Bøger af Susan Fanetti

Nolan Mariano is on loan from the Night Horde Missouri charter; he's been sitting at the SoCal table for almost a year. Though his family is clamoring for him to return home, he doesn't feel ready yet-he doesn't feel that he's been tested enough. Despite the patch on his back, he's not sure he's earned the right to sit in the seat his father once occupied. Analisa Winter meets Nolan when he volunteers to teach her to ride a Harley. Learning to ride is on Analisa's bucket list, and that list is of paramount importance to her. She is dying, and she's determined live her full life first. Nolan has no intention of falling in love with a dying girl. But Analisa is the kind of girl you can't help falling in love with, even when you know that love is doomed. Nolan becomes a man in California, and he learns what kind of man he has become. His story is just beginning. Note: Explicit sex.

When her mother died, Carmen stepped into her shoes and became the woman of the family, shouldering much of the responsibility for raising her two youngest siblings and keeping the family running. Even though Joey and Rosa are now grown, she's found it difficult to let that role go. When Rosa graduates from college, Carmen takes her to Europe for the summer. She means the trip as not simply a gift, but a way to strengthen their bond as sisters and to help Rosa, the youngest sibling and the pampered family princess, become a more fully-realized adult. She has no intention of spending time with anyone but her sister. Writer and widower Theo Wilde is living in Paris for several months, with the mission to write his next book. His grown sons, worried that he is too much alone, push him into the city to meet someone new. He's not enthusiastic, but he makes a promise to try. It's Carmen he meets. What begins as a summer fling against the beautiful, romantic backdrop of Paris becomes something that neither of them expected, something Carmen is not prepared for. She has always placed her family first, but to be with Theo, she'll need to stretch beyond her roots and grow. NOTE: explicit sex, some violence.

Luca Pagano is a second son. The family rebel, he has always been a beat out of step with his father, who sees him as unserious and unsettled. But Luca is a man who knows his mind and follows his heart. He's never met a woman with whom he wants to be serious or settled, and he is definitely not looking. Active and adventurous, he prefers an uncomplicated life, free of any attachments but those of his family. Emmanuelle "Manny" Timko has recently moved to Quiet Cove. She, too, avoids attachments beyond her family, but her reasons go deeper than simple preference. To make her way in the world, she's had to build a life of coping mechanisms and control. The connection they make together is as intense as it is unlikely. To love Manny, Luca must learn to love in a new way. To love Luca, Manny must learn to love at all. When Luca's Uncles come to him to collect on a debt, what Luca and Manny have found together will be sorely tested. What happens next could change everything for them and for the whole Pagano family. Note: explicit sex, violent scenes

Len Wahlberg, the Night Horde MC's Sergeant at Arms, has had Isaac Lunden's back for decades. A loner at heart, he has needed no closer bond than the brotherhood of his club. For years, he's preferred to take his women in groups, because he has neither needed nor wanted the intimacy of a coupling. But after he's seriously wounded in a firefight, feeling his age and mortality more acutely than ever before, he discovers that his own company isn't enough any longer. He needs a stronger, more intimate bond, and he finds that connection in an old friend. Natasha Westby is a club daughter. Her father, the Horde's first SAA, raised her alone, within the rough and rowdy walls of the clubhouse. After a torrid, youthful affair with Isaac ended in public humiliation and heartbreak, Tasha left Signal Bend and found a safe distance from which to make a life-close enough to stay connected to her family, but far enough to live her life outside the club. She built a complete, contented, unconventional life that has little to do with Signal Bend or her club family. As a doctor working at the nearest hospital, she finds herself involved more and more deeply with the club as its business becomes more and more dangerous. When her family ties finally upend her separate life, she is drawn back home and into Len's arms. While Len and Tasha try to understand and define their connection to each other, and Tasha struggles with her reentry into the world of the club, the Horde's unwilling entanglement with a dangerous drug cartel becomes deadly. Fighting for justice and freedom against a man who will commit any atrocity to assert his power, the Horde family experiences pain and loss the likes of which it has never known before. Love and hope are all they have left. Note: Dark themes. Explicit sex, graphic violence.

