Ruined: A scorching hot romance book with a bad-boy. Perfect for fans of Fifty Shades Freed

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Ruined: A scorching hot romance book with a bad-boy. Perfect for fans of Fifty Shades Freed
Jackie Ashenden

‘We have to act like a real couple…’The solution? Mind-blowingly real pleasure!Dane ‘Smoke’ Kingsolver and Cat Livingston need to fake a relationship to get her abusive ex off her back. Convincing people their friendship has heated up to scorching levels is unexpectedly easy! But when their red-hot chemistry threatens to ruin everything they’ve ever known, can they go back to what they had before? And do they even want to?

“We have to act like a real couple...”

The solution? Mind-blowingly real pleasure!

Dane “Smoke” Kingsolver and Cat Livingston need to fake a relationship to get her abusive ex off her back. Convincing people their friendship has heated up to scorching levels is unexpectedly easy! But when their red-hot chemistry threatens to ruin everything they’ve ever known can they go back to what they had before? And do they even want to?

“DARE is Harlequin’s hottest line yet. Every book should come with a free fan. I dare you to try them!”

—Tiffany Reisz, international bestselling author

JACKIE ASHENDEN writes dark, emotional stories with alpha heroes who’ve just got the world to their liking only to have it blown wide apart by their kick-ass heroines. She lives in Auckland, New Zealand, with her husband, the inimitable Dr Jax, two kids and two rats. When she’s not torturing alpha males and their gutsy heroines she can be found drinking chocolate martinis, reading anything she can lay her hands on, wasting time on social media, or being forced to go mountain biking with her husband. To keep up to date with Jackie’s new releases and other news sign up to her newsletter at jackieashenden.com (http://www.jackieashenden.com).

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Ruined

Jackie Ashenden

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ISBN: 978-1-474-07115-4

RUINED

© 2018 Jackie Ashenden

Published in Great Britain 2018

by Mills & Boon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF

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To Jenny.

You’ve been waiting so patiently for the end of Cat and Smoke’s story

and here it is at last.

Hope you like it. :-)

Contents

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Back Cover Text (#u6c272193-5a79-57fa-8b0c-cb863c03e7d4)

About the Author (#ude7315f6-2b3c-57a9-b99b-b07dd0bfb159)

Booklist (#u756464d3-38dc-590c-b835-282a28830864)

Title Page (#u6e6fbe47-9bd9-5c02-b197-ea37c65890b5)

Copyright (#u1014d118-999c-5f0a-8319-bb66e760d229)

Dedication (#ue1f73a46-ad47-518b-9e55-1eba17c6f789)

CHAPTER ONE (#uba223753-72b6-5fa1-ade4-ae6be8dad461)

CHAPTER TWO (#u47928518-1d00-5079-b926-7508b38e924a)

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