Showing posts with label arranged marriage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label arranged marriage. Show all posts

Monday, August 17, 2026

Cover Reveal: Savage Truce by Michelle Heard

SAVAGE TRUCE BY MICHELLE HEARD
Release Date: September 7th
Photographer: Michelle Lancaster
Cover Model: Chad
Cover Designer: Okay Creations

Genre/Tropes: Forced/Arranged Marriage / Power Imbalance / Forced Proximity / Touch her and die / He falls hard / Years of pining / Age Gap / Plus-size Heroine
OTT Possessive/Protective /Obsessed Hero / Who Did This to You? / Hidden Identity / MMC takes revenge for her! / Caretaking/Hurt-comfort / Found Family / Virgin MFC / Second Chance at First Love

SERIES: Heart of Crime Series, Book 1
 A complete standalone BRATVA Romance

CHECK OUT THIS STUNNING COVER!
We are honored to share the cover reveal for SAVAGE TRUCE by Michelle Heard, releasing September 7th!
Make sure to preorder this all-new mafia romance TODAY!
I was born into Bratva royalty, but that never made me a princess. My entire life I’ve been mocked and ignored, and the only place I’ve ever felt like myself was at the theater, with a needle in my hand and beautiful fabrics around me.

That’s where I met him.

A stranger with a missing button, clear blue eyes, and a voice that made the world feel less cruel for one stolen night.

We only exchanged our first names and talked the night away over warm coffees and pastries before my life came crashing down around me.

Years later, my grandfather is dead, the Bratva is at war, and I’m imprisoned because of my family. I’m broken, bruised, and forgotten until the new pakhan comes to inspect his prisoners.

Rodian Volkov.

The man I never forgot. Only now, he isn’t a stranger with gentle hands and friendly eyes.

He’s become savage just like the rest of the men who bend the knee to him.

He’s now the monster I fear.

When he tells the Bratva he’s marrying me to bring peace, I’m too terrified to argue.

Because saying no to the pakhan is never an option.
Michelle Heard is a Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestselling Author who loves creating stories her readers can get lost in. She resides in South Africa with her son where she's always planning her next book to write, and trip to take.

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Monday, May 18, 2026

Release Blitz: Between Sin and Ruin by SS Rayne

Title: Between Sin and Ruin
Duet: Ruinous Duet #1
Author: SS Rayne
Genre: Dark Romance; Psychological Romance
Tropes: Release Date: May 15, 2026
In the Dominion, marriage wasn’t about love.
It was about power, loyalty, and survival.
I knew that when I said my vows.
I learned how to be still.
How to be perfect.
How to stand beside a man like Alaric Kostas—heir to an empire built on blood—and never let him see where I could break.
And for a while, I didn’t.
Because Alaric didn’t destroy what belonged to him.
He protected it.
Controlled it.
Closed his hand around it until there was nowhere left to run.
I let him.
I let him build a world around me that looked like devotion and felt like ownership.
Until the night I saw something I was never meant to see.
That was the night the illusion died.
The night I stopped being his perfect wife, and remembered exactly what I was capable of becoming.

🚨 Author’s Note
This is a dark romance and explores themes of power, control, and betrayal, including one instance of infidelity.
This is a duet, and the central couple’s HEA unfolds in Book 2.






SS Rayne writes dark romance filled with betrayal, obsession, morally gray characters, and emotionally complicated love stories that refuse to mellow.

Inspired by psychological thrillers, crime dramas, and the beautifully disastrous side of human emotion, her books explore toxic devotion, dangerous power dynamics, feminine rage, and the thin line between love and ruin.

When she isn’t writing destructive fictional couples, she’s usually reading, spending time with her family, wrangling animals, and losing arguments with the morally questionable voices in her head demanding she writes their story.
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Thursday, April 9, 2026

Release Blitz: King of Deception by Bianca Borell


KING OF DECEPTION
by Bianca Borell
Series: Kings of the Underworld #3
Release Date: April 9, 2026
Genre: Dark Mafia Romance
Tropes: Arranged Marriage, one night stand, hidden identity, billionaire, mafia princess, secret relationship, tortured hero, good girl, insta love, possessive, obsessive, jealous hero, her love will heal him, burn the world for her, groveling
Viviana Bertinelli
I’ve always followed the rules.
Good girls don’t sneak away for one reckless night with a dangerous stranger.
No names.
No promises.
Just passion.
It was supposed to be a secret — until fate brought him back into my life.
I’m promised to another man, but the stranger refuses to let me go.
He says I belong to him.
He’ll burn the world before he loses me.


Tristan Kinkaid
Control made me the American king of the Irish mob.
Then she shattered it with a single night.
She’s too pure for my world.
But that didn’t stop me from claiming her.
She believes she’s promised to another man.
She just doesn’t know that man is me.
Bianca Borell is a contemporary romance author, voracious reader, nature lover, and unapologetic daydreamer.

