Paradise Lagoon by Caroline Peckham & Susanne Valenti (Paperback)

I made my choice. I took the hard way out. Paradise Lagoon is the fourth book in Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti’s Harlequin Crew series, and now all of their fates are riding on the dice our heroine is about to throw. Luck, of course, never was on their side.

She was whole once, with her boys in the little slice of paradise they’d carved out for themselves. But in the time they spent apart, they grew up, and grew apart, and much as she might yearn to reclaim that girl with the sand between her toes and the sun on her cheeks, she’s spent far too long in the shadows to ever truly be her again.

Her heart may be breaking for the men she left behind, but she intends to make that pain count for something. Because she’s no fool, taken in by the pretty promises of a madman. No, she’s the assassin he just welcomed into his fortress, and now that she’s inside, she means to repay him for every moment of suffering he’s inflicted on her and her boys.

Please note this is a dark why-choose romance and contains a sexual assault of the heroine, not perpetrated by any of the love interests. Perfect for readers who love a dark why-choose romance, a fierce revenge arc and dangerous, devoted men who’d burn the world for their girl.