Father's Sun is the conclusion of THE NORTHWOMEN SAGAS. Solveig Valisdottir is said to be born for greatness. The firstborn daughter of Brenna God's-Eye and Vali Storm-Wolf, she carries her parents' legacy on her shoulders and strives to be worthy of their legends. She is a strong shieldmaiden in her own right, but her parents are the greatest of their people, beloved of the gods, and she must reach as high as they, or even beyond, to feel she deserves the esteem she already has as their daughter. She keeps her fears buried deep in her chest, trusting only Magni, her dearest friend, keeper of all her secrets, to know her struggle. Her love for him reaches deeper than friendship, but she cannot allow herself that love until she has done her parents the honor they deserve. She must find her story; she must make her name. Magni Leifsson is the scion of greatness himself. His father is the revered Jarl Leif of Geitland, and his mother, Olga, is a beloved counselor of their people. They offer him a legacy of wisdom and compassion, and of strength and valor, and he means his story to be the next verse of theirs. Magni has loved Solveig since they were children playing in the light of their parents' friendship. The keeper of her secrets, he knows her better than anyone. He understands the burden of her legacy, and he vows to wait for her while she finds her story. And he is at her side, offering her his strength and his love, when Solveig finds her legend on a field of loss. Note: Explicit sex and violence.

Signal Bend, Missouri and the Night Horde MC gained notoriety after a shootout on Main Street brought down major players in the Midwest meth trade. The media have turned the Horde into folk heroes, and Hollywood wants a piece of that action.Riley Chase is America's Sweetheart, with a starring role on a popular television series, and now she's the lead actress in the movie about Signal Bend. In Hollywood she's hounded by the press, without the luxury of privacy or secrets, forced to play out her most intimate moments, even tragic ones, on a public stage. In Signal Bend, she's nearly anonymous, able to discover who she is behind her image.Bart Elstad is the Horde Intelligence Officer. His responsibility is to keep the club's secrets buried, especially while the world is looking their way with a long distance lens. He's in charge of the actors while they're in town to research their roles.Bart and Riley forge a quick but intense connection. A casual connection without expectations soon deepens, far more than either of them could have predicted. He sees the woman behind the starshine. She sees the man under the leather. Two very different worlds merge for a brief moment, but reality can't be suspended forever. Chaos breaks loose both within and beyond the club. Tensions that have been simmering boil over, with catastrophic consequences. The Horde's most powerful allies, concerned that their secrets might be exposed in the spotlight of fame, become dangerous enemies. Riley gets caught in the middle. With the future of the Horde in the balance, Bart makes a sacrifice that will change the club, and his life, forever.Note: Explicit sex and violence.

Gigi Mackenzie left home in a hurry ten years ago, and she hasn't looked back. She's spent the decade traveling the world, moving fast, never landing anywhere long, chasing something she's never been able to find, or even define. In all those years, there's only one thing, one person, she's truly missed-the one person she hadn't been running from at all. The person she hurt most when she left.When she gets word of trouble at home, she knows she has to go back. Tragedy sent her flying, and tragedy brings her back to the nest.Like his father and his grandfather before him, Reese Webb runs The Apple Jack Saloon. In more than forty years of life, he's hardly crossed the Idaho state line, and he has no need or intention to go anywhere. Jasper Ridge, and the Jack-that's his home. He's a man who likes things to stay the way they are.Ten years ago, he meant to bring the love of his life home to these familiar, well-worn walls. But the night before their wedding, she ran away.Now Gigi is back, and Reese realizes there's a reason he's been standing in place all this time. He's been waiting.But has too much time, and too much pain, filled the space between them?

The only constant is change. The Night Horde SoCal is the new charter of the Night Horde MC, one that rose up from the ashes of a violent war with a drug cartel. The Horde's outlaw days ended with that war. Muse, like many of his SoCal brothers, was a member of an MC that was destroyed in that fight. A former Nomad enforcer, he's struggled to be settled in a straight life. But Southern California is his home, his family is now Horde, and he has responsibilities. So he keeps his head down and does his best to take care of his family and responsibilities. Sidonie has recently moved to Madrone, the town where the Night Horde SoCal has set up its base, to begin her job as a social worker for San Bernardino County. It's work she feels a sense of mission to do. Muse and Sid meet under stressful circumstances, on opposite sides of a dilemma. When Muse tries to bring her to his side, a fire catches between them. As their feelings for each other deepen, the work of the SoCal charter becomes dangerous again. But the club isn't the only potential danger for Sid. Her own work carries risk, too. Muse needs to keep her safe. Sid needs to stand on her own. They won't have a future together until they find the place where those needs merge and make them stronger. Strength & Courage is the first book in the Night Horde SoCal series. Though this series, and thus its backstory, spins off from the Signal Bend Series, and though key characters from that series appear here, this focus is on the SoCal charter. If you haven't been to Signal Bend yet, you won't be lost in Madrone. Note: explicit sex & violence.

