Katie Reus

Katie Reus is the New York Times, USA Today, and IndieReader bestselling author of the Red Stone Security series, the Redemption Harbor series and the Deadly Ops series. She fell in love with romance at a young age thanks to books she pilfered from her mom’s stash. Years later she loves reading romance almost as much as she loves writing it.

However, she didn’t always know she wanted to be a writer. After changing majors many times, she finally graduated summa cum laude with a degree in psychology. Not long after that she discovered a new love. Writing. She now spends her days writing dark paranormal romance and sexy romantic suspense.

Jaguar’s Mate

Jaguar’s Mate

She’s not looking for a mate…

Sapphire is cursed. Every relationship she’s ever been in has ended poorly. So she’s sworn off relationships and is happy with her life. Until Eli comes along—a one-night stand that turned into more. When things got too intense, she did what she always did. She ran.

He’s not letting her get away…

This time Eli isn’t letting Sapphire go without a fight. When her friend needs help escaping an abusive situation, he steps up, no questions asked. It doesn’t matter that Sapphire won’t tell him why she’s holding back from him. He’s a jaguar shifter and cats are very patient—he’ll wait for his mate to come around. But before he can claim her once and for all, they’ll have to deal with an angry bunch of shifters who are out for blood.

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Chasing Vengeance

Chasing Vengeance

Author: Katie Reus
Series: Redemption Harbor®, Book 7
Genre: Romantic Suspense

Wanting her means putting a target on her back…

Layla’s taste in men runs toward the epic side of awful. With one murderous ex-fiancé already behind her, she’s attempting to start over in Redemption Harbor with the help of her bestie, Nova. And wine. Lots of wine. The very thing that helps her make another epic mistake—trying to kiss Xavier, one of her newest friends. So what if he’s sexy, funny, and has completely taken over her fantasies? Relationships and Layla don’t mix. And Xavier is clearly not interested anyway.

But it’s too late to walk away…

Any good hitman has no business forging a personal life…no matter how great the temptation. And Xavier is an exceptionally good hitman, with a long list of enemies. Even if Layla could somehow look past his profession, he’d never put her in jeopardy. But everyone has their breaking point—and when Layla accepts a date with someone else, Xavier’s possessiveness is unleashed. The greater the risk, the sweeter the reward…until Xavier’s sweet Layla is used against him by someone from his past. Now he’ll do whatever it takes to protect her from the enemy hunting her from the shadows.

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Darkness Rising

Darkness Rising

Author: Katie Reus
Series: Darkness Series, Book 9
Genre: Paranormal Romance

When a bringer of death…

Awakened after millennia, dragon warrior Reaper is ready to fulfill his destiny…until he sees Greer. With one glimpse, everything Reaper has ever known throughout his very long life is irrevocably changed. Greer’s his mate, he feels it in his blood, in his soul—but convincing her is another matter. The dragon clan healer finds him obnoxious and annoying, but he knows a woman’s interest when he smells it. And Greer smells like one word: mine.

Meets a giver of life…

Greer has spent hundreds of years using her healing abilities for the good of others, making her the polar opposite of Reaper. The ferocious war general may be an ancient, but his arrogance proves he hasn’t spent any of that time learning about women. Greer is displeased when her Alpha sends her to New Orleans with the insufferable warrior—then she sees him in action against a menace threatening to tear the city apart. Fierce, protective, magnificent…mate-worthy. Except he’s hiding something from her. Something dark and devastating that could destroy their newly forged bond. Maybe opposites do attract, but if they want to live long enough to find out, they’ll first have to save the world teetering on the brink of obliteration.

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Bishop’s Knight

Bishop’s Knight

Author: Katie Reus
Series: Endgame Trilogy, Book 1
Genre: Romantic Suspense

The Bishop siblings’ family is on the verge of collapse as all three find themselves embroiled in danger. Family bonds may keep them alive…but only love can give them something to live for. Read BISHOP’S KNIGHT, the first novel in this heart-pounding Endgame trilogy!

