Jessica Gadziala
Reign (The Navesink Bank Henchmen MC, #1)
Jessica Gadziala
Alternate cover edition - ASIN B017JX376O
One notorious 1%er
One innocent trapped in an impossible situation
One vicious crime lord
Three people who aren't who they appear to be
= one big (bloody) mess.
Reign is no stranger to the criminal underbelly and hard life, but when a random woman comes (literally) crashing into his life- learning things she has no business knowing, and bringing with her the weight of the city's biggest skin trader- the "hard life" starts to take on a whole new meaning.
Monster (Savages, #1)
Jessica Gadziala
Alex has had one mission since she was sixteen:
destroy the man who destroyed her life.
And all was going to plan until one night, a huge
mammoth of a man breaks into her apartment and kidnaps her,
holding her hostage for the very man she was bent on bringing down.
Breaker has one rule: he doesn't deal in women.
But when he's conned into a job for the city's most ruthless
crime lord, he finds himself in charge of a fiery-tempered
hacker who he can't seem to keep his hands off of.
When passions ignite and feelings emerge, will Breaker be
able to reconcile his loyalties before it is too late or
will their shaky foundation of trust start crumbling beneath
their feet?
This is a stand alone with a HEA.
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Counterfeit Love
Jessica Gadziala
Finch can spot a fake a mile away.
Raised in the Bayou with crime in his veins,
he managed to turn his talent into a career.
Making money.
Racking up a few enemies along the way.
On the run from one of those, he starts over
in a new town.
Where he meets her.
Full of lists and guards and attitude.
Someone beautiful enough to make even blackmail seem sexy.
Chris has lived through hell.
And she’s made it her mission
to take out all the devils still walking around.
The only problem?
She needs seed money for the project.
Which is where he comes in.
The best counterfeiter around.
Someone with a past that can be used against him.
She has everything planned out.
Except the impossible.
Something she never could have prepared for.
Something she is sure she never could experience.
Interest.
Attraction.
Things that had been taken from her years ago.
But as much as she tries, there is no denying what is growing between them.
In a world full of fake, can they find something real?
The Woman with the Ring
Jessica Gadziala
Primo Esposito snatched me off the street in a ploy to bring long-sought peace between the Families.
His proposal was simple.
Me, my life, my future.
In exchange for a ceasefire.
If I said no, it would mean the immediate slaughter of my friends, of all my family.
There had never been a choice at all.
So I found myself agreeing to marry the most notorious, the most ruthless, the most violent of all the Five Families bosses. A man so evil, so cold, that no woman could love him.
Least of all the one who’d been forced into marriage with him.
As the days turned to weeks and the weeks to months, though, there was no denying a primal sort of attraction, an unexpected and irrational sort of affection.
But enemies could be found around every corner, ones that threatened to steal away the very thing I claimed I never wanted, the heart and love of a man who I’d never seen coming, one I never wanted to lose…
There Better Be Pie
Jessica Gadziala
Juliette Ugh. Trip Martin. He was the fly in my ointment. He was the black cloud on my sunny day. But everyone thought I was crazy. Why was I the only person who could see how insufferable he was? And why, after my parents invited him to share our family Thanksgiving, was I suddenly seeing him in a whole new light? Trip Juliette Kensley. Pampered princess. Stubborn as the day was long. But to everyone else, she was a ray of sunshine. Why did she get under my skin so easily? And how, after getting to know her better, was I going to survive a long weekend with her and her family? I'll tell you one thing— There better be pie. * A short, sweet, sexy, slow-burn Thanksgiving novella. *
Love Him Like Water (Lombardi Family, #1)
Jessica Gadziala
In the heart of the city, alliances are forged in the shadows and sealed with vows.
Renzo Lombardi, the notoriously ruthless leader of an organized crime family, sees the chance to end the feud with his rivals, the Costa family, demanding a ceasefire in the form of a marriage contract.
Lore Costa, the shy, sweet princess of the Costa family, goes against her family’s wishes, and finds herself thrust into a new world when she agrees to marry Renzo, her secret infatuation.
It isn’t long before Lore discovers that the fairytale romance she’d dreamed of is anything but, as Renzo becomes consumed with the demands of his legacy, becoming a ghost haunting the shadows of Lore’s life, and leaving her adrift in a sea of loneliness.
By the time Renzo realizes his mistakes and tries to win back the heart of the woman he never knew he needed, whispers of greed and betrayal threaten to tear apart everything they have begun to hold dear, testing their fragile bonds amidst the treacherous currents of power and deception…- This is a standalone story with steam, no cheating, and an hea -
Primal
Jessica Gadziala
After a bad year stuck at a job she hated, feeling less and less fulfilled each day, Maribelle decided to pack up her life and head back to the place she remembered feeling the happiest. The cabin where she spent her summers with her grandmother when she was still alive.
A place full of folklore about the creatures who lived in the woods, stories Maribelle always thought were the silly, superstitious ramblings from an old lady.
It turns out there were creatures.
And one of them had set his sights on her.
Peace, Love, & Macarons
Jessica Gadziala
I was raised to always be sure of three things: always put money in your savings account; never rely on a man; and know that no matter what, you can always come home.
Had I maybe heeded the ingenious advice of the former two, I wouldn’t be suffering the humiliation of the latter.
And it was humiliating. Not just because I had to go home at twenty-seven years old, but because I had to go home to my small town and tell them that I had been proposed to and dumped within twenty-four hours by a man I had been with for five years.
I had no idea at the time, though, that going home to lick my wounds and reevaluate my life would also lead me right into the hands of a man I never could have expected…
* This is a short, sweet, insta-lust story with lots of steam, explicit sex scenes, and ‘foul language’.
Stuffed: A Thanksgiving Romance
Jessica Gadziala
I haven't been home for Thanksgiving in six years. A couple days before I leave to head home, I am informed that my brother's best friend, and also my huge, obnoxious adolescent crush, will be there as well.
So among a shaky work situation, a newfound potato chip addiction, and the usual stress of heading home for the holidays, I have a sudden urge to prove that I was no longer the mumbling, bumbling girl in Hogwarts robes and her nose in a book.
