MercyAnn Summers
Spicy Romantic Suspense
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” ― Sylvia Plath
Ends of Being
Ends Duet, Book 1
Ends World
July 13, 2023
BLURB:
Darius
She’s a f**king menace.
She has no regard for her safety and dances along the tongue in the mouth of danger.
A loose cannon who torments me day in and day out.
She thinks I can’t rise to meet her challenge. She thinks I don’t know what goes on in that beautiful head of hers.
But she’s sorely mistaken.
Mistaken about who exactly she is to me.
Mistaken about how much danger she’s in.
And mistaken about what I can take.
Challenge f**king accepted.
Antoinette
It’s adorable really. How tough, “Mr. Clark Kent”, thinks he is, in his starched shirts and cashmere sweaters.
A bore to his core, he’s my favorite target of torment. I love to push his buttons and see how far I can take it.
But something about him calls to me.
Somehow I know there is more to him than meets the eye.
What will it take to make him loosen that tie and release the beast?
What harm can it actually bring?
I intend to find out.
What Doesn't Kill Us
Ends Duet, Book 2
Ends World
October 19, 2023
The Ends Duet Continues.....
Darius
I disappeared.
It was unexpected.
Incredibly inconvenient even, but if it meant she was safe, then so be it.
After a tireless search for a nameless, faceless enemy - still, they remain elusive.
Each day that goes by without her is excruciating.
But I know, she will never be satisfied until she’s back by my side.
Spitting mad and out for blood, she knows what buttons to push to get me there,
reminding me of who she belongs to.
Me.
Antoinette
He disappeared.
It was shocking.
Agonizingly painful even, but if it meant he was alive, then so be it.
After assiduously searching, I will not accept that he is lost to me.
But as each day that goes by, breathing increasingly becomes exhausting.
Until one day, he’s there; fueled by rage and out for revenge -
determined to remind me who I belong to.
Him.
What Doesn't Kill Us is classified as a spicy romantic suspense with dark themes and laughs.
What Doesn't Kill Us is book 2 in the Ends Duet. In order to understand the story line up to this point,
you must read Ends of Being, Book 1 of the Ends Duet.
A Fine Line
An Ends Novel, Book 3
January 18, 2024
This book is an interconnected standalone within the Ends World. While you don't have to read the Ends Duet before reading this book, it is recommended that you do in order to understand the entire Ends World up to this point.
Carolina
I didn’t mean for anyone to get hurt.
That wasn’t my intention.
And I knew he would come for me.
Was it too much to hope he would just forget about me and everything that transpired between us.
Forget about my betrayal.
Probably.
Because here I am… In a box.
And he’s out there, lying in wait for me.
He wants me to bleed for him.
To purge my soul.
He wants his pound of flesh, but what he doesn’t know is that I have already sacrificed everything.
My body, my soul, just to save the person I love the most.
And I have nothing left to give.
Tony
She thinks I've forgotten, and that I'll just let it go.
But how can I forget about the worst kind of betrayal?
The death of someone I cared about.
So I will push her to the point of desperation, to the point of no return.
I will break her against my cold, dead heart and see what lies beneath her calm façade.
She will suffer my depravity.
She will never see me coming.
Declan
An Ends World Novel, Book 4
April 18, 2024
Declan Hughes, the MMC in this book, was first introduced in the Ends World Series. While you definitely do not need to read that series to fully understand and enjoy this book, you may want to give it a read just to familiarize yourself with some of the characters who will inevitably make random appearances in Declan's story. Declan first appears in Book 3, A Fine Line, but the best reading experience, in my very biased opinion, is beginning with book one in the Ends Duet, Ends of Being.
Declan
So, I'm not exactly a great guy.
Sure, I'm a great musician and a helluva entertainer, but when it comes to the finer nuances
of wooing a woman I may be somewhat lacking in patience and style.
You see, I tend to just want my way, and when it comes to getting my way,
there are no limits, no boundaries, no lines that I will not cross
in order to get exactly what I want.
And right now, I want her.
