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King of Bullies (Prequel to No Saint)
Jo Raven
Romance
Once upon a time there lived a boy with his dad who ruled the small town of Destiny. Like his dad, the boy was a bully who thrived on causing misery.Like his dad, he was king.Like his dad, he was lost.One day he met a girl called Luna who made him feel something other than rage and pain, a girl who would one day show him that to be strong you don't have to hurt others, or yourself, and that there's great strength in kindness and love.But that came later. That was then, and this is now…*** This is a short prequel to NO SAINT ***

No Saint
Jo Raven
Romance
Meet the infamous Ross, black sheep of the family and bully extraordinaire. I drink too much, smoke too much, screw around. I've hurt people, been in and out of prison. I'm a bastard, a beast. I'm a bundle of joy. I mean, my own dad tried to kill me, what does that tell you? Then again, my dad did kill my mom, so maybe it isn't just me. Who the hell knows. The world sucks and I'm giving it the finger in every damn way, except... Except there's a girl. Pretty. Hot. Clever. She didn't get the memo—that she should hate me, shun me, kick me when I'm down. That the world screwed us all over. She believes in the future—and sometimes she seems to even believe in me. Big mistake. I'm bad news. I made her suffer in the past, and nothing has changed. I'm not an angel, not a saint. No good. But for some reason I don't get, I can't let her go down with me. I find myself trying to be better for her, pretending to be...

No Saint (Wild Men, #6)
Jo Raven
Romance
Meet the infamous Ross, black sheep of the family and bully extraordinaire.I drink too much, smoke too much, screw around. I've hurt people, been in and out of prison. I'm a bastard, a beast. I'm a bundle of joy.I mean, my own dad tried to kill me, what does that tell you?Then again, my dad did kill my mom, so maybe it isn't just me. Who the hell knows. The world sucks and I'm giving it the finger in every damn way, except…Except there's a girl. Pretty. Hot. Clever. She didn't get the memo—that she should hate me, shun me, kick me when I'm down. That the world screwed us all over. She believes in the future—and sometimes she seems to even believe in me.Big mistake. I'm bad news. I made her suffer in the past, and nothing has changed. I'm not an angel, not a saint. No good.But for some reason I don't get, I can't let her go down with me. I find myself trying to be better for her, pretending to be someone I'm not.And if that doesn't ring some damn big alarm bells regarding my sanity, well… then I'm done already.*This is a standalone full-length novel in the Wild Men universe that began with Caveman.*

Dark Child
Jo Raven
Romance
Mercury "Merc" Watson Not your average boy next door Hot stud, indie music fan, dirty mechanic With a panty-melting grin And eyes that hide dark secrets... I've often seen him on campus as I run from class to class Girls flock around him all the time He's too hot for words. Tall, muscular, handsome. Also distant, arrogant, in a trajectory so far from mine I can't hope to touch him Maybe it's for the best. I've sworn off men, you see. For good. Until one day he asks me out. Woo baby, right? Only he thinks I'm my twin sister. Then he admits that behind the golden façade he hides a dark secret and.... I'm hooked. I need to know what it is. Solve the riddle. Without losing my heart to him. Easier said than done. * Standalone contemporary romance novel in the Wild Men series *

Tyler
Jo Raven
Romance
Four years have passed since I left home, my parents, and my brother Asher behind – since I shut out my past. And Erin. Four years since I last saw her, since I heard her voice and held her in my arms. I’ve spent my time forging a path from woman to woman, from bed to bed, trying to find an answer. But I think I’ve lost my way. There’s no light at the end of the dark. No big surprise. I carry the dark inside me. I’m a bastard – branded as such from the start. I never give my phone number and address. I take my pleasure, and don’t come back for seconds. No commitments, no promises and no happy endings. Yeah, I’m a bastard down to the bone and I don’t give a damn. But now I’m back in my birth town, the town I fled at eighteen – back to make amends to the brother I abandoned and watch from afar the only girl I’ve ever wanted. Hope isn’t a currency I can afford. I learned that lesson long ago. Yet when she looks at me and says my name, I can’t help but hope.

