The Checkmate Collection

Series: Checkmate

Tropes: Morally gray hero, kidnapping, he falls first, second chance, first love, light BDSM

Pick up the special edition paperback containing all three books in the Checkmate series. These three novellas feature morally gray heroes finding their happy ever afters. 

The French Quarter Queen

Fifteen years after the French Quarter Queen retired from the amateur chess circuit, someone's still holding a grudge. 

Serafine returns to New Orleans and runs into the boy who broke her heart. Except Emile isn't an awkward teen any longer. When their vacation fling turns into more, Emile must make a choice. 

Fight the past so he and Seraphine can have a future? Or become a pawn in a deadly game no one can win?

The Grandmaster's Pawn

The world's most renowned art thief doesn't get attached. To anything. The world is merely a pawn in the Grandmaster's game. Gemma Watson will be his latest—and last—conquest. With her unwitting help, Daniel will pull off the greatest heist of his storied career. 

Until he discovers that Gemma is much more than his pawn. The Grandmaster is about to lose everything—willingly—to find his queen. 

Castles and Kings

One mistake put Shane in the crosshairs of the Irish Mob. If he wants to escape Dublin alive, he needs a place to lie low. So when he sees a beautiful woman in trouble, he pretends to be her lover. All so he can get inside her flat.

Fiona shouldn't be ogling the man who tied her up at knife point. Even if her kidnapper is a better man than her ex ever was. For one night, she'll let him do whatever he wants to her. With her. For her. 

Can Shane walk away? Or is this a gambit no one can win?