Author: kerilake
Meet the Devil of Blackthorne Manor … When I was a little girl, I dreamed a handsome knight would come and rescue me from my wretched mother. He’d ride up on his white steed and break the curse I’ve been fated to carry since the day I was born. Funny how things changed over time. How the fairy tale twisted into something far more crooked, darker than I ever imagined. In reality, my knight is … imagined. In reality, my knight is scarred and broken, living alone in a castle of bones that overlooks the sea. He isn’t searching for…
The World Doesn’t Give Without Taking …Decades have passed since our world was decimated by the Dredge. Some say it was an act of God. Others believe the devil himself breached the gates of hell and turned the masses into the mindless infected with an appetite for carnage.Those of us who’ve survived the Calico experiments know the only thing more terrifying than the monsters that seek to ravage … the monsters that seek to ravage what’s left of us, are the men who created them. Ones too capable of hiding their true form, and burying their darkest secrets.Somewhere beneath the…
In a world of suffering and brutality, she’s the key to his humanity …I was fourteen when I was sold to the men in black uniforms. Too young to understand I served a purpose beyond that of the other girls they’d taken.For the greater good.Now, after four years in Calico, I’ve seen more death and suffering than during my days of surviving out in the Deadlands against the threat of Ragers and … the threat of Ragers and famine. I didn’t think this world could get any bleaker. Didn’t think it could take any more from me than it already…
From USA Today Bestselling author Keri Lake comes an intense and gritty romantic thriller that’ll have you turning the pages well past your bedtime.It takes a killer to catch a killer.And no one understands the motives of ruthless murderer, The Sandman, quite like Rhett Voss. Having spent his childhood in the shadows of the deranged lunatic, he’s become an expert on the topic. Killing is in his … topic. Killing is in his blood, and as a hitman for hire, Voss maintains a steady diet of carnage, himself. Except lately, it’s lost its appeal. Until he’s enticed to track down…
From USA Today Bestselling author Keri Lake comes an intense and gritty romantic thriller that’ll have you turning the pages well past your bedtime.The most terrifying monsters aren’t found in dreams …Four young socialites have gone missing in the Chicago area. Two found dead, bearing the signature marks of a brutal serial killer. With the kind of tragedy that mars Nola Tensley’s past, she … Tensley’s past, she should be concerned, but without a pot to piss in, all the struggling single mom cares about is making a normal life for her son. After all, she’s clearly not the murderer’s…
From the author of Ricochet and Backfire, comes the final book in the dark and gritty Vigilantes world …Ballistic is a delicious twisty, dark and unputdownable book. Keri has ended this series of standalone books with a BALLISTIC bang. -Kathy Coopmans, USA Today Bestselling AuthorA life for a life. On the streets of Detroit, it’s the code we live by. You take from me, I take from you. A balance … take from you. A balance of power, and a ceaseless war between rivals.As a foster kid from the projects, I never had much, besides an unshakable addiction to women…
From the author of Ricochet and Backfire comes a dark and gritty romantic suspense. In the corner house of an empty street, there is a boy inside a box. In that boy, there lives a secret, one so dark, it’s sealed with locks.Nearly ten years have passed since the night I was captured. Tricked and betrayed, I suffered the hours of brutal torment with death’s cold whisper across my skin. And when … my skin. And when the nameless faces that haunted my nightmares took everything and everyone I loved, I feared I’d never be free of the darkness.But that’s…
Get ready for a heart-wrenching story of survival, set in the post-apocalyptic southwest, with an all-new dystopian romance from the author of Ricochet and Backfire.Papa says everyone has a story that deserves to be told. Most begin years ago, after the second bomb hit, unearthing a deadly contagion that divided the population into the pure, the infected, and the Ragers. Many recount the moment … Many recount the moment we rose up from the ashes and started anew.Others tell of the day we built a wall to keep them out.For some, they’re nothing more than the vestiges left behind—a simple…
“With twisted, heart-pounding, sexy, delicious goodness on every single page” (K.L. Kreig, USA Today bestselling author). Despite how dangerous assassin Ripley is, Dylan can’t deny her attraction — and he can’t ignore his desire for her…
STANDALONE CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE No matter how unbreakable he may seem, every man has a weakness. A year ago, my home became a bloodstained crime scene. That night marked the beginning of my hell—the same night I was tortured by my enemies and tossed into an underground prison to die. They failed. I survived. Now that I’m free, only one motive burns in my soul: revenge. Lucky for me, they … soul: revenge. Lucky for me, they think Jase Hawkins is dead. Maybe I am. I’ve got nothing but a cold, merciless rage, and Black Betty, the sharp steel blade that…