Not that anything was going to happen between us. Those hopes had died around the time I headed off to college.
But maybe....
** This is a quick romance full of sweet moments and enough steam to keep you turning the pages.
Unwrapped
Jessica Gadziala
Lyra was determined to have a classic, good old-fashioned, traditional Christmas this year complete with snow, gingerbread houses, lights, and wrapped presents. Even if that meant she had to have it completely on her own.
And that was the plan as she drove out of the City and up into the steep hills of Vermont toward some secluded cabins where she could have what was totally not going to be a depressing head-in-the-oven-Christmas-For-One.
She never quite made it to the cabins. And, along the way, found that while a Christmas alone wasn’t all that great, a Christmas for two, yeah, that was pretty amazing…
* This is a short, sweet, insta-lust, insta-love story with a ton of sweet moments and a lot of steam. Very explicit sexual content.
The Woman with the Warning (Grassi Family, #7)
Jessica Gadziala
He’s a mafia capo ready to make a lucrative deal with a man he thinks he can trust.She’s a captive in the clutches of a madman, but ready to risk everything to deliver a message to a handsome, mysterious the deal he’s about to make is a deadly trap.With her captor injured, and pride bruised from having his plans thwarted, tensions are higher than ever. And she knows the only hope for her and her infant son lies in escape. Right to the one man she feels she can dare to trust.* All books in this series can be read as stand alone.
The Messenger (Professionals, #3)
Jessica Gadziala
He’s loved her since the day he met her. She’s been either oblivious or uninterested. And now she is set to marry another man. So, he decided he had to let her go. But when he finds her on what was supposed to be the happiest day of her life, staining her wedding dress with tears, needing help, he realizes he had never let go. And now that he has the chance, he will stop at nothing to show her that he was the one she was meant to be with all along.
Hell Hath No Fury: A Romance Anthology for Reproductive Rights
Jessica Gadziala
We will not be silent.
We will not stand down.
We are furious.
We are the storm.
More than forty of your favorite authors have gotten together to create an anthology where 100% of the proceeds go toward charities fighting for our reproductive rights.
Participating Authors
Alexandria Bishop :: :: Karina Halle:: Amelia Wilde :: Amie Knight :: Anna B. Doe :: Anna Edwards :: Anne Malcom :: Anne Mercier :: Bella Matthews :: BT Urruela :: Cali Melle :: Carly Phillips :: Cassandra Robbins :: Claire Hastings :: Clarissa Wild :: Sandy Alvarez and Crystal Daniels :: Danielle Pearl :: Darcy Rose :: Dee Palmer :: Dove Cavanaugh King :: Eden Summers :: Ella Fields :: Evie Mitchell :: Giana Darling :: Hannah McBride :: India R Adams :: Ivy Fox :: Jack Davenport :: Jenika Snow :: Jessica Gadziala :: Kat T. Masen :: KL Donn :: LP Lovell and Stevie J Cole :: Max Henry :: Nicole Blanchard :: Nikki Belaire :: Piper Davenport :: Sade Rena :: Saffron A. Kent :: Samantha Young :: Sarah Bale :: Serena Akeroyd :: Sierra Glass :: Skye Warren :: Susanne Valenti and Caroline Peckham :: Willow Winters
Of Snakes and Men
Jessica Gadziala
Andres “A” Alcazar.
Ruthless cartel leader.
The last man in the world Hope wanted anything to do with. Until he was swaggering into her private investigation office.
He needed to find a snake in his organization. And he wanted her to do it. Falling for him was never part of the plan…
The Woman in the Woods (Costa Family Book 8)
Jessica Gadziala
There’s more than secrets hiding in the woods…Silvano got the call in the middle of the night.Another set of bodies he needed to pick up and get rid of.As the mafia’s one-man crime scene clean-up crew, he was used to the long hours in the woods, digging graves for bodies that would never be found.What he wasn’t used to was being caught doing it.But this woman in the woods, she had her own demons she was running from, hiding away in a hunting cabin to stay safe.Only, she wasn’t safe enough.When Silvano comes back to investigate the mysterious woman, he finds her brutally beaten at the edge of the woods.Instincts he didn’t know he possessed kicked in, telling him to pick her up, to take her back to the city with him, to protect her, and to figure out what kind of trouble she’d gotten herself into…* All books in this series can be read as standalones.
Revenge (Reckless Renegades MC, #1)
Jessica Gadziala
Thayer
He took everything from me.
My friends.
My family.
My club.
My freedom.
I planned to get it all back.
I didn't need any distractions.
Yet there she was anyway...
Sera
He took the only thing that mattered to me.
I would do just about anything to get it back.
Even if that meant relying on some outlaw biker fresh
out of prison with slim to no hope of succeeding in
his plan.
It was supposed to be a simple arrangement.
Quid pro quo.
Just business.
Nothing personal.
But there was no denying it, things were quickly
getting very personal...
The Babysitter (Professionals, #5)
Jessica Gadziala
He went to the woods to get away from it all. His past, the demons ever at his heels. And, perhaps most importantly, people. One million miles away from anyone. Save for the occasional visit from a client he had to endure. And that was exactly the way he liked it. Until one night, he finds her. Battered, scarred, tortured by the memories, in need of a safe haven. So he does the unthinkable. He offers to share his with her. It’s not long before feelings start to arise. Yet the demons refuse to stay at bay. And two fractured people will have to see if it is possible to come together… without breaking everything apart.
Virgin (Navesink Bank Henchmen MC, #16)
Jessica Gadziala
Virgin - Growing up in MCs, he was used to the status quo. Brotherhood. Parties. Women in passing. And he was sure that was all he would ever want - or need. Until one night, he came across her. Freddie - She had ten years to make up for. Old bonds to reinforce. Revenge to plot and execute. The last thing she expected was an arms-dealing biker to come into her life, making her second-guess all her plans for her future…
The General (Professionals, #4)
Jessica Gadziala
Everyone in Navesink Bank knows about Senator Ericsson’s son, his wife, and the story that hit headlines that eventually led to one of the Mallick boys going to jail for assault. What became of that woman after being coerced into lying on the stand was unknown. That was until late one night when a phone rang in the offices of Quinton Baird & Associates. And her voice was on the other end of the line.
