This box set contains over 1,300 pages of realistically dark traudemption romance, brimming with angst, betrayal, and lust, set within a love triangle that everyone but the three stubborn souls involved saw coming years ago.
Full of intense emotional themes that dark romance readers adore, including forbidden, age gap, love triangle/why choose, strong heroine, fake relationship, obsessed hero, arranged marriage, and second chance tropes.
PREQUEL: CRAVING CONTROL
Previously banned, this 90,000-word dark and steamy psychosexual thriller is the prequel to Bella Faust's Duplicity Trilogy.
For years, my proclivity to torture the less fortunate for sport was Inadale’s best-kept secret.
I hazed. I hunted. I hurt whomever I wanted. It was my birthright as the grandson of an Irish mob boss and my natural-born talent as a diagnosed obsessive-compulsive with an antisocial personality disorder that manifests as psychopathic tendencies. Whereas my diagnosis was a mouthful, the list of my unpunished crimes was even longer.
I was the Crown Prince.
My status: Untouchable.
Until Lysander Mayberry mounted a rebellion that destroyed my knee and my reputation in one fell swoop…
Now, I’m a man on the search for vengeance, and I’ve found it in the form of Sander’s twin sister. She is outwardly innocent. Indifferent to the prestige attached to my last name. Clueless to the depravity of the underworld that our families inhabit.
The perfect pawn in our battle for supremacy.
After all, in a world where the Maddison clan and the Black Shamrocks MC are natural-born enemies, there are only two possible ways for this battle to end…
Kill or be killed.
BOOK ONE: TEMPTING FATE
Five years ago, I played a stupid game, and just like the adage warns, I won a stupid prize.
A lifetime supply of trauma.
Caught in the crossfire of an underworld battle that I wasn’t privy to until it was too late, I have found solace in the arms of my first love and peace in my deepening bond with my fiancé’s best friend. Between Zeke and Slash, I am over-protected, a little sheltered, but mostly happy. My dad’s motorcycle club acts as my buffer from reality. The escapades of my friends and my four brothers keep me safely entertained within my comfortable bubble.
Life is simple.
Life is good.
Until my violent ex-boyfriend is released from prison, and our lies and secrets blow up in our face once again…
Zeke leaves me.
Slash declares his love.
And I find myself caught in the middle of another stupid game.
BOOK TWO: MAKING CHOICES
After losing my innocence, my pregnancy, and my fiancé in the same horrible night, I can feel myself sinking into despair. Alex’s voice echoes in my brain. He reminds me that I’m poisoned. That he is inside me, and I’ll never be free of him, not even in death.
One man keeps my head above water through it all.
My ex-fiancé’s best friend.
Slash is my strength and my safe harbour in a world that I no longer trust.
Which is why I rebuff his declaration of love and his request that I choose him over Zeke.
I love them both.
Different but equal.
Choosing between them is impossible.
Until Zeke is arrested for a murder that I committed, and the only way to save him is to do the one thing I swore I wouldn’t…
Choose Slash.
Reader discretion is advised, as this dark traudemption romance saga contains potentially triggering content. Please also be aware that this story is set in Australia and is written in UK English with liberal use of Aussie slang and vernacular.
Bella Faust is a wife, mother, Harley enthusiast, metalhead, and voracious reader who’s obsessed with podcasts and 90s movies. When she's not writing, she tries her hardest to keep her indoor plants alive (and invariably fails), enjoys hiking in the bush with her husband and dogs, and communicates fluently via memes with her son and daughter.
It’s likely that she’s drinking Pepsi Max, snacking on red liquorice, and reading a steamy romance novel when she should be writing… but, three to four times a year, she manages to publish a dark traudemption romance story that upsets the safety gang as much as it pleases her readers.
To learn more about her books, check out Bella's website at www.bellafaust.com or subscribe to the Faust Forecast.