Author: smshade

*This is the first in a Violent Circle Comedy spinoff series. It’s not necessary to read the Violent Circle Series first, and each novel can be read as a standalone. I’m in over my head. My decision to run from my comfortable upper-class life was an impulsive one, but I’m determined not to regret it. It’s true I have no car, have already been fired from my first job, and can’t cook without … without starting a fire, but I can do this. Anything is better than the life I was raised to lead as some successful man’s arm candy.…

I knew better and I let it happen anyway.I was drawn in by her kindness and the way she sees into people. The way she looks through their motivations, their fears, into the heart of them where the good waits. One glance and she’s stripped away the layers we wrap ourselves in to keep from being unique.She saw into me.Then used it to her advantage.Now, my son is in danger and if she’s behind it, … she’s behind it, there won’t be a hole deep enough for her to hide in.I broke my own rules for Naomi.My son will not…

I found my stillness, my space between breaths, when I was a kid. The answer is simple. If it hurts, I pour music on it. After years of hard work, it’s finally happening. Tragic has a number one album and we’ve gone from being discussed as one hit wonders to hearing words like meteoric mentioned alongside our name. With two tours planned and another album on its way, we have a lot to look forward … to look forward to. Playing in a different city every night, the shimmer and roar of the crowd, after parties and endless women.My lifelong…

It’s hard to believe it’s almost over.After three years of living in the wildest apartment in the craziest neighborhood, the clock is ticking down.College is ending.My friends and I, known around Violent Circle as the Frat Hell Guys, have managed to make it to graduation without a major injury or arrest record. It was a close call.My career path as a video game designer is laid out clearly before … out clearly before me, but I have one more objective to achieve before the school year is over; show the beautiful, stubborn, infuriating woman I’m in love with that she’s…

Meet the crazy neighbors who live on Violent Circle, where normal is a dirty word. Whether it’s battling the town to keep an adult toy shop from being shut down, making it through the college years in an apartment full of guys, or struggling to be a single parent, they always stick together.Book One: Scarlet ToysLiving on Violent Circle, a place that’s less of a neighborhood and more of an insane … and more of an insane asylum poured into the street, I thought I was prepared for anything. After you’ve seen a woman strip down at the laundry room…

Mr. Rogers did not prepare me for the people in my neighborhood. A cut in financial aid for college and a lot of bad luck have landed me not only on Violent Circle, but in the apartment known as Frat Hell.I can handle myself, so living with three guys isn’t a problem. Even the madhouse disguised as a low income neighborhood isn’t an issue. The trouble is Denton, the man with the mischievous grin … mischievous grin in the room across from mine.I can resist the lean, muscled body. I’m stronger than the quick smile and adorable dimple. But his…

This isn’t the life I want.Trapped in one random hotel room after another by a screaming crowd of fans and paparazzi. No friends or family nearby. Nothing that really makes me happy, except my music.Music is my only love, the only thing that makes my heart beat fast and my blood run hot, until her. Kinley Matthews, the owner of the Foxhaven Resort, is nothing like the women I’m accustomed to … accustomed to dating, but she’s everything I need.And she hates the sight of me.Everything I’ve done has been for family.That’s what I tell myself when the memory of…

The world famous lead singer of the hard rock group, Jilted, has moved into the Presidential Suite of my hotel. His reputation precedes him and none of it is positive. Considering his past exploits, drunken fights, and fondness for destroying hotel rooms, I don’t expect the next four months to be easy. For the sake of Foxhaven Resort, I’m going to make it work. Hosting an A-list celebrity will … celebrity will draw affluent guests and solidify the future success of the resort recently left to me by my late father.I have enormous shoes to fill and no rude, womanizing…

Everyone knows the rumors about Violet Circle and the crazy inhabitants, but becoming a resident was my best option. These are the kind of decisions you’re faced with when you have a baby at eighteen, and your knight in shining armor turns out to be a deadbeat dad in saggy boxers. Don’t get me wrong, my five-year-old son, Aiden, is the love of my life, even when he’s telling random strangers I’m … strangers I’m constipated, or lecturing his preschool friends on the differences in their anatomy. I wouldn’t trade him for anything, but raising him as a single parent…

This is the fifth and final book in the In Safe Hands Series. Book one is titled Landon, and is free.MelissaI escaped.For the first time in almost four years, I’m free.My freedom came at a steep cost, leaving me on my own with no family or friends. I have a lot of healing to do, and this beautiful lake house seems like a perfect setting to find myself again.I can do this.The only thing I have … this.The only thing I have left is hope. JeremyI ran.For the first time in my life, I’m alone.I failed to appreciate what I…