A Navesink Bank Christmas
Jessica Gadziala
What you have all been asking for!
5 short Christmas stories.
Where we revisit couples of the past.
Reign & Summer.
Cash & Lo.
Wolf & Janie.
Breaker & Alex.
Paine & Elsie.
** This is not a standalone, and must be read after you have read the five main books mentioned above **
14 Weeks (Investigators, #2)
Jessica Gadziala
I was a bit of a wild child.
I had a past.
I had gotten into trouble.
All that was behind me, though.
And for the first time in my life, trouble had found me.
When the other private investigators wouldn’t help me, I found the huge, hulking Tig willing to lend his expertise. What I didn’t expect was the growing attraction between us or the crazy series of events that would put our budding relationship to the test.
Tig + Kenzi's story.
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Pagan (Navesink Bank Henchmen MC, #8)
Jessica Gadziala
Pagan-
Fighting. F@cking. F@cking things up. That was my life. That was how I got out of the world I had been raised in. And it was how I intended to keep living my life.
That was, of course, until I came across her. The game changer.
Kennedy-
Hard work. That was pretty much all you could say my life consisted of. It was what got me out of a rough childhood. It was what made me get my first taste of success. Before things went to hell, that is. But it was what was going to get me back on my feet too. So I didn’t need any distractions. Certainly not one that came covered in scars, blood, leather, and in a cloud of cigarette smoke.
Yet, there he was.
And I was thinking maybe a distraction wouldn’t be that bad, right?
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Renny (Navesink Bank Henchmen MC, #6)
Jessica Gadziala
One war.
Two people trying to find love among the wreckage.
Five big surprises.
The fate of entire beloved organization in the balance?
One big, sexy, bloody, hell of a ride.
Don't Come
Jessica Gadziala
The Dom
I’m not broken, tortured, or scarred, some cliched, overdone and sensationalized misconception about this lifestyle… and the men in it who control their submissives with a strong hand.
I’m just a Dom. Just a man who gets off on a woman who entrusts me with her submission. Just a man who loves to be able to show them all the ways the gift of their trust can bring them untold, never-before-experienced layers of pleasure.
But casually.
Just play. Just sex.
Nothing more.
Until I came across her.
She’s everything a Dom as experienced as I am shouldn’t want - new to the lifestyle, unsure, untrained. It should never have gone beyond those first few exchanges online. But there was something about her, something that kept me texting, calling, teaching her to trust me enough to meet with me.
After one touch, one taste, one night, I knew there was no going back. She was mine. And I was going to show her everything she had been craving from a man all her life.
I guess I just had no idea - or at least didn’t want to admit to myself - that this was different, she was different, we were different. And once I got to have her, I wanted to keep her.
You know… if I could convince her to stay…
Adley
It was just a drunken decision.
I woke up after a night of a little - okay, a lot - of ‘Thirty is just a number’ drinking to find that drunk-me had decided to do something that sober-me would never have had the guts to do, no matter how much I wanted it.
I had joined a D/s dating site.
And I was totally, absolutely going to delete my account and move on with my life. A life where I had secretly been craving a hand strong enough to take the control I held onto so tightly away from me.
Except I had a message.
From him.
I could never have anticipated the pull I felt toward him, how strong the need within me would be to feel him show me all the things I had been wanting, but denying myself.
I didn’t know it could feel like it did, that it could consume me, that it could make me crave not only his touch, but him.
It was dangerous territory, slowing falling for a man who made it clear that what was between us was casual. He wouldn’t even tell me his real name. And as things started to get more intense - both physically and emotionally - I had to start to debate whether the pleasure he gave me was worth staying for if it leads to a heartbreak I was sure I wasn’t prepared for…
The Woman on the Jury (Costa Family Book 7)
Jessica Gadziala
The last thing in the world she needed was to be stuck on a murder trial for some mafia capo. All she wanted to do was hear the facts and get this all over with, so she could get back to rebuilding her family’s crumbling antique business.
Until she puts some pieces together that has her not only thinking that Cosimo Costa had done something for the greater good, but that she couldn’t let him go to jail for it.
She had no regrets about deadlocking the jury until someone involved with the trial started to come after her.
And the only person she had to turn to for help was the man she’d saved from life behind bars…* Each book in this series can be read as a standalone *
I Like Being Watched
Jessica Gadziala
“I knew about the cameras. He didn’t know I liked being watched.”
After her best friend quits her job working as a house manager for a billionaire because there were cameras all around, Wynn decides to get the job for herself. Then start teasing her new boss through the cameras...
(* This book is short-ish and extra spicy with only the thinnest thread of plot, and a HEA. If that doesn’t sound like what you’re looking for, this may not be the book for you.)
Wolf (Navesink Bank Henchmen MC, #3)
Jessica Gadziala
The Henchmen return to finally give us Wolf & Janie’s story.
He was just supposed to be saving her from herself… and the half dozen criminal enterprises that would want her blood when they realized what she had done.
What he hadn’t planned on was her invading every aspect of his life with her fiery temper and inability to take no for an answer. And when he finally got beneath her walls and found out why she had gotten herself into trouble in the first place, he knew what he needed to do.
He sure as hell didn’t think he would end up being the one who would need saving…
* This can be read as a stand-alone and has a HEA, but features characters from The Henchmen and Savages series.
** This is a DARK read. Anyone with triggers may want to avoid this title. For a list of possible triggers, follow this link:
http://www.jessicagadziala.com/triggers.html
Killer (Savages, #2)
Jessica Gadziala
Shooter
I ran away when I was fifteen and never looked back. I built a new life: good friends, wild adventures, and an endless parade of gorgeous women. But then I got a call that changed everything; a call that told me it was time to go back and face my demons.
