ASH

When a wannabe dark romance writer who longs for a book boyfriend meets a dangerous mafia man, can real life rival fiction?

GRACIE

Our first kiss might be messy, but there's no denying it's HOT.

I'm a shy wannabe romance writer; he's a rich mafia man.

He wants another taste; I want to run for cover.

He wants to claim me; I'm not sure I want to be claimed.

I'm the light to his darkness; he's my Mr Sexy Voice.

We shouldn't fit, but we do.

ASH

She brings light to my dark existence.

From the moment we meet, she entices me.

From the moment we kiss, I'm enamoured.

From the moment we touch, I can feel again.

From the moment she saves me, I'm lost.

I need to have her, and I won't let anything stand in my way,

Not even a shy, wannabe romance writer.

We are perfect together; now, all I need to do is convince her.

Ash is a man plagued by guilt after his sister is murdered because he was late to pick her up. The once light-hearted, playful young man has grown into a tortured Bratva Second, and the darkness wrapped around his heart threatens to spiral out of control. Until Gracie enters his life. The shy waitress brings a light back into his world that he desperately needs, helping him finally face his guilt, acknowledge that what happened wasn't his fault, and begin to live again.

Gracie considers herself shy, clumsy and easily bullied, until she meets a Russian jerk whose messy kiss she can't get out of her head. The wannabe dark romance writer discovers her inner badass when Ash is in danger, a turning point that changes how she sees herself and what she's capable of. With Ash, everything she wants begins to fall into place: a man who rivals any book boyfriend, the inspiration she needs to write that first book, and the courage to face the world with him at her back.

She might be the light to his darkness, but he is the strength she needs to be her true self.

Author note: ASH is the explosive first instalment in the Bratva Blood Brothers series. An opposites-attract mafia romance featuring a tortured hero and a shy wannabe writer who discovers her inner badass as she lights up his dark world.

TRIGGER WARNINGS: Violence and physical injury, threats of violence, attempted murder, kidnapping, weapons, blood and graphic injuries, death and bereavement, mafia and organised crime and sexual content.