Carrigan O'Malley has fallen in love with family enemy #1, James Halloran
and he has absolutely no intention of letting her get away. THE WEDDING
PACT is the second book in a smoking-hot series about the O'Malleys—wealthy,
powerful, and full of scandalous family secrets from New York Times
Bestseller Katee Robert and Forever Romance.
The Wedding Pact
Katee Robert
Series: The O’Malley Series #2
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing- Forever
Carrigan
O'Malley has always known her arranged marriage would be more about power and
prestige than passion. But after one taste of the hard-bodied, whiskey-voiced
James Halloran, she's ruined for anyone else. Too bad James and his family are
enemy number 1.
Hallorans
vs. O'Malleys—that's how it's always been. James should be thinking more about
how to expand his family's empire instead of how silky Carrigan's skin is
against his and how he can next get her into his bed. Those are dangerous
thoughts. But not nearly as dangerous as he'll be if he can't get what he
wants: Carrigan by his side for the rest of their lives.
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Meet the O’Malley family in book one of the
O’Malley series, The Marriage Contract:
Coming
in July 2016, An Indecent Proposal
Get to know another O’Malley sibling- Cillian
O’Malley
Greed. Ambition. Violence. Those are the "values" Olivia
Rashidi learned from her Russian mob family-and the values she must leave
behind for the sake of her daughter. When she meets Cillian O'Malley, she
recognizes the red flag of his family name . . . yet she still can't stop
herself from seeing the smoldering, tortured man. To save her family, Olivia
sets out to discover Cillian's own secrets, but the real revelation is how
fast-and how hard-she's falling for him.
Plagued by a violent past, Cillian is more vulnerable than anyone
realizes. Anyone except Olivia, whose beauty, compassion, and pride have him at
"hello," even if she's more inclined to say good-bye to an O'Malley.
While his proposal of sex with no strings seems simple, what he feels for her
isn't, especially after he learns that she belongs to a rival crime family.
Cillian knows that there is no escape from the life, but Olivia may be worth
trying-and dying-for . . .
Satisfied that the
bartender wouldn’t go telling tales, he made his way back to where Carrigan had
picked a booth. Ignoring the empty side, he slid in next to her. “What’s going
on?”
She didn’t look up. “What
makes you think something’s going on?”
“How about because you
won’t meet my eyes for the first time since we met? Or this…I don’t even know
what to call this getup.” He tugged on the white fabric pooled on the booth
seat between them.
Her green eyes flashed, a
welcome show of anger. “There’s nothing wrong with the way I dress.”
“You’re right. This isn’t
you. This is some scared virgin who’s looking for her white knight. If I’ve
learned anything from our time together, it’s that you’d have no problem
slaying dragons on your own.”
Her mouth formed a little O
of surprise, but she recovered quickly enough. “You don’t know me.”
“Not nearly as well as I
want to, no. But you don’t grow up the way we did without learning to read a
person.” The bartender appeared with their drinks, and James waited for him to
scurry away before he spoke again. “Talk to me. I can’t help you if I don’t
know what’s wrong.”
“No one can help me.” She
didn’t say it like it upset her—more like it was a truth of her life that she’d
come to terms with years ago. It made his chest ache. Carrigan took a long
drink of her martini. “I’m almost thirty.”
He blinked. “What’s that
got to do with anything?”
“Biology, my dear Watson.
How in God’s name can I pop out half a dozen kids if I’m past the age of safely
being able to do so.”
There was so much wrong
with what she just said that he didn’t know where to start. So James just went
with the first thing he thought of. “Do you want kids?”
She froze with her drink
halfway to her mouth and slowly set it back down. “You know, I don’t think
anyone’s ever asked me that before.”
The raw pain in her voice
made him want to comfort her, but that was one skill James had never learned.
Maybe if his mother had lived…but there was no room in this world for what
if and maybe. So he did the one thing that he knew how to do. The
single thing guaranteed to distract her.
He kissed her.
Carrigan went rigid for
half a second, but he waited, his lips on hers, and let her choose. That
hesitation was all it took for her to melt, turning to fire in his arms. He
wanted to haul her against him, to let this feeling consume him until none of
the bullshit mattered anymore. Right now, in this moment, there was only her.
They could be the last two people in the world for all he gave a fuck. Hell,
part of him hoped they were. As her tongue stroked his, a small, treacherous
thought wormed into his brain and took root.
With this woman by my side,
I’d be content to let the rest of the world burn.
New York Times and USA TODAY
bestselling author Katee Robert learned to tell her stories at her grandpa’s
knee. She found romance novels at age twelve and it changed her life. When not
writing sexy contemporary and speculative fiction romance novels, she spends
her time playing imaginary games with her wee ones, driving her husband batty
with what-if questions, and planning for the inevitable zombie apocalypse.
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