Best Selling Books by Claire Contreras

I lost her. No, I didn''t lose her. I threw her away. She was my best friend. I was never supposed to fall in love with her. I was careless. She was heartbroken. I thought I was doing fine. But here she is, years later, forced to work with me, reminding me why I fell in love with her in the first place. And this time I''m going to do everything in my power to never let her go.

"My reputation at Fairview University preceded me. I was the projected number-one pick in the NHL draft and the fan favorite at the rink. People wanted to be me or be with me.Except for Lyla James Marichal. She didn''t look at me like I was her next meal. She eyed me with disdain. Instead of vying for my attention, she ignored me and pushed me away. She was completely unattainable, and I became obsessed with her. When I finally got her, it felt like I was on top of the world. I was going to help the team win another championship, going into the draft, and had Lyla by my side. And then, without warning, she left me. Vanished. It took me three bitter, angry, long years to find her, but I did, and now she owes me a lot more than just an explanation. Three years ago, she ruined my life. Now, I was going to become her worst nightmare."--Page 4 of cover.

Dit is een spicy ijshockey standalone met een geobsedeerde, he falls first, morally grey hoofdpersonage. Hij duwt net zo hard als ik trek. Het is slechts een kwestie van tijd voordat het touw knapt. Nu kan ik alleen maar hopen dat ik degene ben die overeind blijft. Finneas Alexander Barlow is een waar lustobject. Lang, knap en mysterieus. Warrig bruin haar, een scherpe kaaklijn, verleidelijke groene ogen, perfecte tanden, een verzorgde baard, brede schouders en lippen die smeken om gekust te worden. Hij zou op een Disneyprins lijken, als die prins een mysterieuze klootzak was. Vier jaar geleden leidde een toevallige ontmoeting tot een onvermijdelijke onenightstand. Eén keer. Dat is zijn regel. Een eenmalige hook-up, zonder nummers uit te wisselen. Dat wist ik al voordat hij zijn grenzen stelde, en hij hield zich aan zijn belofte. Sindsdien had ik niets meer van hem gehoord. Tot een jaar geleden het noodlot toesloeg, en hij terug naar de stad kwam en me opzocht. De stralende glimlach en de dubbelzinnigheden waarmee hij ooit mijn hoofd op hol bracht, waren verdwenen. Helaas was zijn woede even slopend. Nu is hij terug als het gezicht van Fairviews gloednieuwe professionele ijshockeyteam en zoekt hij antwoorden die ik niet heb. Maar Finn wil dat niet accepteren. Hij is net zo vastbesloten om mijn geheimen te ontrafelen als ik ben om ze te bewaren. Tropes: FMC is een universiteitsbasketbalster MMC is een professionele ijshockeyspeler stalkerheld college/new adult geobsedeerde/bezitterige held donkere thema''s (triggerwarnings in het boek)

Du kannst nicht vor mir davonlaufen – ich habe dich längst gefunden! Drei Jahre ist es her, seit Lachlan, Eishockeystar am Fairview College, in einer Nacht alles verloren hat – seine Karriere, seine Zukunft und das Einzige, was er jemals geliebt hat: Lyla. Jetzt hat er sie endlich wiedergefunden. Aus der einst verschlossenen Studentin ist eine atemberaubende Frau geworden. Neben dem Wunsch, sich an ihr für den Schmerz der letzten Jahre zu rächen, plagen Lachlan alte Gefühle, die neu in ihm zu erwachen scheinen. Was er jedoch nicht weiß: Noch immer wird Lyla von einem düsteren Schatten aus ihrer Vergangenheit verfolgt, der sich holen will, was ihm zusteht: Lylas Körper und ihre Seele. Willkommen am Fairview College! Wo die Spieler kalt wie Eis sind und die Nächte das Feuer der Leidenschaft auflodern lassen. Eine dunkle Eishockey-New-Adult-Romance-Dilogie mit College-Setting, besitzergreifenden Charakteren, einem im Schatten lauernden Stalker und einer Geschichte, die die Grenzen von richtig und falsch auslotet. Zwischen Leidenschaft, Verrat, und Rache fangen Leser*innen an, ihre eigenen Grenzen zu hinterfragen. Fesselnde Sports-Romance: Eine mitreißende Eishockey-Geschichte voller intensiver Leidenschaft und einer gehörigen Portion Würze. Second Chance trifft auf Fake Marriage: In dieser leidenschaftlichen Liebesgeschichte vermischen sich alte mit neuen Gefühlen und die Grenzen zwischen Rache und Leidenschaft verschwimmen. Ideal für Dark-Romance-Neulinge: Ein morally-grey, besitzergreifender Antiheld, der bereit ist, für seine Liebe alles zu riskieren.

