Books like 'Femme Fatale'

Alannah Ryan is plagued by an old face haunting her dreams, turning her waking hours into a mess of worry. Talking it out with the person she loves the most isn’t a possibility, not when the same face haunts him, too. To protect the love of her life from another burden, she keeps her fear to herself, even as that fear begins to consume her...

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Rachel Van Dyken comes a new story in her Eagle Elite series… Every family has rules, the mafia just has more.... Do not speak to the bosses unless spoken to. Do not make eye contact unless you want to die. And above all else, do not fall in love. Renee Cassani's future is set. Her betrothal is set...

They call him Romeo—though no one would accuse him of being a romantic. Troy ‘Romeo’ Rosa has been a mystery for years. A mercenary used to working away and taking orders from his tutu wearing, ruthlessly savage boss. Her domineering ways mean his most recent assignment should be a walk in the park. The last thing he expects is a family so corrupt, it may destroy Checkmate from the inside out...

Monroe I have a secret. One that will get the man I’ve been crushing on for years killed if my father ever finds out. My sister says he’s a stalker—how else could he know exactly when I’m in trouble and come to rescue me? I don’t care. He’s saved me over and over again, so I know he doesn’t want to harm me...

Enrapture by Rachel Van Dyken Trace is everything. My freaking world. And I would do anything to keep her safe. But, I can't protect her from every kind of evil..and I can no longer keep the past a secret... We were left folders. Each one filled with the sins of our pasts. And Traces grandfather just asked us to read his. There was no preparation...

My dark secret?The single dad who hired me as a nanny makes me want to rip off his clothes.But that’s not the dark part. I took the job to get close enough to take him down.Six feet under to be exact.“I know a little bit of self-defense.”It’s a lie of course.I could easily kill a man nine different ways with the tip of a ballpoint pen.Dimitri Antonov may be a devoted father...

SERA: He’s my protector, my confidante. Then one night he became more. I want him, I need him, and, if I’m honest with myself, I love him. I just don’t know if he’ll ever see me as more than what we’ve always been: friends. I don’t want to lose him but it’s getting harder and harder to keep my feelings to myself. Should I risk it all or play it safe? CAGE: She’s my light, my saving grace...

She was always mine … whether she wanted to be or not Ten years ago I allowed another man to take her to pay her families debt. Fighting for her would have started a war. I thought life was complicated then. Now she’s back in my life and brings more than I bargained for. I live by a code: Always stay in control. Yet, I’ve never been able to say no to her...

It started with the chase for a perilous criminal...And ended with his baby in my belly.  Luka Antonov may be a man of mystery, but one thing's He's even more dangerous than his reputation.And while I romance the tall, dark and mesmerizing criminal undercover...I find myself wishing for so much more than what I came for.Now I'm left with three VERY  unsettling realizations.1...

I never saw her coming…She appeared in my world an enigma.A lethal assassin who slips poison into the veins of her targets.And a single mother with a softness beneath her armor. Now, she's trapped within my reach.Stubbornly silent, she guards her secrets fiercely,Her dual life is a puzzle I'm determined to solve...

Allegra Grey is the daughter of a powerful American Mafia Leader. Trained since birth to take over the family business, she is ruthless, heartless, and one of the best assassins in the industry. She's completed thousands of assassinations in her career, completing every assignment... except for one. Ace De Luca is her one and only failed mission...

He calls me his heart.Tells me the only reason he closes his eyes at night is so he can see me in his dreams.Our months apart are torture for both of us, but at least I get to hear his voice every day.Each summer, he’s all mine.Every minute he can spare, I’m right beside him, and our families just smile knowingly.Ryan has responsibilities, though. One day, my mafioso prince will be the king...

Winter Kiss ~ Ryley and Ash ~ by L.P. Dover Now that his time for revenge is over, Ryley wants to make the season special for the woman he loves. Not only will you hear the sound of Christmas bells during the holiday, but maybe another type of bell followed by the pitter patter of little feet...

Pearce knew he’d be punished for marrying Rachel, but the years keep passing by and nothing has happened. What’s taking so long? Why haven’t they done anything? As he’s left waiting and wondering, Pearce attempts to live a normal life as a loving husband and devoted father...

Vengeance was something I’d been waiting all my life to deliver. It would be sweet and worth every risk I’d taken to get to this point. I was moments away from pulling the trigger, taking the life of the man who’d cost my father his… And then she was dragged into the room, struggling and fighting for freedom. The moment I set eyes on Tavia, everything changed...

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Rachel Van Dyken comes a new story in her Mafia Royals series…One of the first rules they give you when you're undercover—never fall for the enemy.I didn't just fall for the enemy.I became what I was supposed to hate.What's worse: I fell in love with one...

She’s a little saint just begging to get corrupted.And I’m the perfect sinner just waiting to take a taste.Mona Rizzo wants to write the next great profile of a real American gangster, and she wants to use me as her subject.Except I want to use her as my play thing.It’s a match made in sin, and I’m going to suck her into my world before she even has a chance to stop loving it...

