The year that was 2024 in review!

 

I thought I'd look back on my year and see how many books I'd published. Wasn't surprised by it being seven, as two were boxsets I'd already written but had to reformat and upload.

What did shock me was my thirteen books for 2023 - I clearly wasn't working anywhere near as many hours at my 'other' job. Two of the biggest books had already been mostly written from the year before but I'm still claiming them as last years books as they'd not yet been published. PHEW!!!

Next year will be another busy one with a dark mafia book due the middle of January and many more up on pre-order that I need to hit deadlines with - plus a couple of secret things in the pipeline!

Now I just have to carve out some time for reading. A workmate leant me some paperbacks to read and I've yet to pick up the last book in the series WAHH

I do have a holiday coming up for Christmas, so I'm really looking forward to that. A summer Christmas at the beach YAY!!! Can't beat that - as long as the rain holds off so there are no road closures.

On that note, Have a wonderful Christmas everyone who celebrates it and I'll see you here again in the New Year! :)

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99c The Virgin Hunt Games Volume 1

 

If you've not yet read the Virgin Hunt Games, this is your chance! Just 99c for a limited time! :)

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Damon, an alien warrior, has joined the Virgin Hunt Games as a way to legally take revenge on his greatest enemy. But once he sees human Melody, one of the contestants, his plans change — because he realizes she’s his mate! A steamy sci-fi read that kicks off a series.

99c ebook bargain: The Virgin Hunt Games volume 1

My publisher Entangled are having a 99c sale on the first book in my Virgin Hunt Games series. Such a bargain! I hope you guys will give this one a go. It's full of action and adventure, and of course some red hot sex, but at the end of it all there is a happily ever after for my hero and heroine.

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EARTH, YEAR 2324

Melody Simmons desperately needs to fill her bank accounts with credits that could help her family climb out of near poverty. And in the Virgin Hunt Games, that means enticing as many hunters as possible to bed her. The downside? Billions of viewers from all parts of the galaxy would be watching her fall from virtue with avid interest.

Alien Damon Banscott despises everything about the Virgin Hunt Games. Except the fact he can now legally destroy his enemy in the games. He is in this only for revenge. Then Damon sees one of the beautiful hunted and, for a moment, his heart stops beating. He'll fight to the death before allowing another hunter to touch and deflower Melody.

But while the hunters get more credits by pleasing their captive mate sexually, the hunted women received more by finding their pleasure with any of the hunters who weren't their assigned mate.

Let the games begin....

Reformed - a Dark Mafia Romance

One Mafia madman. One plain Jane introvert.

 

I'm working on book 5 of my next Gangsters at War novel. This one has a different feel to the others in the series and I hope you readers still love it. My heroine is kind of old school and my hero unapologetically living life in the fast lane. Pre-order links are below :)

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One mafia madman. One plain-Jane Introvert.

Alessandro

I’m not known for my long-term relationships, in fact, some might say I have commitment issues. Not that I care. I do what I want, when I want. I live my life by my own rules. Then I see sweet, homey little Jane. She reminds me of a buttercup, so fresh and innocent. So different from the women I normally go for.

Perhaps that is why I have to have her. Not that she’ll ever reform my bad boy ways.

Jane

That’s my real name. I’m a true wallflower, invisible to people. Then my biggest male fantasy-come-to-life steps into my vintage shop and I wish more than ever I was sexy and confident. When he asks me out on a date, I’m so dumfounded I can’t say no. Not that I ever expected one date to lead to another. What I should have expected is my growing feelings for him…until I find out he’s a mobster. I have to leave, but he’s not about to let me go.

He wants the plain Jane, but I don’t belong in his world. Fine. He can have me, once I’ve transformed myself. 

Watch out world…watch out Alessandro.

New Release - Sheikh Romance

 

Scorpion is out right now! This novella-length story is the start to a whole new series - Sons of the Shiekh and is FREE for those who subscribe to KU. It's also available in print.

I hope you enjoy it :)

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His sting is as lethal as his charm

Sheikh Aziz Hadi might be a player who knows how to charm the panties off women, but that means very little when the one woman he wants—Zamira Fasih—is also the one woman he can’t have. She’s the daughter of a sheikh from a neighboring country bordering his province. That they’re at war means there is no way he can talk to her, let alone date her. Then he sees her at the markets, and he can’t deny the impulse to take what—who—he wants.

