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Discover the romantic, erotic and suspenseful New York Times and USA Today bestselling FILTHY BEAUTIFUL LIES series, which was named The Next Fifty by Newsweek Magazine. This bundled set contains both Filthy Beautiful Lies and Filthy Beautiful Love, the complete story of Colton and Sophie.
FILTHY BEAUTIFUL LIES
I have no idea why she auctioned off her virginity for a cool mill. Regardless, I’m now the proud new owner of a perfectly intact hymen. A lot of good that will do me. I have certain tastes, certain sexual proclivities. My cock is a bit more discriminatory than most. And training a virgin takes finesse and patience – both of which I lack.
Sophie Evans has been backed into a corner. With her sister’s life hanging in the balance, the only choice is to claw her way out, even if that means selling her virginity to the highest bidder at an exclusive erotic club. When Colton Drake takes her home, she quickly learns nothing is as it seems with this beautifully troubled man. Being with him poses challenges she never expected, and pushes her to want things she never anticipated.
FILTHY BEAUTIFUL LOVE
When Colton Drake paid one million dollars for Sophie Evan’s virginity, the last thing he expected was to fall for her – hard – and then to watch her walk away. But when Sophie discovers that Colton has been lying to her, it is going to take more than money to get her back.
Colton won’t be deterred. Sophie is his – she just doesn’t know it yet. Can he seal the deal and rock her world so thoroughly she’ll never want to leave again, or is it too late…
It’s release day for Gia Riley’s Weightless! I love this contemporary romance so much, and it completes the Begin Again duet. And! Book 1, Lighter, is on sale now! Check out all the release day festivities!
After a perfect summer, Sophie returns to college for her senior year. Leaving behind her greatest source of strength, she has to work even harder to keep her demons quiet. But when her past collides with her happiness for the final time, she’s faced with a new normal. Is she strong enough to stay on top? Does she believe she’s worthy of forever, or will she give it all up for a chance at peace?
One more try. One more chance.
Now a college graduate, Kipton stumbles upon the opportunity of a lifetime. Facing an unexpected long distance relationship, he’s struggling to find the perfect balance between life and love. All he wants is to protect his girl, but he doesn’t know how. Especially when she starts keeping secrets.
Fate has already determined their path. Time controls it. Are Sophie and Kipton strong enough to overcome the odds? Will they conquer the past once and for all?
Only one person knows the answer to free her – to make her weightless.
Weightless is the full-length follow-up to Lighter, and the conclusion to Sophie and Kipton’s story.
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What do you do when you can’t save the one you love?
Sophie can’t survive without control. Growing up with an alcoholic father, she craves the discipline of gymnastics. Feeling lost on a brand new college campus, she lets loose for the first time in her life. But with freedom comes consequences. Is one night everything she hopes? Or will she become her own worst nightmare?
Kipton’s one year away from graduation. He’s never thought beyond a one night stand until meeting his sister’s new roommate. Finally setting his sights on the girl he can’t resist, he’s more determined than ever when she won’t give in to his persuasions. He’s always gotten the girl, and he’s not about to give up without a fight.
Will Sophie be able to salvage her dreams and wage a war against her own vices? Can she finally let love in? Or will history repeat itself causing her to self-destruct?
Lighter isn’t your typical college romance. Darkness suffocates, dreams are dashed, and battles are lost. Love takes on a whole new meaning.
Gia Riley is a New Adult and Contemporary Romance author from the small but mighty state of Delaware. She’s a lover of all things romance and a firm believer that everyone deserves a happily ever after. Gia takes pride in creating real, personable, and entertaining characters.
Mother and wife by day, writer by night –she’s having a blast living her dream. When she’s not writing, you can find her roaming the isles of Kirkland’s or up to her elbows in Play-doh.
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ~Maya Angelou
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Will Sophie be able to salvage her dreams and wage a war against her own vices? Can she finally let love in? Or will history repeat itself causing her to self-destruct?
Lighter isn’t your typical college romance. Darkness suffocates, dreams are dashed, and battles are lost. Love takes on a whole new meaning.
Sophie is a 20 year old college student on a new campus, trying to escape a bad home life. She has finally made the gymnastics team at the college of her dreams. Everything should be wonderful…right? Sophie comes to college with more than the baggage containing her belongings. Sophie leaves behind an abusive home life and an abusive ex-boyfriend. While she is physically away, what mental baggage is she still carrying?
“You’re right Dad, you did teach me a lot. You taught me exactly who I don’t want to be.”
