Title: The Lies That Shatter: A Dark Mafia Romance
Series: Beautifully Brutal Book 5
Author: Emma Luna
Release Blitz: January 19, 2024
Genre: Dark Romance
Tropes: Mafia Friends to lovers Childhood sweethearts Virgin FMC Found family Possessive, protective MMC, Male honeytrap

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡-𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑘 𝑚𝑎𝑓𝑖𝑎, 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑚, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑢𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑒. 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛! ★★★★★ – 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐞𝐫

𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑡𝑤𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑠, 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑑𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑦 𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑡. 𝐼 𝑒𝑛𝑗𝑜𝑦𝑒𝑑 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒. 𝑆𝑜 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑑𝑟𝑎𝑚𝑎 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑜 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔! 𝐼 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠! 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛’𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐸𝑚𝑚𝑎 𝐿𝑢𝑛𝑎 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑡! ★★★★★ – 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐞𝐫

I was raised to be a liar, a master manipulator.

A honey trap.

My job is to make women crave me, then use them for whatever benefits the Doughty Family.

I’ve been doing it so long, I thought I’d never know what love really felt like… Until she came back into my life.

McKenna Lowry was my childhood best friend and first love, but I pushed her away and hurt us both.

Now she’s back, and she knows all the secrets I’ve tried to keep hidden. She’s no longer running.

Instead, she’s claiming me as hers, the way she’s always been mine. But I can’t give my heart to her and my body to others…

Can I?

Together, we have to pull off one final job to destroy our enemies so we can leave this mafia lifestyle behind.

But with everything on the line, can we finally get our happily ever after, or will the lies shatter us in the end?

Emma Luna is a USA Today Bestselling dark romance author from the UK. In a previous life she was a Midwife and a Lecturer, but now she listens to the voices in her head and puts pen to paper to bring their stories to life. In her spare time, when she should be sleeping, she also loves to edit, proofread, and format books for other amazing authors.

Emma’s books are dark, dangerous, and devilishly sexy. She loves writing about strong, feisty, but underestimated women, and the cocky, dirty-mouthed men they bring to their knees.

When Emma isn’t writing, promoting, or editing books she can be found napping, colouring in adult colouring books, and collecting novelty notebooks. She also enjoys coffee and gossiping with her mum, playing or having hugs with her gorgeous nephew, who is the light of her life, and curling up on the sofa to watch a film with Mr Luna. Oh and for those of you that don’t know, Emma is a hardcore Harry Potter fan—Team Ravenclaw!!

Thank you for taking a chance on a crazy Brit and the voices inside her head. That makes you a true LUNAtic now too!

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MY REVIEW: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5 out of 5

Finn and McKenna are a great couple! I love their story.

Finn is the second oldest of the Doughty family. He always felt as if he didn’t have anything to bring to the family business, but his teen years show him his contribution to the family. However, it could destroy him and the life he wants with his best friend, McKenna Lowry.

McKenna is bounced around from foster home to foster home. Never feeling quite like she belongs anywhere or is cared about. Her friendship with Finn Doughty means everything to her, so when he pushes her away after she confesses her feelings to him, she’s devastated. It will take years before these two can figure out their feelings and come to terms with how they both feel.

I loved this story of Finn and McKenna. Their story is a love that can’t be distinguished by Finn’s family responsibilities or the distance between these two. McKenna knows that it’s their time and she will not be deterred from showing Finn that they belong together. This is a dark and twisted story, but so worth the read. I love the characters in this series and the fact that we get to have them in each book in the series is great. I can’t wait for Ethan’s story. It looks to be another great addition to the Beautifully Brutal Series.

Title: Primal Pursuit

Series: Club Myth

Author: Bella J.

Genre: Dark Romance / Enemies-to-lovers / Revenge / Kink – Primal Play

Release Date: January 10, 2024

Cover Design: Deranged Doctor Designs

Photographer and Model: Paperback Model / Giorgio

★★★★★ “Primal Pursuit by Bella J. is a thrilling dark romance, with just the right amount of gore and an amazing overwhelming amount of smũt.” – Ronja R.

★★★★★ “This book is everything I didn’t know I needed! My mind is blown from this intense, wild ride.” – Sherri M.

