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the twisted world

this dark, devious series consists of a duet and three interconnected standalones set in the seedy underbelly of Chicago. follow Ace’s most popular characters down the rabbit hole into the land of everything depraved and delicious.

Once upon a time, in a land far, far away... Okay, maybe it's not a long time ago, or even very far away, but present day Chicago has it's fair share of heroes and villains. Unlike the tales of old, they don't wear shining armor, golden crowns or …

Once upon a time, in a land far, far away...

Okay, maybe it's not a long time ago, or even very far away, but present day Chicago has it's fair share of heroes and villains. Unlike the tales of old, they don't wear shining armor, golden crowns or even dragon scales - they're human. Gloriously flawed and dangerous humans with an appetite for both blood and lust.

A twist of fate brought Cole Ryan and Elle Laroux together in an orgasmic first encounter, but all too fast their futures became deeply entwined. Being forced together wouldn't be such a bad thing if a dark web wasn't being woven around Cole and Elle - simultaneously taut and tenuous - leaving their very lives to hold on by the thinnest of fate's strands.

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One gunshot is all it took for my world to crumble. For the future I had never dared to dream of to turn to dust. One gunshot is all it took to for fate to steal Cole Ryan from me. Now I’m stuck in hell and Satan himself has his eye on me. This ti…

One gunshot is all it took for my world to crumble. For the future I had never dared to dream of to turn to dust. One gunshot is all it took to for fate to steal Cole Ryan from me.

Now I’m stuck in hell and Satan himself has his eye on me. This time there is no diversion, no savior. There is only Death. I feel it breathing down my neck with the hot sticky breath of the enemy that lusts for me.

I’ll surrender. I’ll sell myself. I’ll sacrifice. Whatever it takes to buy me time and the soul of my soulmate. Whatever it takes to bring light after the whole world goes dark.

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Boy meets girl. Boy falls for girl. Boy marries girl. And they both live happily ever after. Right? Not quite. I fell for the boy. So slowly I barely noticed, then all at once. I loved my best friend with my entire heart, letting him fill up the h…

Boy meets girl. Boy falls for girl. Boy marries girl. And they both live happily ever after. Right?

Not quite.

I fell for the boy. So slowly I barely noticed, then all at once. I loved my best friend with my entire heart, letting him fill up the holes my family had dug. But boys don’t fall for other boys. Just ask him.

So my story turned into boy meets boy. Boy falls for boy. Boy gets rejected. Boy meets girl. Boy meets boy. Boy loses them over and over and over again.

Pretty twisted, right?

My life story was really just a screwed up love story. A search for the one person that understood the darkness inside me. The monster I’d become. But sometimes the holes are too deep and far too bloody, for anyone—boy or girl—to fill.

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My whole life, there had only been one rule. Don’t go to Chicago. It always made me feel like a damsel in distress, trapped in a tower. But my life was filled with kings and queens and the most noble knights and I didn’t need another fairytale. I ne…

My whole life, there had only been one rule. Don’t go to Chicago. It always made me feel like a damsel in distress, trapped in a tower. But my life was filled with kings and queens and the most noble knights and I didn’t need another fairytale.


I needed a bad boy.

Brye McCowan was just that. He was smooth, and seductive. Dark, dangerous and downright drool worthy too. I saw trouble swirling around him in place of a shadow. He was my one rule personified.

And I couldn't stop myself from kissing him.

Which was right about the time that whole fairytale thing kicked back in. Only this time I wasn’t surrounded by heroes. These were the villains, wicked and vengeful. And Brye was one of them. When all was said and done, when all the blood was spilled, the only thing more tormenting than the dungeon he threw me in was knowing it was my family’s twisted secrets that put me there.

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I'd spent my life as a plaything. A toy to be used by powerful and deadly men in whatever way they pleased. So I was just as surprised as anyone else that I had feelings left. Feelings that lead me to fight for true love while damning myself. And …

I'd spent my life as a plaything. A toy to be used by powerful and deadly men in whatever way they pleased. So I was just as surprised as anyone else that I had feelings left. Feelings that lead me to fight for true love while damning myself.