On move in day, Sophie meets her new roomie, Cara, and Cara’s brother, Kipton. The attraction is instant, but for Sophie, boys are NOT an option. Gymnastics is her life. Gymnastics is her escape. She can not stray from the controlled routine she has set for herself. Cara has other plans. One night of rebellion brings about a whole new world of troubles for Sophie.
“This can’t be happening. Tears prick my eyes. Coach Evans is going to kill me if I’m late to practice, let alone hung over.”
Kipton, unable to deny his attraction to Sophie, continues to be there for her and fight for her, even if she won’t fight for herself.
“I warned him I was too fucked up – too broken by my past. But he wouldn’t listen. Instead, he kept pushing for more even after I assured him I wasn’t capable of anything even close. He made me need him and now that I do, it’s too late.”
Watch as Sophie struggles to find herself and the ability to love and be loved by others.
This was my first Gia Riley book and she definitely left a lasting impression! This book has all of the feels in it!! I LOVED that it dealt with real life issues and dealt with them head on. I LOVED these characters and definitely can not wait for the next book in this series!!
Collins Drake exercises control over all facets of his life. From his business, to satisfying his physical needs … it all happens on his command.
So when a woman shows up at his door and reminds him of a promise they made each other when they were just ten years old, it shouldn’t have the ability to rock his entire world.
Yet it does.
Because Mia Monroe wasn’t just his childhood best friend, she wasn’t just the girl he lost his virginity to and hasn’t seen since, she’s the one exception to his perfect control. And piece by piece, she’s about to tear apart his carefully laid plans.
Well here we are… Filthy Beautiful Forever is the fourth book of the Filthy Beautiful Lies series with the ever so sexy Drake brothers! Starring the ever smoldering sexy Collins Drake, who is the oldest brother and for a guy who never actually really lived, he surely made up for it in this story!
Meet Collins Drake. He is just as successful as his brothers, perfect life, perfect job and the perfect girlfriend. Wait, stop the press, scratch that! There is nothing about plastic Tatianna that is perfect. She is a Super model and I call her super shallow selfish b**ch. Poor Collins knows something is missing from his almost perfect life, can he find it? Will he allow himself to find it?
Then you have Mia. Sweet lovable Mia was all of Collin’s firsts. As the saying goes, there really is nothing better than your first love. When things get turned upside down in Mia’s life, she makes a bold move and deposits herself right on Collins doorstep. Can she deposit herself back into his heart? Perhaps maybe she has always been there and someone is just in serious denial? Can a promise made when your ten years old between two friends stand the test of time?
“You’ve gotta stop thinking with your head so much.” Placing her palm over my heart, she leans close. “Everything you need to know is right here.”
Ok, double *swoon*. I think I just melted….
I seriously FLOVED this entire series. Colton stole my heart and ran away with it. Pace grabbed it from Colton and took off like a bat out of hell, and Collins decided it was unfair to keep it all to himself and I was shared. Yep, totally OK with that concept! Colton & Sophie and Pace & Kylie made appearances in this book and I loved the way Kendall kept them present throughout this entire series. You will laugh, you will cry and you will fall in love with the Drake Brothers, no doubt about it. I had a huge pouty face boo boo lip going on knowing this was the end of the series, but what a fantastic way to end it. Kendall, thank you for giving us the Drake Boys and making us feel sooo very Filthy, yet Beautiful at the same time! 5 Stars ~ Shera
From New York Times & USA Today bestselling author, Kendall Ryan, comes the third book in the Filthy Beautiful Lies series.
Pace Drake loves sex. He knows where get it, what to say, what to do, and he makes no apologies for satisfying his needs. But when he meets single mom, Kylie Sloan, he’s enthralled by her, and begins to question his standard operating procedure. After all, there’s no chase, no mystery when banging a woman in a nightclub bathroom. Kylie’s depth and determination make the sloppy, drunken hookups that fill his weekends seem empty and shallow. She’s the opposite of the desperate, clingy women he’s used to. She doesn’t want or need anyone to take care of her and that only makes him want to care for her more.
Kylie’s trust in men has vanished. The last guy she was with played ding-dong-ditch-it with her uterus and left her with a baby to raise. Now her infant son is the only man she has time for, even if she misses sex and intimacy more than she’d ever admit. Opening her heart up to a younger man who’s best known for no-strings-attached sex and his casual lifestyle is probably the worst idea she’s ever had. But Pace wants to prove to her there are still a few good guys left, and watching the sweet way he interacts with her baby makes her want to try…but she can really trust that his days of hitting it and quitting it are in his past?
