Gator Bait MC Series by Lani Lynn Vale

The problem with Wake was that he was understandable. He was the type of villain that literally scared the absolute shit out of you because you knew that under the right circumstances, you could end up exactly like him. Which, sadly, was the case for me. I’d done the exact same thing as Wake, and now I was a murderer just like him. Did I know that I did wrong? Hell yes. Did I regret that? Hell no. Did I plan on changing a thing? Also, no... moreThe problem with Wake was that he was understandable. He was the type of villain that literally scared the absolute shit out of you because you knew that under the right circumstances, you could end up exactly like him. Which, sadly, was the case for me. I’d done the exact same thing as Wake, and now I was a murderer just like him. Did I know that I did wrong? Hell yes. Did I regret that? Hell no. Did I plan on changing a thing? Also, no. Was I falling in love with a man that should scare the shit out of me? A resounding hell yes. less

Bain met Diana, a.k.a. Luce, the night before he was set to deploy to Afghanistan.It’s not every day that you take your brother’s girlfriend to prom because he refuses to put out the effort.That night was one of the best nights of his life and the next day, he leaves and doesn’t see her again.But there are letters. Not many, but enough for them to form a connection.Over the two-year deployment, they became great friends... moreBain met Diana, a.k.a. Luce, the night before he was set to deploy to Afghanistan.It’s not every day that you take your brother’s girlfriend to prom because he refuses to put out the effort.That night was one of the best nights of his life and the next day, he leaves and doesn’t see her again.But there are letters. Not many, but enough for them to form a connection.Over the two-year deployment, they became great friends.The best of friends—at least, as good of friends as you can be when it’s your brother’s wife.Fast-forward six years and she still counts him as one of her greatest friends. Even going as far as to stick by him when he’s sent to prison because his own brother turned on him.***Luce had a crush on her then-boyfriend’s brother since way before she and Bain’s brother were married. From the moment he volunteered to take her to prom, she’d fallen.Over the years, she’d tried to hide it. Tried to go on with her life and act like she loved her husband and only her husband. But as time went on and Braxton started to treat her more and more like crap, she realized the truth. Her husband wasn’t Bain. Her husband would never be him.Hell, that’d been proven time and time again.The smoking gun, though? The thing that made her realize it was time to leave?When her husband stood by while she was assaulted, while the man she tried to act like was just a friend protected her. Then was sentenced to eight years in jail for it.It was time to admit the truth.Bain McDempsey was it for her. She just had to help him see it. Oh, and get him out of prison first. less

Etienne LaFayette hits the ground running the moment he breathes free air after being paroled from a maximum-security prison in Texas.He claws his life back from his brother-in-law who’d taken over his business during the years he’d spent as an inmate at Huntsville Penitentiary. Though it is hard, he puts his life back together in Accident, Florida.There, he hires new employees, joins a motorcycle club, and becomes wildly successful overnight.Seems like the perfect life, right?Wrong... moreEtienne LaFayette hits the ground running the moment he breathes free air after being paroled from a maximum-security prison in Texas.He claws his life back from his brother-in-law who’d taken over his business during the years he’d spent as an inmate at Huntsville Penitentiary. Though it is hard, he puts his life back together in Accident, Florida.There, he hires new employees, joins a motorcycle club, and becomes wildly successful overnight.Seems like the perfect life, right?Wrong.Because one of his first clients is a beautiful, curly-haired woman that reels him in from the moment he first lays eyes on her. Only, before he can work his charm, she forms an opinion of him based solely on the person that he chose to work at his side, day in and day out. That opinion? Utter disgust.***Matilda Deveraux has been dealt blow after blow her entire life.First with the death of her mom. Then living with a stepfamily that despises her.Her entire life she’s been known as different. The “weird girl that creeps everyone out.”It’s not her fault that she’s different, yet everyone, including Etienne’s assistant, treats her like she’s a menace to society.Like she would be better off in a loony bin than gracing the streets of Accident, Florida.After years of abuse from everyone around her, the last thing she needs is to be around a man that would have that horrible woman around him twenty-four seven.As a result, she forms an opinion—something that people do to her all the time—and treats him accordingly.Only, it turns out that Etienne isn’t who she thought he was.He’s much, much worse. But only in the best of ways. less

The first time Cassius Ulysses Costas met Alice Paradis, she was in a string bikini and filling up a long line of boats that were there just to see her. She was eighteen and every man’s wet dream.Even his.For the longest time, he went out of his way to stay as far away from her as he could get without actually taking his eyes off of her. For years, he was the better person. He played his hand close, and not a single person would know just how obsessed he was with her... moreThe first time Cassius Ulysses Costas met Alice Paradis, she was in a string bikini and filling up a long line of boats that were there just to see her. She was eighteen and every man’s wet dream.Even his.For the longest time, he went out of his way to stay as far away from her as he could get without actually taking his eyes off of her. For years, he was the better person. He played his hand close, and not a single person would know just how obsessed he was with her.Then he goes to prison and comes out a man that couldn’t care less about anyone or anything, least of all what someone thought of him and his actions. But not one second while he was behind bars did he forget about Alice.He tries to stay away. For a few long months, he fights his every instinct to make her his. But, as if the universe is conspiring against him, Alice is thrown into his path time after time, instance after instance.And his resolve is waning. Fast.In one last ditch effort to stay away, he walks away, hoping making her mad enough will force her to do the work for him.However, when Alice is attacked, it isn’t Cassius’s harsh words she remembers, but the way he makes her feel safe.Soon, the very last thing he’ll do is let her walk away. He did the right thing, and that didn’t work out. Now, it’s time for him to embrace the wrong. less