A young woman investigates the dark, hidden secrets of her past while exploring her deep feelings for the young man who''s always been her protector in this friends-to-lovers New Adult romantic suspense series.

He was my older brother''s best friend. He was never supposed to be mine. I thought we would get it out of our system and move on. One of us did. One of us left. Now he''s back, looking at me like he wants to devour me. And all those feelings I''d turned into anger are brewing into something else, something that terrifies me. He broke my heart last time. This time he''ll obliterate it.

From New York Times best-seller Claire Contreras comes a new, sexy stand-alone mafia romance novel . . .Isabel Bonetti -One minute I''m mourning the sudden death of my father, and the next, I''m getting calls from a lawyer saying they needed to read me my father''s will.As far as I know, my father didn''t have much to leave. He was a blue-collar worker, through and through.Or so I thought.Everything topples down at once, the inheritance I''m left with and the truth about what my father did, but the biggest shock of all was finding out he''d married me off to a complete stranger without my consent.By the time I show up at my supposed husband''s nightclub, I''m determined to leave with divorce papers signed, but nothing can prepare me for the man that awaits me on the other side of those doors.Giovanni Masseria -My father has done a lot of messed up stuff, but marrying me off to Charles Bonetti''s daughter, a complete stranger, may take the cake. I didn''t even know old Bonetti had a daughter and I want nothing to do with her or this marriage, until I''m told what staying married to her would mean for the empire I''m slowly trying to build. There''s no harm in staying married a little longer if it means I''ll cash out on those promises. I decide that I''ll cut ties with her as soon as that''s done.That is, until she barges into my office demanding a divorce.I wasn''t sure what I''d expected her to be like, but it certainly wasn''t . . . this.A week ago, I didn''t know of her existence, and now, I can''t seem to escape her presence anywhere I go.She doesn''t belong in this world and I know this won''t end well for either of us, but I can''t seem to stop reminding her who I am.Her husband.**Because I Need You is a complete standalone novel set in the same world as Because You''re Mine

Love isn''t always about timing. Sometimes you have to throw caution to the wind and roll with it. I admit I wasn''t ready. I know you don''t want to look at me, let alone talk to me, but please, let me explain. Let me tell you all the ways my heart broke when you walked away. Let me show you what our years apart have done to me. Give me a chance to find my way back to you . . .

100% standalone romance My job was to clean up his reputation and find him a wife. It was supposed to be easy, but nothing about Prince Aramis was ever easy. I was about to throw in the towel when he came up with a solution: I''d be his pretend girlfriend. Forget the fact that I was sort of seeing someone, or that I had no interest in joining the royal family. Once Aramis sets his eyes on something, there''s no use in fighting him on it, besides, in a way it would make my job a little easier. I accept the offer but set boundaries. Boundaries that Aramis is intent on testing. Before either of us know what''s happening, the lines start to blur and I can no longer tell the difference between pretend and reality. My job on the line is one thing, but losing my heart to Aramis was never in the cards.

For some, the bravest thing a person could ever do is to admit that they’ve fallen in love. Saying the words out loud changes everything and there’s no way to take them back. It’s impossible to pluck the words out of the air and slip them into their back pocket to keep the truth safely tucked away. The best feeling in the entire world though, is to know ,irrevocably, that the person they fell in love with, fell just as hard in love with them. That’s what makes a romance, a romance. Need You Now is a collection of four best-selling novels including: The Dirty Duet by Laurelin Paige Half Truths by Claire Contreras Sinner by Sierra Simone Hostage by Skye Warren and Annika Martin Top Shelf Romance represents the best of the best in romance. There are no cliffhangers. These are simply must-read novels for readers looking for the best in happily ever afters.