Filthy Beautiful Lust is the third book in the Filthy Beautiful Lies series, however it can be read as a standalone novel (no cliffhanger). To understand the full growth and development of the characters, it is recommended that you begin with book 1, Filthy Beautiful Lies.
I am in love with Kendall Ryan’s Filthy Beautiful Series. I never thought anyone could out do Colton Drake whose books are Filthy Beautiful Lies and Filthy Beautiful Love, but I was wrong, SO wrong! Pace Drake just stole my heart in this book and I am pretty sure he is still running with it.
Pace is the little brother of Colton. He is a sexy, friendly, so self-confident, relaxed, layed back PLAYER. He wants to feel good and knows he does the same for others, why stop something your good at right?? Meaningless sex, no feelings involved, no hurt and no commitment is the way Pace rolls that is until he meets Kylie….
We met Kylie in Colton’s books. She works for Colton and is a single mom who only has time for one little man, her son. She’s been hurt in the past and guards her heart. With no time for dating and no time for fun, she really has no time whatsoever for a man like Pace Drake. She’s heard all the stories, knows how he operates but for some reason she still feels that pull.
It first started when Pace was holding Max in the pool at Colton and Sophie’s party. You could tell she felt something then. Seeing a man with her son, caring for him just tugged at her heart. But you know Colton, he knows his brother and warned Pace to stay away, that was until the ever so beautiful Sophie stepped in.
“You’re crass.” Her eyes light up and her mouth twitches in an attempt not to smile. “I’’m direct, and you like it.” She shrugs. “At lease your honest. That’s more than I can say for most men.”
Kylie is dead set on what Pace is all about, but he is determined to show her that she is worth giving up his former ways. He has a tough road ahead of him and when Kylies past shows up years too late, will it destroy all the work Pace has put in to trying to making her see they belong together?
This book really will just suck you in. Seeing a man completely accept another man’s child and handling situations in this book like Pace did, he just won me over completely. I loved this story and I cant wait for Collins story which is up next!! As with the other books, I give this 5 Stars. I could honestly sit down and read the story again!
I play to win.
**Warning: this book contains an addictively filthy alpha male who will dampen your panties and own your days and nights. Proceed at your own risk.**
Meet Colton Drake…
I have no idea why she auctioned off her virginity for a cool mill. Regardless, I’m now the proud new owner of a perfectly intact hymen. A lot of good that will do me. I have certain tastes, certain sexual proclivities. My cock is a bit more discriminatory than most. And training a virgin takes finesse and patience – both of which I lack.
Sophie Evans has been backed into a corner. With her sister’s life hanging in the balance, the only choice is to claw her way out, even if that means selling her virginity to the highest bidder at an exclusive erotic club. When Colton Drake takes her home, she quickly learns nothing is as it seems with this beautifully troubled man. Being with him poses challenges she never expected, and pushes her to want things she never anticipated.
A sinfully seductive erotic romance where everything has a price and the cost of love is the highest of all from New York Times & USA Today bestselling author, Kendall Ryan
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**Warning: this book contains an additively filthy alpha male who will dampen your panties and own your days and nights. Proceed at your own risk.**
Book 2 in the Filthy Beautiful Lies series.
I never expected to watch Sophie walk away. She was mine. I would own her. She just didn’t know it yet. New goal: Seal the deal and rock her world so thoroughly she never wanted to leave again.
Highly sexual and emotionally charged, Filthy Beautiful Love is the provocative conclusion to Filthy Beautiful Lies.
**Warning: this book contains an additively filthy alpha male who will dampen your panties and own your days and nights. Proceed at your own risk.**
Highly sexual and emotionally charged, Filthy Beautiful Love is the provocative conclusion to Filthy Beautiful Lies.
See where it all started in Filthy Beautiful Love
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Sophie now knows Colton’s Secret and she runs, she runs far away, infact to another country with her sister. She’s undergone a round of treatment and is feeling somewhat better. Colton is having none of it and hops on a plane with Pace to go halfway around the world just for a chance for Sophie to hear him out.
Sophie does return to California and is battling with the war in her head on what choice to make. She knows the truth, can she continue on with him knowing the truth. Knowing that the man she lives is in a relationship with someone. Can she trust him enough to know that he will do the right thing? Will she stay, or will she go?
We learn everything Colton, his past, his current and just how much he is willing to give up to show Sophie how much he wants her in his life. He never thought he would find love again, but he’s going to have to work for it especially now that all his cats are out of the bag. Can he open up fully, can he give ALL of him to someone, will he give it to the girl he has fallen madly in love with??
