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The Beast has a wife now, and she may be the only thing in Nouvelle Orléans more dangerous than him.

Bebe Toussaint Lafitte should be enjoying her happily ever after. She survived a forced marriage to Valentin Lafitte, fell hopelessly in love with the terrifying Ravage crime boss she was supposed to hate, and finally reclaimed her romance bookstore and her life.

Then someone leaves a still-beating human heart between the shelves.

The message attached to it is simple.

RETURN WHAT BELONGS TO US.

Supernaturals are disappearing across Nouvelle Orléans. Their bodies are being harvested. Ancient bloodlines are resurfacing. And Bebe’s newly awakened Heartkeeper abilities are becoming powerful enough to frighten even the people who once ruled the city.

Because Bebe can do more than preserve Valentin’s memories.

She can command his Ravage.

She can enter his mind.

She may even possess the power to decide whether the Beast inside her husband gets to exist at all.

Then Bebe discovers Valentin knew far more about her bloodline before their marriage than he ever admitted.

Now the trust between them is cracking just as an old enemy begins tearing Nouvelle Orléans apart.

With supernatural districts falling, missing people being transformed into weapons, and generations of buried blood debts coming due, Bebe has to decide what kind of Heartkeeper she intends to become.

Valentin has spent his entire life fighting anyone who tried to control him.

This time, the woman he loves holds the leash, and Bebe has no intention of becoming another kind of cage.

Merciless is the explosive conclusion to the Call & Response Duology, featuring a possessive monster husband, marriage-in-crisis tension, supernatural crime families, a plus-size Black heroine, dangerous bloodline magic, forced-marriage fallout, morally gray romance, and a reimagined New Orleans where love always comes with a price.

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Bebe Toussaint knows better than to trust a man who walks into her romance bookstore after midnight with claws.

Unfortunately, Valentin Lafitte isn’t there to flirt.

The feared supernatural crime boss of Nouvelle Orléans claims Bebe’s reckless father stole something far more dangerous than a page from an ancient magical ledger powerful enough to control the monster living inside Valentin. Now her father is missing, something inhuman is hunting her, and the safest place in the city might be beside the Beast everyone else fears.

Valentin offers Bebe protection with one outrageous condition.

Marriage.

Becoming Mrs. Lafitte is supposed to be temporary, strategic, and strictly business. But the deeper Bebe is pulled into Nouvelle Orléans’ hidden world of supernatural Houses, blood debts, forbidden magic, and monsters hiding behind perfectly human faces, the harder it becomes to separate the man from the Beast.

Especially when Bebe discovers her own blood carries a power capable of reaching Valentin where no one else can.

Their marriage was never supposed to become real.

Their attraction definitely wasn’t supposed to become dangerous.

But somebody has been waiting for a Heartkeeper to return, and Bebe may have inherited far more than magic. With her family caught inside a generations-old supernatural conspiracy and Valentin slowly losing pieces of himself every time the Beast emerges, love could become the one thing powerful enough to save them.

Or the most devastating price either of them has ever paid.

RECKLESS is Book One of a dark paranormal romance duology featuring a fierce Black heroine, a dangerously possessive supernatural crime boss, forced marriage, enemies-to-lovers tension, forbidden bloodline magic, supernatural family secrets, and a reimagined New Orleans where every kind of power comes with a receipt.

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