Title: Unchain My Heart Author: Nadia Blair Series: Mephisto #2 Genre: Contemporary Rock Star Romance
What’s a bad girl to do when the world won’t let her be good …
With her thirtieth birthday looming, actress Natasha Bernard wants to reinvent herself as something other than Hollywood’s favorite villainess. When she hears rumors that a tell-all exposé reveals details of her love life with her rockstar ex, she decides to put a stop to it. Even if that means confronting his bandmate, Richard Mac—the man who let the world brand her with a scarlet ‘A.’
She’s his nemesis … his secret obsession … and the only woman who can incinerate his life …
Guitarist Richard Mac is a control freak, whether he’s working on a new album or using his custom leather toys in the bedroom. When “Hurricane” Natasha storms back into his life, he risks everything to claim her. But he can’t risk losing control and letting her guess his darkest secret … that she’s the one woman he’s always wanted and could never have …
She blinked at him. “Since when do you allow a woman to take charge?”
“I don’t.” His simple admission made her light-headed. A keen, giddy ache blossomed deep in her chest.
Hardly believing her own daring, Natasha caressed his cheek. He stood motionless as she traced her fingers along his jaw, savoring the scrape of his stubble, the fine-grained heat of his skin. In the clouded dark, his expression was unreadable. But she felt a low quiver run through him as she stroked his brow.
“Impossible man.” Inexplicably, her eyes stung. I want to hate you. But I don’t. Not even a little bit. How insane is that?
Her heart was thrumming in her chest as she brushed her lips across his. He tasted of cinnamon and whiskey. She kissed him hungrily, sucking on his tongue, nipping at his lower lip when he might have pulled back.
He cupped the back of her head, holding her captive as he deepened the kiss. His other hand caressed her neck, the line of her collarbone. He was solid heat, hard muscle, pressing against her from her breasts to her hips.
Scorching, sweet, he explored her mouth, his hand curled around her nape. He kissed her thoroughly, as if learning her. His teeth grazed her lower lip before he soothed his tongue across it. His fingers sifted through her hair.
It was heady, glorious, and yet … it wasn’t enough. She grabbed his T-shirt to tug him closer.
“No,” he growled into her mouth. “Hands on the car or I’ll stop.”
She splayed her hands on the car door. Once more, he claimed her lips, devastating her with each glide of lips, each flick of tongue, stealing every panted breath. She fought a need to haul him closer. Couldn’t touch him. He’d ordered her to stay still.
He pressed her into the side of the SUV, one hand gripping her hip, the other tangled in her hair. Trapped. Helpless. And yet, if she said the safe word, she knew he’d stop. No questions. No pressuring her into anything. He might be a bastard. But he was a man of his word.
She leaned into him, gasping as her sensitized breasts brushed his chest.
His fingers teased the strip of bare flesh between her bustier and jeans, his thumb trailing toward her navel.
Nadia Blair writes steamy contemporary romance featuring outrageous bad boys and gutsy girls who give as good as they get. She has a thing for snappy dialog, humorous situations, and swoon-worthy happily-ever-afters.
When she’s not having conversations with fictional people, she enjoys summer thunderstorms, top-shelf whiskey, and rockin’ out to a classic guitar solo.
I wasn’t prepared for her… She just got me to pay three times as much as I wanted for a company I’ll buy and destroy.
She knows who I am. The bratva doesn’t scare her.
Intelligent, brave, and unstoppable.
I’ll make her mine.
She doesn’t know it yet, but we’re soulmates.
I’ll take her to her limits. Then give her all her heart desires.
The Bratva Darling is an interconnecting, standalone Dark Mafia Romance with a HEA and no cliffhanger. It contains extra-steamy scenes that will make your toes curl and your granny blush. This is book one in The Ivankov Brotherhood, a six-book series that’ll keep you warm at night.
Sabine Barclay, a nom de plume also writing Historical Romance as Celeste Barclay, lives near the Southern California coast with her husband and sons. Growing up in the Midwest, Sabine enjoyed spending as much time in and on the water as she could. Now she lives near the beach. She’s an avid swimmer, a hopeful future surfer, and a former rower. Before becoming a full-time author, Sabine was a Social Studies and English teacher. She holds degrees in International Affairs (BA), Secondary Social Science (MAT), and Political Management (MPS). She channels that knowledge into creating engrossing contemporary romances that will make your toes curl and your granny blush.
As a senator’s daughter, Kennedy Blackwell has everything, or so it seems. But on her wedding day, a shocking secret changes everything, and Kennedy’s fortunes turn on a dime. Instead of offering their unconditional support, her parents turn their backs on her, proving once and for all that her father’s goal of becoming president is more important than his own child. Forced to start over, Kennedy relies on a pact she and five friends made to each other back in junior high. She also enlists the help of the “entertainment” from her bachelorette party, a handsome handyman-by-day, exotic dancer-by-night.
Wade Roberts faces his existence one crisis at a time. Everything bad in his life has directly resulted from a poor decision or the actions of a member of the Blackwell family. So, when the senator’s daughter calls asking for help, he’s torn between assisting her or making her “pay.” Soon tangled up in the Blackwell family drama, he finds himself being framed for an unspeakable crime. Wade must step up and prove his innocence and his love for a woman who deserves more than he can offer.
Can two people who start with nothing end up with everything?
She blinked and focused on her future husband standing at the end of the aisle. He looked as nervous as she felt. There was even a green hue to his complexion, probably a side effect from his bachelor party. Unlike Emily, he could toss the booze back with little effect, but last night they must have really tied one on.
She made her way toward him with knocking knees and trembling hands.
When the minister asked who gave this woman and her father answered, a ball of emotions welled inside her. Who’d thought those words were a good idea? It was like she was being traded for political favors when the only exchange between father and future son-in-law was the promise of box seats for next year’s games.
She took Logan’s hand in front of the officiant, who talked about the sacred vow of marriage and what love meant. They recited traditional promises to love, honor, and cherish until death do they part, but neither met the other’s eyes. Logan looked past or through her to her bridesmaids. She stared at a piece of lint on his shoulder.
“Does anyone here have a reason to object to this marriage?” The minister’s voice boomed, leaving no doubt everyone heard him.
Kennedy ran through an entire list of reasons to object in her head. She still had time to change her mind, but when she looked at Logan and saw the same fear she felt, a small giggle escaped her mouth. They both had wedding jitters. That was normal.
At that moment, he looked at her the way he had when they first met. Despite the anxiety and feelings of doom, she was the luckiest woman in the world.
The congregation sat silently as the minister waited the obligatory several seconds for anyone to object. He cleared his throat. “I now pronounce you—” “Wait!” Emily said loudly enough for everyone to hear, though her voice cracked. “I can’t let you marry him.”
International bestselling author of more than thirty novels, Kelly Collins writes with the intention of keeping love alive. Always a romantic, she blends real-life events with her vivid imagination to create characters and stories that lovers of contemporary romance, new adult, and romantic suspense will return to again and again.
Kelly has sold more than a quarter of a million books worldwide, and in 2021 she was awarded a Readers’ Favorite Award Gold Medal in the Contemporary Romance category for A Tablespoon of Temptation.