Jesse
Jo Raven
Romance
Returning to Madison hurts. I thought I’d left my past behind, but the past goes on living. I carry it inside of me, it’s a piece of me. People have marked me in indelible ways and I drag the shreds of my soul behind me, trying to put my pieces back together. I’m not the Amber I used to be. I fly under the radar, try to be invisible. It doesn't always work. Drawing attention scares me. It always spells trouble. Returning to my home town is a last ditch effort to lay my demons to rest and start anew, for good this time. Meeting Jesse Lee wasn’t in the plan. Yet here he is with his heart-stopping, sexy grin, handsome like a god, shining bright. He’s full of life, full of heat, packing the energy of a thousand suns in his gaze and muscular body. Jesse burns, and the pain of being near him is sweet. But he’s foiling my plans. It’s hard to remain a ghost when he’s around. Hard to avoid his attention, to remain invisible. He sees me, really sees me, and behind his bright radiance, I can see shadows from his own past crowding in. He’s swimming hard to stay afloat even as he reaches for me. What is he afraid of? And how can he save me from drowning when he can’t even save himself? Standalone novel. No cliffhanger.

Dylan
Part #4 of "Inked Brotherhood" series by Jo Raven
Romance
When you’ve tried your best for years and never managed to please your demanding parents… When you’ve fallen head over heels for someone who keeps ignoring you… When you’ve hit rock bottom. Tessa is this close to giving up, on her authoritative parents and their demands, on her studies, on everything in her life. Including Dylan. The one boy she has loved since she can remember. The one who dated her and promised her forever when they were fourteen, and then dumped her without an explanation only to ignore her ever since. The one who shows up to save her from the hands of her abusive ex before the stroke of midnight, who kisses her and holds her close, only to tell her in the course of the same night he doesn’t love her. Tessa knows Dylan has gone through some tough times, and they’re only getting tougher, but is he telling the truth about his lack of feelings for her, or is he running from his own demons? The way Tessa sees it, she has two options: run away, leaving it all behind, or stay to fight against her controlling family, and win back Dylan. She has a feeling he needs her, and how can she leave when he's the only man who’s ever made her feel alive? Standalone novel. No cliffhanger. Warning: this book contains graphic language, sex, and violence. Mature readers only. Not intended for young readers.

Raven Quest
Jo Ann Ferguson
Rory Mullen pretends to be a boy while working in Yellow Hal's place in the pirate haven of Port Royal, Jamaica. Her aunt was the pirate's mistress, but is dead. Where else could Rory go? Her father betrayed her mother, who died at Rory's birth. Or so she believes until Nathan Lawler comes into Yellow Hal's place looking for the answers to a puzzle that leads to treasure. A treasure that once belonged to her father and which he hid to keep it from his greatest enemy. She knows right away that Nathan and his crew are not the pirates they pretend to be, and Nathan quickly discovers Rory is no lad. Fascinated by the beautiful woman she truly is, he realizes that she is the key to the treasure he covets. As they follow the clues and their hearts, he wonders which was Rory's father's greatest treasure: his gold or his daughter.

The Raven and the Rose
Jo Beverley
In this novella of the Holy Grail from New York Times bestselling author Jo Beverley, one woman must step forward to restore peace to medieval England... As the seventh child in her family, Sister Gledys was given to the Church at birth. She has spent all of her eighteen years in the Rosewell Nunnery, living a quiet, regimented life behind its walls. But lately, her mind has been wandering. She has visions of a gallant knight battling a massive foe. She longs to see his face and speak to him but she cannot... As a young boy, Michael de Lourey was locked away in a monastery by his mother. Not being the oldest in his family, he would not inherit land. His only options are to be a monk or a knight. Michael left the monastery at twelve and has grown into a skilled fighter, but the chaste life of a knight may be taking its toll on him. Whenever he fights, he keeps seeing a beautiful and silent woman in a green dress and white veil. He doesn't dare mentio...

Riot (Bad Boy Escorts #1)
Jo Raven
Romance
A male escort romance unlike any you've ever read. Hot. Sweet. Suspenseful. Heart-breaking.A broken girl. A sexy escort. A fancy hotel room and a struggle for trust. When Paxtyn makes an appointment with escort Riot Gallagher of the Bad Boy Escorts agency, she has her reasons, and they have nothing to do with sex or pleasure. But after that first, disastrous meeting, something changes. The tables are turned, the picture shifts. A strong girl. A damaged boy. An attraction that turns into love and a fight for life or death. There was never any question about how this would end…

Bad Son
Jo Raven
Romance
Once a met a boy and gave him my heartBut what if he never gives it back?He’s our neighbors’ adopted son.He’s quiet, brooding, hot.We walk together down the street after school,And we talk.I want him a lot.But he thinks he’s bad luck, a bad son,And misunderstandings will tear us apart…