She needs his protection…

Thanks to years of government training, Evie Bishop knows how to get into places she doesn’t belong—and she’s very good at it. But years of doing black ops work burned her out so she returns home—to unexpected chaos. One of her brothers is in a coma and the other is in hiding, wanted for murder. Then a fellow operative from her past shows up shot and bleeding with news that an assassin is gunning for everyone involved with a past op. She’s forced to turn to the one man she knows she can trust—the man whose heart she broke.

But it will come with a price…

When Dylan Blackwood proposed a year ago, Evie turned him down flat and walked out of his life. He’s stunned when he finds her on his doorstep covered in someone else’s blood, needing his help. He always knew there was more to her than met the eye—that Evie was never simply the pampered society princess she wanted people to believe she was. But he never expected this. If she needs help, he’ll give it. Even if he can’t forget her betrayal. Even if he isn’t sure he can trust her. But his protection will come with a price—her heart. Before they can have a chance at a future, they’ll have to work together to take down a faceless enemy who has Evie firmly in his crosshairs.

FIRST IN NEW TRILOGY
Author note: This book can be read as a stand-alone, complete with HEA.

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Bishop’s Queen

Bishop’s Queen

Author: Katie Reus
Series: Endgame Trilogy, Book 2
Genre: Romantic Suspense

Return to the Endgame trilogy where blood is thick, but passion is thicker…

He doesn’t believe in fairy-tale endings…

They used to call Evan Bishop the golden boy. He had it all and was about to close the business deal of a lifetime, then marry the woman of his dreams. But everything goes to hell when a faceless enemy wants to destroy his family’s empire and see him dead. Except the bomb meant to kill him fails. He wakes up from a coma to find his face scarred and his brother missing and wanted for murder. Now that he’s damaged, he hides away from the world—including the woman he loves. He refuses to be a burden to her, so even though it destroys him, he sets her free.

She’s about to prove him wrong

Isla MacDonald isn’t walking away from Evan just because he’s decided to shut her out of his life. He blames himself for the bombing that got her father killed and nearly killed him—but he’s wrong. After all attempts to see him fail, with a broken heart she tries to resume her life and take over her father’s firm. Though it’s not her dream, she wants to honor his legacy. But when someone tries to kill her—twice—she needs a bodyguard. To her surprise Evan steps up and insists on protecting her, putting on a show as the caring fiancé. But he won’t let her back into his life or into his heart. To have any chance at a future together, they’ll have to resurrect the past and stay alive long enough to expose the man determined to see them both dead.

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Bishop’s Endgame

Bishop’s Endgame

Author: Katie Reus
Series: Endgame Trilogy, Book 3
Genre: Romantic Suspense

Read the final book in the Endgame trilogy where blood is thick, but passion is thicker…

He kidnapped a princess to exact revenge.

Set up for a crime he didn’t commit, Ellis Bishop takes the law into his own hands to exact justice and clear his name. Unfortunately, that means he has to kidnap a crime boss’s daughter—a perfect mafia princess, set to become queen of a dirty empire. What he didn’t count on was falling for his mortal enemy’s daughter.

He wasn’t supposed to fall for her.

Arianna hates the man who kidnapped her, but soon she realizes that things aren’t what they seem. Ellis was framed by her stepfather and is trying to clear his name. If she helps him, it means betraying her family. But how can she turn her back on him when he’s innocent… when her stepfather turns out to be a monster she never really knew at all?

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BRAN: Jenseits der Dunkelheit

BRAN: Jenseits der Dunkelheit

Author: Katie Reus
Series: Dunkelheit, Book 3
Genres: Foreign Editions, German

Jetzt, wo sie ihre Freiheit hat, gibt sie sie nicht auf.

Die Drachenwandlerin Keelin Petronilla hat Jahrhunderte in einer Art erzwungenem Winterschlaf und nur von einer Sache geträumt: Freiheit. Jetzt lebt sie ihr Leben zu ihren Bedingungen – sie hat ihren Clan gegen ein unbändiges Wolfsrudels eingetauscht, arbeitet an der Bar eines Halbdämons und genießt es in vollen Zügen ... bis ein mächtiges übernatürliches Wesen es plötzlich auf sie abgesehen hat. Sie hat vor, selbst mit den mysteriösen Angriffen fertigzuwerden ... ohne die Hilfe des Alphadrachen Bran Devlin. Sicher, er ist sexy auf diese heiße, finstere, besitzergreifende Art, doch Keelin will ihr Leben auf ihre eigene Art leben.

