Лучшие книги Эмили Макинтайер

У Джеймса всегда была одна цель: уничтожить своего врага Питера Майклса. Когда двадцатилетняя дочь Питера Венди появляется в баре Джеймса, он понимает, как можно это сделать. Соблазнить девушку и использовать ее для своей мести. План кажется идеальным до тех пор, пока дела в организации не начинают рушиться. Приходится искать предателя, и постепенно Джеймс понимает: Венди может сыграть более важную роль в его игре. Большую часть жизни Венди провела в затворничестве со своим богатым холодным отцом, но спонтанная вечеринка с друзьями ведет к роману с мрачным Джеймсом. Венди знает, что он опасен, но не в силах противостоять влечению к нему.…

Принцу Тристану Фааса никогда не суждено было претендовать на трон. Наследником престола всегда был его брат Майкл. Тот самый брат, который несет ответственность как за мучительное детство Тристана, так и за шрам, который портит его лицо. Когда их отец умирает, Майкл собирается занять трон, а Тристан собирается украсть его. Лидер тайного восстания, Тристан не остановится ни перед чем, чтобы положить конец правлению своего брата. Но когда прибывает новая невеста Майкла, леди Сара Битро, Тристан оказывается в центре войны нового типа. Теперь война ставит вопрос, что важнее — корона или женщина, которая собирается ее надеть. У Сары есть…

A woman can be great, and terrible too.

Evelina Westerly has always been the bad guy. As the brains, brawn, and botanist behind her family's drug empire, she's her father's ruthless secret weapon. With her days divided between perfecting her greenhouse, seeking revenge for her sister's murder, and putting a gun to the head of anyone in her way, Evelina doesn't have time for anything else. Especially not for love. After a one-night stand with a gorgeous man at a nightclub, she's sated her urges and is back to her criminal ways. That is, until that same man shows up as the new Westerly lackey...under a totally different name.

But Nicholas Woodsworth's real secret is much more dangerous than an alias. He's an undercover DEA agent, and he's hell-bent on destroying the drug trade that devastated his family. When he realizes the youngest daughter of the Westerly empire is the same woman he's been fantasizing about since that night at the club, attraction wars violently with disgust. Evelina embodies everything he's against, and he's been sent here to be her downfall. Yet the more they learn about the darkness in each other's hearts, the more alike they seem, and when hatred turns to something more, Nicholas will have to decide whether he can love a wretched woman, even if it means bringing both of their lives to ruin.

She's his diamond in the rough. He's her worst nightmare.

Yasmin Karam, daughter to one of the richest men in the world, has never known strife. So, when her beloved father falls ill, she's determined to make his final days his happiest. His last wish? To see her married to a man of his choosing. Except Yasmin's heart already belongs to someone else. A servant. A street rat. A man her father would never consider worthy. Stuck between a rock and a hard place, Yasmin strikes a desperate deal with her father's right-hand man, Julian, not realizing he has his own twisted agenda.

Julian Faraci has one goal: become the most powerful man in the world. He's built a future from broken bones and faded bruises, never caring who he hurt along the way. But when his mentor falls ill, he finds himself on the verge of losing everything, and he'll stop at nothing to inherit what is rightfully his. Even if it means forcing a woman he can't stand into marriage.

Yasmin is a brat who speaks out of turn, and he's the villain of her story. But he decides she'll be his―no matter what it takes to convince her.

Skelm Island, Maine has always been known for two things: lobsters and its broken lighthouse.

But when corpses start showing up in the water, the isolated town becomes the face of a cryptic investigation.
At the heart of which stands Lincoln Porter, a grumpy ex-SEAL whose lobstering business seems to attract more dead bodies than fish.
When homicide expert Detective Sloane is called in to assist with the case, she begins digging up skeletons; ones that Lincoln would rather stay buried.
Forced to work together, Sloane’s suspicious attitude and optimistic demeanor grate on the lobsterman’s nerves, resulting in a rivalry that’s as addicting as it is volatile.
But as everything unravels and they have no one else to trust, Lincoln and Sloane must depend on each other to figure out what secrets should be brought to light…

...and which secrets should stay hidden.

