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Narrated by:
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Desireé Ketchum
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Teddy Hamilton
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By:
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Sam Mariano
About this listen
Be careful what you wish for. You just might get it.
I used to fantasize about meeting a masked madman who would love me endlessly and obsessively. He would look after me in a world where no one else did. He would manipulate all the strings that held up my life until I had exactly the one I wanted.
And then one night, I met him. Only he wasn't the hero I always imagined he would be.
When we left the forest together that night, I thought I'd escaped the villains relatively unscathed, but my true villain was the man whose arms I felt safest in. He was the one who would tear me apart.
Now I know the only way to save myself is to stay far away from Killian Walsh. But no matter how fast I run, he won't stop chasing me.
He knows the best thing he could do for me is set me free. But he's too selfish to do it.
He calls me reckless, but I think he's crazy. Killian Walsh will let the flames consume us both before he will ever let me go.
Brutal Ambition is a full-length secret society romance for mature listeners. This story is a spinoff of the Coastal Elite series but can be enjoyed as a standalone. The timeline of this book coincides with the fourth Coastal Elite book, Surrender.
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Finnick O'Reilly became my dark prince the day he rescued me from my bullies. I hoped and prayed that my savior would return after the day he saved me, but he never did. I was heartbroken, but it was for the best. He saved me just to torment everyone else in Grove Hill.
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I love this so much!!!
- By Samantha Hickey on 12-23-23
By: Zepphora
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Wicked Dreams
- Fallen Royals, Book 1
- By: S. Massery
- Narrated by: Stephanie Rose, Brandon Utah, Stella Hunter
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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He once swore he’d marry me—but now he’s desperate for my ruin. Caleb Asher has everything he could ever want. He’s rich, hotter than sin, captain of the hockey team and king of the school. My return to Emery-Rose Elite derails him. I am the walking reminder of everything that went wrong in his childhood and mine. While I long to be invisible, to slip through school unnoticed, he forced the opposite. He wants my fear, my fight, my pain, all out in the open.
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Abuse
- By Janice Wilburn on 09-22-24
By: S. Massery
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Half Truths
- Secret Society, Book 1
- By: Claire Contreras
- Narrated by: Aaron Shedlock, Stacey Glemboski
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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You’ve heard of these groups–the secretive ones that only the crème de la crème are invited into, the ones outsiders speculate about for centuries–I’m the second in my family invited to attend, but to them, I’m fresh meat. New blood. New money, too. They think they’ll elbow past me, that I’m here for their amusement, for them to walk all over, they’ll find out soon enough that I’m not. I may look like one of them, with my designer bags and clothes straight from the Parisian runways, but I’m not.
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4 stars
- By Kindle Customer on 10-20-19
By: Claire Contreras
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Burning Ivy
- The KORT Series, Book 1
- By: Brandy Hynes
- Narrated by: Mollie Stark, Sean Masters
- Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins
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She’s my mission. My prize. My obsession. Ivy Kingston is the most wanted woman in the world for reasons she is completely oblivious to, reasons I intend to capitalize on. She needs a husband to receive her inheritance, so I’m on the hunt for a wife. As long as it’s her. I’m not who she thinks I am. But she has no idea who she really is either. I’ll be her groom. Her keeper. Her lover. And quite possibly her demise.
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THIS AWESOME LISTEN NEEDS MORE ⭐️STARS⭐️
- By CAROLYN 🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹 on 01-01-25
By: Brandy Hynes
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Dangerous Defiance
- By: Selena
- Narrated by: Laurie West, Christian Black
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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In one moment, my freedom is snatched away when my father tells me I have to marry a man I’ve never met. I expect an 80-year-old retired boss who craves my virgin flesh in payment for his service. Bright side—in a few years, he’ll be gone, and I’ll be free again. I’m not prepared for the dangerously gorgeous soldier my father presents. Like anything that looks too good to be true, so is my new husband. He’s cold, cruel, and worst of all, young. Suddenly, marriage is a life sentence. That is, if I don’t show him from day one that no one controls Eliza Pomponio.