Jetzt, wo er seine Gefährtin gefunden hat, lässt er sie nicht mehr los.

Der ehemalige Black-Ops-Agent Bran Devlin ist ein geborener Alphadrache und Anführer eines starken Clans. Sich eine Gefährtin zu nehmen war nie Teil seines Plans – bis eine beherzte Drachenprinzessin ihm tierisch unter die Haut geht. Das Problem dabei: sie will keinen Gefährten. Sie will einfach nur ihren Spaß. Er spielt mit, doch als ein dunkles und mächtiges Wesen ihren Tod will, ist er entschlossen, trotz ihrer Proteste an ihrer Seite zu bleiben. Jetzt, wo er seine Gefährtin gefunden hat, will er sie beschützen, koste es, was es wolle ... auch wenn er dafür alles riskieren muss.

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Rhys: Feindin aus uralter Zeit

Rhys: Feindin aus uralter Zeit

Sie sollte seine Todfeindin sein …

Der uralte Drachenwandler Rhys erwacht hungrig nach Rache an der Hexe, die seine Schwester getötet hat, aus seinem Schlaf. Als ihn seine Jagd in die wiederaufgebaute Stadt New Orleans führt, begegnet er einer Frau, von der er nicht die Augen lassen kann – doch sie ist eine Hexe. Während Rhys alle von Dallas’ Art hassen will, kann selbst er nicht leugnen, dass sie schön, liebenswürdig und … bezaubernd ist. Und ihr Drachenbaby verstärkt nur seine Faszination für die sexy Frau. Beschützerinstinkte, von denen er nie wusste, dass er sie besitzt, übernehmen die Kontrolle, als sie mächtige Monster jagen. Er ist gezwungen, alles zu überdenken, was er über Hexen zu wissen glaubte, während sein Leben auf den Kopf gestellt wird.

… doch er will sie trotzdem.

Dallas Kinley ist es gewohnt, wegen dem, was sie ist, gehasst zu werden. Hexen waren schon immer die Parias der übernatürlichen Gemeinschaft. Bis jetzt, da die Welt wieder aufgebaut werden muss. Sie will Abstand zu Rhys halten, doch in New Orleans sterben Vampire und Menschen, also schwört sie, ihm bei der Jagd auf die Verantwortlichen zu helfen. Den Feind zu finden, hat jedoch einen hohen Preis, denn Dallas verbirgt ein schreckliches Geheimnis. Im Wettlauf gegen die Zeit auf der Suche nach den Mördern kann sie nur hoffen, dass sein Rachedurst sie nicht auseinanderreißen wird. Vor allem, wenn er herausfindet, was sie ihm verheimlicht.

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How the Hitman Stole Christmas

How the Hitman Stole Christmas

Author: Katie Reus
Series: Holiday With a Hitman, Book 1
Genre: Romantic Suspense

Tis the season for a grumpy-sunshine romance with a side of murder and mayhem!

She hates Christmas and everything that goes with it…

Explosives expert Elliana hates Christmas—and the only good thing about this holiday season is that her gorgeous neighbor seems allergic to shirts and clothes in general. She knows because she’s been watching him for months with her drone. She’s never stalked anyone before, but he not only doesn’t seem to mind, he puts on nightly strip shows just for her. When she finally works up the courage to talk to him, she stumbles right into a murder—that he’s committed.

But this holiday is one she’ll never forget…

According to him, the whole murder thing is no big deal—the dead guy needed killing. And while her hot neighbor wants her, protecting her is his main priority. So when she’s targeted, this cinnamon roll hitman kidnaps her for her own good. With a deadly threat hunting them and a hot hitman who keeps handcuffing her to him “for her own protection”, Elliana is starting to reconsider her grinchy stance on the holidays. And when everything finally comes to a head, the results are bound to be…explosive.

