“You can't just turn off love, Zella.”I'm going home with my head held in shame. I let the anger get the best of me, watched my heart get shattered in two, and had the audacity to ignore my mistake. Love is pain. It can be beautiful, sure, but beauty always fades. I should've known better. How am I supposed to tell my sister, Beth, that all of her hard work was for nothing? That my scholarships are gone, that the money she's been sending me is gone? I've given myself no choice. I have to go home. I have to face Noah. I have to look in the mirror and face the one person that scares me the most: myself. “Humans were made to love.. It's the only thing our species is really good at.”

Forbidden love shouldn't feel so good. It also shouldn't hurt so much. How could the one person I can't have be the only person I truly need? Florian Harper Riley has my heart and he doesn't even know it. I used to think that was okay, that I'd get over him, but no matter how hard I try, I can't purge his sharp green gaze from my thoughts. He's a tattoo artist, the love of my life, the man of my dreams. But he's also my stepbrother. Fate can be wicked cruel.

Raw and Dirty (Bad Boys MC Trilogy #1) - a full-length motorcycle club romance with no cliff-hanger, a sexy British bad boy president and a sense of humor Risky and Wild (#2) releases March 2016 Make nice with the President of the Alpha Wolves Motorcycle Club. Yeah right. It was what my job description called for—I just never realized exactly how nice I needed to be. I certainly never expected to find myself twisted up and tangled in the raw, dirty world of an outlaw motorcycle club … or in the sexy, tattooed hands of the man in charge. Royal McBride is a jerk—but a jerk with a swoon worthy accent, a big bike, and big … well, other things. I didn't think falling in love with him would threaten my life. His life. That we'd both risk losing everything we hold dear. The mayor's daughter … an outlaw MC president. It's a match made in heaven … a match tested in hell. ALSO BY VIOLET BLAZE -Stepbrother Inked (a bad boy romance about a hot tattoo artist) -Stepbrother Thief (an alpha male romance about a sexy jewelry thief) -Biker Rockstar Billionaire CEO Alpha (coming soon!) RAW AND DIRTY EXCERPT “Baby,” he says, pushing up against me so I can feel his ck straining against the tight seams of his leather riding pants. “Trust me. I'm going to work you harder than you've ever been worked before. You'll need that food in there just to recover enough strength to stand.” Royal shoves me back suddenly, pinning my body against the living room wall with his much larger frame, leaving just enough room between us to reach up and take hold of the zipper on my leather jacket. My breath catches. “Only downside to all this riding gear,” he says as he pulls the zipper down at an agonizingly slow pace, “is that it's a b*h to take off.” I watch his fingers, mesmerized by the color on his skin, the art that he wears so well, the roses and the vines and the pistols. Guess I'll finally get to see what he's hiding under that shirt of his. But I don't move to touch him, not yet. He isn't saying anything, but I can feel him taking control of the encounter, forcing me to relax and let go a little. I never really liked being submissive during sex, but … with Royal, I can see the appeal. Right now, I'd let him do anything he wanted. I don't want to have to think about what I'm doing or if I'm making a fool out of myself. I just want to feel him, all of him. Once the jacket's unzipped, he slides it from my shoulders with that same careful slowness, his fingertips brushing against my bare arms as he tosses it aside and cups my face in his hand. “I don't know what it is about you, my dear sweet Deputy Mayor,” Royal says, his voice dark and deep and hungry. I feel my tongue sliding across my lower lip. “But I want you. Bad. I want to make you mine.” He caresses my chin, the power in his grip astounding, but he holds back enough that it doesn't hurt, not at all. “It's a shame you're so prim and proper or I might be tempted to make you my old lady.” He slides his thumb over my lower lip and instead of telling him off or how we'd never work together, how this is only for one night, I bite it. Royal's brows come up and his mouth quirks into a grin. I think we're both enjoying this fantasy. “Naughty girl,” he says sliding his hand down, trailing his fingers across my throat, over my breasts, until he finds the bottom of my tank top. “I feel like you deserve to be punished for that.” **

“You are my happy ending. Everything else happening around us? It doesn't mean shit.” Life is made up of hills and valleys, but fate Never did say that I'd get stuck in a rut like this. It's my turn now, mine, and I'm supposed to be happy. I've got Ty McCabe, my dark butterfly, my prince in a crown of thorns, so why is there all of this blood and this bullshit? What ever happened to happily ever after? But I'm different now. Stronger. I won't sit back and watch everything fall away. This time, instead of running, I'm going to fight. I'm going to fight with everything and then some because I have my soul mate, my son, my sisters. I finally have a life worth fighting for, and I won't give it up. Not even to fate. “We're worth more than just ourselves alone, Never; we're the sum of each other.”

Never Can Tell, a New Adult Novel Recommended for Ages 18 and Up(Never too Late #1: This series is a follow up to the Never say Never Trilogy)"This is love. It's that simple."Some stories are Never finished being told. After all, we're all victims of heartache and strife at some point. Maybe I'm a little more susceptible to both, but I've got an ace up my sleeve. I've got Ty McCabe. He's helped me survive a lot. More than I ever thought possible. We've come a long way together, but we can't stop now. What's that old saying? Don't rest on your laurels? Well, I'm not resting and neither is he. Life didn't even give us that option. We've got problems. Big ones. Let's see if we can do this, survive the downs and get back to the ups. Guess only time will tell.“...We're just one. Just one, f*cking, twisted bit of soul in love.”Never Series Reading OrderBook #1: Tasting NeverBook #2: Finding NeverBook #3: Keeping NeverBook #4: Never Can TellAlso Available by C.M. Stunich-Broken Pasts (Contemporary Adult Romance)-F*ck Valentine's Day (Contemporary Romance Erotica)-Hell Inc. (Comedic Paranormal Romance)-Real Ugly (New Adult Rock Star Romance)NEVER CAN TELL EXCERPT:When I glance up into the mirror, I look young, too young to be a mother. My face is soft and my eyes are hard. I question my own strength and then glance away. “If Jade wants to see that piece of sht, what can I do to stop her? I might ask her why, but that's all I can do. I doubt she'll even answer me.”Ty doesn't say anything, but he reaches out and brushes my hair back with his rings, all twelve of them, glittering and sparkling like rubies. They match the piercings in his face. Gotta love a color coordinated badass.Neither of us misses how small and tight this bathroom is, how close we are, how hard he was in the kitchen.“Ty,” I warn as he comes up behind me and slides his fingers under my shirt, up my belly, cupping my tender breasts with strong hands. “So not fair,” I groan, reaching up and smacking the fan. It coughs to life and is loud as fck, blocking any sounds from escaping this little room. “You can't touch those.” My c*nt is pulsing and my heart is pounding in my skull. Down below, I know I'm soaking wet.“Why not?” he whispers against my ear. “It'll make you feel better.”