First, I want to say sorry for the late catch-up email. Over the weekend I had an internet outage issue, that thankfully has now been restored. It meant plenty of time for baking and writing, but I didn’t have any internet at all. 🙂
Can you believe it is now October? I absolutely love this time of year, especially when it comes to the cooking and baking side of things. If you’ve been reading my books for a long time, you might have noticed I love to cook. 🙂 Anyone else loving this time of year?
Who enjoyed September’s releases? Did you have a favorite? I have to admit, I can’t pick one myself, I loved writing them both.
I’ve got lots more planned and to keep up to date, please check the coming soon page, where more information will be posted.
I will keep this short and sweet and I hope you all have a fabulous October.
Take care
Sam
Released in September
Like it Rough and The Mafia Man’s Virgin wife.
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A Rose To Keep & To Capture A Thorn
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Bratva Bully (cover reveal coming soon) and Grump Next Door
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One Book has gone to paperback this month, The Mistake book 3 in the Volkov Bratva Series went to paperback on September 9th.
Are there any books you would like to see in paperback that are not already?
It’s that time again, another month is over, and we’re now into November. Thank you all so much for your kind words and emails this past month. It really does mean a lot to me, and I do try to respond to every single one. I hope you all enjoyed The Society in October. The Society will return in another book, but the characters in A Rose to Keep and To Capture a Thorn is complete. 🙂
Who is looking forward to November? We’re so close to Christmas and nearing the end of 2021!!! Do you have a highlight of the year so far?
Anyway, I’ve got lots planned for November, and I hope you look at the Coming Soon page to see what is coming next.
I know pain and loss, what it means to be lied to.
I have nothing. No one. I’m all alone. They took everything from me and want to take more. I did everything Gideon, Dante, William, and Mateo asked of me, and they failed.
The Society believes I can leave. They give me the chance that was taken from me, but I won’t give up. I will have justice for the ones I lost, which means I have to stay. I have to become part of The Society. I must give them everything in order to get what I want.
I wish I could blame the Saintly Devils. They turned my life upside down, but after I lost everything, they’re the ones who come to my rescue, making it so hard for me to walk away.
But this was never about me, this was about them, and all I can do is hope to be there to save them when the time comes.
No one betrays The Society. They are always watching and always prepared…
Excerpt:
Sian had gotten under my skin and now there was no way to reach her. Every time she looked at me, I felt her judging me.
It didn’t fucking stop.
I kept expecting her to come right out and say it: You killed my best friend.
I took a deep breath and swigged my scotch. This was my fourth glass.
My father grabbed the glass out of my hand. “That is your limit.”
“Why do I have to have limits?” I asked.
“Do you think this is helping you to make the right decisions? It’s not. It’s messing with your head. You’re my son, buck the fuck up.”
“It’s easy for you to say. You’ve been living with your fuck-up for nineteen years.” I burst out laughing.
Other than my laughter, the silence in the room was somewhat deafening.
“Dude, not cool,” William said.
“What? Don’t you see history has a way of repeating itself? It looks like we’re the prime candidates.” I bent over, hand to stomach as I laughed. “I’m starting to think this is what The Society does. Picks out a girl that you rarely look at. You notice her but you don’t give her two thoughts, and then bam, you have no choice but to fuck her. She’s all part of the initiation process, and then once you’ve fallen for her, you’re going to do something that tears her from you. Break her a little bit so the person you once knew is a shell of who she was, and there is nothing you can do, even though you miss her. You had a small smidge of heaven with her, and then it is ripped from you. Is this what The Society does? Does it fuck with you like that?” I asked. My voice had gone from talking normally to yelling. “I don’t give a fuck if it makes me a man or not, but yeah, I fell for Sian. I fell for her hard.”
I hadn’t said the words because I just couldn’t. The moment I did, I felt like it was solidifying my pain and my future. I’d never be able to have Sian, nor would she belong to us.
I guessed I was well and truly fucked up. Most men couldn’t stand their woman being touched by another man, but I wanted to share her with my friends. Dante, William, and Mateo were the only ones I trusted with her.
“We all did,” William said.
In the last ten months, he’d lost all parts of his playfulness. Gone was the jokester. He was serious all the fucking time. I hated this.
“How did you let him get away with this?” I asked, turning toward my dad. “How could you not see what he was like?”
“None of us did, and we were given rules,” he said.
“Fuck the rules. Haven’t you seen how the rules play out? Joan is gone. He’s got her, and from what Sian tells us, he’s been hurting them for years.”
“Son, I suggest you step outside and take some air before I forget you’re my son.”
This made me laugh. “Your son I may be, but it’s with the wrong woman, right? Kind of a shock that you’ve got four daughters as well.”
The hit was expected. I wanted it. The blow to the face made it easier. The pain was a new focal point. I could think a little more clearly. I expected my dad to hit me again, but Harrison had stepped in and held him back.
Dante helped me to my feet, and within seconds, I was out in the garden. Blood came from my mouth, and I spat it on the ground.
“Get the fuck off me.” I shoved Dante off.
“So this is how it’s going to be? Are you trying to fuck everything up?” Dante asked.
“Why are we even talking with them?” I asked, whirling around. William and Mateo had joined us outside.
None of my friends looked happy. “What? You got shit you want to say to me?”
“This isn’t about you,” William said.
