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I want a second chance at winning his heart… He wants a second chance at breaking mine. Morgana I should never have fallen for the playboy next door, but even after seven years my heart still beats for Teddy Grant. The ring on my finger says otherwise. When fate throws us together again, I can tell Teddy despises me and the family-approved fiancé I’m bound to. I don’t blame him—after all, how was he to know why I had to give him up? Now the eyes that once shone bright for me burn with a hatred so fierce, I wilt under its intensity. But his blazing fury is about to rekindle a passion I’ve never been able to resist... Teddy She’s here. In my city, at my work, making me feel things I long thought were dead and buried. The one that got away. But even with that shiny rock on her finger, I know Morgana’s still mine. I know every flush of her skin and bite of that perfect lip is for me. She craves me, the way I still crave her. And I hate it. When Morgana broke me, the man she left in her wake is no longer the boy she said she loved. She made a mistake by coming here. One I’m going to relish. After all, what’s a few more mistakes between exes? Grease Monkey is a steamy second chance romance and the first book in the Not Safe For Work series by Vari Scott. These stories are interconnected standalones that are best read in order and feature a guaranteed HEA. Refer to front matter for trigger warnings.

BLURB & COVER TO BE REVEALED STEEL & SIN IS A STANDALONE, FULL LENGTH, DARK COWBOY ROMANCE

She’s my best friend’s little sister. Completely off-limits. But every man has his breaking point. Lila James is my best friend’s little sister and I’ve always looked out for her. She's five years younger than me, and when she left for college, she was just a kid. But now she’s home for the summer—and she’s definitely not a kid anymore. She’s beautiful and smart and everything I didn’t know I needed. Dark eyes. Long wavy hair. And legs that are meant to be wrapped around me. I'm the guy who likes to have a good time. Keep things light. When her brother asks me to hire her at my restaurant, it's a no-brainer. There isn’t anything I wouldn’t do for her. Until she asks me for one more favor. She wants me to be her first. Take her V-card. Go where no man has gone before. Her words, not mine. And damn if I don’t want to go there more than I’ve ever wanted anything. She's only here for the summer, and she says it will be our secret. It’s temporary. We’ll go back to being just friends at the end of summer. She promises that she won’t fall for me. She knows better. But Lila isn’t the one I'm worried about.

She looks so innocent. No matter how many days I show up, watching from the treeline, it’s always the same. Peaceful. Serene. Emma SeabornShe’s so beautiful that a part of me hates the thought of what’s coming for her. How I’ll rip her from her comfortable little bubble and thrust her into my world. Dark, teeming with revenge. Another part of me craves what I’ll do. What I’ll make her do. No, it’s not her fault she’s married to the man at the top of my list of targets. Especially if she doesn’t know there’s a monster inside the man who gave her that ring. But she will pay the price, regardless. Oh, sweet Angel, how you will pay.