Nikolay's book will give you all the tropes:
1) Unrequited love/first love
2) Brother's Best Friend
3) Bodyguard trope/slow burn
4) mafia/dark romance
5) Beauty and the Beast feels
6) Age-gap
7) Surprise pregnancy
8) Second chance romance
The. Angst. Is. Everything. Okaybye
🥀💜 NIKOLAY TEASER 💜🥀
Nikolay's book will give you all the tropes:
💜 Unrequited love/first love
💜 Brother's Best Friend
💜 Bodyguard trope/slow burn
💜 mafia/dark romance
💜 Beauty and the Beast feels
💜 Age-gap
💜 Surprise pregnancy
💜 Second chance romance
I looked down at my son's sleeping face. He was so small, my palm was bigger than his head. "How can something so tiny, so innocent be mine? A part of me?"
He clenched my index finger with his little hand and just like that...
My heart broke for the third time.
#LylahJames
She stabbed a finger into my cheek and then poked the corner of my lips. "Do you ever smile, Mr. Stony-faced?"
I refrained from growling and Evaline smirked, knowing full well I was annoyed to my capacity. My fists clenched at my sides.
This. Fucking. Brat.
#NikolayIvanshov
One day the Ivanshov kids will grow up and rule. They will carry their fathers' and mothers' legacies, with a much stronger empire.
Born from the tainted hearts, with tainted souls... carrying a tainted legacy.
Being vaccinated does NOT mean you can run away from home, sneak into a stranger's car (who turns out to be the Russian Mafia Boss), then sneak into his house, work as his maid, fall in love and marry said Russian Mafia Boss.
Colton tucked a strand of my hair behind my ear and his smile was bittersweet. I clutched the lapel of his jacket as he lowered his head and his lips brushed against mine. The most tender of his kisses. "Go to him," he breathed. "Go, Sunshine."
Killian: I hate her.
*Julianna wordlessly walks in*
Also Killian: She is so fucking maddening.
He's a clown, y'all 🙌 Let's welcome him into our circus.
While the main focus of TMAHB is Nikolay's and Evaline's relationship, let's not forget that this series is practically a family saga. You'll see a lot of the other couples and a bit of a family drama in the mix! I hope you'll enjoy that! The Ivanshov family has my heart.
*SPOILER FOR THOSE WHO HAVEN'T READ THE TAINTED HEARTS SERIES YET*
The first official teaser for Nikolay's book 💜
(Unedited. Copyrighted 2021, Lylah James)
Add to your TBR:
I was a Wattpad author and I'm not ashamed of that. Every time I get an email or a message that says "It's amazing to see how much you've grown as a writer since wattpad", I tear up a bit.
👑HAPPY COVER REVEAL TO KILLIAN AND JULIANNA!
#Killianna
👑
You have no idea how pumped I am! THIS COVER. THE BOOK! THIS COUPLE!! 😭
You can now pre-order AVOH at a special price of $2.99!
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Nikolay: *basically avoids human existence, hates talking to people, stay in the shadows because he doesn't like the attention, hard face & wear a cold expression basically ALL the time. Doesn't give a shit what anyone says*
*Evaline exists*
Nikolay: I will die for this girl.
Just wanted to say a big thank you to every reader who took a chance on me. Who read my books. Made graphics, wrote reviews and told your friends about my words. (Special thanks to all the bloggers. You guys do this for free and it's admirable)
I appreciate you 🖤
This is perhaps my last teaser for A VOW OF HATE before the release! And I've saved up the best quote for the last. This is my favorite scene I wrote. It's brutal and heart-wrenching. To win a signed paperback of AVOH, quote this tweet with
#AVowOfHate
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"Loving you has been my own personal misery, with a slice of sweet heaven." Colton cupped my cheeks tenderly. "And I can't stop even when it fucking hurts."
A single tear trailed down my cheek and he swiped it away. "Make it stop," he rasped brokenly. "Make it stop, Sunshine."
🖤 A VOW OF FOREVER limited edition cover 🖤
Isn't this cover so gorgeous and perfect? No, seriously... I'm so IN LOVE!!You get happy, romantic and "domestic" Killian and Julianna in this novella! And guess what? I HAVE AN EXCERPT FOR YOU!
"Love is crazy, isn't it? We were strangers, then friends and then lovers." Colton mutters, while tucking a strand of hair behind my ears. His thumb brushes over my cheek tenderly, his lips curling with a bittersweet smile. "And now look at us, strangers once again."
#ColtonRiley
Iris: I want a baby cow, daddy.🥺
Maddox: ...
Lila: If you even dare! 😡
Maddox: Nope. Never. This time, I'll tell her no. 🤡
Two days later:
*meet the new Coulter member*
🖤A VOW OF FOREVER: COVER REVEAL + PRE-ORDER🖤
Happy cover reveal to Killian and Julianna! Guess what? Yes, they are coming back!! We're not ready to say goodbye yet to this complicated couple.
Release date: May 5th 2021
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(Blurb below)
- The honeymoon scene in TMAHA.
- The piano scene in BLOOD AND ROSES.
- The hotel room scene in DO YOU DARE?
- The Paris/Eiffel Tower scene in I DARE YOU.
- The waterfall scene in A VOW OF HATE.
If you know, you know 😈
I'm currently writing a scene from Nikolay's captivity and I'm a fucking mess.
No, I didn't spare any details. You get everything. All the pain and emotions. All the tragedy that comes with Nikolay's story.
He's my favorite hero. My broken hero.
