Bøger af Billy London

"How do you accidentally fall on a seven inch knife?" And so began Mimi Johnson's first argument with the man, the myth, the walking migraine that is Giuseppe Nardiello. If she had a pound for every time she thought about having him sectioned, she wouldn't need to work at the Da Canaveze's state of the art private hospital. She wouldn't need to work at all. With their two best friend's falling in love and getting married, eyes fell to them to do the same and sharpish. Mimi couldn't truly appreciate the convenience of someone as gorgeous and ripped and borderline unbalanced as Beppe landing in her surgical lap just like that. What else could be wrong with him? Beppe is the last man standing among his be-ringed mates, a status he feels rather content with until he catches Mimi's cheeky little grin and gets firm confirmation which end she's had her piercings; plural... He's ready to give his all to her, but he's missing the familial piece of his own puzzle that will make him feel whole. Adopted as a baby after the gruesome murder of his birth mother, he's never truly known who he is, until a letter arrives from a lawyer in Venice, finally telling him that the island of Murano holds all the answers key to even his very name. Borderline or not, Beppe is the perfect man and Mimi couldn't bear for anything to happen to him. If she has to use all her skills and piercings to convince him to protect himself from the obvious danger on that island, they're all on the operating table. From London to Marseille to Venice and the island itself, Murano drags Beppe and Mimi on a dangerous journey of discovery. Love truly saves all, but will it be enough to save them both from the terror behind the truth?This is book seven in the Italian Knights Series, to be taken all at once, preferably with something stronger than water coz it's about to get a bit mad...

Dr Shibah Kusi is a woman who lives by the rules of science. There isn't anything that can't be explained or rationalised by what she's learned in her work as a pathologist. It's kept her grounded and it has kept her sane. Until one night, in the depths of the mortuary, she comes face to face with the dead body of her childhood crush, Marek Kaszynski. All she wants at that moment, seeing the man she'd always been in love with dead, is to bring him back to life. Change their future to reflect the promise of their history. At just past midnight, everything she wants will rise from the jaws of death. And in spite of everything she's learned and everything she knows, Shibah will do anything to protect Marek. Whatever the cost...

Gina Robinson has kept to the same mantra for the last decade: Don't touch the hot Italian. Okay, hug, but don't kiss. Kiss but no tongues. With her father recently departed and sympathy being rampant from said hot Italian, the mantra became less and less easy to live by. Gina wanted to stay independent and out of unrequited love. Nicholas Da Canaveze didn't make either simple.Nick had distracted himself from what his heart wanted for so long, with a long line of various women. It wasn't working. He still loved Gina. Deeply, irrevocably, forever. She didn't know everything about him. He kept secrets from her. Necessary secrets. For her good. For his good. As painful as it was to just be her friend, he couldn't bear to think what his life would be like without her altogether. And that would happen. If she knew...***PLEASE NOTE this is a re-release. There are no new scenes or new material. Added extras include interviews with the characters of Windows and On Caristo's Watch, and a soundtrack link for the story***

Russian boxer, Pasha Markovitch, has everything in his corner, looks, potential for Olympic greatness, and speed of powerful fists professionals only dream of. There's just one small issue. If he can't find a solution to his current visa situation, he'll be out of the UK and ducking and weaving with government standard silver bracelets on his wrists. The pressures of his father's greed and the anxiety of a past that continues to knock him down, steadily wear on him until chance leads him to green fingered, sarcastic mouthed, Liliana Asare who offers the light of a reprieve. Coming to an arrangement of mutual exchange, they both get what they want. Pasha gets to stay in the country and Liliana gets the financing for her florist shop. The whole scenario is perfect enough to list. Woman willing to marry him so he doesn't end up deported and she doesn't end up losing her livelihood? Check. Avaricious father satisfied? Check. Falling in love with his fake wife? Wait, that's not on the list...Note: This is simply a romance and not a guide as to how to stay in the UK with a marriage of convenience. The law on that changed in July 2012, but at the time of writing, this is absolutely correct. So if it happens that the Home Office Minister reads this story, it's just fiction. As changeable as your job...

