Life is simply life. It"s unfair and sometimes cruel. I should know. Since the moment I first drew breath, I was an orphan. Unwanted. Unloved. The small blonde girl everyone picked on. My story isn"t one of happiness, if that"s what you"re thinking. The person I love most in the world is gone. And in the darkness I"ve been reborn, into a person I don"t recognize.

When you"re born, you never know what life will throw at you. You just make the best of it no matter what happens. That"s pretty much been my go-to since infancy. Then the charming, bald-headed, blue-eyed Brent came along, and I thought all the suck in life had been flushed down the drain. Ha! That"s when my true journey began - motherhood. This is my story of how I took life by the gonads when I decided I needed closure from my past - my father"s sudden death in particular. But what happens next wasn"t anything I expected....

I"m a biker and a woman who was raised by my family, the Sacred Sinners. Growing up an MC brat, I"ve known nothing but leather, booze, club whores, camaraderie, and chrome. The name"s Eva "Bink" Cummings, and this is my story.

Short 1 - Taking care of my Sacred Sinner family has always been top priority. So when a group of unexpected visitors throw a wrench into our everyday lives, I can either roll with the punches or push back. Too bad things aren"t always that black and white. Let"s hope this isn"t a huge mistake, Big already has enough on his plate.

This bundle includes What Doesn"t Destroy Us, The Scars That Define Us, The Fear That Divides Us, The Lies Between Us, and What Might Kill Us.

Life as I knew it ended with a bullet. It stole my brother from me and destroyed my family. From the ashes, I rose stronger and meaner, to exact the kind of revenge best served bloody and cold. I took out every single person I held responsible. Except one. He’s a phantom but his days are numbered. I won’t stop until I’m done. Then she shows up—the forbidden fruit, a light to my darkness. I should resist her because what I touch, I destroy. My feisty wildflower deserves more: more than this, more than me.

Like currency, I’ve become part of a transaction. Blade took me to pay off a debt. I try to tell myself, Eve, you should hate him. He’s a bad guy. But then again, I’m not a good girl. Blade’s the president of the Disciples, the notorious motorcycle club. I should be frightened, yet somehow, he doesn’t scare me. If anything, I think I scare him.

Kincaid: Hero complex? Possessive? Not afraid to speak my mind? Check, check, and check. I"m also president of the Cerberus MC, a former Marine, and Emmalyn Mikaelson doesn"t have a clue what she"s gotten herself into by jumping on the back of my bike. Shadow: I"m no stranger to a woman warming my bed. What"s new for me is being the one ghosted. So imagine my surprise when the girl who decided I wasn"t enough shows up on my doorstep burdened with the consequences of her own lies and deceit.

When my father tries to force me to marry one of his cronies, I run away to my half-brother"s home. He"s the black sheep of the family, a biker, not an Irish mobster. At the Satan"s Sinners" MC compound, I find more than I bargained for. Not my brother, ironically, but a man who gives a whole other meaning to "white knight." He"s dark and mysterious, a seeker of answers and a finder of truths. Even better? He offers me an out, a shotgun wedding in Vegas.

Trip, son of the former president of the Blood Fury MC, is determined to resurrect his dead father"s destroyed club. It’ll be a long, difficult road as the new president attempts to rebuild the club from the cold ashes left behind. Bad blood and bitter memories are only some of the obstacles Trip has to overcome. The local police department, Manning Grove PD, is another, since they don’t want to see their small town once again overrun by outlaw bikers.

Dean Keegan is a vigilante biker with a tortured past who makes abusers of women and children pay for their crimes against the innocent. The story begins with Dean at rock bottom, on the verge of giving up after having lost his marriage and about to be thrown out of his club. His personal life is a wreck, but then Dean meets a unique woman named Vanna, who is, unbeknownst to him, in hiding from her ex-fiance cop currently doing time for nearly killing her years prior.

Second grade teacher Mia Delaney isn"t looking for love. In fact, she isn"t looking for anything at all because life hasn"t been fair. Everything - the idea of love, her hopes and dreams - was ripped away in a single night. Arrogant yet sexy Adam Lawson makes the move to a small town in an attempt to escape life in the city. Here he hopes to provide a fresh start for those he loves and protects with a vow to never let anyone get close enough to hurt them again.

An Irish mobster. A missing friend. Two loyalties, ripping me apart. I had a plan. Get in, get my information, and get out. Easy, right? Turns out, infiltrating the Irish mafia isn"t exactly what I thought it would be. I just wanted a soldier. Someone I could flirt with to get me in the door. That"s when Lachlan Crow noticed me. Problem was, he wasn"t a soldier. No, he was next in line for the throne of the Irish underworld. And he was determined to hate me from the outset.

