Pretty Lies

My dad's an asshole. Plain and simple.He's made it obvious that I can only ever rely on myself.Until I meet them.Caden, Tyler, Jensen, and Lukas.My new stepbrother and his best friends have suddenly become my everything.Until they aren't.They think they can break me, but they're dead wrong.They wouldn't have bet on me having someone else on my side, or in my bed.These rich boys haven't seen anything yet.Their pretty lies are nothing compared to what's coming though, and I'm going to need them to anchor me when I finally break.Death is coming to those who deserve it, and I don't care if I lose myself in the process.Did I mention the local street crew being on my side?No one will ever see me coming.My name's Rory Donovan, and I'm about to paint the walls red.

Three things my mother acquired when she became engaged: 1. A brand new Tiffany's ring. 2. A lavish home on Heartbreak Hill. 3. Three privileged stepsons.The last thing I expected was to fall for one of them, least of all Thayer Ames.Beautiful, brooding, and untouchable. I knew it was a bad idea. He warned me himself. But he was a thunderstorm, and I never could resist the rain. It was perfect...Until it wasn’t. One night was all it took for our world to crumble, leaving only secrets and lies between us. Now, I have to face him again, but the boy I used to know has become the man who loves to hate me.

If Ridley Jones had slept ten minutes later or had taken the subway instead of waiting for a cab, she would still be living the beautiful lie she used to call her life. She would still be the privileged daughter of a doting father and a loving mother. Her life would still be perfect—with only the tiny cracks of an angry junkie for a brother and a charming drunk with shady underworld connections for an uncle to mar the otherwise flawless whole. But that’s not what happened. Instead, those inconsequential decisions lead her to perform a good deed that puts her in the right place at the right time to unleash a chain of events that brings a mysterious package to her door—a package which informs her that her entire world is a lie. Suddenly forced to question everything she knows about herself and her family, Ridley wanders into dark territory she never knew existed, where everyone in her life seems like a stranger. She has no idea who’s on her side and who has something to hide—even, and maybe especially, her new lover, Jake, who appears to have secrets of his own. Sexy and fast-paced, Beautiful Lies is a true literary thriller with one of the freshest voices and heroines to arrive in years. Lisa Unger takes us on a breathtaking ride in which every choice Ridley makes creates a whirlwind of consequences that are impossible to imagine . . . .

​An emotional, sexy standalone New Adult romantic suspense that takes BK's readers back to Chicago where the mob still reigns supreme and the next generation is stepping up. In every way. Pretty things always tell lies … Cory Rossi isn’t what you would expect the youngest son of the Chicago mob’s underboss to be. Despite what everyone thinks, he can actually do what he’s told. He just does it his own way. The problem with that is every tattooed- and leather-covered inch of him screams one thing to Della Costello—total heartbreak. It’s all men like him do, right? One hook-up, when he didn’t even know her name, was all she could afford. Their one-time encounter should have stopped there. But an ex that causes problems for her business—and the mob’s—and Cory becomes her new shadow until the bullets quiet in the streets. It gets harder and harder to stay out of his bed. They’ll walk a fine line. And there is no mercy in this tragedy. For love and lost blood, once more, Chicago will rage. * ​Pretty Lies is a standalone Mafia Romance within Bethany-Kris's Commission World.

She sits alone in a coffeehouse, and her fearless innocence wrecks me. My longing to ruin her is as painful as she is beautiful. Katie Reed. Math prodigy. Lovely, determined, quite unexpected. Mine. When I find out she lied to me, that an assassin hunts for her father and she’s in the line of the fire, I order her into my protective custody. Keeping her safe is my job. But there’s no one to protect her from me. She’s my obsession, and the pretty lies on her lips only make me want her more. Katie doesn’t belong in my sinful world. I should let her go. But the craving in my soul won’t allow it. I’ll set my little bird free from her emotional cage. Then, I’ll keep her in one of my own. “I absolutely fell in love with Thomas and Katie. I couldn’t put the book down!” —Goodreads review Publisher’s note: Two Pretty Lies is a steamy age-gap standalone. If you intend to read the full Hastings Brothers series, start with Twisted Beautiful Lies and read this one as book 3 to avoid spoilers.

Note: The books in the Pleasure House world are all stand alones featuring a different couple in each book. They can be read in any order without any trouble. The listed order is the order of publication. "She told pretty lies to the wrong man and now she must give herself to him to save her sister’s life" As a phone sex operator, Annette Waincott knows how to tease to get what she wants. That is, until she teases the wrong man at a club, claiming kinky fantasies she doesn’t really have. It must have been too much vodka and his tantalizing Russian accent. Too bad he believes her. When the Russian accidentally kidnaps her twin sister as part of an ill-fated sex game, things quickly get real. In a desperate bid to free her twin, Annette offers herself to him in trade. He both terrifies and excites her, but she knows she can never trust him. The things he wants will push her to her limits and beyond. And this time, she can't tell pretty lies and run away.

New town. New school. Same lies. This is my senior year, and not only have my parents moved me to a new place where I know nothing and no one, they are determined to make me fall in line with the life they want me to have. Not the life that I want. But what fits perfectly into their world. I'm looking for any possible way to escape this prison and leave them behind. Which has been harder than I thought. An opportunity to escape appears. And I'm going to take it. I'm going to use four so-called perfect guys in this new town to make it happen. The ones that have it all, or so everyone thinks. And they're going to be my ticket out.

Sham. Fraud. Hoax. All words that describe my relationship with Callum Hanson. It didn't start out that way. We used to be friends. That is until high school, when Callum decided he was too cool to be seen with his less than popular next-door neighbor. So, imagine my surprise when out of the blue, after nearly four years of pretending like I don't exist, he offers to swoop in and save the day by promising to help me catch the eye of the boy I've been pining after for nearly two years. The only catch... I have to lie. To everyone. Pretending to be his girlfriend turned out to be a lot easier than I thought it would. I was surprised by how well I fit into his world, and how well he fit into mine. Before long though, the lines between fake and real started to blur. I began to see Callum as more than just Norwood High's star football player and manwhore extraordinaire. And the more time I spent with him, the more I wanted it all to be real. But that's the problem with telling lies. No matter how pretty they sound, at the end of the day they're still lies. I just wish someone would explain that to my heart.