the truth is…

He wasn’t sent to save me.
He was sent to kill me.

Author’s Note: A dark, emotionally intense mafia romance featuring kidnapping, forced proximity, obsession, and a ruthless alpha hero. No cliffhanger. HEA guaranteed.

Chef Draven is known as a tyrant in the kitchen, but when the new dishwasher arrives, he finds himself spellbound by Claire’s beauty. She’s young, brave, in need of a guardian…and obviously running from something. At first touch, he’s vowing to protect her from all harm and proclaiming himself as her man. She’s his now. But there’s something different about his girl. Her very presence, and a unique spice all her own, cause his cooking to improve to the point of inciting riots outside the restaurant. Could she be the missing ingredient he’s been looking for all his life?

In an electrifying return to the dark world of Roman Republic, a ruthless emperor contends with an enemy within, whose connection to his family’s past pushes him—and his heart—to new limits.

The city of Taormina calls to me—but Constantine possesses me, body and soul. Not just because of those chiseled abs and glorious tattoos my photographer’s eye can’t help but admire. Or the man’s utter devotion to his dog. But because he always stands up for me.

He saved my life once. And he’d do it again.

His ruthless brand of justice inspires terror on the streets of Rome. But in his arms, I shiver for a different reason. So when he asks me to move in after just six weeks, I’m ecstatic.

And conflicted.

I worry I’m a distraction. An obstacle to his duties as emperor. And when his nemesis, the Skull King—that merciless bastard who killed Constantine’s twin—reappears, I fear I’m right.

Whatever went down between them, Constantine loved his brother with all his heart. Now he has a choice to make: avenge his brother’s death and protect Rome…or save me again.

Here’s something they don’t teach you in med school: if you save a dying man in a freezing alley, make sure he’s not a Bratva king first.

I’m a trauma surgeon. Steady hands. Cool head. Zero emotional attachment. That’s my whole thing.

So when I end up in the wrong alley and find a stranger bleeding out, I don’t hesitate. I kneel down, press my scarf into his wound, and tell him to breathe.

I try not to notice that even half-dead, this man is offensively, unreasonably hot.

When I walk away, I tell myself I’ll never see him again. I couldn’t have been more wrong.

Three weeks later, I’m giving a speech at a medical gala, and there he is. Tall. Dark suit.

Very much not dead.

Now he’s not just the man whose blood is probably still on my favorite scarf. He’s Kiren Sovarin, CEO of a biomedical empire.

He doesn’t thank me. He crosses the ballroom and says three words:

“Dance with me.”

My brain says no. My mouth says, “One song.”

My pulse says you are in so much trouble.

Because the CEO title is just the surface. Kiren Sovarin runs one of the most powerful Bratva families in the city.

And I’m already in too deep to walk away.

I should run. It should scare me.

(It does something much, much worse.)

Especially when I see those two pink lines.

Start this bestselling Bratva duet now. His To Claim is a full-length mafia romance with a cliffhanger ending and a guaranteed HEA at the end of Book 2. Perfect for readers who love possessive Bratva heroes, fierce heroines, and the kind of tension that keeps you up way past your bedtime.

The most dangerous man in the room bought me.

One minute, I’m a hotel maid no one notices.
The next, I’m dragged onto a stage where ruthless men buy women for property.

Then Gabriel Moretti walks in.

Silver at his temples.
Violence in his eyes.
Power in every cold, effortless step.

He buys me in front of everyone.

Now I’m trapped inside his world of marble halls, shadowed deals, and bloodstained secrets.
Where his word is law, his touch is ruin… and every glance brands me as his.

Then I learn the truth.

The auction wasn’t random.
The men bidding on me weren’t strangers.
And Gabriel knew exactly who I was.

If the truth comes out, they won’t just hunt me—
they’ll try to erase me before everything burns.

Because I’m not just part of this twisted world.
I’m the spark that could burn it to hell.

This is a full-length standalone featuring an age-gap, mafia romance… and a maid who was never meant to be harmless.
K.C. Crowne is an Amazon Top 6 Bestseller and International Bestselling Author.

Tropes: Curvy FMC / Body Worship · Silver Fox Mafia Kingpin · Billionaire Boss · Maid × Mafia Don · Age Gap · Morally Gray Alpha · “Touch Her and Die” · Forced Proximity · Bought at Auction · Captive in His Mansion · Secret Mafia Heir · Hidden Identity · Bloodstained Family Secrets · Surprise Pregnancy · Protective Possessive Hero · He Falls First · Revenge Against Her Family’s Killer · Beauty and the Beast Vibes