Bøger af Lucy Monroe

Pligt eller fornøjelseAngele har været forlovet med Kronprins Zahir i flere år – og forelsket i ham lige så længe. Problemet er, at det kommer til at være et proformaægteskab, for han deler ikke hendes følelser. Desuden har sladderpressen lige afsløret hans affære med en skuespiller. Men måske er der ved at ske noget, der får ham til at se på sin forlovede med andre øjne.En drøm går i opfyldelseDen utroligt velhavende forretningsmand Luc Garnier mangler kun ting, før hans imperium er fuldført: den perfekte hustru. Og ingen passer bedre end den smukke, kølige prinsesse Gabrielle af Miravakia. Opdraget til at gøre alt for sit land, har Gabrielle indvilget sig i at gifte sig med ham. Men hvem er han egentlig, denne mørke og mystiske mand?Kronprinsessens forbudte affæreNikos Andreadis er folkets prins, men Argyros’ trone tilhører prinsesse Athena, så han sætter kongeriget i første række og bringer den modstræbende prinsesse hjem. Da Nikos genser den smukke Athena, tænker han tilbage på deres forbudte affære. Men en hun har en hemmelighed, som chokerer ham, mere end noget andet ...

Skynd dig langsomtRiley er inkarneret ungkarl - han har altid haft en stribe af blændende skønheder i sit kølvand. Kun én kvinde har nogensinde afvist ham, og lige siden har han været fast besluttet på at indfange hende ... og gifte sig med hende! Men kan han gøre hende til sin brud?Forelsket i en playboyJenny får overladt ansvaret for et PR-bureau i to uger - og det er ikke noget problem, mener hun, indtil der pludselig dukker en flot, fremmed mand op midt i hendes arbejde - med sin lille niece på slæb! Jenny aner ikke, hvordan hun skal få puslespillet med både at være midlertidig "mor" og passe det glamourøse job til at gå op ... før den flotte fremmede tilbyder en hjælpende hånd!Bristede håbHope Bishop bliver lamslået, da den sexede sicilianske forretningsmand Luciano de Valerio frier til hende. Hun er vokset op hos sin velhavende, men kolde bedstefar og er vant til at falde i ét med tapetet og blive ignoreret. Men Lucianos seksuelle elskov får hende til at føle sig lykkelig og levende. Hope forelsker sig i sin mand og er jublende lykkelig ... indtil hun opdager, at Luciano skrupelløst giftede sig med hende ... af fornuftsgrunde!

Sadies eventyrPrins al Drac'ar al Karim, sheik af Dhurahn, skal finde en brud til sin bror – og hvem er bedre end den engelske kvinde Sadie Murray, der er strandet og arbejdsløs i ørkenen. Men Drax må sikre sig, at Sadie er så uskyldig, som hun ser ud til. Så længe han har hende i sin magt, er hun hans, og han vil teste hendes værdighed som hustru ved enhver lejlighed.En streg i regningenPrins Claudio Scorsolinis kommende hustru skal være en passende galionsfigur for hans folk og give ham en arving. Claudios behagelige ægteskab med Therese bliver fejret, hans undersåtter har forelsket sig i hende, og hun har udført sine pligter i soveværelset – til Claudios store tilfredshed.Men Therese er i al hemmelighed blevet forelsket i sin mand. Hvordan kan deres ægteskab overleve, når hun ved, at hun aldrig kan give Claudio et barn?

Forført af lidenskabDer er gået et år, siden deres stormfulde affære sluttede. Så hvorfor kommer han tilbage? Elisa stoler overhovedet ikke på Salvatore di Vitale ... den rige sicilianer har allerede svigtet hende én gang.Salvatore siger til Elisa, at han er kommet for at beskytte hende. Og hvis deres nærhed fører til lidenskab ... og hvis lidenskaben fører til en graviditet ...s å meget desto bedre! For så bliver Elisa nødt til at gifte sig med ham, og det har faktisk hele tiden været Salvatores plan.Hed kærlighed, sød haevnHun var intet andet end en pengegrisk lille tøjte, og Jake d'Amato var fast besluttet på at få hævn. Planen var enkel, han ville pirre hendes seksuelle lyst efter ham, gøre hende afhængig af ham i sengen, og så forlade hende. I virkeligheden var Charlottes motiver rene og uskyldige, ligesom hun selv. Men inden hun fik set sig om, var hun gift med en mand, der begærede hende, men også opførte sig som om han hadede hende ...***

She's a mafia princes hiding in plain sight. He's the most brutal capo in New York. When their worlds collide, they burn hot enough to turn it all to ash.

