Roxas Winters
Books 1 and 2 should be read in order. Neither of them ends in a cliffhangar.
Overall Heat Rating for the series: 4 flames
Publisher: Evernight Publishing
BOOK DETAILS
BOOK 2 – NEW RELEASE
Book Title: Beautiful Liar
Author: Roxas Winters
Cover Artist: Jay Aheer
Length: 80 000 words
Release Date: March 21, 2025
Genres: MM Contemporary Romance, mafia, college age
Tropes: Second chances. forbidden love, obsessive love, secrets, alpha male
Themes: Hurt/Comfort, healing from abuse (abuse happens off page)
This story is best enjoyed after reading book one.
It does not end on a cliffhanger.
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I gave in to temptation, but happily ever after was never part of the deal.
Blurb
Kieran
I gave in to temptation, but happily ever after was never part of the deal.
I am heir to a mafia kingdom and taking my place means leaving Arcadia behind. Arcadia U was built to house bastards of the criminal elite and wayward children of soldiers loyal to the four founding families. I am neither. When a death at the school puts everyone at risk, I return to keep my friends safe. But things have changed since the three months I’ve been gone. Loyalty must be earned, and my secrets revealed. But is it too late to save what I want most?
Tomás
I chose the enemy. I chose to be a secret. Kieran asked me to wait until he was ready, and I fell easily into the lies. But I have a lie of my own. After a death puts the school on lockdown, I’m forced to face a past I buried. A past that threatens everyone I love, including Kieran. To protect him, I must lie to him.
But lies fester. And the rot always finds a way out.
Kieran
I’d spent my whole life wrapped in lies. My mother had lied to me when she told me my father would come for me. She failed to mention who he was. Cillian had taught me to lie to survive. My aliases, covers, I sometimes had no clue who I really was underneath all the lies. Then puberty happened. I didn’t fit the norm in Cillian’s eyes. I got sick and hid that too. My world built on lies.
Until Tomás entered my life, forced me to want things I shouldn’t. Want things I didn’t deserve. He had revealed what lay at my core and I saw something that could be beautiful. Something that could be pure. But not if it were tainted by lies.
I pushed him gently away from me. Our breaths intermingled between us. “I can’t,” I croaked out. I stared at his warm brown eyes. This beautiful man who wrecked everything about me, pulled me apart so I could see the best parts of myself. Cillian hadn’t completely broken me.
Tomás made me realize that I deserved more than the lies he threw my way. I wanted someone who needed what I had to offer, not someone I couldn’t trust.
“Tell me your truth, Tomás,” I said, and shoved the collar into his hands.
He lowered his head to look between us at the collar in my hand, then lifted his eyes to mine. “I … Kieran.” He took a monumental step away from me. The rift between us too wide to reach. He raked a trembling hand down his face.
I started to move but he jolted and cupped my face. Desperation in his eyes. “Please. Please. Just…”
“Just what? Just trust you? Just let you keep your lies while you yanked me of mine?”
He kissed me and for a fleeting second I wanted to submit. Me. Submission meant getting stabbed in the back. Literally. I shoved him away. He released me, tears brimming in his eyes. “After the games. I promise,” he said. “I’ll tell you everything after we get back.”
I didn’t see the lie in his eyes. But neither did I sense the complete truth. “Nothing after the games will matter, will it?”
His chest rose and fell as he tried to control his breathing. He cupped his mouth, lowered his hands, ran them across his thighs. “No. Maybe not.”
“So tell me now.”
I saw the war in his eyes. The indecision. The love, if I could call it that. But he took another step away from me and shook his head.
I turned my back on him and for a heartbeat, I thought he’d stop me. He didn’t.
BOOK 1
Book Title: Beautiful Dark Temptation
Cover Artist: Jay Aheer
Length: 76 200 words
Release Date: September 27, 2024
Tense/pov: first person; alternating pov
Genres: Contemporary MM Romance, college, mafia
Tropes: Forbidden love, enemies to lovers
Themes: Bisexual awakening
It is a standalone story and does not end on a cliffhanger.
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Blurb
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.
Roxas writes dark, forbidden MM Romance with morally gray characters you will love to hate. Beautiful Dark Temptation is her first novel in a planned series.
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