Smart, sexy interracial novellas with a tropical twist.

A handsome billionaire makes a shocking offer:

“Every year my company holds a retreat at a private island in the Caribbean Sea. Unfortunately, I think what began as a simple show of appreciation has turned into some kind of marriage-mart. Apparently, I am a single man in possession of a good fortune. I would like you to attend this weekend with me as the woman I have been seeing for several months and who is in love with me.”

What would I do for love?

I am Alisha Padgett, the CEO and attorney for HomeU Enterprises in West Palm Beach, Florida. My best friend died one year ago. Hannah and I were homeless teenagers when we met sixteen years ago. I overcame my childhood to earn business and law degrees while Hannah built and operated HomeU, our dream of a resort where the homeless were recognized as human and worthy of time, money, and hope.

Hannah was still my best friend when she died one year ago. But when the plane carrying Hannah and Stavros Antoniadis crashed into the Caribbean Sea, it almost took HomeU down with it. Stavros was thirty years older than Hannah and still married to Olivia Antoniadis, who was then battling stage-three pancreatic cancer. The death investigation revealed Hannah and Stavros's affair. Many of HU's donors were friends and acquaintances of the Antoniadis.

Then, Olivia died. And Nikos Antoniadis sued HomeU and me.

Nikos Antoniadis is a rich, handsome, powerful man. He is determined to destroy Hannah's memory and HomeU. I will fight to my dying breath before I let that happen.

What would I do for money?

And then he makes a shocking offer: Spend a weekend at his luxury resort on his private island pretending to be madly in love with him in front of his company's most successful clients for one weekend, and he will dismiss the lawsuit and donate three hundred thousand dollars to HomeU.

I say, yes. I have to. I have to save HomeU and Hannah's memory. And I have a secret that Nikos Antoniadis can never know. I have to get rid of this lawsuit and get Nikos Antoniadis out of my life as soon as possible. Hannah's memory and HomeU depend on it.

And then I fall in love with Nikos Antoniadis.

And I find out what he really wants from me.

Chapter One: Alisha

Tall, tanned, and fit, Nikos Antoniadis prowls up the courtroom aisle toward me. Sun-streaked tawny hair frames his lean, square face. He could be a soap opera star with those angles. I glimpse sculpted torso through the button of his seersucker shirt. His toned thighs and confident gait shape straight-leg cotton pants. He looks like what he is: Rich, handsome, virile, man.

We are in Judge Bear’s courtroom on the top floor of the Palm Beach County courthouse. A glass wall looks over the West Palm Beach waterfront to the yachts on the Intracoastal, the mansions of Palm Beach island, and the endless Atlantic Ocean beyond. We are here because Nikos Antoniadis is suing me. I have been arguing against his henchmen for three months. He seeks to prove that I am a liar and a thief.

Today is the first time Antoniadis himself has appeared. He is the dynamic force behind The Antoniadis Company. That is how they refer to themselves; The Antoniadis. These builders of luxury resorts for the uber-rich. The Antoniadis Company. The Antoniadis Palm Beach. The Antoniadis Malibu. The Antoniadis Ibiza. And now, The Antoniadis himself.

Love Not Betrayal is a sexy BWWM billionaire romance novella.

Ecotourism entrepreneur Karlene Collins has a cheating ex-boyfriend, a defunct business, and a depleted bank account. So, when a lawyer calls from Kismet to say that her late aunt Nanette maybe left her one million dollars, Karlene is on the next plane to the Caribbean island. Karlene fled from the island after a two-month stay ten years earlier, and, bitter to the bitter end, Nanette still seeks revenge for a long-ago wrong. To claim the money, Karlene must not only marry within two days, but Nanette’s lawyer must also confirm that Karlene is sexually intimate with her husband.

Billionaire (former) paper magnate Vincenzo Ferri comes to Kismet to nurse a grudge against the family who betrayed him and the ex-fiancée who played him. He needs the land Karlene will inherit to prove to the world that he still has what it takes to build another billion-dollar business. He knows his effect on women, and he plans to use every tool — every tool — at his disposal to convince her to marry him and sell him the land for his next pulp and paper mill.

Karlene wants one million dollars. But will she marry for money? Will she have sex for money? Will she once again let her emotions ruin her life? Whom can she trust? The ruthless Italian billionaire with whom she shares combustible chemistry and who only wants her for her property? The proper English lawyer who is just a touch too in control and only wants her for her money? Or what about the cheating American ex-fiancé who ruined her life and business?

Chapter One:

The will is quite explicit ...."

Karlene could tell that the blue-eyed pirate who sat at the table behind Glen was listening to their conversation. Bluebeard (her name for him because he was sporting a five o’clock shadow at two in the afternoon) did not even pretend that he was not listening as Glen explained that Karlene’s aunt, who had died, had maybe left her one million dollars.

One million ducats. Karlene was in the Caribbean, after all, and a handsome, tanned swashbuckler with wind-tousled midnight hair and eyes the color of the ocean was checking her out. They all sat on the beachfront patio at the Mediteribbean Café on Kismet Beach. Bluebeard studied Karlene with a scary-flattering intensity as honey-brown liquid sweated in a rocks glass between his loose, blunt-tipped fingers. Sunglasses atop his head held back large, black curls, and more dark whorls peeked from between the unbuttoned placket of his white linen shirt. He looked cool and relaxed and with just enough stubble to make a girl go, “Aargh.” He screamed Trouble, of course, and Karlene had had enough of Trouble. So, she shifted her eyes away from the handsome man and focused on the sea. She imagined herself floating on that sapphire surf, the sun warm on her face, and her body light as a feather on a wave of one million doubloons.

With that vision fixed in her mind, she turned her eyes back to Glen.

“Maybe left me one million dollars?”

Very good short read that leaves you wanting more of the story with a possible epilogue. I can only hope for a part 2

Kim. K.

★★★★★