I never thought I'd find an angel along the way...
Amelia
He was the absolute last thing I needed in my life: someone incapable of taking anything seriously, a notorious ladies' man, oh, and did I mention... a killer? As in, he shot people. For a living. Yeah, definitely someone I had no plans on letting in. Except, he set his sights on me and, well, when a man like him laid on the charm, he did it thick and in a way that made you never want him to stop. My only saving grace was that he was only in town for a few days.
But when I found myself in a situation and he was the only one who had any answers, well, let's just say... things got complicated...
* This is a stand-alone with a HEA, but features side characters from "Reign", "Monster", and "Cash"
** For possible triggers, please visit: http://www.jessicagadziala.com/triggers.html
Cash (Navesink Bank Henchmen MC, #2)
Jessica Gadziala
The Henchmen return, this time with CASH as our leading man.
CASH
My life has been about three things- brotherhood, good times, and women. Easy. Nothing complicated. That was until Willow Swift came barging back into my life, face bloodied, banging at the gates of The Henchmen compound calling in a favor owed. Now a marker is a marker and I had to make good, but if there was one woman in the world I didn't need in my life, it was the hard-as-stone, hot-as-sin Willow Swift and whatever mysterious ghosts from her past that were haunting her present.
WILLOW
My life has been nothing but two things: hard and complicated. The last person I wanted in my business was the notorious love-em and leave-em Cash, but I needed help and he was the only one I could lean on without worrying about him finding out about my past. But I was starting to wonder if maybe he was his own kind of dangerous bent on tearing down some things I had long since learned were not possible for me- like falling for a guy I could not, ever, let see the real me.
While this can be read as a stand-alone, you will get more out of this book if you read "Reign" and "Monster" first.
* For possible triggers, go here: http://www.jessicagadziala.com/triggers.html *
Roan (Navesink Bank Henchmen MC, #17)
Jessica Gadziala
He’s been waiting for a storm for years. Well… she has finally blown into town. — He’d always been good at starting over. That had been his job for a long time. New country, new identity, new scumbag to track down, and bring to justice. It was just the job. Until, suddenly, someone made it more. But life had plans that didn’t involve white picket fences and happily-ever-afters. And there was no choice but to move on. That didn’t mean ghosts of the past didn’t plague him, follow him no matter how many times he changed his name, how many places he ran to. Eventually, he traded one world for another. The past seemed as far behind him as it was possible. Until one day, it was there. She was there. Life didn’t offer many second chances. And he was hellbent on making things right. Even if she didn’t want anything to do with him ever again.
N.Y.E.
Jessica Gadziala
What do you do when your career is stagnant and one of the biggest businessmen in the city offers you the opportunity of a lifetime? To plan a New Year’s Eve party for thousands of his employees. On too short of notice. With no plan. With an almost assured chance of failure? Well, you take it, of course. Or at least, that is what Sage Walters decides to do, sure that if she could pull it off, this would be the job that would catapult her career to a whole new level that doesn’t involve one gender reveal party after another. Of course, she’d have to not only contend with the impossibility of pulling off the event on such short of notice, but the overbearing, micromanaging, condescending CEO of Calgary Industries - Grant Calgary himself, their constant bickering, and the completely irrational, unprofessional - yet undeniable - chemistry between them… * This is a short, light, but sexy New Year’s Eve novella
Roderick (Navesink Bank Henchmen MC, #15)
Jessica Gadziala
Roderick He joined the MC for many reasons. To be able to financially take care of his mother and sisters, to have fun, to let loose, to meet women. But only casually. Only for a night or two. He wasn’t ready to settle down. Until one day, when the president gives him a job. Just drop the guns, get the money, come home. Don’t f— it up. Except everything goes to hell. And he has just six weeks to find the woman who stole the guns, work with her to track down replacements, and try not to get too distracted. The problem being, Livianna - the gun-running leader of a rag-tag group of arms dealers turns out to be one hell of a distraction…
Adler (Navesink Bank Henchmen MC, #14)
Jessica Gadziala
He decided it was time to retire, settle down, become something nice and tame. Like an arms-dealing biker in some town called Navesink Bank. He could get behind that lifestyle. He'd anticipated a lot of things. Drinking. Brotherhood. A little action peppered in here and there to keep things from getting too dull. But there was one thing he hadn't planned on. A woman moving in across the hall from him. The way something within him recognized something inside her. A past. Secrets. Darkness. Hidden behind thick walls, impenetrable shields, and a biting sort of confidence. He damn sure couldn’t have prepared himself for the sudden and uncharacteristic urge to force his way into her life, get her to open up to him, feel comfortable enough to give her all the dark and ugly parts of his past. And - dare he even think it - plan a future with her. You know… if she would stop disappearing for weeks at a time without a clue as to where she was going…
Mallicks: Back to the Beginning (Mallick Brothers #5)
Jessica Gadziala
A girl raised by monsters. A man who helped get her free. A love that spans decades. Let's go back to the 80s to see how Charlie and Helen Mallick fell in love.
The Fall of V (Navesink Bank Henchmen MC, #13)
Jessica Gadziala
They knew she was going to strike back for taking down her empire, for imprisoning her for years. All those years stuck in a cell gave her a lot of time to think, to plot, to plan her revenge. But they couldn't have anticipated this. * This can not be read as a standalone. ** This is also not a romance. This is a dramatic suspense story told from many POVs including old favorites and some new faces, all dealing with the events before, during, and after V's eventual demise.
Fix It Up
Jessica Gadziala
“The chance of a lifetime. With one little catch.” All Brinley Spears has ever dreamed about since she completed design school four years ago was getting noticed. By the right people. By the right companies. Anyone who could finally help launch her career onto a new level. Unfortunately, the opportunity comes to her in the aisle of a home improvement store while she was arguing with the world’s most irritating contractor… Warren Reyes. It was everything she ever wanted, the chance to star in HITV’s hit show Fix It Up. There’s one problem though. The producers think Brin and Warren are married. And want them as a pair… or not at all. So, desperate for the opportunity she has always wanted, Brin hatches a plan. One fake marriage. One season of a show. And then they can both go their separate ways. You know, if they don’t kill each other first...