Seth (Damage Control #3)
Jo Raven
Romance
Special pre-order price - price will go up after release day! Life is a bitch. Keeps screwing me over, and I take blow after blow, sucking it up, giving her the finger. Don’t get me wrong: I love women. Especially one woman – Madeline. She’s gorgeous, she’s sexy, she’s goddamn perfect. Plus – minor detail – she has a boyfriend already. Not that she’d want anything to do with the likes of me. Apprentice tattoo artist, former homeless person, covered in ink, without a penny to my name. And sort of cursed. I mean, I’d be lucky to run into a girl, any girl, on my way in and out of hospitals with the way life has been knocking me about lately. But I’m not lucky. Never was. Doesn’t look like that’s gonna change any day soon, either. Until the day the girl of my dreams literally runs into me. With her car. Life hates me, and if this isn’t a clue, then I don’t know what is. Standalone novel. No cliffhanger. Warning: this book contains graphic language, sex, and violence. Mature readers only. Not intended for young readers. SETH is book 3 in the series Damage Control - a series set in the same world as Inked Brotherhood. The boys of Damage Control were taken in by Zane Madden and Rafe Vestri and offered apprenticeship and work in the tattoo shop Damage Control. Next in the Damage Control series: SHANE(Damage Control 4).**

Shane (Damage Control #4)
Jo Raven
Romance
Once upon a time, my life was good. I had a family, I had a girlfriend, and hopes for the future. That was long ago, but I remember it. A hazy dream of what could have been. That’s gone now. I lost it all. Life fucked me over, and now I’m scared of my own damn shadow. I’m training to be a tattoo artist, but I bet I’m not good enough. I have a roof over my head, but every morning I’m scared shitless that I’ll find myself on the street again – or worse, back in prison. And every time a pretty girl looks at me, every single fucking time, I know I can’t be with her. Not only because she’ll find out I’m an ex-con and run the other way, no. It’s more than that. I just can’t. The thought of anyone touching me, the thought of getting aroused from that touch brings back every damn nightmare from my past to swallow me whole. Can’t fucking do it. Not even if it’s the prettiest girl on earth – Cassie. With her long blond hair and her pretty tits, her short skirts and high heels, she’s all my fantasies rolled into one. See, the fact she kissed one of my buddies? That’s good. The fact she looks at me like I’m a bug under her shoe? Even better. Because it means she’s not interested in getting hot and sweaty with me, and that I can keep living that fantasy. The fantasy that she wants to be with me as much as I want to be with her – even though I know it will never happen.

Storm
Jo Raven
Romance
Raylin is on the run. Her father’s associates will stop at nothing to claim the money he owes them—including killing her. A last ditch ticket to Florida, a temporary house to hide in and no future to look forward to. That is, until she meets Storm, a tattooed bad boy who is housesitting down the beach and doing repairs for the summer. A perfect place, a perfect pair of strong arms, a spot of calm in which to hide for a while—or is it? Drop-dead gorgeous, kind, and hot in bed, Storm may not be what he seems. Who is the real Storm, and what is he hiding? Raylin had better find out before the bullets begin to fly...

Ocean (Damage Control Book 5)
Jo Raven
Romance
Meet OCEAN, the newest of the Damage Control Boys, set in the world of the bestselling series Inked Brotherhood. Grab it at the low release promo price - price goes up next week!! This is New Adult Contemporary Romance. I thought I was a normal kid once. Do normal kids have to beg door to door for food? Not sure. It wasn’t always that bad, I guess—and then it was. Really fucking bad. I tried to protect my younger brother from the fallout. Lied to him about how bad things were. But it wasn’t enough. And when the accident happened, he blamed me, like everyone else. I’m guilty of many things. He’s right about that, at least. So damn guilty I’m sure everyone knows and will call me out on it. Except they don’t. Nobody does, except my brother. Not even Kayla, sexy and sweet and coolest girl ever, who keeps buying me coffee and trying to read my future. But my future isn’t in the goddamn cards, or even in my hands. I don’t see a future. I deny fate, but fate has me pinned like a moth and won’t let me walk away. Won’t let me escape. And yeah… you know you’re losing grip when the girl you want reads your palm, and you’re scared to hell of what she’ll see and of the pain you can tell is coming. WARNING 18+ for sexual content, language, and violence. OCEAN is book 5 in the series Damage Control - a series set in the same world as Inked Brotherhood. The boys of Damage Control were taken in by Zane Madden and Rafe Vestri and offered apprenticeship and work in the tattoo shop Damage Control. **

