MAINGARDE Series by René Van Dalen

GideonGideon Acheson was a cold hearted bastard. He had no time to waste on emotions that would leave him, and the man he protected, vulnerable. Their end goal was everything, to take over the Harrison Syndicate and eradicate Winifred Harrison and her family of psychos.Nothing was more important.Until he saw Kellen Paxton’s photograph. Claiming him was easy, keeping him safe, not.His enemies made a mistake. They put their hands on his man... moreGideonGideon Acheson was a cold hearted bastard. He had no time to waste on emotions that would leave him, and the man he protected, vulnerable. Their end goal was everything, to take over the Harrison Syndicate and eradicate Winifred Harrison and her family of psychos.Nothing was more important.Until he saw Kellen Paxton’s photograph. Claiming him was easy, keeping him safe, not.His enemies made a mistake. They put their hands on his man.Now their blood will be joining the blood already coating his hands.KellenHe had two great loves, tattooing and surfing and was lucky enough to have both. His love life was a bit of a mess but it was fixable. As far as he was concerned life was perfect.Until he met Gideon Acheson, a notorious underworld figure.Meeting a dangerous man and feeling an instant attraction? Unexpected.Being kidnapped because his man was involved with bad people? Unbearable.Hearing the hardened man call him sweetheart? The most precious gift ever. less

PixieLife has been uneventful but good. Her tattoo studios were successful and she had plans for expanding. Everything changes when Kellen, a tattooist at her studio, is kidnapped and tortured. It turns out the kidnappers were sending a message to his lover, Gideon Acheson, and her estranged brother, Dominick.Dominick is suddenly a part of her life again and she has constant security around her.Not that it helps when she makes a stupid mistake... morePixieLife has been uneventful but good. Her tattoo studios were successful and she had plans for expanding. Everything changes when Kellen, a tattooist at her studio, is kidnapped and tortured. It turns out the kidnappers were sending a message to his lover, Gideon Acheson, and her estranged brother, Dominick.Dominick is suddenly a part of her life again and she has constant security around her.Not that it helps when she makes a stupid mistake. Luckily for her a mysterious stranger saves the day before disappearing.Life goes back to almost normal until a man walks through her studio door. A dark mountain of a man with deep secrets, a man who changes everything she thought she knew and wanted.A man who makes her feel safe.Falling for him was as easy as breathing. Sharing his secrets brought them closer together.Would she bleed to save him?Absolutely.RemySpending the last ten years as an undercover agent for the FBI changed him. He was hardened and did whatever he had to, to get the results he needed. Even seducing women to get inside the organisations he targeted.When he’s pulled from an investigation and assigned to an international Interpol Taskforce investigating human trafficking he’s not happy. Not with the investigation or his new boss.He soon realises the investigation is a thinly disguised witch hunt.Ordered to seduce Pixie Maingarde to get closer to her brother Dominick shouldn’t have bothered him. He had done it before. Why did it feel wrong this time?Getting close to her only confirmed his suspicions. She was more than just a mark and definitely not a criminal. She was his.He would do and say anything to keep his angel safe.Even turn against his own. less

DominickI owed Sergei Orlov a favour.A favour he had come to collect. I wasn’t surprised when he came asking for the favour to be returned. It was what he asked of me in return that I didn’t expect.To marry his little sister. A marriage in name only. A marriage that would ensure her safety.Agreeing to his rules was easy. I had no plans to put my hands on the bratva princess.And then she walked through the door. Everything changed in that moment... moreDominickI owed Sergei Orlov a favour.A favour he had come to collect. I wasn’t surprised when he came asking for the favour to be returned. It was what he asked of me in return that I didn’t expect.To marry his little sister. A marriage in name only. A marriage that would ensure her safety.Agreeing to his rules was easy. I had no plans to put my hands on the bratva princess.And then she walked through the door. Everything changed in that moment.Nika Orloff with her innocent smile upset the well-ordered course of my life. Ensuring her safety came with unexpected problems.Killing for her? So very easy.Keeping my hands off her?Impossible.NikaMy father’s plans for me sent me running to my best friend’s family home to avoid him and his plans.My big brother came up with a plan to keep me safe. A plan I wasn’t too happy with.A fake marriage to a man I didn’t know.A man who was a lot older than me. A man who was beautiful to look at but had the coldest, scariest blue eyes I had ever seen.He was cold, rude and distant. None of it kept me from being fascinated by him.It was supposed to be a fake marriage, until it wasn’t.A positive pregnancy test was all it took to end it. End the dream I was living in.Now there were no more dreams. Just realities and enemies.And Dominick Maingarde, the man who broke my heart. less