Sugar (The Henchmen MC #12)
Jessica Gadziala
Sugar had known a lot of women in his life. But he’d never met anyone quite like this mermaid-haired, tattooed, pierced, smartass woman named Peyton who made it clear she didn’t want anything from him except as many orgasms as he could give her. So what was he supposed to do when he realized he did want more? How was he supposed to get this woman who was so committed to non-commitment to take a chance on him? Or convince the loansharks and ex-armed robbers that loved her that he was worthy? All the while trying to figure out how a dead man from his past had somehow come back to life… and why he was coming for him…
Dr. Chase Hudson (The Surrogate, #2)
Jessica Gadziala
This is not a stand-alone and must be read after The Sex Surrogate
You asked for it, now you're getting it: a novella from Dr. Hudson's POV plus an epilogue so we can catch up with Chase and Ava.
Here you will find answers to your questions about Chase's childhood, how he got into surrogacy, and what, exactly, his feelings were for Ava while he was working with her.
* For possible triggers, go here: http://www.jessicagadziala.com/triggers.html *
The Sex Surrogate (The Surrogate, #1)
Jessica Gadziala
AVA has been suffering from sexual dysfunction for years. Tired of not being able to have a normal relationship with a man, she is steered in the direction of DR. CHASE HUDSON, a psychologist and sexual surrogate. When she signed up for her sessions, she wasn't prepared for his god-like good looks or her instant, intense, and growing connection with him. But as things heat up... and professional lines get blurred, she is forced to confront the question: What are you supposed to do when you start falling for your sex surrogate?
* There will be a companion novella from Chase's POV due out this winter with an extended epilogue. Stay tuned. *
Expanded/revised edition November 2015
* For possible triggers, go here: http://www.jessicagadziala.com/triggers.html *
Reeve (Navesink Bank Henchmen MC, #11)
Jessica Gadziala
Reeve
I had long since given up hope of the pursuit of genuine happiness. It wasn’t possible after all the sh*t I had been through. I had my siblings, my club, a purpose in life. It was enough.
Until I came across her.
She represented everything that I knew I couldn’t have - stability, a future, a way out of my past.
And, it seemed, the harder I tried to keep her at a distance, to protect her from my reality, she only got in deeper, only pulled me closer.
Then, one night, an old face popped up in Navesink Bank. And everything changed forever.
Rey
I liked my life. I liked the freedom and simplicity of it, even if it was, perhaps, a little lonely.
Then one night, there he was.
With the saddest eyes I had ever seen.
He represented everything my life didn’t need - chaos, violence, uncertainty. But, at the same time, everything it was lacking - companionship, connection.
He tried to fight it, to keep up his guards, to keep me at arm’s length.
But, well, fate had other plans.
That was the night everything changed.
Down an alley, facing down a new, yet familiar, big bad in Navesink Bank, forcing us together, making us confront the reality of what was happening between us.
Trapped together, waiting for the winds to blow over, he finally trusted me enough to let me in, to give us a shot, to invite me into his family.
That is, if all of us survived the upcoming storm…
Grudge Match
Jessica Gadziala
An underground fight club.
A woman who shouldn’t have been there.
And the man who owns it.
**—**
Ross Ward is bound by the chains of his past he never could seem to shake, leaving him living in darkness, detached from the world around him, and an obsessive workaholic with really only one rule : mind your own business.
Until one night, there was Adalind Hollis - scared, confused, in need of help. And for the first time, he couldn’t convince himself to walk away, to mind his own business.
Even after she was getting the care she needed, he couldn’t seem to make himself stay away. But keeping her close meant he would eventually have to let her in, would have to offer over the horrors of his past, and hope she could accept them.
But even if she would embrace his past, could she accept his plan to exact brutal, bloody vengeance against the man who hurt her?
Vigilante
Jessica Gadziala
A new stand-alone dark romance from bestselling author Jessica Gadziala
I’m a bad guy.
I do bad things.
But I do them for the right reasons.
That’s why I can sleep easy at night even with the smell of fresh blood still in my nostrils.
One more scumbag off the streets.
One more righting of a wrong.
That was all my life was about.
Until I came across her…
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Savior (Savages, #3)
Jessica Gadziala
Elsie has a problem. She has a mystery she is bent on solving, a mystery that led her to run for her life down the streets of Navesink Bank until she found herself rescued by a sexy stranger.
Paine has a past. He’s done everything in his power to move on from it, to distance himself from the things he has done. But then one night he finds himself saving a woman whose naive dabbling in matters she doesn’t understand threatens to drag him right back into the world he had done unspeakable things to escape from in the first place…
* This is a stand-alone with an HEA, but features secondary characters from "Monster" and "Killer".
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Eli (Mallick Brothers, #4)
Jessica Gadziala
Six years on the inside gave a man a lot of time to think. And a lot of time to plan. When I got out, I was determined for things to go a different way. I never wanted to lose control and rage out again.
The only way to accomplish that, though, was to shut it all down.
Complete disconnect.
That meant no family, no friends, no links to anything attached to the man I was before.
Of course the problem was, I never factored HER into my plans. And try as I might, I couldn’t find a way to shut it down, to disconnect from her.
I had a sneaking suspicion she was going to take all my carefully constructed plans and toss them out the window, was going to force me to face up the demons inside and confront the ghosts from my past.
Those ghosts?
They wore the faces of my family.
And a confrontation with them, yeah, I had a feeling it was going to show me that I had spent six years taking action on beliefs about the demons inside. Demons that had never actually existed in the first place…
Mark (Mallick Brothers, #3)
Jessica Gadziala
Mark-
Love and commitment might be great. You know, for my brothers. Not for me. But then, in a chance meeting, I came across her. Why was she different? I couldn’t say for sure. Maybe it was the fact that she was the most gorgeous woman I had ever seen. Maybe it was the the sharp edges she wore like a shield that made me want to see what was beneath. Or maybe it had something to do with whatever secret she was trying so desperately to hide.