And that’s just where this story begins.

Desperate and alone I turned back to my childhood home. The first wicked place I’d known with the darkest villain among them. My stepfather. But I could weather his storm in exchange for safety. I had to.

What I didn’t expect to find was Niall McDonough. The only man I’d ever really loved had reappeared only to become one of them. Someone ruthless and cruel. He wants to ruin me. As my stepfather’s savage soldier he might just do it.

But then again, twelve years ago a fortune teller predicted I’d need just such a soldier to save both my heart and soul.

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Pretty Young Things

"Pretty Young Things is an absolute tour de force. Seven points of view. A twenty-year span of time. Secrets and deception and revenge and redeption. Ace took a classic tale and transformed it into a modern day love story of epic proportions. I give it all the stars in the sky, even Cassiopeia."

-BB Easton, Bestselling Author

this retelling of The Count of Monte Cristo is Ace’s most critically acclaimed tale of lust, lies, betrayal and deceit.

Greed. Jealousy. Lust.  It all started with a bloody palm and a promise. Words beneath the moonlight that I thought would keep us together. Forever.  Deceit. Betrayal. Vengeance.  I didn’t see it coming. I didn’t think you had it i…

Greed. Jealousy. Lust. 

It all started with a bloody palm and a promise. Words beneath the moonlight that I thought would keep us together. Forever. 

Deceit. Betrayal. Vengeance. 

I didn’t see it coming. I didn’t think you had it in you. But what was supposed to bury me—break me—simply remade me as something new. Something hellbent on ruining you, my love.


*This book is a complete stand-alone based on the classic The Count of Monte Cristo*

of smoke & cinnamon

this small town Christmas story packs all the feels into snow covered and spice tinged pages. its like Hallmark but make it spicy.

Camilla Collins hasn't gone home in thirteen years. As much as she loves her family, their tiny hometown in the folds of the Colorado mountains holds too many memories. Memories of a life barely lived and a love barely realized. No matter how she th…

Camilla Collins hasn't gone home in thirteen years. As much as she loves her family, their tiny hometown in the folds of the Colorado mountains holds too many memories. Memories of a life barely lived and a love barely realized. No matter how she thrives, AJ Jenkins is the man she compares all others too. He just so happens to be the one that broke her heart. Seeing him, seeing the life she might have had with him, has been a very convincing reason to celebrate the holidays in the Pacific Northwest, happy in the rain instead of the snow.

AJ Jenkins isn't exactly bitter and frigid. It's the below freezing temperatures, the knee deep snow, and the death of his chronically ill father dragging him down. That is until Cam Collins finally comes home for Christmas. After thirteen years, he'd almost given up on seeing her. And was incredibly happy about it. But thirteen is unlucky for a reason, and apparently that reason is still a klutzy, gorgeous, living memory determined to poke holes in his barely hanging on heart with death defying stilettos.

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mixing business with pleasure series

a spin on the traditional CEO trope, these dueling titans of empire find love in their rival but also their equal. tied up in a beautiful red ribbon, this debut series is a thrilling saga of lust, loss and learning to love despite the odds and built up walls.

SourceStrictly Business (Book 1)Available on Amazon via Kindle & paperback here!Now available on Barnes & Nobel here!Now available on iBooks here!Kate Elliott isn't going to take falling in love lying down. Kate's life is good by a…

SourceStrictly Business (Book 1)

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Now available on Barnes & Nobel here!

Now available on iBooks here!

Kate Elliott isn't going to take falling in love lying down. 

Kate's life is good by any measure. At 28, she has an incredibly successful company that affords her the couture lifestyle any Manhattan power player would expect. Being surrounded by luxury is almost enough to make the lack of romance in her life bearable. Almost. 