After spending the last 10 years in prison, Zak, former DAMC president, has a few priorities: to reconnect with his “brothers”, to get drunk, and to get laid. Not necessarily in that order. When he spots a stunning woman in the clubhouse and mistakes her for one of the club’s strippers, those priorities get a bit skewed.

Toni’s no stranger to making mistakes. She has experienced firsthand how walking down the wrong path can send life spiraling out of control. Fortunately, she had someone to drag her from the gutter and help set her on the right track. As penance for the poor choices of her past, she pledges to suppress her baser desires and focus on finding a steady, dependable man, even if that means embracing a boring lifestyle.

Toni’s no stranger to making mistakes. She has experienced firsthand how walking down the wrong path can send life spiraling out of control. Fortunately, she had someone to drag her from the gutter and help set her on the right track. As penance for the poor choices of her past, she pledges to suppress her baser desires and focus on finding a steady, dependable man, even if that means embracing a boring lifestyle.

Desperate to find a new mechanic, the last thing Reddington expects is a woman to show up, let alone one with a sinful body, sharp tongue, and the inability to just do her job and not give him lip. He can"t deny he"s hoping to catch a view of her bent over a hood, but there"s not a chance in hell that"s going to happen. As much as Red wants to take her for a test drive, he knows he needs to keep his priorities straight.

Former mean girl Dixie Davis is back in town, and it"s payback time. Literally. Dixie is flat broke, and her best - make that only - friend, Landon, is throwing her a lifeline from the Great Beyond. Dixie stands to inherit his business...which is a phone sex empire. Wait, what? Plum Orchard, Georgia, is about to get even juicier.

Myla Rose McGraw may be 20, single, and pregnant, but she"s no damsel in distress. She doesn"t need a man. After all, her Grams taught her a thing or two about making lemonade out of life"s lemons. Then she meets Cash Carson.

Trip, son of the former president of the Blood Fury MC, is determined to resurrect his dead father"s destroyed club. It’ll be a long, difficult road as the new president attempts to rebuild the club from the cold ashes left behind. Bad blood and bitter memories are only some of the obstacles Trip has to overcome. The local police department, Manning Grove PD, is another, since they don’t want to see their small town once again overrun by outlaw bikers.

She was my first love. She was my first hate. The very sun in my world tried to burn me alive with her lies and cruelty. Until I dimmed her light for good.... Or so I thought. Now she’s back. Cracked. Broken. Lost. And for the first time in a long time, I feel free. Free from our past. Free from my present that suffocates me. Free to destroy her future. Her misery is my music. Thrilling. Invigorating. Intoxicating. For so long, all I’ve done is hate her. So why do I love her?

Devin and Ayden were my best friends. We were practically joined at the hip since age two. When we were kids, we thought we were invincible, inseparable, that nothing or no one could come between us. But we were wrong. Everything turned to crap our senior year of high school. Devin was turning into a clone of his deadbeat lowlife father - fighting, getting wasted, and screwing his way through every girl in town. I"d been hiding a secret crush on him for years.

Regret, she"s a snarky little bitch. I"ve tried several times to regret the events that took place on June 5, 2008, but for the life of me, I can"t. I"d never regret the pain, the suffering, or the heartache because they ultimately led me to the place I am in now. And I can"t regret the place I am in now. What I still can"t figure out is this: How is it possible that the single worst day of my life inadvertently became the very best day? Five years ago my life was irrevocably changed. Seventeen minutes was all it took to lose my best friend, to lose the love of my life.

In Kristen Ashley’s first anthology, listeners will find three short stories and two novellas taking them back to characters and series in the Kristen Ashley universe. This anthology includes: "No Clue", The Stars Aligned, "The Favor", More Than Everything, and "Rock Chick Renewal".

From over a thousand miles away, I watched on the screen of my phone as two men murdered my wife. And I was helpless to save her. Consumed by hate and rage, I spent four years running from my memories - until a shattered woman gave me a reason to stop. Cora lived in a nightmare, but through sheer force of will, she’d turned it into something beautiful. She had a smile that could pierce the darkest soul. And with one glance, she shredded mine.

Delilah "Lily" Flynn is used to her drab existence. Lily"s been living it for twenty two years. Her boring life is suddenly turned on its head when she"s rudely kidnapped from her bedroom. Or so she thinks. Nox Taylor is far too high up in his field to be assigned a babysitting job. There"s nothing more he wants than to complete his mission so he can be rid of the smartass tomboy, Lily.

They call me Girth for a reason. I’m a damn giant. The muscle in the MC. It’s why I get sent out on loan when some of our brothers down South need some help. And by help, I mean crush some guys" skulls. That’s what the Marked Skulls are good at. Name fits, right? But when I get there, I’m tasked with protecting the President’s daughter, Lila. She’s petite and gorgeous, and all I can do is look. The Pres made it clear; I can’t touch. What he doesn’t know won’t hurt him, right? Until he finds out.

