Bøger af Jessica Gadziala

Within the struggling cafe Deja Brew, trouble percolates beneath the coffee beans. The shop's owner, Shale, is forced into a dangerous game by a cartel, and when her shipment vanishes, it's game on.Shale's only hope is an unexpected ally: Junior. Her only regular, and a local hacker with a knack for saving the day.As they race against the cartel's desire to get their hands on Shale, sparks fly along with the bullets, and dangerous plots brew. Can their connection survive the chaos, or will their love, and Deja Brew, become a bitter memory?

He was idling by the curb, waiting for one of his friends when a woman jumped on the back of his bike, wrapped her arms around him, and begged him to drive.He had no idea as he wove in and out of traffic to get away from the car chasing her that he had just met the one woman he couldn't get out of his mind.

On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me... twelve days to prove to her that we weren't just best friends, that it was more than our dogs who were madly in love. When her mom bailed on their plans, she found herself stuck in the city with nothing to do. Well, I was going to give her something to do. Fall as in love with me as I was with her...

I haven't been home for Thanksgiving in six years. A couple days before I leave to head home, I am informed that my brother's best friend, and also my huge, obnoxious adolescent crush, will be there as well.So among a shaky work situation, a newfound potato chip addiction, and the usual stress of heading home for the holidays, I have a sudden urge to prove that I was no longer the mumbling, bumbling girl in Hogwarts robes and her nose in a book.Not that anything was going to happen between us. Those hopes had died around the time I headed off to college.But maybe....

Liam has always preferred spending his life inside books, only looking up to occasionally growl at customers in his shop. Until the day someone new comes to town. A woman who could keep up with him, someone who sees beyond his guards, who makes him want something decidedly non-fiction for a change. The only problem is, Riley has a secret. One that just might tear them apart.

I was just supposed to be laying low, keeping my head down, staying out of trouble. And "trouble" was exactly what Shane freaking Mallick was. Knee-cap breaker, loan shark enforcer, panty-dropper. Trouble with a capital T. And the absolute last thing I needed in my life...

He decided it was time to retire, settle down, become something nice and tame. Like an arms-dealing biker in some town called Navesink Bank. He could get behind that lifestyle. He'd anticipated a lot of things. Drinking. Brotherhood. A little action peppered in here and there to keep things from getting too dull.But there was one thing he hadn't planned on.A woman moving in across the hall from him. The way something within him recognized something inside her. A past. Secrets. Darkness. Hidden behind thick walls, impenetrable shields, and a biting sort of confidence. He damn sure couldn't have prepared himself for the sudden and uncharacteristic urge to force his way into her life, get her to open up to him, feel comfortable enough to give her all the dark and ugly parts of his past. And - dare he even think it - plan a future with her. You know... if she would stop disappearing for weeks at a time without a clue as to where she was going...

Emilio needed a house manager. Or so his mother thought, setting up appointments with women she'd vetted for the task. All of whom were polished and professional. Except for the woman who came literally tripping into his life, spilling her coffee over her paperwork, and cussing like a sailor. Avery was everything a house manager shouldn't be. Inexperienced, clumsy, and way, way too tempting. But she was a flicker of light in his increasingly dark world, a spark he couldn't help but be drawn to. The problem was, Avery was harboring a dangerous secret. One that threatened to tear them apart just as they started to get close...

HANNAH CLARY left her comfortable life in her small hometown to chase the corporate ladder. After three years, a string of odd jobs and a long stint on unemployment, she gets the opportunity to work at one of the city's largest companies led by the mysterious and demanding ELLIOTT MICHAELS. She spends long hours catering to every need of her rude, condescending, and distant new boss finding that, despite her better judgment, she feels a growing attraction to him. Just as she is contemplating all the possible reasons an affair with him would be a terrible idea, mysterious letters start showing up threatening her to stay away from him. As the threats start permeating every aspect of her life, Hannah is thrown into a dangerous situation and is faced with a difficult decision: run back to her hometown and into the arms of her high school sweetheart Sam Flynn, or stay with the smoldering Elliott Michaels despite the mysterious tormentor getting ever closer.