The Things I Never Said (Damage Control #0.5)
Jo Raven
Romance
Evangeline loves Micah, Micah loves Evangeline, and it seems like a perfect Summer—so why is he acting weird? Withdrawn, distant, not talking about whatever it is that’s bothering him. He won’t tell – and she won’t give up, not until she sees him smile again. Note: This is a short epilogue to MICAH (Damage Control 1). Warning: this book contains a whole lot of graphic sex. Mature readers only. Not intended for young readers.**

Bad Son_Prequel to Bad Wolf_a novella
Jo Raven
Romance
Once a met a boy and gave him my heartBut what if he never gives it back?He’s our neighbors’ adopted son.He’s quiet, brooding, hot.We walk together down the street after school,And we talk.I want him a lot.But he thinks he’s bad luck, a bad son,And misunderstandings will tear us apart…

Rafe
Jo Raven
Romance
His name is Rafaele Vestri, Rafe to his friends.He’s tall, strong, handsome. Distant. He often comes to the café where I work, but we don’t talk much. He looks at me, though. Stares at me, his gaze heated, and I can’t help but stare back. I want him, I won’t deny it. I’ve never seen anyone that beautiful, anyone that powerful, in my life.But he’s growing more withdrawn by the day. Something’s up, and he won’t tell. I know about his past – the murder of his family when he was fifteen. I can imagine what it must have cost him. So much violence contained in that strong body, waiting to be unleashed. What is he seeking? What is he training so hard for? Why is looking at me like he’s dying to touch me, but won’t dare?Even as I try to stop thinking about him, get interested in other boys, I realize I can’t. I’m caught, body and soul, just like that. And I tell myself, Megan, girl… What have you gotten yourself into this time?

Micah
Part #1 of "Damage Control" series by Jo Raven
Romance
There’s me: Micah Owens. Tattoo artist at Damage Control. No parents or siblings. A past that still gives me nightmares. And then there’s her: Evangeline, the girl who saved my life and haunts my more pleasant dreams. Only she doesn’t know who I really am and telling her might well send her fleeing for the hills. She deserves better than a loser like me. She’s pretty, she’s clever, she’s goddamn sexy and has a heart of gold. Which is why I can’t tell her. A smile from her and I’ll do all I can to make her mine – including pretending to be someone I’m not, someone worth having. Isn’t love weird?

Bad Son (Prequel to Bad Wolf - a novella)
Jo Raven
Romance
Once a met a boy and gave him my heartBut what if he never gives it back?He’s our neighbors’ adopted son.He’s quiet, brooding, hot.We walk together down the street after school,And we talk.I want him a lot.But he thinks he’s bad luck, a bad son,And misunderstandings will tear us apart…

Asher
Part #1 of "Inked Brotherhood" series by Jo Raven
Romance
Almost three years ago, a car crash took Audrey’s dad and scarred her for life. Now eighteen, she returns to her hometown for the first time after the accident. She’s here to start again. Go to college and have fun. Make new friends. Get over the past. But the past won’t let go. Asher is here—her first kiss, her first heartbreak. More handsome and distant than ever, he’s still the boy who used to be her best friend. That was before he changed into someone she hardly knows anymore—the boy who started getting into fights and gave her the cold shoulder for years. Asher isn’t what she needs. In fact, she hates him and should try her best to keep away from him. Yet her body doesn’t seem to care about how she feels, and maybe, just maybe this time her body got it right. Not that she has much of a choice. Asher draws her like a bright flame, and if she isn’t careful, she’ll burn. And that may not be such a bad thing after all... Warning: this book contains graphic language, sex, and violence. Mature readers only. Not intended for young readers. Inked Brotherhood Series Five boys brought together by fate. Five young men trying to overcome their troubled pasts. Five tattoos marking them as a brotherhood built on tragedy. Will they find understanding and rise above the pain? Five girls tied by friendship. Five young women fighting their own demons. Five lives laced with sorrow. Will they be strong enough to save the men they love and make them happy? The series composes of five interconnected, stand-alone novels: Asher, Tyler, Zane, Dylan and Rafe.