Zamira Fasih is not interested in Aziz, at least that’s what she tells herself. He and his family sided with an enemy of her father’s and now her people are paying the ultimate price. The Hadi family are scum, and Aziz is the worst of them. He’s not worthy of her attention, if only she’d stop damn well thinking about him! Then he kidnaps her and expects her to like him—he’d better think again!

She is promised to another man who will help end the war and the death of her people, and nothing will change her mind.  Not even the famous scorpion charm Aziz is renowned for.

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When the Sheikh of Turain discovers he can't have children with his wife, they adopt five sons and gift them with their own province to rule. Each son soon earns a nickname according to their unique qualities. Scorpion. Wolf. Falcon. Leopard and Jackal. 

While all five are renowned for their brilliance and modern thinking, they are traditionalists when it comes to marriage. But love and romance doesn't always come easily, as each of them soon discovers.

99c pre-release Mafia Madness

My next mafia release, Contracted (the fourth book in my Gangsters at War series) releases at the end of this month! I've made it 99c as a special pre-release and early release price. I hope you guys will take advantage :)

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He's a merciless killer who gets what he wants. He can have me…for a price

Delilah
When my widowed stepmother kicked me out on the streets when I was sixteen, I was too proud to ask for help from any of my friends. Hunger left me with no choice but to accept money for sex so that I might survive. Four years later I'm not only surviving, I'm thriving. Asked to attend a private party at the Agostinos, a notorious mafia family who are as ruthless and cruel as they are filthy rich and generous, I can't say no. Then my gaze meets the cold eyes of Serafino, and I'm lost even before he decides he wants all of me…body, mind and soul.

Serafino
I'm known as a cold-hearted killer without a conscience, the bad boy of the Agostino mafia. That says a lot considering my brothers can be as ruthless as my father had once been, and he'd been a sick and twisted bastard of the highest order. Nonetheless, I have a reputation to uphold. People are afraid of me for good reason. What would they think though if they discovered the call girl who arrived to service the Agostino brothers is the one woman I want all to myself—a woman I would kill to protect—until I'm left with no choice but to kill her myself.

First in Series FREE for a Limited Time!

 

Yep, Wedlocked is FREE in its e-book form across every platform for a short while! Get it while it lasts! :)

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New Release: Enforced (A Dark Mafia Romance)

 

Book three in the Gangsters at War series is now LIVE and will be available for a short while wide - in ALL stores! I just love my dark and dangerous mafia men and I hope you guys do too! :)

One sadistic madman substituted by another.

 

Chantilly

That’s what happened when I escaped from the don of the O’Malley mafia only to be captured by Valentino Barone, deadly enforcer of the Agostino mobster family. I didn’t think I could hate anyone more than the don who damaged me, until Valentino takes away my freedom yet again and awakens my darkest desires, ones I never knew existed. Escape seems futile. But I did it once I can do it again—or die trying.

 

Valentino

I was sent to find and kill Chantilly Alcott, fugitive lover of the don of a rival mafia who is desperate to find her. Ending her life and sending pieces of her body to the O’Malley family isn’t something that should bother me—it never has before—so why my reluctance to do my job? I will do it, eventually. For now, I hold her captive and tell myself I’ll break her spirit instead of her body.

So why is she slowly breaking me, instead?

 

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FREE The Sheikh's Runaway Bride

 For a limited time The Sheikh's Runaway Bride is FREE across ALL platforms! This is book 1 in an eight book series. 

Enjoy :)

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Coming Soon: Enforced (Gangsters at War)

 

My next book out late next month, is Enforced. This is book three in my dark mafia series. I'm finding these alpha anti-heroes fascinating! I hope you guys do too :)

One sadistic madman substituted by another.

 

Chantilly

That’s what happened when I escaped from the don of the O’Malley mafia only to be captured by Valentino Barone, deadly enforcer of the Agostino mobster family. I didn’t think I could hate anyone more than the don who damaged me, until Valentino takes away my freedom yet again and awakens my darkest desires, ones I never knew existed. Escape seems futile. But I did it once I can do it again—or die trying.

 

Valentino

I was sent to find and kill Chantilly Alcott, fugitive lover of the don of a rival mafia who is desperate to find her. Ending her life and sending pieces of her body to the O’Malley family isn’t something that should bother me—it never has before—so why my reluctance to do my job? I will do it, eventually. For now, I hold her captive and tell myself I’ll break her spirit instead of her body.

