Lucy Smoke

In this dark, steamy rom-com perfect for fans of Brynne Weaver, a woman finds herself working alongside her best friend's new brother-in-law--one of the most notorious mafia bosses in New York and her worst nightmare.

The first in The Sons of Salem series, a witchy dark romance by USA Today bestselling author Lucy Smoke. Four men. One girl. Five families accused of witchcraft. A dark secret they all hide. Their souls are damaged, hiding secrets and harboring just as much hate as I am. Ezra Bishop Cameron Goode Lyall Corey Reyes Scott And me. Haven Wardwell. They are the monsters hidden in the shadows, but I am no novice when it comes to monsters. We are all legacies, but there’s one grand difference between us. I am the first female witch born in four hundred years. Now that I’m here, there’s no telling what the dark gods will ask for in return. Death and ghosts haunt the corridors of Ipswich Academy. If I’m not careful, I might become one of them. Read if you love: Why choose? Dark academia Gothic, dark fantasy Witches and werewolves Found family 'Touch her and die' protective heroes

From bestselling author Lucy Smoke comes a new dark mafia romcom full of high heat, hilarious banter, and a marriage-of-convenience love story, perfect for fans of Butcher & Blackbird and Rook & Rebel. Daisy Turner is a broke, single recent college graduate who would say yes to just about anything if it helps her climb out of the pile of debt she's in. Which is why she agrees to fill in for her roommate as a waitress catering a high-end private wedding. Her expectations are low--at most she'll get a small stack of cash and a free meal, right? Wrong. Bad luck has a way of finding her, and so it's no surprise that she would become an accomplice to a murder. Okay, not an accomplice but definitely a witness. Turns out the wedding is an arranged marriage between two rival crime families, and the woman who died was supposed to be the bride. As the sole witness and the only living, breathing woman within feet of the angry and ruggedly handsome soon-to-be husband, Daisy knows she has to do something. Unfortunately offering to bake him a sympathy casserole isn't what he was looking for. Sorry for your loss, also not good enough. She's sure he'll kill her on the spot but instead he shakes his head and gives an ultimatum. Death or marriage. Of course Daisy chooses to marry the man. Marriages can be annulled, but there's no coming back from death...

It never mattered how far I ran ... he was always going to catch me. Because I belong to him-body, mind, and soul.My innocence is gone.My father is dead.And I'm no longer the girl who was forced to marry a hitman.I'm stronger.For the last five years I've been running from both my sister's vengeful anger, and from my husband's intense obsession.When Gaven finally captures me-I have no other choice but to use him the same way he always planned to use me. The closer I am, the more information I have, the safer we both are. So, I'll take his punishment for leaving. I'll take his pain and his pleasure.My wedding night might have ended in pain and betrayal, but I won't let my life end the same.He's a killer and I'm a target. In the end, someone has to die, but who is it going to be this time?*This is a Dark Mafia Arranged Marriage Age-Gap BDSM Romance*

"My stepmother shattered me. My ex ruined me. One look at Tax and I knew he would kill me."LoveLove. It's a name given to people that you care about. And it was a name given to a little girl that no one cared about. The irony is not lost on me. I've always been a bit separate. First in my family and then in my relationships. Maybe you have to understand the emotion to feel it.I've never understood how people will lie, cheat, steal, and murder for it. Why some people hand it over like pennies in their pockets. Or others hoard it like it's their only valuable possession. I don't do either. I'm convinced I don't have any love to give. Someone is going to have to breathe life into my damaged soul before I can ever even consider loving them.TaxI'm a shit storm just waiting to happen. Actually, scratch that, I usually don't wait for anything or anybody. The only things I give a fuck about are my boys--my band--and my little sister, Ally.I've gone from underground kid fighter I was to whatever the hell I am now--guardian, bandmate, neighbor to a fucking woman that messes with my head. I want to know her secrets, her pains, and everything dark inside of her and whether or not her darkness matches my own.

Everything is a game of survival in the city of criminals ... even love.The world has become a harsh place and in the floating sky city of Tartarus, friendship is a rare commodity. When the only friend she has disappears, Cassandra will stop at nothing to find her. Even if it means risking her life.Five dangerous men each with their own personal scars track her down, mistaking Cassandra for her missing friend. Together, they discover that Tartarus might be harboring a secret so foul that it could destroy the broken sky scrapers that house the remainder of humankind.In the end, Cassandra will have to make a choice. Life or Death. Love or Loss. There's always a price to pay.