Sicilian business tycoon Carlo Messina is used to getting his way, so when his supposedly biddable fiancée leaves him standing at the altar he's shocked...and furious. Annette has spent her entire life trying to be worthy of her family's love, but she's never measured up. Her parents and two perfect sisters make up their own little family and she has no place in it, unless it's as a modern day Cinderella. When she realizes her gorgeous billionaire fiancé expects her to change to fit his idea of family too, she does the only thing she can. She runs. It's five years later and Carlo and Annette are living in the same house in charge of their niece while their siblings recover from a terrible accident. The desire between these two passionate people has only grown during their time apart and inevitably, it explodes. Results? An unexpected pregnancy. For Carlo there's only one solution: the wedding that never took place. Can a marriage of convenience lead to the love Annette craves and her Sicilian billionaire doesn't know he needs?

Emotional sensuality...Regency style.Thea might have been born a lady, but she's lived a life of freedom as a simple miss in the West Indies, unbound by the strictures of her title or straight-laced Regency England.The illegitimate son of a duke with no claim on the title, Pierson Drake maintains a level of honor most in the ton only give lip-service to. He is determined to make a name for himself and will stop at nothing to keep what he claims for his own.Thrown together on a voyage back to England, Drake finds Thea's innocent sensuality irresistible. She's unlike any woman he's ever known. Passion flares between them with enough heat to burn the best of intentions to ash, and once they share a bed for the first time, there's no going back.But Thea's secrets are a heavy burden. With her life hanging in the balance after a devastating betrayal, Drake must take any risk to protect her, and the hope for their future. They have one chance to get it right. . .

Warning: May Be Too Hot To Handle Elle Gray looks like a supermodel, thinks like a super agent, and can kill a man with her bare hands. But when she meets Dr. Beau Ruston, the brilliant scientist and ex-college football star in charge of the project she's been sent to protect. If his muscular grace and quick wit hadn't turned her on, there would still be those big brown eyes. . .watching her suspiciously. With a man this smart and attractive questioning her cover, the bad guys are the least of her problems. Beau Ruston knows Elle is a government spy, and he doesn't like to be spied on-or lied to, no matter how charming the liar happens to be. Wait, did he say "charming"? Hot is more like it. He should know, chemistry is his business, whether it's in the lab or in the bedroom, but the reaction Elle is setting off might be too much for even him to control. . .

Alan Hyatt could do his job in his sleep, and when the Goddard Project sends him to investigate a case of high-tech espionage in the Vancouver film industry, he finds a perfect reason to work in bed. But sizzling actress Jillian Carlyle also happens to be his landlady, and she's got a hard-and-fast (so to speak) rule that keeps her from dating her renters. While Alan's cover as a reporter gets him close to all the suspects on the set of Jillian's sci-fi show, playing a background actor at her suggestion to get his story? Well, that's something else-but he's not about to turn down a red-hot redhead, even if she keeps throwing him curves. . . Jillian just can't understand it. Sure, Alan is six-feet-something of chiseled ruggedness with gray eyes and an irresistible growl in his voice. But hello? She doesn't do relationships-even of the casual kind-with men who impact more than her senses. No one is getting a chance at her heart. Especially not one of her renters. Still, there's nothing wrong with enjoying Alan from afar-but not too far, or she wouldn't be able to fully appreciate his rock-hard abs when he's working out in the home gym. If only he didn't make her feel safe and oh so right when they touched. . .

USA Today bestselling author Lucy Monroe introduces a new Greek syndicate in her spicy mafia romance series, Syndicate Rules.LUCIAI ran from the Cosa Nostra after a rival syndicate killed my husband. I live like a normal person now. Atlas shows up in my club when everything in my life is finally coming together and I think it's fate. I've never trusted anyone with my darkest desires...until him.Then I learn the man I love is everything I am running from and now he's my enemy.ATLASI never wanted any woman this bad, this fast. From her luscious curves to her eagerness for bedroom games, Lucia is perfect for me. But when she finds out what I'm there for, she hates me. I'm head enforcer for a reason though. I don't let anything stop me from getting what I want. That includes her.Because she needs my protection as much as I need her light and if I have to get her pregnant to keep her, we'll both enjoy every minute of it.This is a stand alone mafia romance with a guaranteed HEA. No cliffhangers. No Cheating.