Scotti-
Love and commitment weren’t even in the realm of possibilities for me. My life had one purpose, one mission, and I couldn’t afford to let anyone get in the way. But then there was Mark Mallick - ladies man, loanshark enforcer, and very determined to know my secrets.
That was problematic any day, but especially so with him. Why? Maybe because the things he would offer me, the things he would show me were possibilities for me, could make me reevaluate the mission that had completely consumed the last ten years of my life.
But could I have those things? Could I escape the life I had been trapped in for so long? With Mark Mallick by my side, I was thinking maybe it was possible…
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Ryan (Mallick Brothers, #2)
Jessica Gadziala
RYAN
She was perfect:
Sweet, smart, awkwardly adorable, and beautiful as hell.
The only problem was:
she was terrified to leave her apartment.
And, apparently, she had somehow gotten herself wrapped up with some pretty bad guys to boot.
DUSTY
He was perfect:
He was a living, breathing, walking, talking statue come to life.
But when would a man like that ever want to be with a woman who was too anxious to even walk into the hallway? Let alone go on a date with him. Or meet the family he was so close with.
That being said, he seemed interested for some reason.
So obviously, he was just as crazy as I was.
On top of that whole confusion situation, something was going on with my business partners. And things were about to go straight to hell…
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Edison (The Navesink Bank Henchmen MC, #10)
Jessica Gadziala
Lenny
I have one mission in life.
Revenge.
I didn’t have time for anything else.
Let alone the mysterious, unfairly good-looking member of a local outlaw biker gang.
But Edison is not the kind of man to be easily ignored, and the closer he gets, the more I seem to sway from my mission.
Until the unthinkable happens.
Edison
She’s special.
That has always been my type, women with that ‘something’ that you can’t quite put your finger on. And Lenny with her knife-sharp tongue, stubbornness, and guards thicker than almost any I had ever seen, yeah, she had that thing. And I wanted to put my finger on it.
Finger. Mouth. Tongue… everything on her.
But Lenny is hiding things.
And it wasn’t until her world shatters around her that I finally get to see what was beneath them all along. And it is more than I could have ever hoped for. It's something I want to hold onto. I guess the only thing left is to get that through her stubborn head as well…
Shane (Mallick Brothers, #1)
Jessica Gadziala
He breaks bones for a living. She talks dirty for cash. But neither of them is ready for what happens next…
Shane Mallick doesn’t do relationships—he breaks kneecaps and collects debts for his family’s loan shark business. But when his meddling mother demands he bring a date to family dinner, he’s desperate enough to strike a deal with the last woman he should want—Lea, the mysterious, sharp-tongued phone sex operator working for his sister-in-law.
Lea needs cash, and fast. A fake date with the grumpy enforcer? Easy money. Except nothing about Shane is easy—especially when one dinner turns into another, and their arrangement keeps pulling them back together. His rough edges shouldn’t tempt her. Her secrets should send him running. But neither one can seem to stay away.
Shane’s world is dangerous—but Lea’s past might be deadlier. And when the threats closing in on her collide with the woman he would kill to protect, they’ll have to decide if what’s between them is just business…or something that’s worth risking everything for.
Cyrus (Navesink Bank Henchmen MC, #9)
Jessica Gadziala
Cyrus
Family. Brotherhood. Music. Women.
That was pretty much my life. And it was one I was happy with too. Until I came across her- the one woman I knew I had no right to put my hands on, the woman who I still felt such a connection with that, even though I knew I had to keep my hands - and other body parts - to myself, I wanted to be in her life.
So I became her friend.
Except, this sweet, shy, bookworm was making being honorable a hell of a lot harder than I expected.
Reese
Family. Books.
To be perfectly honest, that was pretty much all my life was about. And I was happy with that. I lived a thousand lives. I saw and felt things in stories I never could have otherwise.
Besides, real life was never as good as books.
Until I came across him.
He was leading man material if I ever saw it.
You know, just not for me.
He made that perfectly clear.
We were going to be friends.
Friends.
That was it.
Except, maybe that simply wasn’t enough…
Lazarus (Navesink Bank Henchmen MC, #7)
Jessica Gadziala
The war was over.
The dust had settled.
The numbers were increasing.
Everything had finally started to calm down.
Until one night on a walk, I came across her…
Duke (Navesink Bank Henchmen MC, #5)
Jessica Gadziala
It meant war.
DUKE
The relative peace we have known for years was gone in one violent act. Then, among the ever-present and increasingly bloody unknown threat, I met her.
But when passions ignite, complicating an already impossible situation, I am left to wonder if there is a way to overcome the dark and twisted secrets of my past that would allow me to have any kind of future with her.
PENNY
I was just a normal girl. I swear. One moment, I was just living my usual boring life. The next, I found myself in the middle of some kind of underground war between an outlaw biker gang and some faceless enemy.
Trapped in a whole new world and in ever-increasing close proximity to the tall, strong, long blond-haired, deep blue-eyed biker named Duke, yeah, let’s just say things got even more interesting.
But Duke had secrets.
And when they came into the light, I realized they were the kind that I wasn’t sure I could live with…
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Repo (Navesink Bank Henchmen MC, #4)
Jessica Gadziala
MAZE: In concept, the plan was simple: prospect at The Henchmen MC. In practice, however, it was anything but. One, because I was a woman. Two, because it was a brotherhood. And three, because Repo, the man who was in charge of making my life a living hell until I quit or screwed up enough to get thrown out, also happened to be the hottest guy I had come across in ages. The problem was, if I didn't get in and stay in despite the hazing from the members and the undeniable attraction building between me and Repo, there was a very good chance I would be found by them. And if I was found by them, well, I was dead. REPO: How the hell was I supposed to get her out of the MC when, one, I didn't agree with the fact that because she was a woman, she had no place in The Henchmen. Two, because she was strong, smart, capable, and determined to get a patch. And three, because, well, I wanted her. The problem was, if I didn't get her kicked out, I would be screwing up a job that was important to the prez. But the problem was also that if I kicked her out, there was no way I was going to get a shot with her. I didn't know, however, that the real problem was a lot more complicated and a lot more dangerous than disappointing my boss or not getting laid... the problem was Maze had demons and they were hot on her trail... * This can be read as a stand-alone and has an HEA but has side characters from the other Henchmen books.