When she meets Nicholas Bryant, she’s consumed by desire despite discovering he's her new, savvy, and therefore dangerous, competitor. After a series of hot and cold meetings—where the two compete over who is more hotheaded rather than market share—they succumb to passion in one perfect, electric weekend. But as soon as they resurface, trouble begins brewing that may cost Kate her empire, or worse, her long walled off heart.

Bad For Business (Book 2)Available on Amazon via Kindle & paperback here!Now available on Barnes & Nobel here!Now available on iBooks here!Falling was the easy part. Kate Elliott can still see blood on her hands and feel the last breat…

Bad For Business (Book 2)

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Now available on Barnes & Nobel here!

Now available on iBooks here!

Falling was the easy part.

Kate Elliott can still see blood on her hands and feel the last breath of a dying man on her lips. Anytime she closes her eyes, a small piece of her world crumbles, leaving her something she's never been: weak. Luckily, Nicholas Bryant is strong enough for the both of them. And he'd do anything to lift Kate up…kiss her tears until they stop, take her breath away, and pleasure her until she barely remembers the outside world.

But...

Nicholas' past is catching up to him, and fast. The secrets he's kept at bay have wound their way into his present and threaten the very real future he’s started to build with Kate. He'll fight for Kate—every bit as much as he'll fight with her—but even that may not be enough. Nicholas Bryant may turn out to be very Bad For Business after all.

Bad For Business contains mature content suitable for mature audiences.

Family Business (Book 3)Available on Amazon via Kindle & paperback here!Finding the one doesn’t always mean keeping them. Kate Elliott and Nicholas Bryant’s relationship has been anything but easy. The best things in life never are. And fi…

Family Business (Book 3)

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Finding the one doesn’t always mean keeping them.

Kate Elliott and Nicholas Bryant’s relationship has been anything but easy. The best things in life never are. And finding each other, finding a soulmate, qualifies as extravagant, borderline absurd.

But holding on isn’t always about holding tight. Sometimes things, or people, slip through even the strongest grip… 

The ghosts of both Nicholas’ and Kate’s pasts are haunting every facet of their lives. Enemies, both old and new, are weaving their tendrils around a couple usually trademarked by ecstasy. Sometimes the demons are a whisper; sometimes they have a vicious strangle hold. Nicholas and Kate finding their other half, against all odds, and despite explosive and electric tempers, won’t be the hard part. Staying alive may be all this family can ask for.

Family Business is a steam romance with content intended for a mature audience.

 

Handwritten & Heartbroken Duet

an enemies to lovers duet with all the angst and pain of your most intense love. set in small town Colorado with a colorful cast of characters and gut wrenching letters, this duet is told through first one POV then the other to create an epic, but utterly real love story.

I met my soulmate on July 17th, 2017. He wasn’t my typical type, but the way his ice blue eyes cut through me and his deep honeyed voice warmed me back up made him something new entirely; they were two of the million little things that seemed to mak…

I met my soulmate on July 17th, 2017. He wasn’t my typical type, but the way his ice blue eyes cut through me and his deep honeyed voice warmed me back up made him something new entirely; they were two of the million little things that seemed to make him mine.

Except…I met my fiancé December 22nd, 2012.

I didn’t plan for any of this to happen. Not to meet James Larrabee or to fall in love. Not to hurt the people closest to me. And definitely, definitely not to write the letters that would be both my salvation and my damnation.

I’ve been called a robot. Made of stone. Heartless. But that’s because no one ever saw what was underneath. Not until Mina McLennan saw right through me.We made so many mistakes, left each other with scars so deep and wreckage in our wake but I coul…

I’ve been called a robot. Made of stone. Heartless. But that’s because no one ever saw what was underneath. Not until Mina McLennan saw right through me.

We made so many mistakes, left each other with scars so deep and wreckage in our wake but I couldn’t help but find her, fight for her. I mean, I fell in love with the way she loved me. And so deeply, so full of a furiously beating heart that I asked her to marry me.Turns out, that was the easy part.

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