Before senior year, I was forced to move away, leaving behind the only man I have ever loved. He promised he"d love me forever. He vowed nothing would tear us apart. He swore he"d wait for me, but Jack lied. Six years later, when our paths cross again, his broad shoulders, rock-hard chest, and rippling muscles almost make me forget his betrayal. His rugged voice, tempting lips, and sinful smile make it harder for me to deny the feelings I still have for him. He wants to make me his again, but our past may be too much for us to overcome.

They say everyone has either an addiction, obsession, or weakness in this world. Something that can penetrate you down to the core and influence you in a way nothing else can. I have all three. One happens to be her. Kit Bishop is in my veins. But unfortunately for me, she"s the drug I"ll never be able to indulge in and the high I can"t chase. Because I"m a liar. A thief. And I"ve destroyed everything that"s ever been mine.

Respect all, fear none.... I lived by my father’s motto until River entered the MMA cage; River’s brown eyes reflected mystery, and his soul held darkness. Off-limits to a good girl like me. One day, the demons that haunted River swallowed him whole. Forever passed away, yet I failed at forgetting the beast who showed me a tender side of him. Now, I’m the law. A cop. River’s as gorgeous as sin. An ex-convict. And I’m the reason he was tossed in the slammer.

I"m a biker and a woman who was raised by my family, the Sacred Sinners. Growing up an MC brat, I"ve known nothing but leather, booze, club whores, camaraderie, and chrome. The name"s Eva "Bink" Cummings, and this is my story.

When you"re born, you never know what life will throw at you. You just make the best of it no matter what happens. That"s pretty much been my go-to since infancy. Then the charming, bald-headed, blue-eyed Brent came along, and I thought all the suck in life had been flushed down the drain. Ha! That"s when my true journey began - motherhood. This is my story of how I took life by the gonads when I decided I needed closure from my past - my father"s sudden death in particular. But what happens next wasn"t anything I expected....

Life is simply life. It"s unfair and sometimes cruel. I should know. Since the moment I first drew breath, I was an orphan. Unwanted. Unloved. The small blonde girl everyone picked on. My story isn"t one of happiness, if that"s what you"re thinking. The person I love most in the world is gone. And in the darkness I"ve been reborn, into a person I don"t recognize.

I thought waking up hungover with no recollection of the previous 24 hours would be the worst thing I’d encounter during my whirlwind trip to Vegas. It wasn’t...not even close. Not only did I wake up in a strange room with a platinum band wrapped around my finger, I witnessed something no woman should ever see: a gruesome murder. If that wasn’t unscrupulous enough, the unspeakable act was done by my husband: the stranger I married.

I"m in love with Lucas Blaze, the player grandson of the woman I take care of. I"m nothing like the women he dates, so the chances of him noticing me are slim to none. Until the day he asks me to marry him. Lucas is the youngest Blaze Brother. He works twenty-four seven, and his only use for women is to get his rocks off when he"s taking a break from putting his family"s liquor brand into every store in the country. I don"t mingle in the same high-profile groups, and I sure as heck don"t know the first thing about pleasing a man. But to make his Granny happy, Lucas is willing to marry me.

The moment I see Alyssa enter my club, I knew I wanted her. Even as she sat across the bar with another man—I knew I’d make her mine. The moment our skin connected every cell in my body exploded like fireworks. That moment sealed her fate. I was keeping her. When someone threatens to take her away from me. I’m ready for war. I don’t have to go to hell and back to save the woman I love. I’m already there, my soul stained with the blood of those who thought they could cross me. I promised her we would always have a tomorrow together, I don’t break my promises.

I never planned to give Austin Graham, the tight end for the Vegas Aces and the father of my little girl, a second chance this holiday season. After all, he messed up. Big time. But the shimmering decorations on the Christmas tree cast him in a totally new light—especially when I get home from a disastrous blind date and find him on my couch with our sweet baby asleep on his chest. He"s not the villain he so easily plays, but coming in second to everyone his entire life has pushed him to act like a Grinch.

Vegas is where good people go to sin. Reno is where the bad ones go. Amidst the drugs, weapons, and trafficking, a murder-for-hire market has emerged. And my motorcycle club is right in the thick of it. If you can pay, we have a million different ways to solve your problem. You want someone to vanish without a trace? The Great Basin Desert is almost two hundred thousand square miles of "nobody will ever find you." You want to make a statement? We"ve been known to hang bodies from the Reno Arch.

After the stunt my ex pulled, no one would blame me if I swore off men forever, especially one like Mr Jay Anderson, Hollywood’s sexiest heartthrob. Maybe undressing me with his striking blue eyes as I perform the safety demonstration on a flight to LA is normal behaviour for him. Maybe not. But I know one thing for sure, he should come with a warning label. Because once you meet a man like Jay Anderson, there is no going back.