Anytime, anyplace, Ethan Crane's your man. An agent's agent, he's tough, smart, and fearless. Exactly the guy you want when the stuff hits the fan-and the kind Beth Whitney avoids like the plague. It took a fiancé in the business to teach her, but she's learned her lesson: Don't. Date. Agents. It's this rule that's kept her employed at the agency, doing her part for world security from behind a desk. So when a case throws the two together, Beth's determined to keep it strictly professional. So far, so good-except for the steamy kisses, the red-hot phone calls, and. . .What was that rule again? To Ethan, Beth couldn't be less his type if her father ran the agency, which, oh yeah, he does. Still he can't help but find her work in the field a total turn on. Off the field it's even better. But hot pursuit of a notorious information broker is what they should focus on-not each other. That can wait until they've accomplished a job well done. Or can it?

A man of honor and gut-wrenching loyalty, Jared, Viscount Ravenswood, has little use for society or the foolish, sometimes brutal ways of the ton. He made a deathbed promise he intends to honor, no matter the cost or inconvenience. Even if it means he must marry the reclusive duchess he's spent the past four years despising in order to keep his adopted daughter.Calantha's marriage was an abusive prison that gave her nothing but pain. She thought she'd finally broken free from her past, but it's come back to haunt her in the form of a man who devastates her senses and sends her fleeing to the safety of her roses. Yet he offers her an opportunity she thought she'd never have-to be a mother. She cannot help yearning for both the adorable little girl and the overwhelming man who brings her into Clantha's life.Jared doesn't mind the idea of bedding the beautiful Calantha, who makes his blood sizzle. And inexplicably, she's not bothered by the scarring that led to his Lord Beast moniker. Their passion is as intense as it is unexpected.But someone wants to hurt Calantha, and they'll stop at nothing, not even putting a child in harms way, to do so. . .

A warrior princess and a Viking are destined to meet and destined to mate, but what happens when destiny is denied?Neilina is wolf shifter and conriocht. Haakon shifts into a sabretooth tiger, asmundr - the ultimate guardian of feline shifters. Both are Chrechte, both will spend centuries guarding their people. They can barely look at one another without needing to touch. It should be the perfect mating.But when Neilina was still training for her role as conriocht, Haakon's father brutally murdered her entire pack. She has spent nearly two centuries alone, living with the pain of that asmundr's betrayal and her own failure. She knows Haakon is her mate, but she'll never accept a Viking cat shifter, much less the son of the man who has caused her such grief.Haakon never knew his father as destroyer, all he does know is that he and his cat crave their mate. He will do whatever it takes to protect ad claim the woman destined to fight by his side, even if it means crossing an ocean and leaving everything and everyone he knows behind.This is a critical time in Chrechte history, when the Paindeal, Faol and Ean must come together to fight a common foe, or be completely destroyed. Neilina and Haakon must learn to deal with the past as passion burns like a wildfire between them, and they must come together to protect all Chrechte.

Super spy Mykola Chernichenko comes from a family of geniuses, and though he's no idiot himself, he'd rather be where the action is than analyze it to death. That's why his vacation has just been cut short by a call to get two of his siblings out of some serious trouble-while protecting a nerdy scientist who's latest project could change the world. . .and get her killed. The guy who'd rather act than think guarding an egghead in a lab coat? Myk would appreciate the irony more if he weren't so busy trying to figure out how, exactly, to get under said lab coat. Because Lana Ericson just happens to be the hottest thing working the scientific method since, well, ever. Myk has a feeling Lana's laser-like focus would translate to something equally intense in the bedroom. And if she's as curious about him, Myk might just be willing to donate his body to science-each and every night. . .