Note: Love & Friendship is a companion novella to the Night Horde MC saga. It occurs within the timeline of Nolan: Return to Signal Bend, and constitutes a substantial spoiler for events throughout the entire saga. With that in mind... This is a story of love uprooted by loss. This is a story of love finding new ground. This is a story of love taking root in friendship. This is a story of love learning how to bloom again. This is a story of life growing strong again. This is the story of Bart and Cory.

Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1999. Born on the day after the moon landing to a father with his head in the stars, Neil "Apollo" Armstrong has never felt that he could reach as high as his father's dreams. He got as far as Tulsa, and there, with the Brazen Bulls MC, he found a way to fly on wheels. But he's worried now that the club has lost its way. The Bulls are reeling from a bloody, blazing street war that tore through the heart of the club. Their brotherhood has been badly damaged, and the trust among them is fragile. Jacinda Durham doesn't have a lot of trust to give. With a painful past still weighing on her present, she keeps people at a distance, preferring inconsequential encounters, to guard against the chance of being hurt. The career she's chosen is another piece of her armor; she makes a living of suspicion. After a blistering-hot night together, Apollo and Jacinda go their separate ways, despite a mutual sense that their attraction is deeper than skin. Then a fateful coincidence throws them violently back together, and Apollo finds himself standing between his club and a woman he barely knows, each a possible threat to the other. Where his loyalty lies should be clear, but his trust in the Bulls is shaken, and he can't allow another innocent to be hurt. It's more than a question of loyalty. It's love as well, a deeply rooted love for his club, and a powerful new love growing between him and this tough, beautiful woman who's offered him her precious trust. To save all he loves, Apollo must put everything on the line-his honor, his love, his life. He will have to pay the price that settles all their debts. Note: explicit sex and violence.

Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1997 When Richard "Maverick" Helm walks out the gate of the state penitentiary, after four hard years inside, he doesn't know what life he has left waiting for him. Abandoned by the love of his life, a stranger to his only child, Maverick turns to his club, the Brazen Bulls MC, and holds on. But he's not sure of the club any longer, either. The Bulls have changed since he went inside, and they'd all but forgotten him. Before Maverick can find a life worth living, he must heal the family he'd had-his woman and his child-and he must find his fit with his brothers. To do either, he must remember the man he was, and decide who he wants to be. The love of Jenny Wagner's life promised her a beautiful future. He swore he'd be there for her and their daughter forever. He wanted to be her hero, and she believed that he would be. Then he left her alone before their baby was born-and what he did left Jenny's life in ruins. She'll never forgive him. But she's never stopped loving him. Her anger arises from that deep, abiding love, and the pain of its betrayal. Before Jenny can open herself and her daughter to a new life with Maverick, she must learn to trust again, and to be with him the strong woman she's become without him. It takes only a moment of reunion for Jenny to remember their love-a love Maverick's never forgotten. It takes much longer to overcome the obstacles of the past and find a way to make a future together. Note: explicit sex and violence.

Soul's Fire is the third installment of the bestselling Viking romance series THE NORTHWOMEN SAGAS, following God's Eye and Heart's Ease. Astrid has been a warrior since the day she was old enough to make the choice to live and die with an axe in her hand. She is strong and stoic, powerful and brave, and she has the life she desires, free of complications and distractions. She is a shieldmaiden, and that is all she wishes to be. She has been the strong right hand of her jarl since the day they and their allies overthrew the cruel Jarl Åke. Jarl Leif is mighty and honorable, and with Astrid's help, he has brought great prosperity to their people. Every summer, the raiders sail into new lands, traveling farther and farther, claiming treasure to enrich their people. They meet little resistance from the rulers or the people of these strange worlds. Until they land in a country whose king has learned the lessons of his neighbors and meets the raiders with a cunning and brutality that matches their own. In that clash, and after it, Astrid's shieldmaiden's strength and will are put to the harshest tests. Leofric is the second son of a king. Without the expectations or attention imposed on his brother, he is free to live more or less as he chooses. But he is a seasoned warrior and not half so dissolute as his reputation suggests. When his father and brother seek to salve their rage by torturing a captive barbarian woman, Leofric sees their action for the evil it is and does all he can to save her, and then to heal her. To love her had not been part of his plan. The captive is strong and stoic, powerful and brave. She is a marvel unlike any woman he's ever known. But if she is to live, she must learn the ways of his world. If she is to thrive, she must cast aside what she was and become something new. Leofric would give her all that he has and more, but there is one thing he cannot offer. His world has no word for shieldmaiden. Note: Explicit sex and violence. Dark themes.

