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From USA Today & Wall Street Journal bestselling author Michelle Heard comes a new STANDALONE, full-length MAFIA ROMANCE novel. TBA...

Alessio… Cold. Ruthless. Killer. I am respected and feared by all. I wasn’t put on this earth to love or be loved. I was put here to wipe out every last member of the damn Abandonato mafia, to pay them back for my mother’s death. When I find a strange girl hiding, beaten, under my bed, I don’t let her live out of compassion. She’s a trinket, my plaything. Ayla… I thought Alessio was only one more man who wanted to use me, hurt me, and throw me away. I don’t know what it is to trust anymore. I can’t find my heart under the pain. Alessio found it. He touched it, and brought it alive again. But if he discovers just how dangerous I am to him…I’ll lose my life.

I don't let anyone touch me. Not anymore. I have no problem trusting animals. People, though? They're another matter. Then Wren shows up at my carnival asking questions about my menagerie. She's got kind hands and suspicious eyes, and she flinches every time I get close—like she senses the beast inside. She should be afraid of me. But she looks at my scars like she wants to understand them. Nobody has ever wanted to understand them. I've survived the demons of my past by keeping everyone at a distance. But Wren is the first person in years who makes me want to close it. And that might be more dangerous than anything that came before. Animal Tamer is a dark romance featuring an untouchable beast master, a vet tech who came looking for cruelty and found something far more complicated, and a love balancing on the knife-edge between broken and healing.

Twenty years ago, I burned my faith to ash and dragged six brothers out with me. Now I run the show that rose from those ruins. The world sees a carnival—bright lights, painted smiles, sin wrapped in glitter and gold. I see a hunting ground. Every city we pass hides another Prophet, another ghost of the Sanctum of Ash. Another chance to make the men who raised us pay. Then she walks in. Jules. A journalist with questions that cut, eyes that don’t look away, and a mouth that could ruin me. She wants the truth about the disappearances that follow my carnival from town to town. I want her gone. Or beneath me. Or both. The deeper she digs, the closer she gets to the secrets I buried—and to the monsters that made me. I can command an audience with a smile. I can make the crowd believe in magic. But I can’t decide if Jules is my salvation... or my next sin. Ringmaster is a dark, obsessive carnival romance featuring a brooding, morally gray ringleader haunted by his past and the journalist who dares to uncover his secrets.