For a Good Time, Call...
Jessica Gadziala
This is an alternate-cover edition for B011GGSY5Y.
Hunter is on the run from a past he wants nothing more than to forget about. He settles into his new life in a new city with a sexy new neighbor who goes out drinking every night and seems to have a lot of kinky, fantastic sex every day.
Fiona has more than a few scars from her past, nightmares so bad she cant be in her own apartment at night. She spends her days moaning like a porn star to her phone sex callers and putting up walls so thick no one can break them down.
That is until she keeps getting woken up from the hot new guy next door and goes over to confront him, sending them both into uncharted territory.
When their pasts come charging into their present, will they be able to heal the old wounds enough to let each other in? Or is there some damage that is simply too difficult to overcome?
The Fixer (Professionals, #1)
Jessica Gadziala
AVEN-
There are a few things I don’t believe in. Like santa. An honest politician. And gut instincts.
That was, of course, until I woke up with one.
And I knew.
This was the day I was going to die.
The cops, thus far, have proven useless and uninterested in my issues. When you couldn’t get help from legal channels, what other choice did you have but to look elsewhere?
That was how I came across Quinton Baird.
A “fixer.”
Whatever the hell that was.
All I knew was, I had a problem that needed fixing.
Hopefully, before it killed me.
QUIN-
There were a few things I could put my faith to rest in. My team. People f*cking up, and needing my help. And my gut.
So when my receptionist informed me that the woman in a case I decided wasn’t my kind of job was having a ‘gut feeling’ about being in desperate need of help, yeah, I dragged my a** across town to check things out.
Not only did I not bank on the fact that she was in trouble beyond what I could have anticipated, but she was not what I was expecting either. Beautiful, resilient, and one hell of a distraction I didn’t need.
As the pieces of her case start falling together, I was left wondering if maybe this new, unfamiliar sensation in my gut was telling me that Aven was much more than just another name on a case file…
The Ghost (Professionals, #2)
Jessica Gadziala
Sloane has everything she thought she ever wanted- a great career, a great apartment, great clothes, a life she had worked hard for. Until one night, one chance encounter, one decision that changed everything. With no options left, she enlists the help of Quinton Baird & Associates, who promptly inform her that she has to leave it all - the career, the apartment, the life she had worked so hard to build for herself - behind. If all that wasn’t enough, her entire future - and life in general - was in the hands of a man whose coworkers called ‘The Ghost.’ Because that was what he did; he ghosted people, hid them, gave them new lives, made them impossible to find. With no other choice, she agrees to his terms, climbs in a car with him, and travels almost clear across the country toward her new life. But the long hours on the road - and even longer hours in cabins and hotel rooms - together start to show her things. Like how unhappy she had actually been, how hollow her life was, how much she had denied herself in the name of superficial success. And maybe, just maybe, how much she was starting to see how wrong first impressions can be, and how much a person can begin to mean to you when you decided to let them in…
The Woman in the Trunk (Costa Family, #1)
Jessica Gadziala
I couldn’t stop my father from getting involved with the mafia.
When I was kidnapped and held as collateral for his debt, a lifetime of cleaning up his messes told me I couldn’t count on his help, either.
I would need to save myself.
A woman could only be pushed so far.
And I was finished with being a victim.
There was one problem.
Lorenzo Costa.
Underboss to the most powerful don of NYC’s Five Families.
Powerful.
Cunning.
Ruthless.
And far too sinful for his - or my - own good.
Our attraction grows in a city of old resentments,
boiling tensions,
resurfacing ghosts,
and a shift in power that threatens to spill more blood than the families have seen in generations.
Lives would be lost.
Loyalties would be tested,
And through it all I wondered,
would Lorenzo’s and my new bond weather the coming storm?
Or if we would survive at all…
367 Days (Investigators, #1)
Jessica Gadziala
I’m not crazy.
It’s not amnesia.
But I somehow lost a year of my life.
When the cops and doctors think you’re out of your mind, but you still need answers, where else is there to turn but a private investigator?
Sawyer is nothing you’d want in a friend- a little detached, cool, sarcastic, cocksure. But he’s everything you’d want in a private investigator- calm, capable, experienced, and just jaded enough by the darkness he’d seen to take a chance on some random girl who insists something more sinister must have happened to her than simple memory loss.
But thrown together, trying to get to the root of my mystery, feelings that were most definitely not client/professional start to emerge.
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The Executioner (Professionals, #10)
Jessica Gadziala
Bellamy
It was supposed to be an easy job.
Get another scumbag off the streets.
I never could have foreseen her ruining the plan.
Or having to whisk her away on my jet for both our safety.
And I certainly couldn’t have anticipated finding myself starting to fall for the blunt, sarcastic, kick-a$$ woman I found myself trapped in a safe house with.
Shawn
I never saw myself getting kidnapped by a billionaire and dragged around the world with him.
I definitely couldn’t have seen myself starting to have feelings for the walking red flag of a man.
What can I say? When it came to men, I’d never had the healthiest of taste.
But this Bellamy guy, he was the craziest of the bunch.
And despite the warning alarms ringing in my ears—and, you know, the bullets aimed at our heads—there was no denying that I was starting to fall for him.
The Sacrifice (Seven Sins MC, #1)
Jessica Gadziala
There was one in each generation.
Destined to leave their home, their coven, their way of life.
To fulfill the age-old treaty with the demons.
A Sacrifice.
We spoke of their fates in hushed whispers around open fires like ghost stories, conjuring tales, each more horrifying than the last.
I never thought I would become her.
The Sacrifice.
Ripped from everything I had known, thrown into a dark and uncertain world, my life in the hands of its purest evil.
Nothing could have prepared me for the truth.