Just a word, yet one person came to mind.Morrigan St. Pete.The woman that’d been hounding my every step since the day she was born. From the moment we first comforted each other in the hospital, to the day that I left her to follow her dreams, I knew that she was my one.Through marriage, divorce, and a prison sentence, I had low expectations when it came to her ever coming around to my way of life... moreJust a word, yet one person came to mind.Morrigan St. Pete.The woman that’d been hounding my every step since the day she was born. From the moment we first comforted each other in the hospital, to the day that I left her to follow her dreams, I knew that she was my one.Through marriage, divorce, and a prison sentence, I had low expectations when it came to her ever coming around to my way of life. What kind of woman wanted a man that’d been to prison, had a child that disliked him and everything he stood for, and had zero prospects in life?But then she popped into my life again, and that feeling of suffocation slacked off for the first time since I let her go.***The first time I tried to come back to Aodhan, I found him married with a kid on the way.The second time I tried, he was heading to jail.As one would say, the third time is the charm, right? Wrong.The third time, he was divorced, fresh from prison, had a kid, and was again with his ex-wife.That was the final nail in my coffin. I decided to give up.I would do anything and everything I could to avoid him. Hiding wasn’t beneath me.I only wish he’d stuck with my plan, because the moment he sees me again, it’s like he’s seen the light. Avoiding him is impossible when he goes out of his way to insinuate himself into every aspect of my life.If only life was as perfect as my dreams. less

He had a way of pulling everyone into his darkness. Then, to make matters worse, he convinced you that you liked it there.Kyle Davis—ex professional baseball player and current felon—loved Sara, his best friend. Strictly platonically, of course. He’d do absolutely anything for her, even put up with Greer, Sara’s other best friend.What she was not was Kyle’s best friend. Or any friend at all, to be honest... moreHe had a way of pulling everyone into his darkness. Then, to make matters worse, he convinced you that you liked it there.Kyle Davis—ex professional baseball player and current felon—loved Sara, his best friend. Strictly platonically, of course. He’d do absolutely anything for her, even put up with Greer, Sara’s other best friend.What she was not was Kyle’s best friend. Or any friend at all, to be honest.In fact, they couldn’t stand to be in the same room with each other, let alone breathe the same air for any length of time.Then something happens, forcing the two of them to work together to keep Sara blissfully unaware of the danger Greer’s in.They come up with a plan. Sara doesn’t need to know.What she doesn’t know won’t hurt her.The funny thing is, Sara knows all. Sara also knows the two of them are destined to be with each other.She only has to convince them of it first. less

Normally when you say, “I have a stalker,” you think bad thoughts. That wasn’t the kind ofstalker Folsom was when it came to Kobe Sano. Folsom liked to call herself a “guardian angel indisguise.”The first time he catches her attention, he’s been assigned to hunt her down and throw away thekey. All she did was steal someone else’s child. Well, embryo, that is. What Kobe doesn’t know,though, is the man that hired him is up to no good, and she has no other choice but to run withoutlooking back... moreNormally when you say, “I have a stalker,” you think bad thoughts. That wasn’t the kind ofstalker Folsom was when it came to Kobe Sano. Folsom liked to call herself a “guardian angel indisguise.”The first time he catches her attention, he’s been assigned to hunt her down and throw away thekey. All she did was steal someone else’s child. Well, embryo, that is. What Kobe doesn’t know,though, is the man that hired him is up to no good, and she has no other choice but to run withoutlooking back.From that moment on, she spends the rest of her spare time running away from him while alsodigging into every nook and cranny of his personal life, finding every weakness he has andutilizing it any way she needs to keep herself one step ahead of him.Only one day, when she goes to do her usual snooping, she finds out that not only is her favoriteperson in trouble, but he’s also in need of her help.Too bad it takes her years to find that help.Her next step is to break him out of the pokey prison-break style.If she knew he’d go without question, she very well might have.***It didn’t take a genius to know when someone was stalking you. The signs were all there, andthey eventually pointed right at Folsom.When he figures it out, he plans to confront her and maybe address the silent sexual tensionthat’s been brewing between them for the last few years.However, right when he’s ready to admit to himself that she might be the one—daughter whointimidates the hell out of him or not—she up and disappears for a year.In that year, he spends every waking moment searching for her.And eventually he finds her, confronts her, and is hit in the face with the secrets she’s kept fromhim for years.One of which is a big one.The daughter that she protects with everything she has—the one that he’s come to love with allhis heart, just like her mom—is the very abducted child from his one and only unsolved case. less