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Not my favorite by Selena
- By AudibleObsessed on 08-06-22
By: Selena
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Of Heathens & Havoc
- By: Selena, Alexa B. James
- Narrated by: Bridget Bordeaux, Jake Bordeaux
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
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It’s been six years since my last confession. Once, I was an innocent. My life was a rose-colored dream with four best friends by my side: Eternity, Heath, Angel, and Saint—my big brother and my hero. When Eternity was murdered, everything changed. My family put me in hiding to protect me. But no one can hide forever. Now I’m back, attending a tiny Catholic college and attempting to move on with my life with the help of the sinfully tempting priest, Father Salvatore. I never expected to find Heath, Angel, and Saint roaming the halls of Thorncrown University, thirsting for vengeance.
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extremely dissapointed
- By shelleigh Conklin on 02-15-25
By: Selena, and others
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Mark Me
- Royals of KnightsGate, Book 1
- By: SE Traynor
- Narrated by: Sienna Frances, Jamie Treselyan
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
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After a fire ruins my student house in my last year of university, I end up living with the Four Cardinals, the most popular guys at the Royal Academy of KnightsGate. They're pulling me into their circle, but I can't tell if they're guarding me from danger or if I'm stepping into a new one. Secrets are everywhere, and I need to find out the truth before I get too caught up.
By: SE Traynor
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Bite the Ice
- A Lakeshore U Prequel Story
- By: L.A. Cotton
- Narrated by: Stella Hunter, Evan Parker
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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When Ella Henshaw agrees to attend the annual Bite the Ice party at Laker House with her best friend, she knows it's a bad idea. Especially, since it’s a hockey party, and she swore off hockey players a long time ago. Enter Connor Morgan. Handsome. Confident. With enough persistence to wear down even the most stubborn heart, he’s determined to win over the girl he hurt in freshman year.
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This prequel has me hooked!
- By Bee 🐝 on 05-07-24
By: L.A. Cotton
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Mind to Bend
- Stolen Obsessions, Book 1
- By: Aurelia Knight
- Narrated by: Corvin King, Stephanie Nemeth-Parker
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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The last thing I expected when I married at twenty-two was to remain a virgin at twenty-four. My husband didn’t want me; he married me out of obligation rather than love, and I thought nothing could hurt worse than that. But my solution, marriage counseling, was only the beginning. The first time I saw Shane, I knew I was boarding an express bus to hell because my husband never made me feel a flicker of that spark, and that was before we shook hands.
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This Definitely Bent My Mind!
- By Kymora78 on 10-26-24
By: Aurelia Knight
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Naughty-ish
- A Naughty Next-Door Neighbor Holiday Romance
- By: L.B. Dunbar
- Narrated by: Stella Hunter, Teddy Hamilton
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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With the name Holliday, you’d think I’d be all about the Christmas season. Most years, I am, but this one not so much. Between my ex being a real Scrooge-in-the-backside, re-entering the workforce, wrangling my two children, and evading my eight-year-old’s questions about Santa’s existence, I’m struggling to believe in the magic myself.
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Loved it!
- By Kaitlin Kelsey on 12-13-23
By: L.B. Dunbar
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- Kristi
- 12-12-24
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Another amazing journey to those macho elite men who take what they want and leave us wanting more
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- Anonymous User
- 12-11-24
🤭 😍Sam.
So, there isn’t anything particularly “brutal” about this book. It was more of a sweet-darkish romance. I’ve been waiting for this release for a while because I kinda had high expectations for it to be a bit more psychotically deliciously dark (not so much “mushy/sweet-dark”).
Still, I’ve absolutely loved Sam’s work. 👏 , both to the Author and Narrators!
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- Nieszka
- 01-08-25
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I would give it six stars if I could. the main female character strong resilient not a pushover. not weak or submissive or subservient she know who she was she know what she wanted and the lead male character badass. dark hair blue eyes you just can't go wrong
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- Howard S.
