Carnal Urges

Sloane is taken captive by Declan, a man with blue eyes, an Irish accent and a settled hatred for her. He is certain she started the war between his organisation and its enemies. She insists she did nothing of the kind.

Declan expects to break her in an interrogation. Sloane does not go quiet, and the questioning turns into a contest of nerve and wit. The loathing between them slowly curdles into an attraction that neither can afford, and each of them is more exposed than the hard front they show the other.

This is a dark contemporary mafia romance, built on the clash between revenge and desire. The captor and captive dynamic drives the book, and the tension runs on antagonism before it turns to want.

It is the second novel in the Queens & Monsters series, published on 30 June 2021. The first book introduced the Irish and Russian crime families, and this one carries their story forward while reading as a standalone romance. The content is explicit, and the author's own note warns that it contains adult material and is not for the easily offended.