There, I said it. Bye.
"I lost myself loving you. It's not fair that I have to fight to earn a tiny piece of your heart while you give it all freely to Grayson." - Colton to Riley, It's Always Been You.
It's my first time writing a main character with anxiety disorder and this really hits close to home. Am I struggling? Yes. But I love the story so hard and I really want to do this beautiful character justice 🖤
I really hate being dragged in baseless drama.
First of all:
No, this book is not an age gap.
Yes, this is an arranged-marriage romance but I have barely even revealed anything about this story.
No authors *own* a trope or a genre.
Stop pitting authors against each other.
Similarities between Fragile Longing by Cora Reilly and A Vow Of Hate by Lylah James.
- arranged marriage
- H not interested in the h
- mafia
- Age gap
- Shy, broken h
- Royalty setting
- Cora used masks to tease for Fragile Longing. So did Lylah.
When you realize that despite me posting 100 teasers for A VOW OF HATE, all the quotes/teasers are within the first 5 chapters of the book, therefore... I have spoiled nothing and you have absolutely no idea what the actual story is about.
😈💦TEASER 💦😈
#NikolayEvaline
And this is the exact moment Nikolay...breaks.
He wants her, can't have her... but she's offering herself. CAN'T DENY HER ANY LONGER 💜
#unedited
😈Get ready for one very naughty Christmas😈
HAPPY COVER REVEAL TO MADDOX AND LILA!! I'm sooo in love with this cover. It's them!! The pinky promise. The feels. The title! Everything!! What do you think, lovelies?
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The twist in A VOW OF HATE tho 🙌 I wonder how many of you will see it coming... or if it'll be a total surprise 👀
Fun fact: The twist in AVOH was the first scene that popped in my head and that's how the book came to be.
I clutched Nikolay's shirt in my fist. "What are we?" I choked out. "What are we, if not a disaster? What are we, if not heartbreak and tragedy? What... are we, Nikolay? Tell me. I need to hear you say it out loud."
Finallyy!! *drumroll* we have a date! I've been wanting to release this book earlier but I also don't want to rush it! Killian and Julianna are so... intense. There are just so much hate and pain, I need to make sure their love story is PERFECT. Imperfectly perfect.
*nurse hands Maddox the baby* "Congratulations it's a girl!"
Maddox: ...
Maddox: *pushes the baby back into the nurse's arms* "Fuck no. Put it back in there. The next time you pull it out the baby better be a boy."
Lila: MADDOX COULTER!
Maddox: DO YOU WANT ME TO GO TO JAIL?
Riley let out a choked sob as she pressed her hand against my wound. I tried not to wince because she was already scared enough. "Grayson, please." The terror in her voice broke me. "Don't you dare die on me."
I cupped her cheek with my bloody hand. God, she was so beautiful.
“I have known you for eleven years. I have loved you for eleven years, Nikolay. I know you better than anyone else. When you were brought back to us, I knew we would never be the same again. I knew that and I accepted it. Seven years and I am still fighting for you,”I whispered.
What happens when you put three beautifully tragic and flawed characters together? You get a story of love, friendship and sacrifice. With lots and lots of heartbreak.
🌸🦋Coming summer 2022 🦋🌸
#ColtonRileyGrayson
"What if I poke his head with my dick?" Maddox asked, looking horrified. He pulled back and sat on his haunches. I gave him a dead stare.
"No, seriously," he sputtered. "What if he comes out with a dent in his head and it's all because I fucked you too hard?"
Facts about Julianna Romano aka Spencer:
1) She has a thing for anything historical.
2) Her favorite poet is Edgar Allan Poe
3) Her favorite book is Wuthering Heights
4) She’s loyal to a fault.
5) She hides her secrets behind her veil.
#AVowOfHate
Me plotting the Tainted Hearts timeline:
You get a baby. She gets a baby. You get more than one. She also gets a baby. EVERYONE GETS BABIES!
The baby fever is hitting me hard 🥺
Just feeling really grateful to all the readers who have read & enjoyed my books. Have taken the time to make edits for my characters. The readers who have promoted my books for free, just because they love the stories I write.
Thank you for being the reason I still write today.
I know cheating is a no-no for a lot of readers but how do you feel about the hero and heroine cheating with each other? As in either the hero is already in a relationship and having an affair with the heroine? Or heroine in a relationship and having an affair with the hero!
"Do you think it's a girl this time?" Maddox grinned, looking at me with a mischievous glint in his blue eyes.
"She better be."
He cupped the tiny swell of my pregnant belly. "We can try again if baby five is not a girl. Just saying."
"Shut up, Coulter. Stop talking."
Do you want more of Killian and Julianna? Remember how I said I was working on a little something for our broken couple? Well, here's an excerpt. The novella is not done yet; I'm still working on it... 🖤
🖤 PROLOGUE REVEAL: A VOW OF HATE 🖤
Here it is, lovelies. The most awaiting prologue 😈 and the beginning of Killianna!! Tell me what you think!
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I'm going back to the writing cave to finish AVOH so I'm not going to be online (and I think it's for the best). I'm giving this book my very best, pouring my heart and soul and it's so different from anything I have ever written before. Nothing is as it seems. Just trust me 🖤
I gripped his hand in mine, tugging him back to me when he tried to pull away. "Ask me what my favorite sound in the world is."
Colton's jaw tightened. "What's your favorite sound in the world?"
"Your laughter," I breathed.
- Riley to Colton, It's Always Been You.