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Mörderisch romantische Weihnachten

Mörderisch romantische Weihnachten

Sie ist von Killern umgeben …

Aileens Eltern, ihr Bruder und all ihre Nachbarn haben, gelinde gesagt, ungewöhnliche Jobs. Sie ist also von Auftragsmördern umgeben. Ist das ein bisschen seltsam? Sicher, aber sie ist es auch. Und in letzter Zeit sieht sie einen ihrer Nachbarn in einem völlig neuen Licht. Als die alleinerziehende Mutter ihn um einen klitzekleinen Gefallen bittet – ihr nach Jahren der Enthaltsamkeit zu helfen –, macht er komplett dicht. Also beschließt sie, das Ruder selbst in die Hand zu nehmen, sich wieder ins Leben zu stürzen und wieder mit dem Daten anzufangen.

Und er ist der Einschüchterndste von allen …

Dante wollte Aileen, solange er sich erinnern kann. Aber wegen ihres Traumas aus der Vergangenheit hat er sie immer als tabu betrachtet. Doch als gleich zwei verschiedene Weihnachtsmänner innerhalb weniger Tage versuchen, sie auszurauben, wird ihm klar: Irgendetwas Seltsames geht hier vor. Also tut er, was jeder gute Auftragsmörder tun würde – er beschützt sie. Dante will sie unter seinem Dach, in seinen Armen und, wenn alles gut läuft, auch in seinem Bett haben, während er gleichzeitig jede Bedrohung für sie aus dem Weg räumt. Dumm nur, dass ihre neugierige Familie ihm ständig einen Strich durch die Rechnung macht. Es mag zwar die schönste Zeit des Jahres sein, aber die Gefahr findet trotzdem immer einen Weg.

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Chosen Mate

Chosen Mate

RELEASE DATE: November 19, 2019

Her past has taught her to be wary…

With an abusive relationship behind her, wolf shifter Leslie is quietly raising her young son in the Kendrick pack. If she’s occasionally lonely, it’s a small price to pay for her son’s safety. And if she’s secretly longing for pack alpha Malcolm Kendrick, well…she’s keeping that fantasy to herself. Experience has made her a realist, and they’re far too different to work.

This alpha is about to stake his claim…

She has no idea Malcolm wants her just as fiercely. That he’s been subtly courting her for a year. But subtlety has gotten him nowhere—even if he thought it was the best choice after what she’d been through. He wanted to make sure Leslie didn’t feel obligated to him, that she was truly ready to move on. Now that he knows she is, he’s determined to make sure it’s with him. And when a threat from her past surfaces, he’ll eliminate anyone who would dare to hurt his mate.

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Bo: Von der Dunkelheit gejagt

Bo: Von der Dunkelheit gejagt

Author: Katie Reus
Series: Dunkelheit, Book 4
Genres: Foreign Editions, German

Aus zwei verschiedenen Welten …

Jetzt, da sie ihrer erdrückenden Familie entkommen ist, genießt Nyx ihr neues Leben und ihre Freunde – auch wenn die meisten ihrer Freunde nicht wissen, wer oder was sie ist. Als selbst in der Welt überirdischer Wesen seltene Halbgöttin lernt sie gerade, wie mächtig sie wirklich ist, doch ein Familiendrama stellt ihre Welt auf den Kopf und bringt den einen Mann, der sie interessiert, in Gefahr.

Er sollte sich nicht in sie verlieben ...

Nyx ist so ganz anderes als die Frauen, mit denen Halbdämon Bo Broussard bisher zusammen gewesen ist. Süß und unschuldig, sie ist nicht einmal ansatzweise sein Typ. Doch in dem Moment, als sie seine Bar betritt, weiß er, dass er sie nicht gehen lassen wird. Dummerweise jedoch glaubt jemand aus ihrer Vergangenheit, dass er sie zu einer arrangierten Ehe zwingen kann.

Er lässt sie nicht gehen ...

Jemand hat einen von ihnen ins Visier genommen, und Bo weiß nicht warum. Als sie zusammen in ein Höllenreich geworfen werden, müssen er und Nyx sich zusammenschließen, um die Gefahren dieser Welt zu überleben. Egal, wer hinter dem Angriff steckt, seine Wahl ist klar: Nyx um jeden Preis verteidigen und sie für immer zu der Seinen machen.

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