Charlotte left Alastair standing at the altar, but the ruthless billionaire still wants to marry her, and if it takes blackmail to make that happen? So be it. On the eve of her wedding, Charlotte realizes that the Greek tycoon she loves and plans to spend the rest of her life with doesn't know her at all. Worse, he expects her to be something she's not. He doesn't just want a wife, he wants a society hostess and for this introvert, that sounds more like torture than wedded bliss. Alastair doesn't understand why Charlotte called off the wedding and he's still smarting from the humiliation of being the center of the media frenzy and the butt of his family's jokes. Nevertheless, he's determined to marry the woman that got away and just like any good takeover, he's stacked the deck in his favor.

An inconvenient proposal. Ian MacKay, Laird of Graenfrae, has no use for love or marriage. However, his stepfathers will mandates that marriage is what he must have...and to an Englishwoman. A sensible man, Ian develops a list of requirements in a wife: Plain, moderately dowered, older and practical. He thinks he has found the perfect candidate in Lady Annabelle. Labeled The Ordinary her first season, Annabelle longs for a man who will see her as beautiful and love her as her father loved her mother. When she meets Ian, she thinks she has at last found that man. Until his proposal, in which he has the audacity to list his requirements. She refuses his proposal. He informs her that she will marry him at the end of the season. The battle of wills is on.

Family secrets threaten the very fabric of Lady Irisa Langley's world, but she's determined to enjoy her newly-formed relationship with the half-sister she never knew she had. To move forward with her life. She's also head over heels for her paragon of a fiance, Lord Ashton, and determined to win his heart, despite his depressing lack of willingness to indulge her sensual curiosity before marriage.Nicknamed "The Saint," Lucas, Lord Ashton, puts duty and honor above all. It's taken years to repair the damage caused by his family's deplorable behavior. Now he can't afford to let even a hint of scandal undo all his hard work in renewing the Ashton family reputation. But something is wrong with his perfectly delicious fiancee. She's got a streak of hoyden running through her veins that should be enough to put him off. Yet somehow, he finds himself drawn to the feisty beauty against his will.When someone close to him threatens to reveal the secrets that could destroy Irisa's place in the ton, and his as well, Lucas must choose between their future happiness and his hard-won propriety.There is only one choice for a gentleman intent on protecting his hoydenish lady, but the consequences could destroy them both. . .

In a high-stakes game of love, attraction, and desire, two people playing for all the wrong reasons are about to discover how delicious it can be when plans go deliciously awry and love is all that matters.Like father, like daughter.Thats what businessman Alex Trahern thinks about Isabel Harrison. If the prestigious headhunter thinks she can steal his top employee, just like her father stole his dad's ideas, she's dead wrong. Alex is always a man with a plan, and his plan is to get revenge on John Harrison through his daughter. But there's no contingency plan for the impact Isabel's sparkling green eyes and honey brown hair have on the decidedly non-business side of his brain...If at first you don't succeed, change the game.After some relationship flameouts, Isabel's decided to leave love out of it and approach her search for a husband like finding a suitable job candidate. And according to her list of requirements, Alex Trahern certainly has potential. He's sexy. (Check.) Forceful and fascinating. (Check, check.) Also arrogant, obnoxious, and way too hot for her own good. (Erase. Start over.) Now, if only she could find out what he's really after...

The last thing she wants is to join the royal family, but the sizzling tension between Blythe and Prince Tor of Tapt Oyer is about to explode and all her good intentions with it. Blythe and Tor are friends, but the sexual tension has always simmered between them, just under the surface. Only he's the younger brother (in law) of her best friend and a prince, to boot. So why can't she stop fantasizing about the hunky royal? Prince Tor isn't like the rest of his family. He's spending his military service in combat for one. A law unto himself, he doesn't follow the usual rules and has no desire to give into his father's pressure to marry and settle down. He doesn't want to settle for anything or anyone. Tor wants Blythe and he's not letting her hide behind the age difference, or his status as a royal. Once the passion detonates between them, is there any hope they can build something lasting despite how different their worlds are?

The days may be cold, but the nights are red hot in USA Today bestselling author Lucy Monroe's new Northern Fire contemporary romance series.Deborah Banes gave up her family for her dreams and when the role of a lifetime requires a location shoot in Cailkirn, Alaska, she know she can weather the freezing cold temperatures. It's the heat she feels when she sets eyes on the tall, rugged, and impossibly stubborn Rock Jepsom that has her worried.Rock doesn't live by anyone's rules but his own. He's given everything he has to make his land and his hometown something he can be proud of, and he'll be damned if he's going to give it all up to bright lights and big stars. Not even Deborah Banes' mega-watt smile can convince him to change his mind. But as the sparks between them intensify, Rock realizes that the fire they're feeling could be more than the smoke and mirrors of Hollywood . . . it could be the real thing.