Sure, she hates me, and she's engaged to another man,
but what is love if you don't have to prove you're the better option.
Or in this case, the best option.
And also, her only option.
Marissa
I've been America's princess for so long
I don't remember what it's like to be anonymous.
My life in the spotlight has rendered me immune to many things,
but especially the unwanted advances of men.
And for the most part, my ability to deflect and
disengage have served me well.
Up until now.
Until him.
He thinks he can wear me down,
that he can push someone else aside
and step into his shoes as if that part of my life never happened.
But what he doesn't know is that I've been protecting myself
from the evils of mankind for my entire life, and so far
I'm still batting .500 on coming out unscathed.
And I won't let him be the exception.
The Devil We Know
An Ends Novel, Book 5
October 17, 2024
SERIES FINALE
Matt
Yeah, that’s me. The Boy Scout. The tech nerd. The dependable one. I’m used to walking the tightrope between two different lives. The one where I am a law abiding citizen. Or so it would seem. And then there’s the one where I dive so deep into the mire of ugliness that it can darken one’s soul. The one where I am the master at keeping everyone’s secrets. This time, I’m keeping one of my own. And it’s a secret so big, it can burn my world to the ground. Now my hand is being forced and the match has been struck. Can I keep it from touching those closest to me? Can I keep it from touching her? The fiery red head whose phone call I never should have received. She needed help and like the Boy Scout I am, I rushed to her side. Now she’s under my skin, and falling for her was never a part of my plan. Pushing her away is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do. Can I keep the flames away? Or is she just the gasoline?
Jessica
It wasn’t him who was supposed to answer. The call was intended for someone else. But I was in a desperate situation and needed help. He was my only viable option. He purged any evidence and promised to keep my secret too. But this isn’t the only secret I have. I have another one. One so big that it can burn my world to the ground. Mathias Shields is the kindest, most gentle man I’ve ever known. Or so I thought. Falling for him was easy. But now he’s MIA and I won’t stop until I find him. Even if I have to enter a life I never wanted to be in. One that will take me into peril. Once there, there will be no turning back. Will I be able to keep him from finding out the truth? Or will we burn together?
TW/CW
18+
The Ends World books are classified as romantic suspense with dark themes and laughs.
THESE BOOKS ARE NOT SUITABLE FOR PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF 18.
TW/CW Ends of Being: There is drugging/noncon/SA, though NOT between the MMC/FMC. There’s a considerable amount of dubious consent between the MMC/FMC as well as kidnapping, suppressed memories, and some relatively mild bondage. There is blood play, breath play.
TW/CW What Doesn't Kill Us: There is some OW drama, but don’t worry, it isn’t dragged out. There’s a considerable amount of dubious consent between the MMC/FMC as well as kidnapping, suppressed memories, hypnosis, human trafficking, organized crime, and perhaps other various forms of kinky fuckery. There is drugging/noncon/SA, though NOT between the MMC/FMC. There is BDSM, spanking, blood play, breath play.
TW/CW A Fine Line: While there are no graphic scenes of child abuse there are implications and discussions of child abuse, neglect and trauma. There is human trafficking, noncon, drugging, SA though NOT between the MMC/FMC. Breath play, trauma healing, spanking, general kinky fuckery.
TW/CW Declan: stalking, organized crime, and various forms of kinky fuckery. There is insinuation of noncon/SA/abusive situations though NOT between the MMC/FMC. Brief domestic violence, gaslighting and general narcissistic behaviors. There is breath play, dubcon, coercion, manipulation, vigilante fuckery and more naughty words and graphic depictions of sexual acts and violence than I would care to count.
TW/CW The Devil We Know: Mafia, death of loved one, death of parent, choking, mentions of sexual assault, submissive play, depression, grief, kidnapping, pregnancy of a minor (not FMC, not explicit), attempted rape (not between FMC/MMC), forced exhibitionism, organized crime, vigilante fuckery and more naughty words and graphic depictions of sexual acts and violence than I would care to count.
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Ernest Hemingway