So why is she slowly breaking me, instead?

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FREE ebook boxset: Taken by the Sheikh

 

For a few short days our three book boxset, Taken by the Sheikh, is FREE on Amazon! Perfect for those of you not in Kindle Unlimited!

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Three Desert Sheikhs: Three Captive Brides.

Bound by duty to honor their father’s dying wish, three royal brothers must marry their destined brides… by whatever means necessary…

 

Hostage to the Sheikh ~ Mel Teshco

Sheikh Shahzad Salah al Din doesn’t have time for hearts and flowers, not when his parents’ bodies are barely even cold in their graves and his country, Omana, is on the brink of revolt. He has to secure peace by honoring a long ago arrangement to make English rose, Lexi Galvin, his wife. The trouble is strong-willed Lexi isn’t aware of her royal Arab lineage let alone her destiny. There is only one way Shahzad can guarantee she will be his queen … and he isn’t above using force to get it.

 

The Sheikh’s Mistaken Bride ~ Christina Phillips

In order to secure a powerful alliance for his country, Khalid has no choice but to marry a neighboring princess. It’s not what he wants, but duty must come before pleasure. Yet when he meets the beautiful Sanura he changes his mind… only to discover the virgin in his bed is not his destined bride.

 

Sold to the Sheikh ~ Cathleen Ross

He’d paid a fortune for his bride and he was determined to collect, whether she liked it or not.

 

Rafi Salah al Din doesn’t trust easily. In charge of security for his country Omana, he devotes his life to duty. With his parents murdered it is his duty to stabilize his country by finding his parents’ assassin, marry and produce a son to ensure the Salah al Din line lives on. So why does the wife he bought disagree?

 

Darkside Downunder website/blog & my Magic Thursday post.

 

I'm talking about my writing journey over at Darkside Downunder HERE. If you're looking for loads of amazing reads you'll find them at the Darksidedowunder website where there are so many talented authors. You'll find author pages, by genre, and a blog with lots of fun posts there. Eleni has done a fabulous job putting it all together and keeping it updated.

Happy scrolling/reading! :)

99C Dark Mafia Romance for a limited time!

 For those readers not already in KU, I've put book 1 of the Gangsters at War series on sale at Amazon for 99c for a very short time.

Enjoy :)

 

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Marry the Don, Ethan Agostino…or be killed.

 

Sabrina

That was the choice given to me after I was caught snooping at Ethan’s family home under the guise of one of his party guests. I might have been dumb enough to think I could glean information from him to take back to my family—his mobster rivals—but I’m not completely brain-dead. I’ll marry the sadistic bastard and hope I’ll live to regret my decision.

 

Ethan

I can’t believe I’m marrying a woman who is a direct threat to my criminal kingdom. Not only is her family my rivals, they became my bitter enemy when they murdered my older brother. But then our rivalry goes way back. Little wonder my father wants her dead. Except there is something about her that thaws my frozen heart. I’ll keep her as my wife for as long as my fascination holds me in its grip, then I’ll discard her. And I will…eventually. Because if I don’t and my feelings for her grow, someone else will use her against me and kill her anyway.

Next book off the rank - Enforced (A Dark Mafia Romance)

 

Enforced will be my next new release. I don't know what it is about mafia books - I think I'm a sucker for an anti-hero - but I'm really enjoying writing them! And as this hero is a mafia enforcer, he IS rather unconventional to say the least. 

At this stage book 3 of the Gangster at War series will be available exclusively through Amazon's Kindle Unlimited, but it will also be available wide in print. Release day is June 25th.

One sadistic madman substituted by another.

 Chantilly

That’s what happened when I escaped from the don of the O’Malley mafia only to be captured by Valentino Barone, deadly enforcer of the Agostino mobster family. I didn’t think I could hate anyone more than the don who damaged me, until Valentino takes away my freedom yet again and awakens my darkest desires, ones I never knew existed. Escape seems futile. But I did it once I can do it again—or die trying.

 Valentino

I was sent to find and kill Chantilly Alcott, fugitive lover of the don of a rival mafia who is desperate to find her. Ending her life and sending pieces of her body to the O’Malley family isn’t something that should bother me—it never has before—so why my reluctance to do my job? I will do it, eventually. For now, I hold her captive and tell myself I’ll break her spirit instead of her body.

