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TITLES BY GEMMA JAMES

(STANDALONE NOVELS)

Epiphany

Swallow Me Whole

(CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE)

Trashy Affair Series

Trashy Foreplay (Trashy Affair #1)

Trashy Conquest (Trashy Affair #2)

(DARK ROMANCE)

Condemned Series

Torrent (Condemned #1)

Rampant (Condemned #2)

Fervent (Condemned #3)

Vagrant (Condemned #4)

Deviant (Condemned #5)

Descent (Condemned #6)

Devil’s Kiss Series

The Devil’s Kiss (Devil’s Kiss #1)

The Devil’s Claim (Devil’s Kiss #2)

The Devil’s Wife (Devil’s Kiss #3)

The Devil’s Spawn (Devil’s Kiss #4)

SUMMARY

One lie that sent an innocent man to prison.

One act of revenge eight years later.

One obsessive love.

Alex De Luca was only fifteen when she sent the love of her life to prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Rafe Mason, rising MMA star, her brother’s best friend, and the guy her foolish heart still yearns for even now that eight years have gone by.

But now he’s free and only wants one thing: Alex at his mercy.

And she is.

She’s a prisoner on his island, a willing captive to his deviant desires, bound by his justified fury. Even worse, she’s a hostage of her own treacherous heart. But the lie she told eight years ago is ricocheting, destroying lives and altering the course of fate. Neither of them saw it coming.

The violence and death. The betrayal. The utter destruction that leaves them in ruins.

How can a single lie cause so much devastation? Redemption seems impossible because neither of them can undo what’s been done. She belongs to him as much as he belongs to her, and they’ll fight for each other or go down in flames trying.

Includes: Torrent, Rampant, Fervent, and Vagrant.

NOTE TO READERS

Intended for mature readers who enjoy a psychological dark romance thriller with kidnapping and other disturbing themes. Not for the faint of heart. You’ve been warned.

TORRENT: BOOK ONE

PROLOGUE - ALEX

We’d left the gravesite two hours ago, but Mom’s lifeless eyes still accused me. The memory of finding her dead in the bathtub, the water deep and murky with her blood, embedded in my brain like a tattoo I couldn’t erase.

I stood in my bedroom, a space inundated with white lacy subterfuge, and sensed the uprising in my soul. Grief turned and boiled with a vengeance. I clenched my hands and crossed them over heaving breasts but couldn’t stop the eruption. I’d been simmering too long, unchecked. I hated my perfect room, my perfect family, my perfect life. Appearances were deceitful bitches that lied and covered the ugly truth.