I sold my soul to the devil only to turn around and slit his throat...Thomas Kincaid took everything from me. My mother. My hopes. My innocence.Now, it's my turn.He thought he was safe.They all did.They were wrong.Men always think they can take without ever having to deal with the consequences. Well, now I'm back, and I'm the last consequence they'll ever see.

What tangled webs we weave...He's everything I don't want. A playboy. A beast with a cunningly gorgeous smile. Faces like his only mean one thing. Somewhere underneath all of that handsomeness, there lies a monster.And if anyone can sense a monster, it's me.I understand cruelty. I've lived and breathed it my entire life. I existed on the 'charity' of others until I realized that it woudn't be enough. My demons would soon be set free. They were coming back for me and to be ready for them-to be ready for him-I needed to make myself invincible.But it's not enough. If I'm going to survive then I need to make an alliance with a monster of my own: Abel Frazier.

A life for a life ... will kill the both of us in the end.CloverI know nothing of the Sickness at Eastpoint University. I know only the backroads that slip past the southern beaches and the gators that make their way onto the swamps shores. Until him. Until the killer known as Braxton Smalls finds his way into my stilted trailer on the coast of Port Charlotte.He came looking for Ace, but he found me instead...BraxtonI'm a monster. Always have been. Always will be. The only people I've ever given a shit about are my boys and their girls. No one hurts my family, and knowing that someone has ... and that they've gotten away with it plagues me.Ace Volkov will pay for what he put Avalon through and if I have to use his most precious weakness to draw him out, I will.She thinks she can bargain for his life with her own, but I mean to show her that there's nothing I won't do to see my vengeance through to the end.

I had a chance, once, to play the good girl.I could've kept my mouth shut and stayed out of the line of fire. Had I done that, more people might've been hurt. So, I came forward and subsequently, I lost everything I'd ever loved.I lost my family.I lost my home.I lost my identity.I lost ... them.But now they're back. At least, I think they are. I can feel their eyes watching my every movement, stalking me. They aren't here to threaten me or to hurt me. They're here to protect me. To watch over me. Because to them, I'm everything they desire.I am their love.I am their hate.I am their infatuation.Their sweet possession.How long can they stand to stay in the shadows when a new danger threatens to tear us apart again?

Isaac Icari: The God of Hazelwood University.My stepbrother.My lover.My enemy.It was dangerous to let myself be swept up by him but he's a drug that I crave.I should have walked away the second I realized what he was involved with, when he revealed who his father truly was.Now it's too late.We should have known better. Get too close to the sun and you get burned.I have no one to blame but myself.He is my downfall and I am his.

Ashes to Ashes. Dust to Dust. If vampires kill your entire family, vengeance is a must.I can't say my parents never warned me about vampires. I just never believed them. Not-that is-until six months ago when vampires broke into my home and killed my family. Thanks to all the skills my parents taught me, I managed to escape but I couldn't save them.Two vampires down and the rest of the world to go.My bid for revenge is going to have to wait, though, because until I turn 18, I'm being placed in the loving care of Elizabeth and Jonathan McKnight-godparents I didn't even know existed. The clock is ticking until I can get back to my goal of eradicating the vampire race. But something is amiss at my new high school. According to my parents, vampires can't walk in daylight. So, why then, does Torin Priest? If he's not a vampire, then what is he? Because unlike the obnoxious asshole, Maverick McKnight, who sees me as some sort of bloodsucking leech on his wealthy family, Torin Priest is most certainly not human.To stake or not to stake, that is the question.

Rule No. 2: Show no fear.They're vile and twisted.The only thing more fucked up than the Sick Boys is me, and I'm ready to show them.The Sick Boys are hiding something from me. They want to pretend like I didn't kill my rapist and they didn't help. But we're not ordinary college students, that much has become clear to me, and I'm growing tired of all of the lies and secrets.Their masks are cracking and finally, I'm starting to see the grotesque reality underneath. It's far darker than I ever expected, and it's not enough. They know everything about me, so now it's my turn. I fear nothing. Not them. Not the man that I killed or the people who set me up.Fear is for the weak and I, Avalon Manning, am anything but.

Aurora Summers is nothing but baggage.Beautiful, dangerous, off limits baggage.The plan was simple: Destroy the girl. Ruin her life. Make her and her mother leave.Only ... she's not as easy a target as I thought she'd be.She's nothing but a pawn, a tool for my father to use against her mother.But pawns don't fight back the way she does.They don't violate my sanity the way she does.She put herself in the mouth of the beast.I wanted her out of the way, but now ... I can't let her go.