Böcker av Penelope Black

Fate is a fickle mistress. She gives as easily as she takes and she makes no apologies for it.When I'm on the precipice of an inconceivable loss, and a betrayal slices me wide open, I have a decision to make.I can stay the polite, subservient girl.Or I can shed my societal restraints and become the person I was destined to be. With my dark Italian kings by my side, we don't just change the rules, we remake the whole game.Gone is the girl with stars in her eyes, and in her place is a woman with vengeance in her veins.It's time I stop asking for permission and start claiming what's mine.

I wake up with a gasp, surrounded by smoke and flames.Twelve hours earlier, my cousins cut their European vacation short and came home to spend my birthday with me. They promised me a day to remember.No one could have predicted how true that promise would turn out to be.When the clock strikes eleven-eleven on June sixth, I make a wish. But fate has other plans, and she deals me an unexpected hand.That's the thing about fate. She doesn't ask permission, she takes what she wants.When my world devolves into chaos, I decide to be like fate.And I want all three Fitzgerald brothers.

What if the end is just their beginning?They stole my heart at fourteen and broke it before we even graduated high school.It's been five years since I've seen them, and only a twist of fate reunites us when the mountain falls. It's the first disaster in a predicted apocalypse-a string of natural disasters that could be catastrophic.It's the beginning of the end of everything.Finis omnibus.Old feelings reignite and new feelings blossom as the four of us form an unbreakable bond. As the world starts to fall and society fractures, it's a race against time for survival.

They say everything happens in threes.Good luck and misfortune.I got fired, inherited my late-grandmother's house, and moved across the country all in a weekend.I thought I would get a reprieve, eager and excited to spend my summer with my cousin.But no one warned me the rule of three could apply to men.The charming playboy.The enigmatic stranger.The grumpy single dad.Known collectively as the St. James men. And the most coveted bachelors in all of Rosewood. They run the Rosewood Reapers, an allegedly reformed motorcycle club. I find myself irresistibly drawn to all three of them in a way I can't ignore.So I don't.The only problem is, there are more secrets than people in this town. And I fear there's one that could shake our very foundation.

When I'm ripped from safety, catapulted into consciousness, and thrown into a nightmare, I come face-to-face with the cruel plot twist fate threw me.My fight-or-flight instinct kicks in, and when every road leads to chaos, there's only one option.In my darkest moments, I promised myself I'd take what I want.And that includes them.My dark avengers.Protective. Possessive. Mine.

"Do you believe in the butterfly effect?"There comes a time in your life when you're faced with a choice. One that has the potential to alter the course of your life. I answered my mother's call that day and everything changed.The path I chose was a turnpike masquerading as a meadow, and the tolls I paid have been grave.So I made a promise to myself that I will have my vengeance.And with my dark Irish gods at my side, I will wreak havoc on everyone who had a hand in the destruction of the girl I used to be.I was remade in the cabin in the woods. And I was forged in the warehouse fire. And like a phoenix, I will rise anew.By the time I'm done, my path will be littered with the heads of my enemies.But not before I claim what's rightfully mine.

"Kiss a stranger."Those three words started off a series of events I could have never predicted.Fresh off graduation, I have my entire summer planned out: European vacation with my cousins, college courses, and picking up shifts at work. But then my mom calls and drops the bomb: she's getting married to the rumored head of the Irish mafia.Even though I've been looking out for her for most of my life, we haven't lived together in ten years. So when she invites me to stay with her for the summer, I don't hesitate. And I make a new summer plan: skip the vacation, take online courses, and dig up dirt on Mom's new fiancé.What I didn't plan for was Wolf Fitzgerald--and his brothers. Dangerously good-looking with tattoos and bad attitudes.And my new stepbrothers.