Things on my wish list:1.Start a new, awesome job2.Create the perfect dating app3.Stop dating douchebagsThings that actually happen:1.Got a job in my dream tech company 2.Created a workplace dating app for said company3.Was matched with Bennett, who happens to own the company and is also my brother''s best friendThey say when it rains, it pours, but this is some serious BS. It doesn''t help that Bennett was the man I had my last one night stand with. It definitely doesn''t help that he seems to want me just as much as I want him. The issue is, he won''t do anything about it, but then we''re forced to attend a tech conference in Vegas and I think it may just be what I need to turn this thing around.New goal: get my brother''s best friend out of my system by all means necessary.

If you had any ties to Marbella, it was impossible for you not to have heard the stories about Prince Elias and his debauchery. Every summer he arrived with his security detail and friends in tow and rented out a row of cottages near the water. Cottages that belonged to my family. Each of those summers, my parents sent me away - summer camp and later, boarding school. Anything to keep me away from the royals and their partying. I hadn''t been home in years, but when I finally come back for the summer, I see that not much has changed. Like all the summers I''d been gone, Prince Elias is back, but this time with an incognito security detail and no friends. This time, there is no partying, no noise, no crowds. No reason at all to even think he was there. I''m given strict orders not to talk to him, not to even look in his direction, but he makes this an impossible task. I may be doing everything in my power to stay away from him, but there is no one in the world who can say no to the future King of France.

You''ve heard of these groups - the secretive ones that only the crème de la crème are invited into, the ones outsiders speculate about for centuries - I''m the second in my family invited to attend, but to them, I''m fresh meat. New blood. New money, too. They think they''ll elbow past me, that I''m here for their amusement, for them to walk all over, they''ll find out soon enough that I''m not. I may look like one of them, with my designer bags and clothes straight from the Parisian runways, but I''m not. I''m here for answers, to take revenge for blood spilled on their centuries-old Persian rugs. I transferred here in search for answers about what happened to my older brother, who hightailed out of here, and my friend who seemingly disappeared into thin air. I certainly wasn''t here for the attention of the star hockey player, regardless of how much he willed my eyes his way. I wasn''t here for his scrutiny or his judgment or to read into his mysterious aura. I was here for the society, because only they held the answers I needed. That was, until I found out that in order to get those answers, I needed to go through him. He''s saying if I want in, I have to play by their rules, follow their lead. It''s a game I''m willing to play. I may be the second person I know of to be invited into their society, but I''ll be the first to make it out intact.

This paperback includes Kaleidoscope Hearts, Torn Hearts, Paper Hearts, Elastic Hearts as well as exclusive extras.

Er hat seine Regeln. Sie ist seine Ausnahme Finneas Barlow ist Sex auf zwei Beinen – groß, heiß und grüblerisch. Mit zahlreichen One-Night-Stands etabliert er zwei Regeln: anonym und einmalig. Josslyn wusste, dass ihre Nacht mit ihm keine Zukunft hat – bis Finn plötzlich drei Jahre später wieder in Fairview auftaucht. Ein Jahr nach dem der tragischer Tod seiner Schwester ist er zurückgekehrt und es reicht ein Grinsen von ihm, um Josslyns Welt wieder ins Wanken zu bringen. Doch das kann sie nicht zulassen, zu viel steht für sie auf dem Spiel. Während Finn entschlossen ist, die Geheimnisse um seine Schwester aufzudecken, ist Josslyn genauso darauf bedacht, ihre zu bewahren. Zwischen brennender Leidenschaft und schmerzvoller Vergangenheit spannt sich ein Seil, das jederzeit zu reißen droht. Willkommen zurück in Fairview! Wo ein Spieler eiskalt und der Nächste brennend heiß ist... Düstere Eishockey-New-Adult-Romance-Dilogie trifft auf Kleinstadt Murder Mystery mit besitzergreifenden Charakteren, einer willensstarken Protagonistin und Geheimnissen, welche über Leben und Tod entscheiden. Zwischen Leidenschaft, Verrat und Rache fangen Leser*innen an zu hinterfragen, was richtig und falsch ist. New Adult Dark Romance trifft auf Suspense: Eine Geschichte über zweite Chancen, dunkle Gemeinnisse und eine eiskalte Liebe, wo die Funken nur so sprühen Toughe Protagonistin trifft auf den "Idiot mit Herz": Eine explosive Mischung aus Leidenschaft, Spannung und Humor - Bauchkribbeln garantiert! Spicy Sports Romance mit dem beliebten "He falls first and harder"-Trope Große Gefühle, dunkle Geheimnisse und ein Protagonist, dem die Sportwelt zu Füßen liegt – doch sie ist die Einzige, bei der er schwach wird