He is righteousness. She is sin.

Father Cade Frédéric is a holy man. Brought up in the streets of Paris, he has dedicated his life to the church. But there’s a monster that lingers just beneath the surface. A sickness. One that bleeds darkness and feeds on the damned. When he’s tasked to become the priest in Festivalé, Vermont, a town both beautiful in architecture and riddled with despair, his sickness sings, demanding he rid the place of evil.

Amaya Paquette is Festivalé’s beautiful mystery. She spends her days caring for her younger brother and her nights transforming into Esmeralda, dancing for greedy eyes and shameless lips. Although she longs for love, she shies away from companionship, afraid of being abandoned again.

When Father Cade lays eyes on Amaya, he finds himself ensnared, convinced she’s using witchcraft to lure him to her. He can’t eat. Can’t breathe. Can’t think unless it’s of her.

And temptation is a devastating mistress.

She’s his weakness, so he decides he’ll be her demise…even if it means killing the only woman he might ever love.

He's the prince of La Cosa Nostra. She's the witch who steals his heart.

Venesa Andersen has never been good. She wasn't good enough for her parents, and she isn't good enough for the gangster uncle who took her in after they died. But she's cunning. Beautiful. Dutiful to her uncle's demands. And she doesn't have time for a moral compass, anyway. When her runaway cousin returns to their coastal southern town, she brings a man with her…and Venesa soon realizes he's the only one who's ever seen her for her.

There's just one problem: she can never have him.

Enzo "Loverboy" Marino is a wealthy businessman by day and prince of the underworld by night. Underboss to a notorious mafia syndicate, he answers to no one except his father, the strongest don in the northeast. When he's tasked with marriage, Enzo doesn't think twice.

Until he meets his fiancée's cousin.

Venesa is everything he never knew he wanted, bewitching him with her sultry voice and supple curves. But Enzo learned long ago that for a man like him, life is better without the things you want. When plans unravel and temptation sings its siren song, they'll both have to choose what's more important: duty to their families or a forbidden love that was never supposed to be.

Becca

I hated before I loved.

I loved and then I lost.

And the only man I’ve ever wanted is the one out of reach.

Temptation is the Devil’s candy, but I lost my faith in God years ago.

He’s forbidden.

Off-limits.

My biggest secret.

One I’m determined to take to my grave.

I’ve learned to live in the ghost of his memory. Craving his touch, but relieved he never comes home.

Until one day, he does. And everything comes crashing down.

After all, nothing secret stays hidden for long.

Eli

I lost before I left.

I left and then I loved.

And the only woman I’ve ever seen is the one that I resent.

There’s a thin line between love and hate, but I stopped playing in-bounds years ago.

She’s forbidden.

Off-limits.

My sister’s best friend.

The one who blazes like the sun.

I’ve learned to live in the shade.

Forgetting the heat and embracing the cold.

Until finally, I’m home. And everything goes up in flames.

After all, she’s the one who lights my fire, and I always chase the match.

••••••••

Beneath the Stands is a full-length, interconnected standalone and book two in the Sugarlake series. The series can be read in any order, however it is highly recommended to start with Book One (Beneath the Stars) to enhance your reading experience.

Beneath the Stands features strong language, explicit sexual scenes and mature situations which may be considered triggers for some. Reader discretion is advised.

Alina
I was eleven when I met Chase Adams. I loved him before I knew what lovin' was.
I pulled, he pushed.
I gave, he took.
I loved... I lost.
Now he's back. All grown up and sexy as sin.
But things changed while he was gone.
So, he can show those dimples and flex those muscles all he wants.
It won't change a thing.
Chase Adams is nothin' but a lost memory. I'll do everything I can to keep him that way.


Chase
Growing up, there were only two women I ever loved.
Neither one of them ever really loved me back.
Until her. Alina. My Goldi.
She was everything that's good. I was the bad.
She was the brightest goddamn star. I was the black hole shredding her to pieces.
I loved her wrong, losing her to my demons.
But now I'm back. A better man.
I'll do everything I can to make her remember us, even if all she wants is to forget.