Bøker av S M Shade

The residents of Happy Haven Trailer park have been waiting for this for a long time. The slumlord who abandoned this place and let our homes deteriorate has been court ordered to live here while making repairs.Imagine our surprise when the guy who shows up to move in to the dilapidated trailer across the street isn't the sixty year old man we expected, but his son.With a teasing smile and unshakeable positive attitude, Cooper Addington Junior pushes every one of my buttons. It doesn't help that he also looks like he stepped off a fitness magazine cover.The women who live here are all over him, but for some reason he's focused on me. Too bad I see through his good guy act and I'm not falling for some spoiled rich boy.What I am going to do is keep my eye on him and make sure he's doing his job. I'm the one who took his father to court in the first place and he can't put anything over on me. Book Two in the Happy Haven Series of connected standalone novels. Can be read as a standalone.

An enemies-to-lovers, fake relationship romantic comedy. The Happy Haven Trailer Park is not where I hoped to be at age twenty-five.Circumstances have left me without a job or a car in a small town where work is scarce. When my insufferable neighbor approaches me with a very indecent proposal to co-star in his videos on the Lonely Hands app, I have to resist the impulse to punch him in the mouth.I'll admit, Monroe is hot with his dark eyes and quick grin, but he's the most infuriating man I've ever met.After weeks of no luck finding a new job, I finally accept his offer with one condition. Nobody can know what we're doing.Now, I'm stuck faking a relationship to hide the real reason that I'm spending so many nights at the home of a man I despise.It's going to be a long summer. Can be read as a standalone romance.

Tucker She's beautiful.She's young.She's driving me out of my mind.I've always done my best to avoid Leah Bolt. I have enough problems without having to deal with a young woman with a crush. My life has been a disaster since I was court-martialed and dishonorably discharged from the military. After spending a year living on the streets, I'm finally starting to pull things together. Now, I'm stuck with her, living side by side in my house with my complete opposite.If spending every day with this peppy, optimistic, energetic woman doesn't kill me, her brother will. Dare is a friend and a member of In Safe Hands, a group that tracks down sexual predators and brings them to justice. He has also done time and is the size of a mountain.I've survived combat, but I may be taken down by a perky blond. LeahHe's gorgeous.He's older.He's a stubborn, broody jerk.Tucker Long is every woman's dream...until you talk to him. He may be sexy when he's out sweating in the sun with sawdust clinging to him as he hammers and saws, but try to hold a conversation and all you get are grunts and nods.He was the one who wanted a house sitter and just because his plans fell through doesn't mean I'm changing mine. My future is up in the air while I try to decide who I want to be, and Tucker's farm is the perfect place for me to do it. He calls me kid, but the way he looks at me doesn't lieI may be ten years younger, but I can still handle him. This is book four in a series of standalone novels.

Melissa I escapedFor the first time in almost four years, I'm free.My freedom came at a steep cost, leaving me on my own with no family or friends. I have a lot of healing to do, and this beautiful lake house seems like a perfect setting to find myself again.I can do this.The only thing I have left is hope. JeremyI ran.For the first time in my life, I'm alone.I failed to appreciate what I had until it was too late, and now I can't bear the grief of my friends while suffering my own. That's not the only reason I've relocated.Twenty-two people were murdered, including the woman I love.The only thing I have left is revenge. This is the fifth and final book in a series of standalone novels.

Ayda I hear him.His deep voice and rumbling laugh. The bang of the headboard slamming the wall and fake screams from yet another woman. Derek is a pile of muscle and ink, a bad boy fantasy only a few layers of wood and plaster away. It's all I expect or want him to be.Until that irresistible voice begins talking to me. DareI hear her.The clicking of her fingers on a keyboard, her music or TV playing in the background. Her musical laugh and soft cries of pleasure, accompanied by a low, steady buzz. Ayda is a good girl who keeps to herself, and I have no business pursuing her, but I'm not a man known for doing the right thing.I'm an ex-con. I'm a criminal.And I want her. This is book two in a series of standalone novels.

Justus I'm not conceited. Really, I'm not. It just so happens I have a body a Greek God would be jealous of, and a face that could make an angel weep. Other than that, I'm just your everyday normal guy who happens to take his clothes off for money. Sure, I've had to dispose of a few guys for In Safe Hands, the organization I work with that helps track predators and child molesters, but other than that, completely normal.Women flock to me, screaming and paying for the right to touch me, so why is this woman so stubborn? Sadie Belmont's curvy body and sharp tongue have haunted me since I met her a year ago. There's something about her that gets stuck in my head like a bad song, and I'm determined to find out why I want her so badly, and why she can't stomach the thought. SadieI can't believe I'm doing this. Of all the men in the world, I'm taking Justus Alexander to my childhood home in Oklahoma to meet my mother. A stripper who has a revolving door of women jumping in and out of his bed.When I lied to my mother and told her I had a steady boyfriend, I didn't expect it to come to this. She doesn't have long to live, and her only wish is to know I have a man before she goes. I can't disappoint her, and male escorts cost way more than I can afford so when Justus volunteered, I took him up on his offer.I know what he wants. After annoying me with constant pick up lines for a year, he sees an opportunity to get me in bed. It's not going to happen. I just need to get through this week with my sanity intact. This is book three in a series of standalone novels.

"Strip everything away from us and love is what's left. It's what we get to keep." We thought things couldn't get worse but the passing days proved us wrong.I could handle the public backlash and the cops at my door.I could handle the doubt and disbelief of our friends. As long as we were together, I thought I could handle anything.As the threats loomed closer, our days together dwindled away. After losing everything that mattered to me, I had to ask myself how much sacrifice was too much?How far would I go for him?

"Sometimes, hope holds us by the throat." We were teenagers the first time Alden Stokes climbed through my bedroom window.He was the first boy to hold my hand.He was my first kiss.He was my first everything.The tumultuous years made us into adults while circumstances pushed us apart. Now I've found my way back to the only man I've ever loved.And I won't let him go.

Zoe I'm not interested. I'm not interested in his blue-green ocean colored eyes, his lean muscular body, or that crooked smile that can be so infuriating. I have more important things to worry about, like how to keep myself in college and my sixteen year old brother fed and sheltered. We all know life is hard, some of us just learn that lesson younger than others, but that doesn't mean I'll give up. I intend to succeed and make sure my brother has the opportunities he deserves, and no privileged jerk is going to distract me. Landon I don't date. Don't get me wrong, I'm far from celibate, but my condition makes carrying on any kind of normal relationship impossible. My life revolves around In Safe Hands or ISH, the underground group I work with to track down and take care of predators and sex offenders who beat the system. I'm satisfied with my life until the day I meet the smart mouthed, compassionate, determined woman who opens my eyes to possibilities I never thought existed. This is book one in a series of standalone novels.