Author: lafiore

I met Brock Callahan at eleven, fell in love at fifteen and lost him at eighteen.One moment, one single instance can change the course of your life, but I picked myself up, brushed myself off, and took that first step knowing it would be the hardest.Years later, tired of existing but not living, I quit my job in Manhattan, sold my condo and moved to a log cabin in Wyoming. When I wake in the bed … wake in the bed of Killian Reid, mistaken for a one-night stand, I never imagined I’d fall for the man.But I did.Not at…

Anton ScaleneI was born in hell, raised in a nightmare.I was fifteen when I killed for the first time.As a child, my dreams were about climbing out of that hell, of being on top of the pile of bodies and not one of them.I live in the shadows, find solace in the darkness.Until her.A chance meeting, a fleeting moment… to have her would destroy the very part of her I crave.And even knowing that, I can’t stay away, until my past threatens to drag her into my nightmare.Letting her go is the hardest thing I’ve ever done, but a demon…

Words like unnatural and impure started the whispers. From the very beginning, Ivy Blackwood was different. She was only a child when she was accused of setting the fire, one she passively watched engulf the small house she had called home. Her fingertips burned and her hair singed. Some who watched her crossed themselves, convinced she was soulless for she showed no emotion at all. Calm and … Calm and dispassionate, even when the screaming started that quickly turned to bellows of agony before dying into nothing but the roaring of the fire. She was locked away where she couldn’t…

Greyson Ratcliffe. I met him at sixteen, the hot new guy sitting on my jetty, an aspiring artist just passing through. He was my first kiss and my first love. I wanted forever with him. I didn’t even get a year.Five years later, I’m a budding writer who scripts stories of love and struggle, the good and the bad and the ups and the downs. He’s a star on the rise—his wicked talent and crazy good … crazy good looks have his face plastered on countless magazines. We move in two different worlds and still our paths cross again. We’re…

They call him a monster.Pale blue eyes as cold as ice that see right through you.He’s hard.He’s damaged.He’s dangerous.He lives in a castle fit for a fairy tale, but he’s no prince.He’s savage.He’s brutal.He’s a killer.By an act of fate, our worlds collide.They call him a monster, but he is my salvation.Due to strong language and sexual content, this book is not intended for readers under the age … this book is not intended for readers under the age of 18.more

Author’s Note: Elusive’s cover has a new look, but the story inside hasn’t changed…a contemporary romance with modern day pirates.I didn’t set out to be a pirate.Life for me was about surviving the ugliness that people knew existed but didn’t talk about.I lived in hell.Then I saw her.I knew I couldn’t keep her, but for just a little while I had found heaven.Eight years later, I can’t get her … heaven.Eight years later, I can’t get her out of my head.It is a mistake sailing to her island.It is a mistake reaching out to her.She doesn’t recognize me. Or maybe…

Damian Tate. One look into his sad green eyes and I was hooked. I wanted to be the one to make him laugh, to make him smile. I hadn’t expected him to be the one to make me blush, to make me hot…to make me fall in love. He was my first kiss, my first love, my first everything. I wanted forever with him, but life got in the way.He enlisted, I went to college, and for years we were never in the … never in the same place long enough to pick up where we left off.Thirteen years after…

At fifteen I fell in love. His name was Jake Stephens and he took the abandoned, lonely girl I had been and made me whole. His love was a pure and unconditional love that made every day better than the last…a fairy tale of my very own.But this story isn’t about Jake. It’s about Abel Madden; the man I meet after the fairy tale goes to hell. A cocky, arrogant man who says what he wants, does as he … does as he pleases, and makes no excuses for it. He irritates me—downright pisses me off at times—but he also…

My first memory was of a slap, hard across the face: the sting on my cheek and the jarring of my bones as I slammed back into my bed. It was my dad who had hit me.I had been four.Most of my memories were much of the same and no one ever saw, no one ever fought to help, no one ever cared.Then we moved.My new neighbor cared, rescued the twelve-year-old I had been from a beating. Always thought I’d … Always thought I’d suffer the nightmare alone, I was wrong.Mace Donati saved me that day in all the ways…

Avery Collins has just landed her dream job, pastry chef for the posh-Manhattan restaurant Clover. Her new boss, Trace Montgomery, even helped with securing her an affordable place to live: a beautifully restored carriage house owned by his friend, Rafe McKenzie—a man that makes her catch her breath and stirs her imagination. Trouble is, he’s involved with someone, his father is being released … after 25 years in prison and Avery is just his tenant. Exploring the attraction that sizzles whenever they’re together would be the icing on the cake, but Avery knows all too well that you can’t have…