It was starting to seem like we would never get a break.We just needed a little peace, some time to add new members, build our club up, so we could take on whatever threats were coming our way.How could we have known that a new threat would be coming hot on the heels of someone I hadn't seen in nearly a decade, someone who was back to call in a marker, someone who was in trouble. And, perhaps, someone I wanted to keep in my present, and my future.

Virgin - Growing up in MCs, he was used to the status quo. Brotherhood. Parties. Women in passing. And he was sure that was all he would ever want - or need. Until one night, he came across her.Freddie - She had ten years to make up for. Old bonds to reinforce. Revenge to plot and execute. The last thing she expected was an arms-dealing biker to come into her life, making her second-guess all her plans for her future...

Joining the MC had never been a question.Raised by an ex-cage-fighting member, Niro hadn't seen any future for himself that didn't involve bikes, guns, violence, and the brotherhood he'd learned to revere above all else. But joining the Henchmen meant he couldn't have the only other thing in life he wanted.Andi.The daughter of one of the OG members of the club. His childhood best friend. The only chink in his otherwise impenetrable armor. For years she was gone. And he did everything he could to forget her, to become the kind of monster she would never look twice at again.The problem was, she was back in town.And new enemies were around every corner.Ones who might set their sights on the only woman who could ever mean anything to him...

RoderickHe joined the MC for many reasons. To be able to financially take care of his mother and sisters, to have fun, to let loose, to meet women. But only casually. Only for a night or two. He wasn't ready to settle down.Until one day, when the president gives him a job. Just drop the guns, get the money, come home. Don't f- it up. Except everything goes to hell. And he has just six weeks to find the woman who stole the guns, work with her to track down replacements, and try not to get too distracted.The problem being, Livianna - the gun-running leader of a rag-tag group of arms dealers turns out to be one hell of a distraction...

"The chance of a lifetime. With one little catch." All Brinley Spears has ever dreamed about since she completed design school four years ago was getting noticed. By the right people. By the right companies. Anyone who could finally help launch her career onto a new level. Unfortunately, the opportunity comes to her in the aisle of a home improvement store while she was arguing with the world's most irritating contractor... Warren Reyes. It was everything she ever wanted, the chance to star in HITV's hit show Fix It Up. There's one problem though. The producers think Brin and Warren are married. And want them as a pair... or not at all. So, desperate for the opportunity she has always wanted, Brin hatches a plan. One fake marriage. One season of a show. And then they can both go their separate ways. You know, if they don't kill each other first...

He's been waiting for a storm for years.Well... she has finally blown into town.-He'd always been good at starting over.That had been his job for a long time.New country, new identity, new scumbag to track down, and bring to justice.It was just the job.Until, suddenly, someone made it more.But life had plans that didn't involve white picket fences and happily-ever-afters.And there was no choice but to move on.That didn't mean ghosts of the past didn't plague him, follow him no matter how many times he changed his name, how many places he ran to.Eventually, he traded one world for another.The past seemed as far behind him as it was possible.Until one day, it was there.She was there.Life didn't offer many second chances.And he was hellbent on making things right.Even if she didn't want anything to do with him ever again.

RYAN She was perfect: Sweet, smart, awkwardly adorable, and beautiful as hell. The only problem was: she was terrified to leave her apartment. And, apparently, she had somehow gotten herself wrapped up with some pretty bad guys to boot. DUSTY He was perfect: He was a living, breathing, walking, talking statue come to life. But when would a man like that ever want to be with a woman who was too anxious to even walk into the hallway? Let alone go on a date with him. Or meet the family he was so close with. That being said, he seemed interested for some reason. So obviously, he was just as crazy as I was. On top of that whole confusion situation, something was going on with my business partners. And things were about to go straight to hell...

