Mine

Four people.
One obsession that refuses to stay buried.

Seven years of being Mark Monroe’s perfect wife have taught Lena how to disappear inside a life everyone else admires.

She has a beautiful home in Geneva, a powerful husband, a daughter she loves, and a successful career writing bestselling young adult novels. No one knows about the dark, explicit romances she publishes under another name, or that those books contain every desire she has learned to keep to herself.

Then Daniel Carter discovers them.

Daniel has spent years waiting to make Mark Monroe pay for the faulty medical equipment that nearly destroyed his surgical career. Seducing Mark’s neglected wife should be simple. Lena is supposed to be a weakness he can exploit, one final humiliation delivered to the man he hates.

But Lena is nothing like the quiet, obedient wife Daniel expected. Behind her perfect composure is a woman starving to be seen, and inside her secret novels is a map to everything she has never dared to ask for. What begins as revenge becomes an obsession Daniel can no longer control.

Lena knows choosing him could destroy her marriage, her family, and the carefully protected life she has built. So she chooses Mark. She goes home, returns to the life that made her invisible, and tells herself it was the right decision.

Daniel has no intention of letting her believe that lie forever.

Mine is the first book in The Carter Dynasty, an explicit psychological romance series about revenge, betrayal, marriage, obsession, and the dangerous choices that bind Lena, Daniel, Mark, and Vanessa together.

For mature readers only.

The audiobook is available on Spotify.

Previously published as Hostile Takeover in the Forbidden Passion series. This edition has been fully revised and re-edited.

Description

MINE — The Carter Dynasty Book 1

Lena:

Seven years of being Mark Monroe’s perfect wife taught me one thing — invisibility is its own kind of survival. I write bestselling YA books under my real name and dark, filthy romance novels under a name nobody knows, and that secret has always been enough to keep me sane. Then Daniel Carter walked into my life with revenge in his eyes and his hands on me like I belonged to him, and suddenly surviving wasn’t the same as living. I chose Mark anyway. I went back to my beautiful Geneva life and told myself it was the right decision. I almost believed it.

Daniel:

Mark Monroe spent years trying to destroy my career with equipment he knew was faulty, and seducing his wife was supposed to be the cleanest revenge I’d ever taken. Lena was meant to be a pawn — quiet, overlooked, easy to manipulate. Nobody warned me she was burning alive underneath all that perfect composure, or that her secret dark romance novels would read like a map straight to everything I’d ever wanted to do to a woman. I should have walked away when I still could. I didn’t. Now she’s chosen him and I’m the one left with the damage.

Four people. Two marriages. One obsession that refuses to stay buried.

 

 

 

 

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