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Beautiful Dark Temptation
Author: Roxas Winters
Published by: Evernight Publishing
Publication date: September 27th 2024
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Dark Romance, LGBTQ+, Romance
Tomás
I’ve lost everything.
Forced into a prison masking as a school, I find myself in the crosshairs of more than one killer. My savior? The arrogant prick who wants to control me. Kieran is a nightmare wrapped in a seductive package and when he sets his sights on me I don’t know whether to fight him or kiss him.
Kieran
I am the eldest bastard of one of the four founders of Arcadia University, and I will do anything to see my family fall.
The secrets I’ve kept hidden behind my heart now threaten to bury me alive with the arrival of Tomás. He consumes my space, my thoughts, my nightmares. I hate him for how he makes me feel. This toxic attraction between us forces me to question what matters most—vengeance, power, love. But Tomas doesn’t fit into my world of lies and violence and I’m not ready to lose it all for a beautiful dark temptation.
an excerpt
Kieran
I’d been here five minutes and already got a text from Wren.
Wren: Fox is in the henhouse. Almost killed a dude.
The little information I could gather was that someone had broken into our house and kicked Fox’s ass. So help me, Fox had better have put that fucker down. Dr. Casera as headmaster knew his place. He enforced the same rules we did. Don’t unbalance the status quo and Fox, Wren, Henry, River, and I were the status quo in this school. We had built a legacy and no one. No. One. was taking that away from us.
I pushed into the main office and Dasher lifted his eyes to me. Dasher being here put everything in perspective. Fox had one weakness—Dasher. After the initial shock of my arrival wore off, he scowled. Dasher and I had a very complicated relationship. If it hadn’t been for Fox, the fucker would be six feet under, crutches and all.
Mrs. Perkins, Casera’s assistant, gave me a wide-eyed look. She popped out of her chair, her breasts bobbing in that low cut dress she wore. The best feature on her, truth be told. I’m sure she used a year’s worth of pay at this school to get them done. I’m thinking that’s why Casera kept her on staff. “Kieran,” she said, “perhaps you should wait.”
I didn’t wait. I barged in. “What happened?”
Fox sat in one of the chairs, his long lithe body stretched back, feet extended and crossed at the ankles. Out of all of us, even me, Fox was the most volatile, but he had the grace of a swan. “Meet Tommy R, our new roommate.” Fox’s smirk made him look two seconds away from bashing something. Insanity dripped behind his vivid blue eyes. He sported a bruise on his chin and a swollen bottom lip.
“It’s Tomás.”
I turned to the intruder and almost lost the ability to breathe. The guy’s brown hair fell around his face in curls. Thick lashes framed his large dark eyes. Like two dark pits that threatened to pull me under. His nose a perfect feature on his face, and his lips were full but not pouty. The fucker was beautiful. And every part of me took notice. The compulsion to inspect his body had me vibrating along the edge of my skin. I instantly nipped the desire and turned it to anger instead.
a giveaway
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