- 12-31-24
Absolutely Love
This book was amazing! I think the narrators were great and the story was amazing. It wasn’t predictable and it kept getting better! Definitely recommend
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-08-25
Coastal Elites spin off.
I really like this new take on the hero/villain of the coastal elite world. A secret society that we can follow along and grow with. I hope Sam Mariano continues with this series. I’m very curious about Adrian and Sloan. And some of the others mentioned.
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- Kristine Gohlke Lairy
- 12-13-24
Great narration
This will hit the top of the charts. Well worth the purchase, and looking forward to more books in the series!
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- The Bookish Girl Reviews
- 12-17-24
absolutely perfect
I don't think anything could have made this audio any more perfect. I lived every single moment the narrators did amazing and I would re listen 1000 times
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- Kristy
- 02-17-25
Not for me
Firm believer of no means no. Not a fan of the way he ignores her NO over and over.
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- Kindle Customer
- 02-12-25
absolutely terrible!!!
First of all it starts out with a gang rape!!! And this was a college student!!!! This was the same theme throughout the book and the FMC was dumb and naive. I prefer smart and strong FMC's, but she neither. Definitely not my kind of book! Im sorry I wasted a credit and purchase of the ebook for my vacation!
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- Meliora
- 12-21-24
I’m disappointed…
I couldn’t stand Brynn… and Killian is so DUMB!!! To share all that information, important information to a girl he just met? 🙄 seriously? It would made more sense after a semester or something… and Brynn can’t keep her mouth shut for anything… letting her “beauty” work for her was so pathetic… I wish it was a different story line… the obsession with the secret society was ridiculous… she’s talking up Aiden(?) and they could have gotten to “know each other” the conversations seem so empty, didn’t get the “attraction” it was more of convenience and “she’s pretty enough” kind of deal and he had enough money to have her be okay with staying there pretending surprise about all the wealth 🙄 I couldn’t stand her trying to try and adopt the dog when she knew she could hardly afford to even keep herself together and trying to make jealous when they were not even “together” yet?
I can’t stand when the character is supposedly ridiculously beautiful and extremely smart but then no evidence of the said intelligence… every single action is filled with idiotic inner monologues and stupid actions… no sign of intelligence anywhere….this grinds my gears I’m like was it necessary? We didn’t need to know the actual major… so, goes without saying that I hated that they focused on STEM major but she hardly studied… Killian seemed to study more than her… I wish she was studying a humanities major or something… it just felt like just major to impress… because who says “chatter excitedly about space stuff” no one in STEM I can tell you that….I don’t know… I haven’t read a ton of Sam Mariano’s books and loved almost all of them but this one is tough to get through only chapter 19 in and I think there’s 51. I wish there was more his POV because her POV irritated me to no end…the inability to think, constantly leaving her head how is Killian thinking she’s anywhere near strong? Like the holier than thou behavior she has was ridiculous… the repetitions? she’s always scared and she “doesn’t say anything” then she tells her roommate? She’s not a good friend, even individually a good person…oh let’s not forget how so freakin childish and for someone who’s not her boyfriend she needed a lot of reassurance and it was weird AF! And the stupid lies, she’s in a sorority? Like it’s not hard to find out she’s not one 🙄 (scientist don’t do this, they’re more analytical and have independent thinking Brynn is not. I would have respected her more if she was undecided for a major… I don’t know why I’m irrationally irritated by her “biology” major and she’s falling over herself being stupid and her main thing is trying to fit in a sorority… never heard of biology major or anyone in STEM really caring that much about clothes and belonging to vain sorority especially with her reasoning to why she joined the college) the deer in a headlights look every chapter was not cute at all! And the whining!!! Oh the whining!!! The complaints…. she wants the rich guy, so obvious! 🙄 the pretending was so obvious it was annoying…
oh and She doesn’t want anything going to her roommate but lies that she’s going there…? Seriously? Like she’s not connecting anything… they’re both dumb! There’s no connection just two people thrown together really…
I really Needed to hear Teddy Hamilton more…just can’t imagine having Teddy Hamilton and he’s not narrating more… the horror!’ Clutched my invisible pearls…
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