So why is she slowly breaking me, instead?

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Release Day for Damaris! (Alien Fugitives)

 

The fourth book of the Alien Fugitive series, Damaris, is finally here! I love the powers these characters bring to Earth. They'll need them to defeat their enemies that wiped out their species - bar the seven who have escaped their planet and who are hiding on Earth.

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Can two lost souls complete one another?

 

Damaris Trant has never been alone…until now. Not only is he stuck on planet Earth, his six Strazanian comrades—rares with special powers just like him—are scattered around the city of New Faxian like confetti to avoid an enemy that has already wiped out the rest of their species. Damaris doesn’t even know if his comrades are still alive since landing on Earth.

Despite his purple scale coloring making him a lower caste, his rare powers, which had elevated his standing on his planet Strazan, are now erratic at best. Add to that the memories of his deceased family, and he’s rendered even more powerless.

Then he meets Callie, and his already topsy-turvy life is turned upside down. She’s an addict who sees things differently. That she doesn’t find Damaris abnormal is beyond appealing to his peace of mind. If only she didn’t also see him as just another man without a conscience.

 

After Callie Trueberry lost her family to a house fire, she fell into a dysfunctional world of her own making. Chemicals and alcohol might decay her mind, but at least she’s no longer half-mad with grief. Then she stumbles into Damaris and wishes she was the woman she used to be, a woman who would have turned his head and perhaps even won his heart. He is everything she’s ever wanted in a man, their shared grief binding them closer still. But will he stand by her side as she cleans her body and her mind while enemies are hunting him down, or will he be lost to her forever?

New Release coming soon! Winning Offer

 

The third book of the Bachelor brothers of Sydney will be released at the end of this month! I hope you guys enjoy this novella, it's been a long time coming :)

Will saving her father’s crumbling estate cost her everything?

Liam Black hides a sensitive side. If losing his parents was a tragedy, then finding out his father had been unfaithful to his wife—Liam’s mother—is a tragedy Liam can’t even begin to process. It leaves him questioning everything he’s ever known. If his parents’ happy marriage was a sham, what hope has he got to find a woman to love and settle down with? Not even his two brothers’ happy relationships can convince him otherwise. Then he sees the fearless, gorgeous woman on stage at a once yearly charity auction—a woman he met once and can’t stop thinking about—and despite his cynicism, his heart is lost.

Harper Franks isn’t going to let a little pre-auction nerves get to her now. Not if it means snaring the billionaire sheikh she hopes to attract. She’ll do anything to pay the debts inherited from her father and rebuild his bed and breakfast. What she doesn’t expect is for Liam to outbid the sheikh with a figure that surely not even an infamous Black brother can afford? So why don’t her financial woes seem half as bad when she’s in his arms? She’ll just have to figure out some other way to save her inheritance, because there is no way in hell she’ll add to Liam’s burden with her own problems.

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Release Day!! Desert Kings Alliance Box Set 2

 

 

Today is RELEASE DAY for the 2nd box set in the Desert Kings Alliance series! I hope you enjoy them :)

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Meet four powerful sheikhs and the women who tame them. From palaces in desert landscapes and city centers, be transported to foreign places and fall in love right alongside our heroes and heroines.

Book 5 – The Sheikh’s Defiant Princess

 She desires the man of her dreams. Can she resist the attention of another?

 

 Book 6 – The Sheikh’s Fake Fiancée

 She’s an outcast. He’s a newly appointed sheikh. It can’t possibly work—can it?

 

 Book 7 – The Sheikh’s Royal Widow

 He’s running from the past. She’s afraid to face the future. Can they create a perfect today?

 

 Book 8 – The Sheikh’s Temporary Girlfriend

 She’ll do anything for her family. He’ll do everything to claim her.

A Free Read! Wedlocked, A Dark Mafia Romance

 

For those of you not in KU Wedlocked is FREE for the next couple of days! I seriously love this story and characters and I'm excited to share the love around!  

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Marry the Don, Ethan Agostino…or be killed.

 

Sabrina

That was the choice given to me after I was caught snooping at Ethan’s family home under the guise of one of his party guests. I might have been dumb enough to think I could glean information from him to take back to my family—his mobster rivals—but I’m not completely brain-dead. I’ll marry the sadistic bastard and hope I’ll live to regret my decision.