Lilli Accardo moves to the dying town of Signal Bend, Missouri, where the citizens have made a devil's bargain to stay afloat. Lilli quickly garners the attention of the whole town, particularly Isaac Lunden, President of the Night Horde Motorcycle Club and de facto protector of the town and its citizens.When it turns out that Lilli is there under murky circumstances, Isaac decides to get close and try to figure out what she's hiding. Their chemistry is instantaneous and electric, but each is a potential danger to the other. Action, sex, and drama ensue as Isaac and Lilli try to navigate the rocky terrain between trust and threat.Note: Explicit sex and violence.

The Night Horde was once sure of their place in this world. Now, following a harrowing confrontation with the vicious leader of a notorious drug cartel, they are weakened in body and spirit, and they no longer have the unwavering support of the citizens of Signal Bend. They must fight to reclaim the goodwill of their town and their own sense of purpose.Justin "Badger" Ness is struggling both physically and mentally with the price he paid for his place in the brotherhood of the Night Horde. That which gives him the most strength is becoming his personal demon. He is in danger of losing sight of what is good and real in the world.Adrienne Renard is lost between the life she thought she wanted and an endless world of possibilities. The stepdaughter of Showdown Ryan, the club VP, comes to Signal Bend out of concern for her friend, worried about Badger's increasing distance, but she stays to find her own place in a life she never knew she wanted.Together Badger and Adrienne learn that trust-in each other and in themselves-is where strength truly lies. Without trust, there can be no atonement, no forgiveness. It's a lesson the Night Horde and the town of Signal Bend must learn, as well.Leave a Trail is the final volume in the Signal Bend Series. It is a story of struggle and recovery, of loss and gain, of hope and perseverance, and of the abiding power of real love.Also included in this volume: The True Seed, a novella and epilogue to Leave a Trail and to the Signal Bend Series itself. Note: explicit sex and violence.

Nolan Mariano is a man shaped by loss. All his life, people he's loved deeply have left him in one way or another. In Signal Bend, Missouri, as a son and then a member of the Night Horde MC, he's found a home and a family. His mother and his younger brother are protected and loved, too. But Nolan can't trust it. The past haunts him; injustices left unanswered loom over his present and threaten his future. One injustice in particular. Iris Ryan is a Night Horde daughter who knows loss of her own. Taken away from her home as a child after unspeakable horror tore her family apart, she returns to Signal Bend, and her father, when she's grown because she's never felt at home anywhere else. As Iris settles into a new life of her choosing in the home she's regained, she and Nolan connect. As his love for Iris deepens, Nolan can't ignore the way that loss has warped him. The past is a shadow over him, and he can no longer live under its weight. He needs vengeance. At any cost. Note: explicit sex and violence.

England, 1910. Lady Nora Tate is a young woman caught between the expectations of her station and the demands of her own heart and mind. The noble world of her birth is a luxurious cage, locking her away from all she wishes to know and feel and do, the woman she wishes to be. All around her, the world is changing, and she fights to join it, even as she creates scandal with her every attempt to break free.William Frazier is the scion of an American railroad tycoon, in England to seek new business opportunities for his family's empire and visit his good friend, Lord Christopher Tate. With Chris as his guide, he tours the London Season, and meets his friend's younger sister. He's captivated at once by the lovely young lady with the sharp wit and searching eyes.Raised by visionary parents, William sees Nora's cage for what it is and admires her striving against constraint. But her world will neither free her, nor accept him. William would be her hero and save her, but Nora wants to save herself, if she can.Set against the tumultuous cultural and political backdrop of the end of the Edwardian Era, on two continents and across an ocean, Nothing on Earth & Nothing in Heaven is a story about the deep love between a young woman finding her voice, and the man strong enough to stand at her side as she demands the right to use it.This novel is a standalone.