She has a weakness for tormented characters, second chances, and happy endings.
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Thursday, March 12, 2026

Cover Reveal: King of Deception by Bianca Borell

KING OF DECEPTION
Kings of the Underworld #3
by Bianca Borell
Cover Reveal
Release Date: April 9, 2026
Genre: Dark Mafia Romance
Tropes: Arranged Marriage, One Night Stand, Hidden Identity, Billionaire Hero, Mafia Princess, Secret Relationship, Tortured Hero, Good Girl Heroine, Possessive Hero, Obsessive Hero, Jealous Hero, Burn the World for Her, Groveling
Viviana Bertinelli

I’ve always followed the rules.
Good girls don’t sneak away for one reckless night with a dangerous stranger.

No names.
No promises.
Just passion.

It was supposed to be a secret – until fate brought him back into my life.

I’m promised to another man, but the stranger from that night refuses to let me go.

He says I belong to him.
He swears he’ll burn the world before he loses me.

But our love was built on a lie.

He fooled me once.
He won’t do it again.


Tristan Kinkaid

Control made me the American king of the Irish mob.

Then she shattered it with a single night.

She’s too pure for my world.
Too innocent for a man like me.

But that didn’t stop me from wanting her.
From claiming her.

She believes she’s promised to another man.
She just doesn’t know that man is me.

There are secrets between us.
Betrayals that could start a war.

She thinks we’re over.

She’s wrong.

I didn’t rise to power by letting anything – or anyone – slip through my fingers.

And I’m not losing her.
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Bianca Borell is a contemporary romance author, voracious reader, nature lover, and unapologetic daydreamer.

She spends her nights deciding between getting up to write or trying to silence the voices of her characters.

She has a weakness for tormented characters, second chances, and happy endings.

She currently lives in Germany with her amazing husband and indulges in way too many pastries than she should.
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Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Release Blitz: Sweeet Poison by Rachel Van Dyken


Rachel Van Dyken
Release Date: February 11
AVAILABLE IN KINDLE UNLIMITED
𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘦𝘦.
𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳.
𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭…
His breath hit my neck, lips brushing skin.
"𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘢𝘺. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯, 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘥𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺, 𝘩𝘢𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘪𝘵?”
All it took was one phrase—“𝘞𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺 𝘢 𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘦?”—and I was already losing.
To the enemy.
To a Tinder date gone violently wrong.
To the Syndicate’s most dangerous heir.
It was supposed to be my last middle finger to the establishment before they sacrificed me on the family altar of arranged marriage. So I took control. I made the rules. I chose the husband.
Louis De Lange.
The twin who should’ve died.
The traitor.
The man who lost my sister—his so-called true love.
He said he had nothing left. So I made him my weapon.
But the problem with controlling a wolf in sheep’s clothing?
You never see the fangs until they’re already at your throat.
The plan was simple. The timeline set. Sixty days to infiltrate, manipulate, and survive.
But I wasn’t banking on Louis being more than broken—I wasn’t ready for how dangerous he could be when he finally decides he’s done bleeding for everyone else but himself.
I was playing to win.
He was playing to lose.
And we were both about to learn…
The sweeter the poison the more bitter the fight.
To the end. Love. Hell. Or destruction. Let the games begin.
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The synopsis immediately sold me on this one, and even though it’s part of an interconnected series, it can be read as a standalone—I read it that way myself. I will say the first few chapters were a bit confusing, and it took me some time to get my bearings and understand what was happening. Once everything clicked, though, I was completely hooked. It’s a novella-length read, so the pace picks up quickly, and from that point on I couldn’t put it down.

What stood out most to me was how both main characters, Louis and Tempest, start out as pawns in a larger game, yet the trials they face ultimately make them stronger. Having lost all of his family, Louis is driven by vengeance and nothing else. Ironically, the mission meant to destroy a rival family instead leads to him being slowly folded into their world. Tempest, on the other hand, has always wanted a place and a voice in a world that dismissed her, and I really appreciated how Louis made sure she was seen and heard.

Overall, this was a fast, engaging read with compelling character growth and a story that kept me turning the pages.

OMG! This one takes you on a gut-wrenching, emotional rollercoaster of a ride. By the second chapter, I was in tears. You will yell, cry, and sigh, with all the others things in between.

You have a MMC who has never been "worthy" of love. He was the outcast. He was not wanted. He was the black sheep. And then you have MFC with her own personal baggage. Bring these two together and you have a dark, twisted, but mentally and emotionally satisfying romance. The depth of character development, the detail written into each scene, character flaw, emotional, and thought created a beautiful story you absolutely MUST read.

Ms. Van Dyken is on my list of favorite authors to read and this is one of those stories that proves why.

Rachel Van Dyken is the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of over 100 books ranging from new adult romance to mafia romance to paranormal & fantasy romance. With over four million copies sold, she's been featured in Forbes, US Weekly, and USA Today. Her books have been translated in more than 15 countries. She was one of the first romance authors to have a Kindle in Motion book through Amazon publishing and continues to strive to be on the cutting edge of the reader experience. She keeps her home in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, adorable sons, naked cat, and two dogs.

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