Tony Caristo was just minding his own business, waiting for his selfish bullet-magnet of a best friend to get out of surgery, when the sexiest nurse he'd ever even imagined walked right up to him, all luscious figured, to give him a right telling off with an Irish-lilted wit. All she missed was a fig leaf and a snake around her shoulders. His interest absolutely piqued, he sets himself up to do something about her, pretty damn quick. Tony isn't a man given to waiting around for good things to happen to him. And Lydia is all good; every single, five foot eight, double F-cupped inch of her. When Lydia asks his best friend, Nick for a favour, Nick reminds him just what a useful friend he is by letting Tony handle it. And Tony cannot wait to handle all of her...Lydia Mills doesn't have any time for nonsense, especially since she's looking after her younger brother. She just needs to get him into university, without getting him killed by an ex-boyfriend she thought was well shot of. Fed up of literally trying to kick some sense into the fool, Lydia figures her only option is to have someone else do the kicking. Once she turns to Nick Da Canaveze for help as a last resort, he promptly hands her problem over to Tony Caristo to do the hard work, completely convinced that Lydia will come through it all in one piece As she takes in the eejit's stealth, intelligence, utterly inappropriate wit and gorgeous bum, Lydia soon understands Nick's confidence in his friend. Moreover, she really starts to worry what she'll do without Caristo and his busy hands when the job is done.On Caristo's Watch is the second in the Italian Knights Series, showing that behind every criminal mastermind is a woman who will drive him to distraction with a look, a quip and a dress made to start all sorts of trouble.**Added extras: interviews with the characters and playlist**

Belinda Afriyie is only in the Neapolitan Riviera for the wedding of her best friend's daughter, never mind the fact that she bullied her way into it, mostly out of guilt for not being the mother figure that she should have been. At the very least, she had to make sure that Gina Robinson did her Ghanaian duty in marrying Nick Da Canaveze, even if Belinda had to get on a plane, pay excess baggage and suffer the heat for it. There would be no time for sightseeing, lounging around infinity pools and definitely no time for flirting with anyone. Especially not The Big Man, who was as troublesome as his son. The twinkle in Massimo Da Canaveze's eyes told her that he was more than just trouble. He was a huge, fat God-like sign of what was missing from her life. Of just how glorious life could be with someone like him in it... But a man like him would never give her a side glance. It was fine. The wedding celebrations would last all of four days and she'd be off home. No looking. No touching. No flirting. None of that was good for her or her ego.Massimo Da Canaveze is not enjoying his status as widower. He's lonely. Feeling that way had become a way of life and he could only hope that his son's wedding at his 800 year old villa where he'd be amongst everyone he loved, would bring the terrible emotion to a stop. What he didn't expect was the shrill voiced, authoritative, all commanding, arresting personality that was Belinda Afriyie to blaze through Italy in figure hugging, traditional African dresses and floaty kaftans that left little to the imagination. There hadn't been an ample bosomed challenge like her to cross his path since his late wife. With a little music, a little sunshine, more than a bit of whiskey, he and Belinda were going to become very good friends.Four Italian named puppet masters sit on the sideline of this play, throwing pizza pies to hit two half-centenarians in the eye. The Da Canaveze family is about to add to their growing number and no one is more shocked about it, than the puppets...***Additional extras: interviews with the characters and playlist***

