The Never Never Duet Series by Monique Shepherd

“Sometimes the most forbidden fruit is the sweetest.”Kieran Ten years ago, my world crumbled around me. Losing my wife turned me into a shell of a man, stuck teaching entitled Ivy League brats by day and drowning my pain in meaningless sex by night. The club has saved me countless times, until she walks into my classroom. There’s something behind the pain in her eyes that pulls me in, and even though I know she’s forbidden, I can’t stay away, no matter how hard I try... more“Sometimes the most forbidden fruit is the sweetest.”Kieran Ten years ago, my world crumbled around me. Losing my wife turned me into a shell of a man, stuck teaching entitled Ivy League brats by day and drowning my pain in meaningless sex by night. The club has saved me countless times, until she walks into my classroom. There’s something behind the pain in her eyes that pulls me in, and even though I know she’s forbidden, I can’t stay away, no matter how hard I try.Deirdre For the last year, I’ve been running from my tortured past, hiding amongst the shadows in hopes that he won’t find me. When I end up in a small town in Connecticut, I’m determined to take control of my life—so I fill my time as a cocktail waitress by night, and a student by day. I stick out like a sore thumb among these snooty frat boys and sorority girls, but one thing draws me the broody professor teaching my world literature class.I know I shouldn’t cross the lines of temptation. But when an embarrassing incident forces us together, we find ourselves caught in a whirlwind of heated moments, and I start to wonder if I can really stay away… or if I even want to. less

Kieran: They tried to take her from me. And I wasn’t there to stop him. I've walked through hell. But nothing—nothing—prepared me for the terror of almost losing her.Now, she’s fighting to recover, and I’m battling the darkness inside of me, the need for revenge. I’ve killed for her once. I’ll do it again. This time, with her by my side.I am no longer just her professor and she is more than just my student. We’ve crossed every line, broken every rule... moreKieran: They tried to take her from me. And I wasn’t there to stop him. I've walked through hell. But nothing—nothing—prepared me for the terror of almost losing her.Now, she’s fighting to recover, and I’m battling the darkness inside of me, the need for revenge. I’ve killed for her once. I’ll do it again. This time, with her by my side.I am no longer just her professor and she is more than just my student. We’ve crossed every line, broken every rule. But none of it matters now because all I care about is keeping her safe...even if it means becoming a man I don’t even recognize.Deirdre: He saved me, but I don’t know how to save him from the rage burning in his eyes. He’s angry. Haunted. Ready to burn the world down to find the man who hurt me.And God help me, I want revenge too.As I struggle to take back my life, I find myself pulled deeper into his darkness. What happened to me wasn’t random. There are secrets between us, and the shadows from my past are catching up. We’re not the same people we were before the attack. We’re broken and bleeding.But we still search for each other even in the darkness, and we always will, in any lifetime, in any universe. I will always search for him.Even if it costs us everything.***Please note this is Book 2 in the Never Never Duet. Nevermore is book 1. less