“I didn’t say it was.”
“You’re hurting,” Mateo said.
“Fuck you.” I wanted them to hit me. The pain my dad had inflicted had been a welcome relief. I stared at each of my friends. “None of you felt her. The tightness of her pussy, how it popped under my stiff cock.”
Dante sighed. “And here comes the prick. It’s always about you, isn’t it, Gideon?”
“In case you didn’t see, I’m the leader of the pack.”
I saw their hands clench into fists, but none of them attacked me.
Fucking bastards.
They knew me well and were refusing to give me what I wanted.
“None of you will know how good it felt for her to come for me,” I said.
Dante ran a hand down his face. “Go on. If this is what you want. Keep on saying the words that are going to guarantee our friendship is over. We’ll still be tightly bound together, but with a little help, maybe you can fuck it up completely.”
It was on the tip of my tongue to say more, but I just couldn’t. I had to hold back. Did I want to lose them as friends? They were my brothers. I loved them and would die for them.
Silence rang out loud and clear.
After falling to the ground, I drew my knees up against my chest with a sigh.
“I miss her,” I said. “There’s nothing I can do to bring her back, and that’s all I want to do.”
Senior year, the four Saintly Devils will present a rose to their selected. One girl who will belong to them. It sounds so far-fetched, and I’ve never believed in rumors—until they give me the rose.
Gideon, Dante, William, and Mateo. Four of the sexiest, wealthiest, and most popular guys in the whole school.
For the first time in history, a girl turns them down. That’s me. I crumble up that rose and hand it right back to them.
Only, there’s so much more at stake than belonging to these four guys. There’s no way I could have known this was set in motion long before I even knew about them.
When my choices are taken out of my hands, I have to find some way to control my life. I’m not going to be a doormat for guys I don’t like, these four who don’t know me.
But I should have known better. They don’t want me. They’re following orders. I’m part of a contract, an initiation to something far scarier. Something called The Society.
I’ve got no choice but to submit to the four Saintly Devils, to become theirs.
They promised to protect me and those I hold dear.
They lied.
Excerpt:
The light in front of the library turned off, and I watched as Sian left the building. She still wore the standard school uniform, only she conformed to the original design of the pencil skirt being below the knee. Others wore mini-skirts, trying to show off their legs, and in most instances, their panties, if they were even wearing them.
Her shirt was untucked and her long brown hair was down. I didn’t recall ever seeing her hair down. She always wore it up in a ponytail.
She hadn’t seen me and started the small walk back to where her dorm was. I closed the distance between us.
“Hey, Sian, wait up,” I said.
She glanced over her shoulder and released a groan. “Are you stalking me now?”
“No,” I said. The lie spilled easily from my lips.
“I don’t believe you.”
“What? A guy couldn’t be running here?” I had changed into my running gear.
“Mateo, you never run. You refuse to run.”
Busted. I preferred to lift weights or save my energy for the field playing ball. Any other time was pointless for running.
I stepped in front of her, stopping her from moving. She glanced around, and I saw the way she shifted the strap of her bag on her shoulder. I made her nervous.
“What do you want?” she asked.
“Can’t a guy be … walking and curious about a girl?”
“No,” she said. “Not when it comes to you or your friends or that damn flower you decided to give me.” She took a small step toward me. I guessed she assumed I’d budge. Not a chance. I wasn’t moving. There was no other place I wanted to be than right in front of her. “Please, move.”
I liked her saying please. One day soon she’d be begging me to taste her sweet cunt. Until then, I was going to have to wait.
“Tell me why,” I said.
“Why what?”
“Why you turned us down. You do realize four of the most eligible guys gave you an opportunity of a lifetime.”
She snorted. “An opportunity of a lifetime? Yeah, I guess being four guys’ bitch is just a wonderful thing. We’re done here.”
“You know we could have anyone. We chose you.”
“Then go and chose one of those girls who would find this whole experience thrilling. To be honest, I’m kind of finding this creepy.” She stood her ground.
With the tilt of her head, the uniform seemed to mold to every single one of her curves, and don’t even get me started on her mass of hair. So full and thick. Damn, I was already having visions of her spread out on my bed, me grabbing fistfuls of her hair, fucking her hard.
I bet she was a virgin.
In fact, I knew she was. Her virginity is going to be a sticky subject. Pun not intended. Which one of us would break her in?
I bet Gideon would be the one, but there was a chance she’d be scarred for life.
How did I not notice this girl before? I had noticed her, but it was more like a quick assessment. At first glance, I gave her a seven, maybe. Now as I looked at her, I know she’d rank higher.
Damn, blue balls was messing with my head.
I’d opted to not sleep with anyone else since claiming Sian was so important to all of us.
“You’re kind of freaking me out now. Can I go?” she asked.
“There’s no changing your mind?”
“I don’t even understand why you want me to change my mind. Mateo, in the years that I’ve been here, we’ve never spoken to one another. I think the most we’ve ever said is when you’re throwing insults in my direction. That’s it.”
“I’ve never insulted you.”
“Think really long and hard. Believe me, you’re going to find something that says otherwise.” She pressed her palm against her forehead. “Please, move out of my way.”
“For a kiss.”
“You’re out of your mind. Hell, no.”
“I’m not moving. One kiss is all it is going to take.”
“You do realize this is verging on sexual harassment.”
