Title: Felony Ever After Author: Belle Aurora, Debra Anastasia, Helena Hunting, JM Darhower, K.A. Robinson, Katherine Stevens, Leisa Rayven, Liv Morris, Nina Bocci, Penelope Ward, SM Lumetta, Tijan, Vi Keeland
Publisher: Hunting Anastasia Productions
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Erotic Romance
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Verity Michaels is new to New York City, but even she knows riding in a stolen a cab is not a normal way to meet someone. Damn it if that tattoo-covered would-be felon isn’t everywhere now, and lighting everything on fire under her skirt.
His name is Hudson Fenn, and he’s frustratingly impossible to pin down. He works as a bike messenger, but has the manners of a prince—along with a strange tendency toward breaking and entering. As much as Verity knows he’s not her type, and likely to land her in jail, she can’t help but find her truest self when they’re together.
Can she be brave enough to give Hudson a real chance? Will he be bold enough to reveal the man beneath the ink, or will his secrecy doom their connection? Also, WTF is the deal with Verity’s boss? No less than thirteen of your favorite romance writers have teamed up to tell this sexy, wacky, snort-inducing tale. With them you’ll visit the world’s most irritating office, a VIP room of questionable cleanliness, and the fanciest apartment a bike messenger has ever inhabited, but you’ll still never see this ending coming.
13 Authors
1 Story
A Domino Novel
“Welcome to Felony Ever After. This process started as a wild idea over a year ago and we quickly accumulated the stunning roster of authors to tell this story. Everyone was a on board for something wickedly different. The challenge was this: Pass one chapter to the next author with just the vaguest of outlines to work from and see what emerged. We were guilty of making the characters deal with a weird box from one chapter to the next to try and mess with each other. When the contents of the box were revealed, we had some hilarious drama for our cast to work through.
In this mix we have Wall Street Journal, New York Times and, USA Today Bestsellers, Amazon rock stars and a fabulous handful of debut authors cutting their teeth on this wild adventure. We can’t wait to get on with the show, and show you what thirteen Indie authors can put together…”
Love, Helena (Hunting) & Debra (Anastasia)
Excerpt
(from Penelope Ward’s chapter)
Hudson leaned in, his breath warming Verity’s eardrums. “Why do you keep messing with your phone and pretending I’m not here?” He’d donned a gray beanie and looked better than ever with his hair sticking out from under it. The gray brought out the blue of his eyes.
She put her phone back in her purse. “It’s none of your business what I’m doing.”
He took his own phone out of his pocket and scrolled through it. Looking up at her, he said, “You were tweeting again.”
Her stomach dropped. “Excuse me?”
“By the way, if you want to know how far my tattoo extends, why don’t you just ask? I’ll show you.”
F*ck.
F*ckity. F*ck. F*ck.
A hot flash ran through her body, and it felt like the room was spinning. “You’ve been stalking me online?”
“You’re the only Verity Michaels in the United States. It wasn’t that hard. And I wasn’t stalking you. I looked your name up once, and bam—your Twitter account popped up, along with the hashtag ‘pound Hudson’.”
Mortified could not begin to describe Verity in this moment. She immediately got up from the bar. “Oh my God.”
He gripped her arm. “Where are you going?”
“I… I need a shot of vodka.”
Hudson wrapped his firm hand around her torso and guided her back to her stool. She felt the muscles between her legs clench at his touch.
“Relax. I’ll get it,” he said, stepping down the bar.
Verity slumped on her stool. It was hard to breathe normally as she absorbed the fact that he’d seen what she’d written about him. His back was toward her as he waited for their drinks. She loved the way his jeans hugged his ass. Angie and Joseph returned from the dart boards, proclaiming the place too busy to throw any more sharp objects, and startled her out of her thoughts.
“What’s hot bike-messenger-cab-thief doing here anyway?” Angie whispered, her eyes wide.
“He’s stalking me.”
“Lucky girl.”
“No, I mean, really stalking me. He looked me up online and read all of my tweets, apparently.”
“What’s wrong with that?”
“I basically tweeted that I wanted to f*ck him. I used his name in a hashtag.”
Joseph bent his head back in laughter while Angie covered her mouth and spoke through her hand, “Oh, shit.”
“Exactly.”
About Belle Aurora
Belle Aurora is thirty-something year old and was born in the land down under.
At an early age she fell in love with reading. Boredom one summer had her scouring the bookshelves at home. She stumbled across Sandra Brown’s Breath of Scandal and fell in love with romance.
Having been brought up in a loud and boisterous family of Croatian descent, she developed a natural love for dramatics and laughter. Only some years ago had she discovered a new love.
Humorous romance novels.
So many authors had opened a brand new world where she could lose herself yet feel safe and at home in their stories. Belle has been known to become a screeching banshee while anxiously awaiting their newest titles.
Belle never thought she would write. It had never interested her until recently. Friend-Zoned began to form and in February this year Belle typed the words Chapter One. And she fell in love.
With words.
With writing.
With a creative imagination she never knew she harbored.
About Debra Anastasia
Debra creates pretend people in her head and paints them on the giant, beautiful canvas of your imagination. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in political science and writes new adult angst and romantic comedies. She lives in Maryland with her husband and two amazing children.
About Helena Hunting
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Pucked, Helena Hunting lives on the outskirts of Toronto with her incredibly tolerant family and two moderately intolerant cats. She’s writes contemporary romance ranging from new adult angst to romantic sports comedy.
About Penelope Ward
Penelope Ward is a New York Times, USA Today and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of contemporary romance.
She grew up in Boston with five older brothers and spent most of her twenties as a television news anchor. Penelope resides in Rhode Island with her husband, son, and beautiful daughter with autism.
With over 2-million books sold, she is a 21-time New York Times bestseller and the author of over twenty novels.
In 2014, Penelope’s fourth novel, Stepbrother Dearest, became the #1 bestselling independently published Kindle ebook of the year on Amazon.com and was credited with igniting an entirely new subgenre of romance.
Her books have been translated into over a dozen languages and can be found in bookstores around the world.
About Vi Keeland
Vi Keeland is a #1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestselling author. With millions of books sold, her titles have appeared in over one hundred Bestseller lists and are currently translated in twenty-six languages. She resides in New York with her husband and their three children where she is living out her own happily ever after with the boy she met at age six.
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