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Scorching heat, laugh-out-loud humor, and swoon-worthy moments abound in this sexy standalone romance by New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melissa Foster. What happens when you're not looking for love, but it walks in the door? Madigan Wicked's heart is not up for grabs. She's been there, done that, and she's not going back for seconds. She pours her heart and soul into her family, her puppetry and storytelling performances, and her greeting card line. But she's not opposed to having a night of fun, and the gruff, sinfully hot, definitely-not-looking-for-love mysterious stranger she runs into at a bar might be just the right man to enjoy it with. Ex-con Tobias Riggs has lost enough for one lifetime. The only family member in his corner doesn't remember him, and the people he thought would always be in his life walked away. He's just trying to make it through each day, and the last thing he's looking for is any sort of connection. When chemistry ignites with the snarky, sexy storyteller whose lips he can't stop thinking about, he gives in to a night of passion. Though neither is open to love, it's been known to bully its way into even the most resisting hearts. But can it survive the wicked truth of Tobias's dark past? About The Wickeds: Dark Knights at Bayside Set on the sandy shores of Cape Cod, the Wickeds feature fiercely protective heroes, strong heroines, and unbreakable family bonds. If you think bikers are all the same, you haven't met the Dark Knights. The Dark Knights are a motorcycle club, not a gang. Their members stick together like family and will stop at nothing to keep their communities safe. These men are wickedly alpha and intensely loyal, but they are not alphaholes. *** Want more WICKED sexy love stories? A Little Bit Wicked The Wicked Aftermath Crazy, Wicked Love The Wicked Truth His Wicked Ways Talk Wicked to Me Irresistibly Wicked Love Me Wicked Meet the WHISKEYS: DARK KNIGHTS AT PEACEFUL HARBOR Now available for your binge-reading pleasure! Tru Blue Truly, Madly, Whiskey Driving Whiskey Wild Wicked Whiskey Love Mad About Moon Taming My Whiskey The Gritty Truth In for a Penny Running on Diesel READY TO BINGE READ? The LOVE IN BLOOM big-family steamy contemporary romance collection featuring loyal alpha heroes and smart, empowered heroines. They're funny, flawed, and passionate. Characters from each sub-series appear in future books so you never lose track of engagements, weddings, or births. Tropes include friends-to-lovers, billionaires, cowboys, close-proximity, fake dating, he falls first, enemies-to-lovers, sports romance, and more. Big-city and small-town romance at their best! BIG FAMILIES / SMALL TOWNS (Heroes from all walks of life) Snow Sisters The Bradens at Weston The Bradens at Trusty The Bradens at Peaceful Harbor The Bradens & The Montgomerys The Remingtons The Ryders Sugar Lake Harmony Pointe CAPE COD and BEACH READS Seaside Summers Bayside Summers The Steeles at Silver Island The Silvers at Silver Island Silver Harbor Hot Mess Summer Harborside Nights BILLIONAIRES Wild Billionaires After Dark Bad Billionaires After Dark BIKERS & BAD BOYS with BIG HEARTS The Whiskeys: Dark Knights at Bayside The Wickeds: Dark Knights at Bayside The Whiskeys: Dark Knights at Redemption Ranch STANDALONE SMALL-TOWN ROMANCE ROMCOMS Hot Mess Summer The Mr. Right Checklist

It is your best work, Basil, the best thing you have ever done," said Lord Henry, languidly. "You must certainly send it next year to the Grosvenor. The Academy is too large and too vulgar. The Grosvenor is the only place." "I don't think I will send it anywhere," he answered, tossing his head back in that odd way that used to make his friends laugh at him at Oxford. "No: I won't send it anywhere." Lord Henry elevated his eyebrows, and looked at him in amazement through the thin blue wreaths of smoke that curled up in such fanciful whorls from his heavy opium-tainted cigarette. "Not send it anywhere? My dear fellow, why? Have you any reason? What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. A portrait like this would set you far above all the young men in England, and make the old men quite jealous, if old men are ever capable of any emotion." "I know you will laugh at me," he replied, "but I really can't exhibit it. I have put too much of myself into it." Lord Henry stretched his long legs out on the divan and shook with laughter. "Yes, I knew you would laugh; but it is quite true, all the same." "Too much of yourself in it! Upon my word, Basil, I didn't know you were so vain; and I really can't see any resemblance between you, with your rugged strong face and your coal-black hair, and this young Adonis, who looks as if he was made of ivory and rose-leaves. Why, my dear Basil, he is a Narcissus, and you--well, of course you have an intellectual expression, and all that. But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself an exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think. A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say when he was a boy of eighteen, and consequently he always looks absolutely delightful. Your mysterious young friend, whose name you have never told me, but whose picture really fascinates me, never thinks. I feel quite sure of that. He is a brainless, beautiful thing, who should be always here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in summer when we want something to chill our intelligence. Don't flatter yourself, Basil: you are not in the least like him.