Bane

By Briar Black

Deal Ends: Wed 1st July

IPPY Award-Winning Romance NovelWinner of the 2025 Independent Publisher Book Award for RomanceAmelia’s home, and everything’s changed. New business, new confidence, zero patience for fragile male egos. The problem?Michael Bane.Her high-school crush, her worst humiliation. The one man she could never have and can never look away from is suddenly looking back. After a spicy run-in and one ugly misunderstanding, whatever almost started between them is done.Until Michael turns up at her door, bloody and disorientated. Amelia lies. Not for him (she’s done with him), but for his family. By morning, the man Michael attacked is dead. The town thinks he did it. And Amelia’s fake dating the one man she desperately needs to get away from. He may have hated her back then, but he needs her now. And the only way out is to find the real killer.Helping him could cost Amelia everything she’s fought for. Worse, part of her understands Michael’s darkness. Just how bad does she want this boy to be?Bane is a sizzling romantic suspense packed with small-town charm, dangerous chemistry, and a gripping murder mystery at its heart.“He’d always had this in him. This rage. This fierce, insane drive to protect the people he loved. And I didn’t care. F*ck me, I liked it.”