 

Ethan

I can’t believe I’m marrying a woman who is a direct threat to my criminal kingdom. Not only is her family my rivals, they became my bitter enemy when they murdered my older brother. But then our rivalry goes way back. Little wonder my father wants her dead. Except there is something about her that thaws my frozen heart. I’ll keep her as my wife for as long as my fascination holds me in its grip, then I’ll discard her. And I will…eventually. Because if I don’t and my feelings for her grow, someone else will use her against me and kill her anyway.

Desert King's Alliance Box Set - Volumes 5 - 8

 

The next four books in the Desert Kings Alliance series will be released very soon - February 10th! Almost 500 pages for your reading pleasure :)

This is available from all Amazon stores or FREE for those of you in KU.

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Meet four powerful sheikhs and the women who tame them. From palaces in desert landscapes and city centers, be transported to foreign places and fall in love right alongside our heroes and heroines.

 

Book 5 – The Sheikh’s Defiant Princess

She desires the man of her dreams. Can she resist the attention of another?

 

Book 6 – The Sheikh’s Fake Fiancée

She’s an outcast. He’s a newly appointed sheikh. It can’t possibly work—can it?

 

Book 7 – The Sheikh’s Royal Widow

He’s running from the past. She’s afraid to face the future. Can they create a perfect today?

 

Book 8 – The Sheikh’s Temporary Girlfriend

She’ll do anything for her family. He’ll do everything to claim her.

Coming Soon... Winning Offer

 

Winning Offer releases at the end of next month - 29th of February. This is part of the Bachelor Brothers of Sydney and will be sold wide. I hope you enjoy it :)

Will saving her father’s crumbling estate cost her everything?

Liam Black hides a sensitive side. If losing his parents was a tragedy, then finding out his father had been unfaithful to his wife—Liam’s mother—is a tragedy Liam can’t even begin to process.  It leaves him questioning everything he’s ever known. If his parents’ happy marriage was a sham, what hope has he got to find a woman to love and settle down with? Not even his two brothers’ happy relationships can convince him otherwise. Then he sees the fearless, gorgeous woman on stage at a once yearly charity auction—a woman he met once and can’t stop thinking about—and despite his cynicism, his heart is lost.

Harper Franks isn’t going to let a little pre-auction nerves get to her now. Not if it means snaring the billionaire sheikh she hopes to attract. She’ll do anything to pay the debts inherited from her father and rebuild his bed and breakfast. What she doesn’t expect is for Liam to outbid the sheikh with a figure that surely not even an infamous Black brother can afford? So why don’t her financial woes seem half as bad when she’s in his arms? She’ll just have to figure out some other way to save her inheritance, because there is no way in hell she’ll add to Liam’s burden with her own problems.

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Release Day Boxset: Books 1-4 of Desert Kings Alliance

 

Release day is here for Desert Kings Alliance (boxset) with books 1-4 in the series  releasing together :)

Though these are available in KU they are also much cheaper for those who aren't.

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Release Day for The Sheikh's Temporary Girlfriend

 

Release Day  is here - December 30th! But keep an eye out for a whole new sheikh series coming your way next year. The first one - Scorpion - is already up on Amazon and is available as a pre-order HERE. 

She’ll do anything for her family. He’ll do everything to claim her.

 

After Amber Clayton lost her parents at the tender age of seventeen, leaving her and her older brother all alone in the world, she is determined her brother won’t now lose his marriage and his daughter thanks to his gambling addiction.

She’ll pay off his debts herself if need be!

Waitressing at a party for a sheikh who is renowned for giving his staff great bonuses seems like her lucky break…until she spills a whole tray of drinks over Sheikh Basam. Amber’s supervisor is furious and tells her she’s finished. But the sheikh has other ideas. Pulling her aside, he gives her a proposition.

Be his girlfriend for seven days. All she has to do is pretend to be in love with him and dissolve any idea of marriage between him and another woman, Maram, who is perfect for the role as his wife, if only he was attracted to her.

Of course Amber isn’t interested…until he tells her to name her price. Hope fills her from the inside out. Her brother’s gambling could be paid off for just seven days of inconvenience.

It seems too good to be true.

But without risk there is no reward.

All she has to do is keep her heart intact. Easy, right?

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