I loved the conclusion of the story and getting closure on their relationship. It was great to get to see more of the other characters, Kylie and especially Pace. Oh Pace has one hot story there and I cannot wait for Filthy Beautiful Lust. That piece of hotness has one steamy story coming im sure. Being is a player and has no trouble getting women, he’s going to have one hell of a time finding one to stay. Then you know we will still have Collins. I’m seriously dying to hear about both of them
The series had moments of laughter, hot sex and total heartbreak all by the end of book one I was feeling raw, during book two it happened again but then was completed, packaged and wrapped up like the perfect present. I loved Colton and Sophie’s story and I cannot wait to hear about his brothers as I am sure they are just as complex as Colton, if not even more so.
Thank you Kendall for not making us wait too long, because you know we were all hanging by a thread dangling like ragdolls after book one. I give the conclusion of their story 5 stars, because I just simply loved both books. These were my first Kendall Ryan books and will certainly not be the last.
Now im lusting over waiting for Filthy Beautiful Lust!!!! Well done!
**Warning: this book contains an addictively filthy alpha male who will dampen your panties and own your days and nights. Proceed at your own risk.**
I have no idea why she auctioned off her
virginity for a cool mill. Regardless, I’m now the proud new owner of a
perfectly intact hymen. A lot of good that will do me. I have certain tastes,
certain sexual proclivities. My cock is a bit more discriminatory than most.
And training a virgin takes finesse and patience – both of which I lack.
Sophie Evans has been backed into a corner. With her sister’s life
hanging in the balance, the only choice is to claw her way out, even if that
means selling her virginity to the highest bidder at an exclusive erotic club.
When Colton Drake takes her home, she quickly learns nothing is as it seems
with this beautifully troubled man. Being with him poses challenges she never
expected, and pushes her to want things she never anticipated.
A sinfully seductive erotic romance where everything has a price and the cost of love is the highest of all from New York Times & USA Today bestselling author, Kendall Ryan.
“I give you the ninth and final girl of the evening and trust me when I tell you, gentlemen, that we’ve saved the best for last. She’s as pure and untouched as they come”
Meet Sophie Evans. She’s a girl who will do anything to save her sisters life. She’s tried anything to earn money, her feeble attempt at dancing at a strip club didn’t work out. Now, she is willing to sell her virginity and six months of her life to a complete stranger at an auction. She doesn’t care what the cost and will be to her life, she is only concerned with saving her sisters. Hopefully her sister survives, the question is, will Sophie?? Can she spend six months doing whatever she is told? The bigger question is, can she do it without falling?
Then we have the ever so sexy Colton Drake who was willing to spend a million dollars on a virgin. That wasn’t the original plan though. He wanted some experienced, someone who he wouldn’t have to baby, who wouldn’t break. But once his eyes saw Sophie, her stubbornness and clear determination, he knew he had to have her. Certainly he wasn’t letting her go with the jerk who already had one woman and god knows what would happen to pure Sophie. Now, he owns her for the next six months. But why buy her? He’s gorgeous, rich, charming and has women at his disposal. What was the reason for going to an auction to get a girl?
“You cut the sexual tension between us with a knife- it’s a real and visceral need permeating the air around us”
Tension? More like, what are they waiting for, rather, who is waiting for who??
As the story unfolds, you realize there is way more to Colton Drake than first thought. He delves deeper in to Sophie, something he didn’t expect to do. He finds himself wanting way more than just her body. Colton has a complicated life that we are given a glimpse of in the book. Will what trust he earns with Sophie be torn apart by his past? At the end I was screaming because I knew the last page was the next flick of a finger. Kudos Kendall, this book was a pleasant surprise. The blurb sucks you in, you expect one thing, but boy do you get so much more!!! I am on the edge of my seat waiting for Filthy Beautiful Love!! 5 of 5 HOT stars!
I have no idea why she auctioned off her virginity for a cool mill. Regardless, I’m now the proud new owner of a perfectly intact hymen. A lot of good that will do me. I have certain tastes, certain sexual proclivities. My cock is a bit more discriminatory than most. And training a virgin takes finesse and patience – both of which I lack.
Sophie Evans has been backed into a corner. With her sister’s life hanging in the balance, the only choice is to claw her way out, even if that means selling her virginity to the highest bidder at an exclusive erotic club. When Colton Drake takes her home, she quickly learns nothing is as it seems with this beautifully troubled man. Being with him poses challenges she never expected, and pushes her to want things she never anticipated.
A sinfully seductive erotic romance where everything has a price and the cost of love is the highest of all from New York Times & USA Today bestselling author, Kendall Ryan.