Rocco Mamione has possibly the best wingman in the world. His grandmother. He had no idea that when his nonna was fired from the job she had for thirty years, she'd demand the best employment lawyer in London. A lawyer who just happens to be his ex-girlfriend. His nonna has been giving him the "where are my great-grandbabies?" goo-goo eyes for some time and is convinced that Anna is the perfect woman to multiply those slightly unbalanced Mamione genes. Truthfully, he only ever imagined having babies with Anna. To get her back will be the ultimate challenge, but Rocco is nothing if not Sicilian-resilient.Anna Taylor is not an Ice Princess. Rocco Mamione just burned her heart to a crisp six years ago. Anyone can talk about it, if they want a biro in their eye and an invoice for the advice to shut up. Smart enough to want to avoid further heartbreak and a potential conviction for murder, Anna does her best to not be led down the Mamione path again. Definitely not by his crazy grandmother or her crack-addictive cakes. Not by Rocco's slick lines and hard body underneath those tailor-made suits. And absolutely not by the fact that she loves him. Still. After all this time. The truth about their break up may just do it.The third book in the Italian Knights series is one cup good sponge, two cups of endurance, redemption, and a lot of letting go. If only to get a bit of Sicilian...

If someone is too good to be true, it's usually because they're trying to keep the doors shut on a closet straining with skeletons. That has always rung true with Francesca Abbey, even though she doesn't want to be a sceptic. It doesn't help that she's in the wrong profession, her past relationships have been disastrous and her mother? Hardly a cuddly TV show personality. But there's something about Luca, a gentle giant who enters her life stage left, as if he was just waiting for the right time. He's ridiculously gorgeous with questionable taste in shirts but impeccable taste in food. Every woman's walking fantasy. He makes her want to believe life can be the Disney Channel every day with all the sensual, explicit and downright dirty parts of HBO thrown in. Gianluca Caristo likes to think he's a practical man. It comes with the territory of his current profession and certainly helped with his former. He isn't given to flights of fancy or madcap ideas, but he would never forget the vivid dream he had after being locked up on the lies of his ex-girlfriend. When he comes face to face with his dream girl two years later, he's sold on fate, karma, serendipity-all of it. Francesca is his future. His reward in exchange for his solemn vow to never do violence again. It's a shame that everyone is testing the limits of that promise.As everything pre-Luca and Francesca does its best to derail their fledgling relationship, a future they've only imaged happens a lot faster than either of them intended. The fourth in the Italian Knights series is a front-row seat to fools rushing in, enjoying it far too much, ignoring all advice and knowing you'd do it all over again if you had the chance.

Widow. Sister. Mother. All those labels hung from Emmanuella Harrison, like the 'A' of shame. After so many years of playing it straight, she'd forgotten who the real Ella was. Sometimes, whenever she managed to make the severe Durante Da Canaveze smile, the sparkle of the woman she'd been a long time ago ignited in her. But the Mother label needed to be first and foremost. No messing around with sexy farmers. Farmers! Just farmers. None of that. All right, maybe a little bit of messing around. The tip doesn't count.The moment Ella drifted into Tuscany, Durante started to doubt the wisdom of his years of self-imposed solitude. With every teasing grin, backless dress and playful conversation, he fell more and more deeply under her spell. As dazzled as he is by her, Durante is convinced his history is enough to not deserve anyone, let alone someone like Ella.And yet, without the labels, without the barriers, without being afraid of what may be, no two people will ever be as perfect for each other.The penultimate story in the Italian Knights Series is all about blunt children, loud mouthed opinionated, family members, redemption in farming olives and how love can make one forgive even the most off-key of voices.

A million years ago at a barbecue, two lonely migrants, Wynne and Bren, a couple of Scots on the wrong side of the border, got a little too handsy with one another. And yet, it happened to be the type of handsy that leads to a friendship, based in comfort of the familiar and the embers of what could have been. All is well in their ship, right until Wynne falls for one of Bren's friends. The worst friend that Bren could have ever feared. Like into a gingerbread house and straight into an oven worst friend ever. In a South London flower shop, run by a soon to be boxer's wife, Bren has the perfect, light bulb moment of a plan to get Wynne to exit the Grimm fairy tale. The plan goes into action on a certain day, the only day that's made entirely for romance and crazy declarations. Crazy like an offer of a magical holiday to Morocco! Who'd say no? Wynne hasn't a clue what's coming. But Bren's going to make sure she enjoys every single minute of it.