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An addictive standalone about a Hollywood princess who is desperate to self-destruct...and the grumpy bodyguard who saves her. "An opposites attract tale with emotional depth and one of my all-time favorite k*nks. Shen never misses." --USA Today Bestselling Author Celia Aaron I landed in hot water with the tabloids one too many times.What can I say? My nipple wanted to come out and say hi to the paparazzi.After that, my father presented me with an ultimatum-either he cuts off the gravy train and stops paying for my lavish lifestyle or I agree to have a live-in bodyguard.And by bodyguard, I mean a sexy, formidable, out-of-this-world babysitter who just happens to be good at breaking spines.Ransom Lockwood, ladies and gentlemen.Now he is forcing me to try all kinds of weird stuff. Stop partying, clean up my act, get a job...A part of me wants to tell him to get lost. I'm past saving.But the other part? The other part wants to save him.

From USA Today bestselling author L.J. Shen comes a witty romance about a woman desperate to marry into money...and her fake marriage to a (real) billionaire reluctant to commit even to a zip code.Riggs Bates may be a billionaire, but he knows money can't buy happiness. He keeps his financial status a secret and takes his women the same way he takes his meals--a different one three times a day. That's until he's caught sleeping with a married newswoman by none other than her ambitious assistant.Daphne "Duffy" Markham wants two things in life: marry well and stay in the States. So when her almost-fiancé takes off to "find himself" and her work visa approaches expiration, Duffy resorts to the only thing she has left--blackmail. Luckily, Riggs needs an excuse to stay in New York as badly as she does, so their first meeting quickly leads to a begrudging engagement.Armed with strict house rules and their mutual distaste for one another, Riggs and Duffy soon find there's no denying the spark between them...or the fact that this fake marriage is starting to feel a little too real.

Boston's most infamous femme fatale meets her match in a dangerously mild Englishman who has vowed to never marry in this romantic standalone from Washington Post bestselling author L.J. ShenEmmabelle Penrose has cruised through life never needing a man, a plan that has worked stunningly well until about five minutes ago, when she decided she must have a baby.Devon Whitehall is 6'2" of premium DNA, financial security, and British royal titles. Best of all, he fears the one thing she dreads the most: getting hitched.Emmabelle figures it's a no-brainer when Devon offers his services-sperm and involvement in her future child's life.What begins as an innocent, modern-family arrangement, quickly erodes into a web of lies, dark pasts, and unfurled secrets.Inside this chaos, Emmabelle and Devon are forced to face the awful truth-they are capable of love.Even worse, they might feel it toward each other.

"Maybe we were never meant for each other. But that night at the carnival, when you showed me who you were, I figured out who I wanted to be."The most important thing I'd ever read was scribbled on the door of a portable restroom, engraved into plastic at a carnival on the outskirts of Boston.Lust lingers, love stays.Lust is impatient, love waits.Lust burns, love warms.Lust destroys, but love? Love kills.Maybe it was always my destiny to fall in love with a monster.When other kids stayed awake at night fearing the pointy-toothed beast hiding in their closet, I longed to see mine.I wanted to feed it, domesticate it, understand it.Sam and I were only allowed to love each other in the dark.Once our story unfolded, and the truth came to light, I was the one to cut the cord.My name is Aisling Fitzpatrick, and I have a confession to make.Sam Brennan is not the only monster in this story.

"I'm unequivocally, irrevocably head over heels in love with Cillian Fitzpatrick. Filled with Shen's trademark wit, soul searing angst and emotional poignancy, The Villain is a deeply satisfying story of patience, acceptance, perseverance and love. Hands down a top 2020 must read! - Helena Hunting, New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author.Cruel. Coldblooded. Hades in a Brioni suit.Cillian Fitzpatrick has been dubbed every wicked thing on planet earth.To the media, he is The Villain.To me, he is the man who (reluctantly) saved my life.Now I need him to do me another, small solid.Bail me out of the mess my husband got me into.What's a hundred grand to one of the wealthiest men in America, anyway?Only Cillian doesn't hand out free favors.The price for the money, it turns out, is my freedom.Now I'm the eldest Fitzpatrick brother's little toy.To play, to mold, to break.Too bad Cillian forgot one, tiny detail.Persephone wasn't only the goddess of spring; she was also the queen of death.He thinks I'll buckle under the weight of his mind games.He is about to find out the most lethal poison is also the sweetest.

From USA Today Bestselling author L.J. Shen comes a new, fun, steamy standalone about a notorious playboy and the nerdy girl who brings him to his knees.Boston's debauched elite is going up in flames, and it's the Fitzpatrick family that set it on fire.ʜᴜɴᴛᴇʀI didn't mean to star in a sex tape, okay?It was just one of those unexplainable things.Like Stonehenge, Police Academy 2, and morning glory clouds.It just happened.Now, my ball-busting father is sentencing me to six months of celibacy, sobriety, and morbid boredom under the roof of Boston's nerdiest girl alive, Sailor Brennan.The virginal archer is supposed to babysit my ass while I learn to take my place in Royal Pipelines, my family's oil company.Little does she know, that's not the only pipe I'll be laying...SailorI didn't want this gig, okay?But the deal was too sweet to walk away from.I needed the public endorsement; Hunter needed a nanny.Besides, what's six months in the grand scheme of things?It's not like I'm in danger of falling in love with the appallingly gorgeous, charismatic gazillionaire who happens to be one of Boston's most eligible bachelors.No. I will remain immune to Hunter Fitzpatrick's charm.Even at the cost of losing everything I have.Even at the cost of burning down his kingdom.

HunterI didn't mean to star in a sex tape, okay?It was just one of those unexplainable things. Like Stonehenge, Police Academy 2, and morning glory clouds.It just happened.Now my ball-busting father is sentencing me to six months of celibacy, sobriety, and morbid boredom under the roof of Boston's nerdiest girl alive, Sailor Brennan.The virginal archer is supposed to babysit my ass while I learn to take my place in Royal Pipelines, my family's oil company.Little does she know, that's not the only pipe I'll be laying…SailorI didn't want this gig, okay?But the deal was too sweet to walk away from.I needed the public endorsement; Hunter needed a nanny.Besides, what's six months in the grand scheme of things?It's not like I'm in danger of falling in love with the appallingly gorgeous, charismatic gazillionaire who happens to be one of Boston's most eligible bachelors.No. I will remain immune to Hunter Fitzpatrick's charm.Even at the cost of losing everything I have.Even at the cost of burning down his kingdom.