It's another high-stakes game of love, attraction, and desire, but the players have a past and the stakes couldn't be higher. It's not just their hearts on the line, but secrets and the family neither ever thought to have with the other. Marcus Danvers is a man with a plan and that plan is to win, whatever it takes. SURPRISE, SURPRISE The last woman security business consultant Marcus Danvers expects to find at Kline Electronics is Veronica Richards. He's supposed to be rooting out a corporate spy, not rehashing an old love affair-with the woman who sold out the company they both used to work for and then took off without so much as a kiss goodbye. All the clues point to Ronnie as the firm's newest mole, which means he'll have to spend time with the stubbornly reticent-and mouthwateringly sexy-woman he hasn't been able to forget, and uncover every last thing she has to hide... FANCY SEEING YOU HERE It's just Ronnie's luck. The one man she'd hoped never to see again is suddenly everywhere she looks-and taking up a starring role in her daydreams, too. Remembering the passion she and Marcus once shared certainly isn't going to help, though, not when she has so many secrets, and no explanation for the way she left him eighteen months ago; or at least not one he'll want to hear. The problem is, when Marcus is around all her good intentions go up in smoke...

AnnaThe world is too loud, too bright, too everything. Until I meet him. His touch sends me to a place I've never been. I want more of him, bloodstained hands and all. What happens when the one person I need is the utterly ruthless boss of the Irish mob?CianSome call me a psychopath. I don't feel. Until I meet her. I need to know she is safe. Every minute of every day. I hire her to work for my legitimate business. I watch her. I crave her. I will never let her go. But I am a monster. What happens when the one person who makes me feel is pure, sweet innocence?This is a stand alone steamy mafia romance with a guaranteed HEA. No cliffhangers. No cheating for either of the main characters.

Opposites Attract. If They Don't Combust First. To some, he is an assassin. To others, he's merely the man who gets the job done when no one else can. Now politico-military black-ops leader Roman Chernichenko has to take out the leak in an espionage plot that could destabilize all of Africa. Nothing will distract him from his mission. Not even the deliciously appealing blonde who's awoken his deepest desires-and just happens to be his target. . . Tanya Ruston is a beautiful and brainy do-gooder-and Roman is supposed to dispose of her when all he really wants is to seduce her. Soon it's clear Tanya's no information agent-and now that his conscience has gotten the better of him, he and Tanya are on the run from the good guys and the bad. If they're going to make it out alive, Roman will have to act fast-and stop thinking about how he's going to get his feisty new charge down the aisle. . .

Two couples. One HEA and one Prequel Cliffhanger.GIULIAOur marriage cemented the alliance between our families. Emotions shouldn't come into it, but I fell in love with the ruthless underboss I married. Only to him, I'm nothing more than incubator to carry his heirs. I adore our son, but I've been putting off having another child. Raff is going to flip when he finds out about the birth control.RAFFAELEShe is smart and beautiful, but there is no room in the life of a mafia underboss for tender emotions. At least that's what I thought when we got married. Six years has changed a lot, but my wife thinks I'm the same merciless man she wed. To everyone else, I am. But not to her. She'll forgive me for sending her to a fertility specialist. She has to, because I will never let her go.Giulia and Raffaele's story is a steamy mafia romance with a guaranteed HEA. No cheating.CATALINAMy sister is engaged to the don that sets my senses ablaze. I have no choice but to make plans to run. To escape my father and this incessant physical need Severus sparks in me.SEVERUSomeone is attacking my mafia. I have to protect la famiglia at all costs, even if that means agreeing to marry a woman I have no feelings for. I just have to ignore the way my body reacts to her sister.As the prequel to Urgent Vows, this is the only book in the Syndicate Rules series that is not a standalone. Because it is a prequel, Catalina and Severu's story ends on a cliffhanger.

