Destroy Me Trilogy Series

Cider Who would've thought that the mongrel I detested would become the love of my life? When I first met Zaiden Sano, he was rude, uncouth, and a miserable human being. I was forced to care for him because I'd hit him with my car. Taking care of Zaiden exposed a different side of him, namely his backside...among other things. While I was ogling his body, his heart crept up on me, and when I saw how he treated my son, I fell head over heels for him, and, despite his rough exterior, Zaiden found room in his heart for both of us. We had an amazing love story, and then, Zaiden's past returned to haunt us. Was I about to pay the ultimate price for loving him? Zaiden I didn't deserve Cider or her son, especially after she was kidnapped to pay for my sins. Once again, I was a fool to believe in the love of a good woman. I was cursed, and I destroyed everyone foolish enough to love me. I had to save her from my enemies, and then from myself. If you loved Cider and Zaiden's story in Destroy The Pretty, the first book in the Destroy Me Trilogy, then you'll be excited to see what happens after the I-love-you's in Save The Pretty. Sometimes, the Happily-ever-after is delayed, but it's never denied. This novella can be read without reading the book, but it will be better understood and enjoyed if you know their love story, and what it took for them to get to the place where they would risk it all for each other.

Cider It's bad when your dog is a nicer human being than you are. Zaiden Sano was at the wrong place at the wrong time the day he walked into Bumble Books and met me. Big and bad and with the manners of a mongrel, he thought he could bend me to his will. Too bad for him, I wasn't the cowering type anymore. Leaving my abusive husband and creating a better life for my son had given me a backbone and I wasn't about to bend for anyone, not even the hot hermit who made my heart forget it was too broken for love. Zaiden I'd never had very good social skills and I became even more of a recluse after my wife died. I lived with my dog, books, and demons for six years. I didn't need people, and then I met Cider Rae. She annoyed the hell out of me at first with her tit-for-tat attitude, but that was better than the write-off most people gave me. When I saw the woman behind the bravado, I knew I was the last thing she needed. I was a deeply damaged mess and had no business loving her and her child. The certainty that I would destroy her was still not enough to keep me away. The thing is, I was so worried about how I would destroy Cider that I never imagined that this sweet temptress could be the death of me. Destroy The Pretty is a standalone book in a trilogy.

If Jericho Blackwood tells you the sky is blue, trust me, it's gray. The man is a beautiful liar and believing him left me heartbroken, pregnant, depressed, pissed off, and shattered when the only real love he'd given me, our son, was brutally ripped from my arms. Now, here he comes twenty-two years later with sugar on his tongue after a terrible accident steals away my sister and young niece.  He offers me comfort in his arms and I can't resist that magnetic pull back into his web of lies. I know this man, inside and out, so why do I ache for him and will history repeat itself, and once again, will being in Jericho's arms destroy me? I was born into a family of monsters who would lie, cheat and steal to get what they wanted. I did all of the above and more to Salem after I told her I loved her. Decades later, I have to convince Salem that I'm not the man I used to be, but how can I do that when there are still lies between us? I want to be honest, but there are some things she must never know.

  Leo I'd instantly fallen in love with Gideon Grey the first time I saw him. Granted, I was seven at the time and had no idea what falling in love was. However, there was something about the scrawny boy that fascinated me. I stole bread from the church charity bake sale to erase the hunger in his eyes, and he stole my heart. Years later, we reconnected in a bar, and I learned what falling in love meant. I thought we would spend the rest of our lives together, and we'd tell our children about growing up in the same small town, and how my parents had forbade us from being together. They took me away from him at fourteen, and fate brought us together again at twenty. We had the perfect forbidden love story, and then, like so many other great love stories, ours ended in tragedy. We didn't die like Romeo and Juliet, but four other people did, because of Gideon's terrible mistake, for which he went to jail, and I ended up in a wheelchair. Six years after he destroyed my life, Gideon returned home, and I quickly learned that hating him would be a lot harder than I'd anticipated. Gideon The night of the car accident began in Heaven, and ended in the depths of Hell. The choices I'd made came with irreparable consequences, and I'd accepted them all. I have to live with my choices and carry my demons on my back. My guilt will always be my cross, and I would gladly endure the burden with Leo by my side. From the moment I first saw her, she was the only woman for me. I came home to the hate-to-love chapter of our story, and I'm willing to wait until she has a change of heart. We will have our happily-ever-after, because a love like ours is too powerful to die from one mistake.