Or the growing warmth I felt toward one of my captors.
But the questions remained:
What did they want from me?
What would happen to me once they took it?
What price was I willing to pay?
And what would I willing to sacrifice to hold onto a love I never saw coming?
The Woman at the Docks (Grassi Family, #1)
Jessica Gadziala
You didn’t have to be in the criminal underbelly to understand one fundamental rule: You don’t mess with the mafia.
But what other choice did she have?
In the gritty town of Navesink Bank, Luca Grassi reigns as the capo of the town’s mafia, and maintains strict control over the docks, where clandestine black market products flow into the area.
When a determined woman trespasses on his territory, Luca’s world is thrown into disarray.
Caught between duty and desire, Luca finds himself drawn to the beautiful and mysterious intruder.
But Romy isn’t your ordinary trespasser. She’s on a mission to learn the truth behind her sister’s disappearance. And this truth might just lead right into the heart of the empire of the man she’s just starting to love…
Niro (Henchmen MC - Next Generation, #1)
Jessica Gadziala
Joining the MC had never been a question.Raised by an ex-cage-fighting member, Niro hadn’t seen any future for himself that didn’t involve bikes, guns, violence, and the brotherhood he’d learned to revere above all else.But joining the Henchmen meant he couldn’t have the only other thing in life he wanted.Andi.The daughter of one of the OG members of the club.His childhood best friend.The only chink in his otherwise impenetrable armor.For years she was gone.And he did everything he could to forget her, to become the kind of monster she would never look twice at again.The problem was, she was back in town. And new enemies were around every corner. Ones who might set their sights on the only woman who could ever mean anything to him…* You do not need to read the first generation Henchmen books to enjoy this new series.
Huck (Golden Glades Henchmen MC, #1)
Jessica Gadziala
HUCK Who would have thought that setting up a chapter would be such a hassle? I was no stranger to the life of crime, But chopping cars and running guns were leagues apart. Especially when there were other bad guys in the area that didn’t take too kindly to our arrival on the scene. So my hands were already full when she showed up, the spunky blue-haired neighbor who just wanted a little peace and quiet. How was I supposed to know that one nice gesture on my part would threaten to bring the whole thing toppling down around us? HARMON Who would have thought that moving next to a biker clubhouse would be such a hassle? All I really wanted was to be left alone. I had work to do, and between the bikes and babes, I wasn’t getting anything done. But when one little drive-by pushes me out of my comfort zone and into a world where trouble can hide around every corner, How can I suddenly be a target in a game I didn’t even know I was playing?
The Woman on the Exam Table (Costa Family, #4)
Jessica Gadziala
Whitney had enough going on. She didn’t need any more drama in her life.
But when a terrifying encounter leaves her inexplicably entwined with the New York City mafia, and a man known as Salvatore “the Surgeon” Costa, in particular, it was clear that her life was never going to be the same…
The Woman in the Scope (Grassi Family, #2)
Jessica Gadziala
I made a deal with a devil in a black suit. Stuck in a life that had been nothing but misery, when I saw an opportunity to break free, I grabbed it with both hands. That opportunity came in the form of Lucky Grassi—a capo in the New Jersey mafia, and the one man who could help me navigate the dangers of my plan. I never planned for it to be anything more than a professional arrangement. One touch from him had me rethinking all my plans for my future. But there was still danger all around. There was no way to know if we would even live long enough to explore what was growing between us…
The Woman with the Target on Her Back (Grassi Family, #6)
Jessica Gadziala
The mafia owed her a favor. One she never meant to cash in on. Until one night, she found herself needing help, and desperate enough to call the last man in the world she ever wanted to have to rely on. A man who she couldn’t seem to have a single civil conversation with. But for better or worse, she needed him to keep her safe. If they didn’t kill each other in the process…
The Woman in Harm's Way (Grassi Family, #5)
Jessica Gadziala
Savannah had never considered herself a brave person. So saving the life of a customer at her restaurant when men had burst in with guns drawn had simply been instinct.
There was no way for her to know that the man she’d saved was a member of the local mafia.
Or that he and his family would feel indebted to her for life.
And she certainly never could have anticipated the growing feelings she felt toward the man whose enemies were drawing ever closer…
* All books in this series can be read as standalones *
The Woman from the Past (Grassi Family, #4)
Jessica Gadziala
Four years ago, my boyfriend was killed by an unknown assailant, sending my entire life into a tailspin.After years of suffering with no end in sight, I did the unthinkable.I tracked down the man who’d killed my boyfriend - a mafia hitman from some place called Navesink Bank.And I asked him for his help…
The Woman in the Wrong Place (Grassi Family, #3)
Jessica Gadziala
I didn’t believe Matteo Grassi was in the mafia.He was just my boss.My super hot, very nice boss.Definitely not a member of the mob.And I went ahead and believed that until the night I was caught him doing something I was never supposed to see.And in doing so, I not only knew without a doubt that Matteo was in the mafia, but also found myself dragged into it as well.As the time went on, my feelings for Matteo became more and more confusing even as it seemed less and less likely that I was going to make it out of this whole situation alive…
Escape from the Green (The Green #2)
Jessica Gadziala
Amethyst Determined not to be a pawn in my mother’s game any longer, I finally decided to take my destiny into my own hands. But I had made a promise to myself many years ago when I used to dream about running away. If I was getting my freedom, he was getting his too… Drake Imprisoned. Enslaved. That was my life for longer than I cared even to admit, beaten and humiliated for what I was. Draca. Dragon fae. The supposed last of my kind. Except I wasn’t. But that was a secret I’d take to my grave. I’d learned long ago to accept my fate, that freedom was not something I would ever know again. But then one day after one of the worst snowstorms in my memory, the daughter of the man who had shackled me in iron chains to begin me burst into my barn with a key and a mission. Free me. And herself. Things, though, often don’t go to plan. And we found ourselves stuck in the middle of something no one ever could have predicted. A war between the Light and Dark fae. Our futures uncertain, we decide there is only one place to go. Back to the land of my kind. To see if any were left. And if they would have us.
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