Davian Stark is beautiful, twisted, cruel.

And he’s going to die.

By my hand.

He’s one of the Elites of the Dark Sovereign.

A bloodthirsty Mafia Assassin.

And a hunter fueled by his need for the chase.

If I want to get close to this man, I have to give him something to hunt.

Me.

He made a mistake by letting me survive my family’s massacre. I’ve trained, fed my hate, and now, I’m ready to strike.

But Davian isn’t just a killer.

He’s complex, compelling, a man who can spin desire and humiliation into an art form, and it opens something dark inside me.

While I play him, he’s playing me. It’s a twisted game of hunter versus prey.

Question is…

Which one am I?

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MY REVIEW: 💥💥💥💥💥 5 out of 5

WOW!! This was s dark, twisted, depraved story that was so hard to put down.

When your past is so hard to let go of that you train yourself to become the hunter and find a way to get your vengeance, only to find that you are still the hunted.

Davian and Poppy are perfect for each other. Their history is dark and twisted, but their present is so much more dark, twisted and depraved. When Poppy decides that she’s ready to fulfill her vengeance, she puts so much into play that neither she nor Davian will be ready for what is to come for either of them.

I loved this dark, twisted story and Davian and Poppy. I loved how each of them were able to be themselves with each other and how Davian was tamed a bit by Poppy. How Davian also pulled out the dark depravity of Poppy to suit his desires. This was a great story and I’ve loved the Dark Sovereign characters throughout the series. Davian’s story does not disappoint.

MINE TO KEEP

Natasha Madison

Release Date: January 5

FREE IN KINDLE UNLIMITED

From Wall Street Journal & USA Today bestselling author Natasha Madison comes a Small town, Enemies to lovers, Single Dad, Age Gap, Forbidden, Workplace Romance.

Grace It wasn’t hard for me to walk away from my family without looking back—the time had come for me to live for myself. New city. New job. My new boss? He’s gorgeous. It’s too bad that handsome face is wasted on such a condescending prick. He hates me, and the feeling is mutual. The only reason he may not be the literal devil is because he’s a devoted single dad, making it clear Caine is, in fact, capable of human emotion.

Caine I’m good at two things: 1. Raising my daughter to be strong and independent. 2. My job. When my new assistant walks into the office, I become good at ignoring her. She’s sassy. Smart. Beautiful. Much younger and off-limits for more reasons than I can count. That doesn’t mean I want her any less. She hates me—but as each day goes by, it’s harder and harder to remember why I hate her too.

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MY REVIEW: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5 out of 5

I loved Grace! Her sass, strength, confidence, and whit were all perfect!

I’ve read a few of the Southern Wedding Series books now, but this book sucked me in from the first page and the next think I knew it was 1:30 am. I hated to put it down to go to bed, but I did.

Grace drew me in first and her response to Caine on her first day of work was awesome! I loved this book even from the first chapter and the family dynamic that is the series.

Grace and Caine had a fiery connection even if they didn’t know it at first. Their constant banter and their eventual realization were great throughout this book.

I love the characters in this series and Grace, Caine and Meadow are perfect as a unit. I loved Nash too, he was a great comedic relief that was needed at times. Great story!

Up In Flames, the first book in the Baton Rouge Bachelors duet by K E Osborn is officially out! Time to dive into this dark & suspenseful world!

MY REVIEW: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

He’s the second in command of the Baton Rouge Bachelors and he has a story about his past. His life was great, but then one tragic event changed everything.

Cain saw the classic car sitting on the side of the road on his way home and had to stop. He loved the classic cars and that was the reason he stopped, but then when he saw the driver, he was happy he stopped. The woman driving the classic was as beautiful as the car. His next run in with her is not a pleasant though because Makaylie is suspicious and won’t give Cain the chance to explain why he’s at the same apartment building that Makaylie arrived at. When she finds out that they are neighbors, she’s embarrassed that she gave him such a hard time.

These two are perfect for each other and they will have a rocky road to get to their HEA, but it’ll be worth the work to find that HEA with each other. I loved the story and the characters. I can’t wait to read book 2.