Erik Godunov is a man to be feared. Six foot seven and built like a dominating bear, with steel colored hair and eyes that pierce, I should be terrified of him. He’s a Bratva boss, a man used to getting what he wants. And what he needs from me is to be a nanny for his ten year old niece, Kat. She’s an orphan after her mother died, and I relate to that, big time...

He ripped me from my life and made me his. Now he wants my help. But some sins can never be forgiven.Matvei Morozov.A name that’s haunted my family for years.A whisper in the shadows. A monster in the darkness.Now, the billionaire mob boss has claimed me as collateral.That means I’m his—until my father pays his debts.His to touch.His to bend.His to own...

AngeloTwo things should have told me staying in this job was a mistake.How she looked.How she talked.But the inner voice that had always kept me safe and one step ahead was drowned out by the fire in my veins. But getting Involved. Not an option.Even though thinking of her curves kept me awake at night.I'd never guarded a woman before, let alone the Boss's daughter...

Bianca,  Thanks a lot Dad! Thanks for selling me off to a fat, ugly, dangerous criminal to pay off your gambling debts.   I thought my life was over. Well, look at my choices. Say no to my father, and get him tortured and killed, or marry a man who made my skin crawl.   Then another choice presented itself.  A man I had once been crazy about popped into the picture...

I’m going through a bit of a rough patch.I lost my job, got kicked out of my apartment, and now I sleep under an overpass. If that wasn’t bad enough, my psychic twin is plagued with daily visions of my death.She guarantees it’ll be gruesome.The last thing I needed was for Sole “Sunny” Bellisario to come crashing through my tent...

Thirteen authors have joined forces to bring you their sizzling stories-some sweet, some five-alarm hot, but all for a good cause. Burn Me is an anthology to raise money for Hope For Heroes Foundation, which helps military, fire, police, and EMS personnel who've experienced life-altering disabilities while in the line of duty...

My world was rocked the night I collided with a stranger.A scarred Bratva Prince.He left me with the sweet taste of submission... and his baby.Now Leo's back, and he vows never to let me out of his sight.Our saga began when he came to my rescue.And ended in a night of passion. Thrilling and intense.But as quickly as he appeared... he vanished.I was certain I'd never see him again.Until today..

I was considered taboo, but to a ruthless man like him, I became an obsession. I'd had a crush on Maddox Cormier for as long as I could remember. As beautiful as he was dangerous, he was the wisely of my father's mafia regime. I was considered the one thing he couldn't touch, still a little girl in the man's eyes...

The son of a prominent Cosa Nostra Don, Corrado Guzzi’s life should have been all mapped out. He would be what every other Guzzi man was, too—made, mafia. It’s their way. But when given another choice, the chance to be something more, he takes it. Even if it comes with strings. It’s there that he might find where he belongs, and Alessio Sorrento. The man who could change his whole life...

The son of a prominent Cosa Nostra Don, Corrado Guzzi’s life should have been all mapped out. He would be what every other Guzzi man was, too—made, mafia. It’s their way. But when given another choice, the chance to be something more, he takes it. Even if it comes with strings. It’s there that he might find where he belongs, and Alessio Sorrento. The man who could change his whole life...

“Pretend you’re my boyfriend. Please.” She’s a stranger. Big blue eyes. Innocent. Way too pure for my dirty hands. I should tell her to run. I’m bad news. The worst kind. But I’ve never made a habit of doing the right thing. I kiss her because I want her. I want those cherry lips tangled up with mine. I want to claim her. Own her...

They’re coming for her, but first, they’ll have to go through me. Grace was my first love, my forever, and then I lost her. I’d spent years watching from afar, knowing I could never have her again. The violence, the hate, and pain it owned me. It took all the good from me. It took her from me. The mafia was the only thing that could curb my violent tendencies...

"Run, Rabbit, Run." After weeks in the Esposito Hotel, I now know three things: 1. The Gentlemen are liars. 2. The Trilogy took my sister. 3. My father is insane. I've been reminded of who I am and who my enemies are. Nico lied to me, and Beck and Rush backed him up. I'm on my own again—the spare to the heir, with nothing to lose and no one I can trust...

I want to ruin my fake husband.Right up until I sleep in his bed for the first time.I have to marry the man that killed my father.He’s Jayson Costa, mafia prince, obscenely wealthy, emotionally distant, and sinfully attractive.I don’t care how good that control freak looks in a Jayson’s everything I despise...

*Please Note: The Score is not a standalone title. The first books in the Russian Guns series (The Arrangement, followed by The Life) should be read first* In the mess of love and life, nothing and no one is left untouched...

Do you know what you’ve got in your hands? A little piece of fucking treasure, that’s what. I’ve taken initiative here and have turned my trusty Man Bible into an actual survival guide, because the loot between these pages will lead to each of you having happy, stress free lives with your women. Pick this gem up, put your big boy pants on, and start reading. Trust me, you won't regret it...

Coming October 10. You need to read Defiance Falls first before reading this book.Hazel Ross had no idea what she’d stepped into that night at my 18th birthday party. I’d waited years for the right moment, and there she was, forcing me to show my cards before it was time. Now she wasn’t only a pawn for our enemies, she had a target on her back.I don’t regret it, even though I should...

