When you sell your soul to the entertainment industry, buying back your freedom often comes with a high price. Altered permanently by my first forbidden love affair, I channeled my heartache and became a foreign liaison for the most scandalous, risk-taking record label in town, where I learned to be a cutthroat, hardened businesswoman in the process. My whole life changed in a heartbeat when my newest contract brought me face-to-face with the sexy, unforgettable ghosts of my past.
Kim Seo-Jun, former lead singer of STARBOYZ, was a devilishly handsome rogue desired by women everywhere. He was also the man who’d raised the child I’d abandoned against my will. And we weren’t exactly on speaking terms these days.
If hating me kept him safe, that was a burden I’d bear. But he wants to make me pay, and the games he’s playing with my heart are dangerous in more ways than one. When he wasn't glaring daggers of ice in my direction or cutting me with his words, his whispered reminiscing, barely-there touches, and protective attitude all had me falling back into his bed, just like I swore I wouldn’t do.
Then the label who cut him loose turns up on my doorstep, demanding he come back–or else. I was well-versed in their methods of persuasion, but I made the mistake of letting them win once before. Now, there was more than one heart at stake.
Sometimes, the mistakes we make follow us for a lifetime. But this time, I’m not running from mine.
Heleva Risque is not afraid to get her hands dirty, and neither are the heroes she writes. From complete alphaholes to grumpy, brooding bad boys, and everything in between, her heroes are walking red flags and trauma-filled shells of their former selves, but by the end of each story, not only will you want to cry for these wounded, unhinged men, but you'll be crawling into their beds, begging to be their good girls. And you'll love every minute of it. Ms. Risque has several series on the docket, including her leading mafia romance series, the Khula City Crime Syndicate, and a standalone, one-shot romance so dark, so filthy, so sinful, that you'll need the confessional on Sunday to cleanse your soul. If you've got a kindle reads list that would make conversations at Thanksgiving dinner awkward, you're in the right place.
Arista did what she was forced to do by a corrupt label wanting to have total control of one of their biggest stars. She made the mistake of falling in love at such a young age. The label, they didn't want those things to interfere with Jun.
The child they created together, she had to abandon with Jun. Fleeing to keep them both safe. This was her only option. What else could a teenager do in order to keep the guy she loved safe as well as their kid? She did the only possible thing. Even if it made him hate her for leaving.
When he separates from that label he is in talks with another. Turns out, its the one she works for and they asked her to help while he got his staff sorted out. Now she had to navigate the feelings that never left as well as being near the kid she helped create but didn't know.