Rosalie has been teased all her life because she wasn't pretty, and to be honest she never really cared. She went with the flow and if looking like a mess was apart of it, then so be it. However, what if one day something made her change her opinion? Going through a makeover is tough, but will it be worth it?

Now being published on Radish! On a seemingly average night, Wren is dealing with the normalcies of her life-working at her bar, dealing with shitty drunk customers, and counting the minutes until she can go home to her fiancé. Her plans are quickly thwarted when two masked men barge into her bar after closing time. Despite her best efforts, they kidnap her, shackle her inside a desolate farmhouse and keep her as their prisoner. Wren soon discovers that the man she planned to marry wasn't what he said he was--not even close. Because of her fiancé's secret life of drugs and crime, he owes the Russian mob a lot of money, and her kidnappers plan to keep her until every dime is paid. Wren soon finds herself questioning what's worth fighting for. You'd think freedom, right? But that was before Wren knew just what was at stake. Her cold-hearted kidnapper known as Ace--who's not as much of a stranger as she led herself to believe-- soon shows Wren he's not as similar to the devil as he seems to be, and freedom might just be more dangerous than she had expected.

WATTYS 2023 SHORTLIST Sarah Kennedy's life has fallen to pieces. Her family is broken, she's growing apart from her only friend, and it's been a while since she's stopped dreaming about anything better. She embarks on a trip to Latin America, joining a retreat she hopes will mend her dwindling friendship and escape her miserable day-to-day life. Bad turns to worse, and her hopes are shattered when she is kidnapped by a cartel. While her life is miraculously spared, she's kept captive by a daunting and narcissistic drug lord, Pablo. As his obsession with her grows, so do his favors and promises. Sarah soon finds herself in a gilded cage, living a life more lavish than anything she's ever imagined. But all that glitters isn't gold, and this luxury has a price. If Sarah wants to escape the violent, treacherous, and cocaine-fueled world of cartels, she'll have to fight the demons that keep her captive, as well as the monsters in her head, armed with nothing but a dry sense of humor and a fragile strength. But as she and Pablo both know- it's a long journey home when you don't have any home to go to. _____________________ DTOD is marked as mature for strong language, drug use, violence (and also dark humor) and the occasional steam/smut. Trigger warnings are included before sensitive or explicit scenes. _____________________ "Drugs, Treasons and Other Demons, a niche erotica for people who like men who keep their socks on." "A book that will make you cry whenever you hear a Pitbull song." "By the time I finished reading this whole book, I could have read the entire Hunger Games saga. But I would have had a lot less fun." "I went to read a few chapters of this book one night, and all of a sudden a whole weekend went by on me."