Finding a nanny for my niece and nephew isn’t something I ever thought I’d be doing. But now I’m all the family they have left. I can’t let them down, and I won’t.All I have to do is hire a nanny. I interview plenty, but I know the moment Charlotte walks in the room—she’s the one. Innocent and young, something about her pulls me in until I want to know every last detail about her...

Bratva Prince. Beautiful monster. Irresistible villain.“Just remember...you had the chance to run, and didn’t.”Our introduction was a warning. Our first meeting, a threat.They call him The Wolf—savage heir to the most brutal crime family in the world. A tattooed, green-eyed devil. A seductive psychopath who trades in mind-games and leaves a path of destruction in his wake...

I broke her to pieces.And I’ll put her back together.Colleen Colley got caught in the crossfire.When I saw that sweet thing lying on the ground, I knew I couldn’t leave her there. So I took her home and nursed her back to health.With a fat padlock on the bedroom door.My crew’s moving in on the Irish mafia, and my sweet little princess is the Boss’s niece...

If this is what it’s like to be a captive, Mia wants to be a prisoner forever. The second volume of the addictive romantic suspense series from the desk of USA Today bestselling author Deanna Roy / JJ Knight Jax may have kidnapped her. But now Mia wants to stay. The man is skilled. Intelligent. And gorgeous. His life is dangerous and wild...

In the dark, winding hills overlooking the New York Harbor lay the city’s most exclusive club. A mansion that offered a glimpse back to the days when the mob had ruled New York. I took my seat at the bar and flirted with the man behind it—the one who made me weak in the knees yet kept his personal life a veiled secret...

In the riveting final installment, Emilia’s shattered heart won’t allow her to stray from the ghost of Aiden. The whisper of his existence surrounds, torments, and drives her.Locked away in a safe house, she discovers truths that will change her world. Under the fierce protection of a new bodyguard she embarks on a daring journey to save the one she loves...

We had plans.Until we didn’t.His entire life revolved around baseball, and even the part he wanted me to play in it was to help him succeed.Crap happens. Plans change, and life goes on.Sure, I’m bored out of my mind at times—boring job, boring dates…boring life.But I’m over Nolan Krenshaw.At least…I’ve tried to move on and get over him...

She needed protection when I was hired to guard her life.And now... I need to save her from myself.Alyssa is 15 years younger than me.That’s a problem but I want her every second of every day.She feels safe when I put my arms around her.Partying became her escape after the Bloodline Cartel murdered her brother.And watching her become vulnerable with me has made me want her even more...

I thought he was the white knight. Looking back, it makes sense. I was young and needed saving. Luca was my strength. He could take on anything—the world, for me. They say first love cuts the deepest. Ours became a blade that bled me out. It turns out I didn’t know a villain when he held my heart in his hands. Now it’s darker—more like his...

I've been a slave to the cartel since I was stolen from my mother's arms at only five years old. Trafficked for years, in and out of disgusting drug dens, wh*re houses and seedy clubs, violence is what I know. Death is what I witness. Destruction is what I crave. I've belonged to a dangerous man for ten years now, and I've found a place here among killers and criminals...

I wasn’t looking for Trouble. Then he found me anyway.I’ve played a role my entire life. The glamorous movie starlet with the “it factor” smile. The perfect little Hollywood princess saying all the right lines.That is, until a paparazzi crisis has me jumping onto the back of a complete stranger’s motorcycle headed who-knows-where.But my sinfully gorgeous “hero” isn’t so heroic at all...

I’m not a good girl, not really. I mean, I get good grades, and I’ve never been arrested, but it’s not for lack of a little law-breaking. I don’t have the time or luxury of a moral compass--not when I have someone counting on me. So, I’ve been keeping my head down, getting everything ready for us to flee this place as soon as I turn eighteen. But the past has a way of catching up to us...

I turned him down... he bought the entire ballet company.I still said no... he blew hundreds of thousands on a night out for everyone.I gave into my desires... and he got me pregnant.His name is Alexei Federov and he is a mafia kingpin.When he sees me dancing in a ballet performance, he forces his way into my life.I've never dreamed of a family or finding love...

The rumors about me are true. Every last inch of them. Intimidation, robbery, murder...I’ve done it all, and I’m damn good at what I do. Nobody will come between me and the revenge I worked so hard to get. Not the bastards who are out to kill me first. Not any of the women who wanna tie me down. Nobody. Until I set eyes on her...

I should be terrified of this man.Artem Elgort bought me at an auction. I was kidnapped and made to wear a bikini with the word VIRGIN on it, and this man bought me. I should hate him, right?And yet when he takes me to his plush billionaire’s estate and I spend more time around this primal possessive alpha, feelings stir inside of me that have no place in what should be hell...

"Can you live with the devil, Riley because it's hot in hell?"The definition of pain is Lucian Romano.I will never forget that name or the man that owns it.Dark, wicked, cruel and so hot he melts fire.I thought he was the owner of the hotel I was staying in.I thought he would be the person to hear my complaint and I thought he knew right from wrong.I was mistaken...