CatalinaI'm done with my life under my father's brutal thumb. I'm running from the Mafia right after my sister marries the Don. It doesn't matter that one touch from him sparks all sorts of things it shouldn't. That's only one more reason to leave. But when my sister disappears the morning of her wedding, I'm left in her wedding dress, standing in front of the priest. With him. The man I thought I could never have. The man who could break me.SeveruFor the stability of la famiglia, I need to marry. I don't want a wife that will disrupt my life, but I crave this woman. Once her sister runs, nothing will stop me from having her. She'll marry me to protect her sister, but who is going to protect her from me?This is a standalone steamy mafia romance with a guaranteed HEA. No cliffhangers. No cheating.

From USA Today Bestselling author Lucy Monroe a 20th century historical steamy romance mystery.It's the Roaring 20s but Frankie Somers has been hiding her light under a bushel. After a disastrous and short marriage to a pilot who died in the Great War, it's taken hard work and sacrifice to cling to her independence. However, when the chance to realize her dream of going on an archeological dig in Egypt arises, she'll take every risk, including her own safety, to make it happen. What she doesn't count on is the wild attraction that explodes between her and Professor Henry Thomas, the lead archeologist on the dig.Although the grumpy, but sexy professor sees through her masquerade as her brother almost immediately, no one else does. All should be well, but someone is trying to undermine the dig and maybe even kill the man Frankie finds irresistible. Her habit of a carrying a pistol and dead shot accuracy come into play, as well as Frankie's ability to drive with the best of them as she tries to figure out who is behind the dangerous "bad luck" on the dig.

Roser og chokolade At opdage, at hendes chef, finanshajen Andreas Kostas, må gifte sig er sønderlemmende for Kayla. Men så foreslår Andreas, at Kayla bærer hans ring! Det er det frieri, Kayla altid har drømt om, men vover hun at risikere sit hjerte for at blive hans bekvemmelige brud?

Ventetiden værd Døren til sygestuen går op og da Selena ser op, står Morgan ved sengekanten. Hun har ikke hørt fra ham siden hun flygtede fra gården, og nu vil han hjælpe hende efter bilulykken. Selena nøler, men mærker hvordan alle de gamle følelser langsomt vækkes til live igen. Men vover hun at løbe risikoen for atter at blive såret?Drømme varer ved “Hvis jeg nogensinde finder dig nøgen i min seng, fyrer jeg dig på stedet”! Maggie behøver ingen advarsel. Hun ved at prins Tomasso Scorsolini, hendes lækre italienske boss er ude for hendes rækkevidde. Men Tomasso vil giftes, og da han har fået nok af golddiggers, så er Maggie i hans optik den perfekte proforma-brud! Men Maggie ved ikke helt, hvad hun går ind til … For nu er det at ligge nøgen i prinsens seng ikke længere fyringsgrund – nu er det et jobkrav!Hendes arv Arven kom virkelig belejligt, men forfærdet opdager Julia, at testamentet kræver, at hun gifter sig med den italienske millionær, Randolfo – ellers får hun ikke en rød reje! Randolfo derimod, har intet imod at tilbringe dag o gnat med Julia, men lykkeriddere har han intet tilovers for. Så et ægteskab kan ikke komme på tale!

Kongen i baren Bartender Briony Smiths liv er alt andet end eventyragtigt. Tabet af sin elskede mor har efterladt en ødelagt og sårbar familie, som Briony må støtte og forsørge. At flirte med den mystiske bargæst Cass er bare en kærkommen distraktion, før hun indser, at han bærer på en hemmelighed om hendes fortid, som vil vende op og ned på alt.Fremmed i Venedig Tiltrækningskraften er øjeblikkelig, stærk og altfortærende. De kan ikke gøre andet end at give efter for den. Guy er en stinkende rig playboy, hvorimod Sabrina er ganske almindelig. Da hun ikke har stor lyst til at vende tilbage til dagliglivet, accepterer hun Guys tilbud om at bo hos ham i hans luksuriøse lejlighed i London.Roser og chokolade At opdage, at hendes chef, finanshajen Andreas Kostas, må gifte sig er sønderlemmende for Kayla. Men så foreslår Andreas, at Kayla bærer hans ring! Det er det frieri, Kayla altid har drømt om, men vover hun at risikere sit hjerte for at blive hans bekvemmelige brud?