When ambitious LENA EDWARDS receives orders from her boss to go to an inn located in a small town called Stars Landing, she follows her orders in the hopes that she will finally receive a well deserved promotion. She soon finds how unprepared she is for corporate espionage as well as the relentless advances of the town's unbelievably sexy mechanic, ERIC O'REILLY. Knowing his awful reputation, she vows to stay away from him at all costs. But as time goes by, she finds herself not wanting to fight her growing attraction. When the inn manager seems to be on to her, and her carefully planned life starts falling apart at the seams, will she run toward Eric's open arms, or all the way back to the city and her safe, predictable life?

When ANNABELLE GOODE gets the news that a distant aunt has died, leaving her in charge of her estate and thriving farm business, she decides to leave her safe little life behind and start a new chapter in the small town known as Stars Landing. She quickly finds how unprepared she was for the job, her gorgeous next door neighbor SAM FLYNN, or the disturbingly sexy ERIC O'REILLY. Caught in a seemingly impossible love triangle, Anna also finds herself obsessed with finding the answers to the puzzling life of her aunt, and being taunted by an unknown and destructive enemy. Will she choose the warm and steady Sam, or the heart-meltingly charming Eric? Will she ever learn about who, exactly, her aunt was... or who was trying to send her running out of her new found home?

Everyone in Navesink Bank knows about Senator Ericsson's son, his wife, and the story that hit headlines that eventually led to one of the Mallick boys going to jail for assault. What became of that woman after being coerced into lying on the stand was unknown.That was until late one night when a phone rang in the offices of Quinton Baird & Associates. And her voice was on the other end of the line.

Reign & Summer. Cash& Lo. Wolf & Janie. Breaker & Alex. Paine & Elsie.

Six years on the inside gave a man a lot of time to think. And a lot of time to plan. When I got out, I was determined for things to go a different way. I never wanted to lose control and rage out again. The only way to accomplish that, though, was to shut it all down. Complete disconnect. That meant no family, no friends, no links to anything attached to the man I was before. Of course the problem was, I never factored HER into my plans. And try as I might, I couldn't find a way to shut it down, to disconnect from her. I had a sneaking suspicion she was going to take all my carefully constructed plans and toss them out the window, was going to force me to face up the demons inside and confront the ghosts from my past. Those ghosts? They wore the faces of my family. And a confrontation with them, yeah, I had a feeling it was going to show me that I had spent six years taking action on beliefs about the demons inside. Demons that had never actually existed in the first place...

Ace - All I've ever wanted is to go back home, get my crew back to the life we were meant to lead. After generations stuck on Earth, I'd lost two of my men to the Claiming. We needed to get back to hell before the rest of us got stuck as well.I never could have known I would be the next to fall...Josephine - I just wanted to start over. A new state, a new job, a fresh start. And aside from a supervisor that wasn't too fond of me and a regrettable wine-drunk haircut decision, things were going pretty well. Until hands snatched me off the street, tearing me away from everything I had worked so hard to build, dragging me into a life I could never have expected, with creatures I didn't know existed, and a man I never could have seen myself falling for...

New to Navesink Bank, Theo just wants to take advantage of the new opportunities given to her. And, under no circumstances, continue her cycle of getting involved with the wrong kind of men.Then one night, Dezi walked into her bar with bad news written all over him.Hot, charming, and homicidal.Just her type. But amongst her struggle to adjust to life in a new town and a string of "bad luck" that might not be bad luck, but something much more nefarious, she can't help but start to have feelings for the food-obsessed biker who thought mini animals made the perfect gifts...