When you grow up in the most feared mafia family, it''s easy to identify the kind of men that are bad news. They''re the ones with experience. The ones with secrets. The ones that exude sex just by saying your name. From the moment I laid eyes on Lorenzo, I knew he wasn''t just bad news. He was the headline. But my head and my heart are at war. He''s too mysterious, too gorgeous, too wild, and now, he wants me. I should run far away. So why am I racing toward him? I''m totally going to get burned. I know it. A man like Lorenzo won''t leave me unscathed. He''ll make ashes of me.

Lenora De Luca I''ve always been a good girl. The perfect daughter. The perfect sister. And, in two weeks, I''m supposed to become the perfect wife. I don''t know or like the man my father chose to marry me off to but I have no say in the matter. That''s why when I see Rocco Marchetti, the man I''ve had a crush on my entire life, I decide he''ll be my first. When he looks at me it''s electric and I know he wants me. We keep stealing glances and hiding smiles, but I want more. I want one night with him. So what if I''m the daughter of the most feared man in organized crime? So what if he''s my overprotective brother''s best friend? It''s just one night. Rocco Marchetti Lenora De Luca is as forbidden as they get. She''s also kind, and thoughtful, and makes my d . . . makes it hard to think. It starts off innocent enough, just flirting, but then she kisses me and tells me she wants to spend one night with me. It''s wrong on so many levels, but I don''t even try to deny that I want her. I tell myself that it''ll be her wedding present (I know I''m sick, get over it). I''ve had plenty one nightstands that end amicably. Lenora can''t possibly be any different. As long as her brother doesn''t find out, things will be fine. I usually strategize and think through every decision, but something about her makes me walk right into the fire.

Love and the right timing were two things I didn''t believe in. Love is about walking to the edge of the cliff and taking the leap together. Timing was never on our side. My first mistake was hooking up with my best friend. My second came years later, when we met again, and I fell for her. My third was letting her go, because I had to. Because a love like this wasn''t built to withstand the winds coming in our direction. Love and timing. I didn''t believe in either. Then there was you . . .

Oliver a toujours su qu’il devait se tenir à distance d’Estelle, la sœur de son meilleur ami. Il n’était pas supposé la désirer et, quand ils étaient adolescents, il la traitait comme une petite sœur. Estelle, de son côté, l’a toujours vu comme un prince charmant inaccessible. Tout sentiment plus fort était interdit. Quand, des années plus tard, les hasards de la vie réunissent à nouveau Estelle et Oliver, leur attraction est toujours aussi forte. Dès le premier regard, tous les désirs qu’ils avaient enfouis dans leur enfance refont surface. Mais entre-temps la vie est passée par là : Estelle porte le deuil de son mari disparu dans un accident de bateau. Son cœur souffre, sa douleur la paralyse et elle ne veut pas céder à une impulsion amoureuse qu’elle pourrait regretter. Mais Oliver est bien décidé à obtenir ce qu’il a toujours désiré... C''est le meilleur ami de son frère. Rien ne devrait arriver. Et pourtant...