The Billionaire's Wake-up-call Girl
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Lizzie gets the pizza alert text and runs down to the lobby. Our apartment’s official pizza is brie, potato, and caramelized onion. Crazy toppings are firmly against my pizza religion, but once you’re out of Jersey, all is lost in the realm of pizza.
“You’ll get through it.” Kelsey doles out napkins.
“You don’t know. Max is my kryptonite. Beyond kryptonite. Kryptonite doesn’t live to destroy you. Kryptonite doesn’t stare at you with an amused light in its eyes as you die inside.”
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Also by Annika Martin (aka Carolyn Crane)
Romantic Comedy
Most Eligible Billionaire (formerly Most Eligible Bastard)
An enemies-to-lovers standalone!
He’s a powerful, arrogant billionaire CEO who built the family business into an empire. The money doesn’t matter to him, but the company is his life.
And then his eccentric mother wills it all to the tiny dog Vicky adopted.
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The Billionaire’s Wake-up-call Girl
An enemies-to-lovers standalone!
When my manager assigns me the task of finding a new wake up call service for our CEO, I think, how hard can this be?
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Answer: practically impossible. It turns out that no wake-up call company in the world will take him on as a client. They’ve all had enough of his surly personality.
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So in an effort not to lose my job, I secretly start making the calls myself, every day at 4:30 am sharp. OMG yes you read that right—four freaking thirty in the morning.
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Breaking the Billionaire’s Rules
An enemies-to-lovers standalone!
He’s a billionaire playboy—and the author of a notorious guide on how to pick up hot girls. She’s slowly using his techniques to bring him to his knees.
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Fun, super-dirty romantic comedy (read in order)
The Hostage Bargain (Free standalone)
I was a small town girl, trapped in an impossible situation…and then three hot, kinky bank robbers took me hostage.
The Wrong Turn / Deeper Game
The Most Wanted
The Hard Way
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MM Spies - thrilling, sexy, and bantery!
Enemies like You (standalone) - They're dangerous men. Absolute enemies. And totally hot for each other.
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Romantic Suspense standalones
Against the Dark - Playing the fake girlfriend of arrogant secret agent Cole Hawkins? It’s the last thing Angel wants to do. But it’s just a weekend, right? An ex-thief can handle anything.
Off the Edge - She’s running for her life—new name, new country, new hair. And no time for sexy professors with deep, dark secrets.
Into the Shadows - He’s a twisted, brutish killer who kisses like a god. And he must never, ever discover her secret.
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Dark Mafia Prince - He’s a devil in Armani with a twisted sense of justice. But when he kidnaps his enemy’s daughter, their sizzling connection puts everything at risk.
Wicked Mafia Prince - Viktor is stunned when the pretty assassin he once loved—and killed—appears in Chicago.
Savage Mafia Prince - Baby Brother Kiro is totally freaking SAVAGE. Like, literally. And SO hot!
Criminals & Captives (Dark romance alert! These are standalones)
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Prisoner - He seethes with raw power the first time I see him - pure menace and rippling muscles in shackles.
Hostage - The police say he’s obsessed with me. But I’m the one who can’t stop thinking about him.
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Acknowledgments
I seriously don’t know what I’d do without my beautiful, badass, book-loving friends out there. So many of you lent your love to this book!
Thank you, Joanna Chambers, for your tough, OMG-smart, wizard-level feedback over two full iterations of this book. And Molly O’Keefe, I'm wildly grateful for your amazing insights, for thinking of things that made this book so much better. Massive thanks also to Katie Reus—you came through with character ideas and tweaks that made the text sing. Thank you, Christine Maria Rose, for reading this over and using your chemistry expertise to help me get this book right, and to make Theo into a credible chemist. And thank you to Courtenay Bennett for your many book-saving catches, and for keeping me out of the tool and rod club! And to Trisha Wolfe for kickass tweaks! And to Rylie Finn from Book-Bosomed Book Blog for eagle-eye catches!
And to you, Nina Grinstead—you have become such a fierce friend and ally, you blow me away with your warmth and fun and badass strategic mind. Thank you to the whole Social Butterfly gang—Brooke, Sarah, Chanpreet, Shannon, and everyone else.
And Melissa Gaston, I don’t know how I got so lucky as to be hooked up with you—thank you for your creativity and warmth and smarts! Thank you also to editor Deb Nemeth for wonderful developmental edits, and to Sadye Scott-Hainchek, Judy Zweifel, and Lea Schafer for fabulously expert copyediting and proofing polish. Any mistakes in here are my own because apparently I can’t stop fussing with every little thing!! And major hugs to Michele of Catalano Creative for this amazing cover.
I’m grateful to too many bloggers to name—I deeply appreciate the care you take with your reviews and recommendations—my heart does a little flutter when I see you’ve read and reviewed my books, and your passion inspires me to always reach higher.
I want to thank my husband, Mark for always being there and for patiently reminding me of all the other times I freaked out and thought the book I was in the middle of writing was a doomed mess, but later felt happy about it. Not that it kept me from a mid-book freakout this time around. Maybe next time, baby!
Huge, warm, tackle-hug thanks to my amazing friends in the Fabulous Gang—you are the smartest, funniest, sweetest group there ever was. You guys mean the world to me! Special thanks to gang members Darlene Good, Erica Stennett, Catherine Ojalvo, and Cindy McGriff for coming through with perfect heroine, friend, and sister names. And my Awesome ARC gang – I hope you know how grateful I am that you are on this journey with me. You all so rock!!
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