NEXT WEEK! AHHH! Mr. Lane and I are prepping to do a dinner out (ahhhh!) for the first time in over a year in celebration since we'll be fully vaccinated. Needless to say, I am THRILLED and will be having so many margaritas. So, so many.

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“Is that what you are? The wrong sort?”

He slowly turned his face toward her and gave her a dark grin. “You have no idea the sort I am.”

Gemma lifted her chin and met his look without a flicker of hesitation. “What do you want from me?”

“I want your help.”

He didn’t know when he’d decided that. Maybe over the days since he’d given Huxley the order to track her. Maybe the moment he spotted her leaning and hunting at the bar, or when she turned vicious eyes on him. 

Despite himself and the hell of loss he’d waded through, there was something about her that drew him in. Like a fly drawn into a spider’s web. He should hate her. Her, and the scars she left on his chest, the trip she’d taken through his past, the sunlight in her scent.

And yet...

She intrigued him. Confused the hell out of him. Surprised him with her daring and biting words. And that scent had him entranced and wondering if he could survive on it alone.

Absolute shame to see the light flicker out so soon.

Not that it was necessary. He had a way to control her if she wouldn’t cooperate. He could bind her to his will beyond the normal compulsion.

But if it kept his kind safe and prevented anyone else suffering death by fae hands, he’d plunge in the dagger himself. After he peeled every last damned secret from her bones.

Scorched by Darkness (Eternal Mates Paranormal Romance Series Book 18)

Even for one of the top assassins in Hell like him, Hartt’s latest contract would have been difficult enough, but there’s a complication—a beautiful, flame-haired, and dangerously tempting complication. Not only is the bewitching female a distraction he doesn’t need—she’s the competition.

Mackenzie’s life hasn’t been easy. Held captive by blood mages who murdered her family, forced to spend every day guarding her secret, and now she lands the biggest contract ever—one that would set her assassin’s guild up as one of the best in Hell—and it turns out her client hasn’t only hired her. He’s hired the top guild in Hell too. Worse, the male she’s up against is wickedly alluring, a dark elf warrior who sets her blood on fire, and the heat that sparks between them is in danger of burning her resolve to take him down to ashes.

It’s a race against time and each other to fulfil the contract by taking out one of the most dangerous men in Hell, a vampire with a name befitting of his bloody history, but who will be the one to claim victory—one of them or the King of Death?

Find out in Scorched by Darkness, an enemies-to-lovers fated mates paranormal romance that will set your heart on fire!