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Title: Ruin: The Reprise

Series: Black Hearts Still Beat #4

Author: L. A. Cotton

Genre: New Adult Rock Star Romance

Release Date: November 17, 2020

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Working for America’s hottest rock band should be a dream come true for Phoebe Halstead.

And it would be, if it wasn’t for lead singer, Levi Hunter.

Tortured… Brooding… Broken. He’s everything she should stay away from.

Unfortunately for Phoebe, she’s exactly the kind of girl Levi needs. The light to his dark. The calm to his storm.

He wants to be worthy of her; she knows he’ll never change.

Everyone knows the greatest love stories end one of two ways:

… with a happily-ever-after or in heartache and ruin.

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“Why does this feel so right?” She broke the kiss, blinking up at me with her big honey eyes.

“Because maybe it is. Maybe we just both have to take a chance.”

“I can’t do it again. I can’t watch someone I…” She stopped herself, letting out a heavy sigh. Part of me was relieved. I didn’t want to ever hear those words. “I’ll never be the most important thing in your life. I deserve that, Levi. I deserve to come first.”

Her honesty shook me to the core. Phoebe had scars. The deep kind. The kind I knew I couldn’t fix. The kind I knew I would only rip open if I pursued this thing with her.

But I couldn’t walk away.

I couldn’t do it.

So long as she was on tour with us, we would continue to go around in circles until one of us cracked. Or I fucked things up for good.

Touching my head to hers, I breathed her in. “I’m not a good guy, Bee, but I’d try to be good for you.”

A shiver ran through her as she swayed gently. She was drunk. Maybe more than I’d first thought.

“Come on,” I said, guiding her toward the bed. “You should get some sleep.”

Phoebe began stripping out of her clothes with haste, as if they were suffocating her. “Stupid shirt,” she groaned as she tried to yank it over her head.

I stood back, smothering the laughter rumbling in my chest. “Need some help?”

Her eyes snapped to mine, glittering in the dark. “I can manage.”

After a couple more failed attempts, I crouched down and nudged her hands away. “Here, let me.” My fingers brushed her bare skin, and she whimpered again.

My dick strained against my jeans, desperate to feel her again. But the next time I was inside her, I wanted Phoebe to know exactly who she was fucking.

I pulled back the cover. “In you go.”

“I can’t believe this happening,” she mumbled. “How embarrassing.” Phoebe buried her face in the pillow.

I made quick work of stripping down to my boxers and climbed in bed beside her. She tried to roll away, putting as much space between us as possible.

But fuck that.

I hooked my arm around Phoebe’s waist and pulled her back against my chest.

“Levi, we can’t snuggle…”

“Why the fuck not?” I tangled my legs with hers, fighting the urge to press my hard length right up against her ass.

“Because I’m your assistant and you’re…” She let out a little huff of frustration.

“It’s okay, honeybee,” the nickname rolled off my tongue as easy as breathing, “you can say it. I’m the best sex you’ve ever had.” I breathed against the shell of her ear.

Her sweet laughter filled the small room. “You’re definitely the biggest ego I’ve ever had.”

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Author of over thirty mature young adult and new adult
novels, L A is happiest writing the kind of books she loves to read: addictive
stories full of teenage angst, tension, twists and turns.Home is a small town in the middle of England where she currently juggles being
a full-time writer with being a mother/referee to two little people. In her
spare time (and when she’s not camped out in front of the laptop) you’ll most
likely find L A immersed in a book, escaping the chaos that is life.

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Title: King of Souls

Series: Verona Legacy #2

Author: L.A. Cotton

Genre: New Adult Romance

Release Date: August 11, 2020

Blurb

Arianne Capizola is living a lie.

Angry. Abandoned. Afraid.

She’d rather spend her days locked away on her father’s
estate than with the guy who stole her innocence: her fiancé.

Niccolò Marchetti is living a nightmare.

Broken. Banished. Betrayed.

He’d do anything to save the girl he loves, even if it means
paying the ultimate price.

As the truth surround their legacies begins to unravel,
everything they thought they knew shatters. But Nicco will do anything to
protect the girl who taught him how to love, and she will risk it all to save
the guy who stole her heart.

The clock is ticking as old and new enemies close in.

Only this time, their love might not be enough to save them.

*King of Souls is the second book in Nicco and Ari’s
duet. Due to mature content that some readers may find distressing, this book
is recommended for readers 18+

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“Nicco!”
Arianne clambered off the bed and rushed to my side.

“Wait.” I
held up my other hand to stop her. A dark angry storm was raging through me. I
wanted to hit something, to hurt and bleed.

I needed
it.

Dark
rivulets of blood seeped over my hand, but I barely felt it. I was too wired.
Too hungry for the kill.

“Let me
take a look at it.” Arianne stepped forward and I jerked back, like a caged
animal being riled.

“Nicco,
it’s me. It’s only me.” She had me cornered with no way out. My body trembled
violently as I desperately tried to hold on to my frayed rope of control.

“Nicco…”
Arianne brushed the hair from my face. My head hung low, my shoulders hunched
and tight. I wanted to kill him. I wanted to hunt him down and kill him with my
bare hands.

“Come back
to me.” She gently lifted my busted hand and inspected the damage. “It needs
cleaning. Let me see what there is.” Arianne left me and went into the
bathroom. When she came back, she had a small first aid kit. “I found it in the
cabinet. Sit.” Her gaze went to the bed, but I remained rigid.

“I need to
stand.”

“Okay. Hold
still.” She worked in silence, cleaning me up and bandaging my hand. My pulse
began to slow, the tightness in my chest easing.

It was her.

Her touch,
her calmness.

“I’m
sorry,” I choked out.

Arianne
took my face in her hands and looked right at me. God, I wanted to drown in the
dark pools of honey. “Talk to me.”

“I want to
kill him… I should have killed him.”

“So why
didn’t you?”

It was the
last thing I expected her to say, but I knew this wasn’t about her, it was
about me.

“It’s not
that simple,” I released a heavy sigh. “If I’d have killed him… it would
start something we might not be able to finish. I can’t do that to the Family,
to you.”

She nodded,
dropping one of her hands to mine and lacing them together. “I hate Scott
for what he did to me. I hate him so much that sometimes I wish you had done
it.” Arianne took a shuddering breath. “But I want a life with you. I want a
future. I can’t have that if you’re behind bars… or worse.”

“If he
hurts you again, I can’t promise I won’t do it.”

Something
flashed in her eyes, but before I could decipher it, Arianne kissed me. “I
don’t want to talk any more, Nicco. I want you to love me. I want you to make
me forget about the monsters.”