The Dom I'm not broken, tortured, or scarred, some cliched, overdone and sensationalized misconception about this lifestyle... and the men in it who control their submissives with a strong hand. I'm just a Dom. Just a man who gets off on a woman who entrusts me with her submission. Just a man who loves to be able to show them all the ways the gift of their trust can bring them untold, never-before-experienced layers of pleasure. But casually. Just play. Just sex. Nothing more. Until I came across her. She's everything a Dom as experienced as I am shouldn't want - new to the lifestyle, unsure, untrained. It should never have gone beyond those first few exchanges online. But there was something about her, something that kept me texting, calling, teaching her to trust me enough to meet with me. After one touch, one taste, one night, I knew there was no going back. She was mine. And I was going to show her everything she had been craving from a man all her life. I guess I just had no idea - or at least didn't want to admit to myself - that this was different, she was different, we were different. And once I got to have her, I wanted to keep her. You know... if I could convince her to stay... Adley It was just a drunken decision. I woke up after a night of a little - okay, a lot - of Thirty is just a number drinking to find that drunk-me had decided to do something that sober-me would never have had the guts to do, no matter how much I wanted it. I had joined a D/s dating site. And I was totally, absolutely going to delete my account and move on with my life. A life where I had secretly been craving a hand strong enough to take the control I held onto so tightly away from me. Except I had a message. From him. I could never have anticipated the pull I felt toward him, how strong the need within me would be to feel him show me all the things I had been wanting, but denying myself. I didn't know it could feel like it did, that it could consume me, that it could make me crave not only his touch, but him. It was dangerous territory, slowing falling for a man who made it clear that what was between us was casual. He wouldn't even tell me his real name. And as things started to get more intense - both physically and emotionally - I had to start to debate whether the pleasure he gave me was worth staying for if it leads to a heartbreak I was sure I wasn't prepared for...

Elsie has a problem. She has a mystery she is bent on solving, a mystery that led her to run for her life down the streets of Navesink Bank until she found herself rescued by a sexy stranger.Paine has a past. He's done everything in his power to move on from it, to distance himself from the things he has done. But then one night he finds himself saving a woman whose naive dabbling in matters she doesn't understand threatens to drag him right back into the world he had done unspeakable things to escape from in the first place...

Xander Rhodes, a private investigator known for taking cases that other PIs wont touch (and perhaps pushing the lines of legality in order to help his clients) is suffering from sleepless nights and a fall in confidence having failed his last case... protecting a woman from a malicious stalker. One night, a woman shows up at his office, battered and begging for help. She herself is dealing with a stalker. What he doesn't know, however, is that Ellie is hiding things from him. A dark and troubled past that threatens to put her, and his, life in jeopardy. Among trying to figure out the mystery of the woman begging asylum at his apartment, Xander is forced to deal with his growing attraction to her. Will he be able to reconcile his feelings for her or put the pieces of her life together and help her before it is too late?

After weeks of nonstop work, all she wanted was to sleep in her own bed for a change. Instead, she found herself trapped in paradise against her will, working a job without the security of her team there to back her up.She was determined to resent every moment of it, but it wasn't long before she realized Greece had something that she didn't have back home. A man like Christopher Adamos in her bed.

I lost my virginity when I was twenty-five years old to a hooker my sister hired because she felt bad for me. That was six years ago and it's probably the least shocking fact about my life. That was, until I met Darcy Monroe, and "shocking" took on a whole new meaning... ---- Six years after escaping his cloistered, abusive, fundamentally religious upbringing, ISAIAH finds himself still dealing with the demons of his past, detached from society as a whole, and wholly unable to connect with, or trust, women. He engages in constant, meaningless sport sex with women, trying to numb the feeling of inadequacy inside. Then he sets his sights on his new neighbor... DARCY is strong, capable, outspoken, and in no way going to put up with some random jackass next door who decides to make a game of trying to get her into bed. But Isaiah is relentless. And Darcy finds herself torn between not letting him win, and giving into her own desire. Just as they start to get close, they realize that something more sinister is afoot and they will both be forced to confront feelings of betrayal that will set their lives in an unexpected direction.

I'm not crazy. It's not amnesia. But I somehow lost a year of my life. When the cops and doctors think you're out of your mind, but you still need answers, where else is there to turn but a private investigator? Sawyer is nothing you'd want in a friend- a little detached, cool, sarcastic, cocksure. But he's everything you'd want in a private investigator- calm, capable, experienced, and just jaded enough by the darkness he'd seen to take a chance on some random girl who insists something more sinister must have happened to her than simple memory loss. But thrown together, trying to get to the root of my mystery, feelings that were most definitely not client/professional start to emerge.