Trope He Falls First

Dating is difficult for someone like me. I’m obsessive, arrogant, and rude. This means I must be creative when bedding a woman. I learn what I can about her through whatever means necessary. Some call it stalking. I call it clever research. It gets me what I want and when I want it. When I get bored, I move on. My system works like a charm… Until a little ray of SUNSHINE shows up. \\\* Dating is nonexistent for me. I’m quirky, silly, and inexperienced. This means my romantic life is certainly lacking. I don’t date because no one’s interested. Some say I’m an independent woman who doesn’t need a man. But I know I’m on the fast track to becoming a lonely cat lady. How many cats are too many cats anyway? My boring world stays that way… Until my future stepmother’s STALKER shows up.

Hunter One look. One touch. One sound of her beautiful voice, and I’m hooked. Like a dream I never want to wake up from, she pulls me in and wraps me around her. Consumed. Driven with need. Fueled by an unrelenting desire to make her mine. One night, I take more than she has ever given before, which only leaves me wanting more. Needing more. Craving more. She’s the one I’ve waited for my whole life. I’ll be damned if I let anyone, including our families, stand in our way. She trusts me. Hungers for me, just like I want only to covet her. Forever. But, there is one twist neither of us see coming. A curveball, no one could ever have ever expected. Still, I hold on tight to her light. She’s my Angel. Something about her, us, makes me feel like I found heaven on earth. She’s my best Catch, and I’m not letting her go. Ever!

He lashed out to free his demons... She lost the ability to trust after being tormented. —Ty—Growing up, my life was hell. Filled with pain and consumed by rage, I became a monster. One which bullied without cease or mercy. As a kid, I hated myself for the suffering I caused. As a man, I still do. Plagued with regret, I came close to giving up. Then an angel appeared, saving me. Innocent and full of light, Heidi is everything I would have once fought to destroy. Now, she's everything I'll fight to protect. Determined to claim her as my own, I chase after her with everything I've got. But she fights me at every turn, only letting me in so far. Despite the walls she's erected, I'm not backing down. Whether Heidi realizes it or not, she's mine. The battle for her heart won't be an easy one. But it'll sure as hell be one worth fighting. The Redeeming Love Series: Book One: Every Moment with You (Hendrix and Maddie) Book Two: Every Breath You Take (Anthony and Shelby) Book Three: Every Promise You Made (Evan and Hope) Book Four: Every Tear You Cry (Brantley and Clara) Book Five: Every Time We Touch (Kyle and Carissa) Book Six: Every Wrong You Right (Ty and Heidi) Each book in the Redeeming Love Series can be read as a standalone.

Obliterate – to destroy utterly; wipe out. When our eyes met across a crowded room, I recognized her. The most familiar stranger I’ve ever seen. It doesn’t matter who she is, or where she came from, because I know exactly where she belongs—with me. She’s beautiful, perfect, and apparently already taken. But I won’t let something as inconsequential as a boyfriend stop me from claiming her. I’m Hunter Rossberg, a king among men and the calm voice of reason in our little band of psychos; or that’s who I used to be. Now I’m just as obsessed as them, consumed by forbidden fruit and willing to do whatever it takes to make her my wife. I’ll lie, coerce, manipulate, and blackmail her until she’s tied to me so tightly, she’ll never get free. But the truth never stays hidden for long and when she finds out everything I’ve done she vanishes from my life. My Little Rabbit has run from me, but it’ll take more than distance to break the chains that hold us together, and I’m willing to obliterate the world to get her back.

I’m out for revenge. After careful planning, I gave the man who messed with my family a taste of his own medicine. I thought it’d end there. It didn’t. Landon King is a genius artist, a posh rich boy, and my worst nightmare. He’s decided that I’m the new addition to his chess game. Too bad for him, I’m no pawn. If he hits, I hit back, twice as hard and with the same hostility. He says he’ll ruin me. Little does he know that ruination goes both ways. This book is a dark unconventional romance and contains themes that aren't to everyone's liking. Please check the author's note for content warnings before reading.

She scrubbed their floors yesterday. Today she's wearing his ring. When Chicago's most dangerous playboy demands a bride, he expects the Hewson heiress. What he gets is the servant girl who's been invisible in the same mansion for two years—forced into a wedding dress and an impossible deception to save her imprisoned brother. Alessandro Rosetti has bedded supermodels, senators' daughters, other men's wives. Women beg for his attention; he discards them before breakfast. His arranged marriage is supposed to be claim the bride, secure the alliance, continue his life unchanged. But this trembling woman at his altar stumbles over her own name like it burns her tongue, and her hands have calluses no Swiss finishing school would allow. Because she's never been to Switzerland. She's never been anywhere. Emma has one survive long enough to free her brother. She's supposed to be meek. Forgettable. A placeholder bride until she can disappear. But Alessandro notices everything—the way she knows the constellations like old friends, the nightmares where she screams a name he doesn't recognize, the shirts she steals from his closet when she thinks he's sleeping. He's not sleeping. He's watching. Wanting. Unraveling her lies one stolen kiss at a time. But Alessandro isn't the only one paying attention. His sister circles like a shark scenting blood, asking questions Emma can't answer. And somewhere out there, the real heiressuy7y is plotting her return—with dangerous allies and revenge on her mind. The truth is coming. The only question is whether love can survive it. A scorching dark mafia romance featuring a possessive anti-hero, a heroine hiding in plain sight, and a love story built on beautiful lies. Dual POV with guaranteed HEA. Arranged marriage • Fake identity • Identity swap • Playboy hero • Virgin heroine • Fish out of water in high society • Hidden past & blackmail • Rags to riches • Secret Identity

I've hated Cavin McCarthy since the day he made me cry in a school closet. He was my tormentor. My nightmare. The cruel boy who turned my name into a punchline and my life into hell. Now? He's my fiancé. An arranged marriage neither of us wanted, brokered by families who deal in blood and power. I'd refuse if I could. But my sister is dying, and the McCarthy's hold the key to saving her life. So I'll walk down the aisle. I'll say the vows. I'll become Mrs. Cavin McCarthy. But I'll never forgive him. Except... the monster I remember isn't the man standing before me now. The boy who destroyed me has become someone who fights for me. Protects me. Touches me like I'm something precious instead of broken. And when his hands are on my throat, his voice rough in my ear, I'm not thinking about revenge anymore. I'm only thinking about surrender.