The player
Frequent, long, explicit scenes, often kink or group elements; the sex is a main draw.
Graphic. Crude, explicit vocabulary throughout the scenes.
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole brings readers the third book of the erotic Game Maker Series, a searing tale of a man racked with dark desires and the beautiful young woman who could sate him at last. A madman with a shadowed past . . . In Las Vegas, Sin City, Dmitri Sevastyan finds her , Victoria Valentine--sexy, vulnerable, and in need of a protector. Obsession takes root deep inside him. Despite a history tainted with violation and betrayal, he will stop at nothing to possess her. A grifter with nothing to lose . . . Descended from a long line of con artists, twenty-four-year-old Victoria, a.k.a. Vice, needs the score of a lifetime to keep her loved ones safe. She sets her sights on gorgeous and rich Dmitri Sevastyan. Even as the irresistible Russian toys with her body and mind, he tempts her heart. Love is the ultimate wild card. When Vice and her associates maneuver Dmitri into a hasty Vegas wedding, he refuses to protect himself with a prenup, trusting her with all that he has. But can she trust him ? As secrets unfold, the newlyweds share days of doubts and nights of the wickedest pleasures. Yet once Vice discovers her husband's past, will she stay to fight for her marriage or cut her losses and run?
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The master
Another obsessive Sevastyan brother with control issues and explicit power play; colder hero, more mafia intrigue, less con-artist plotting.
Professional
Same series' possessive Russian enforcer and forbidden pull, equally explicit, but the heroine is protected rather than running a con.
Outlander
Forced marriage, virgin-adjacent heat and brutal danger with an equally obsessive villain; slower, historical, and less explicit on the page.
The Exile
Marriage of convenience and dangerous men again, told visually from the hero's side; far tamer, almost no on-page heat.
The pretenders
Also starts with a scheme that turns into a real marriage, but it's warm, low-heat Regency instead of dark obsession.
The Abandoned Bride
Keeps the innocent-heroine and ruined-reputation angst plus age gap; gentle Regency tone with no explicit scenes or dark content.