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Romance author Carian Cole is passionate about the bad boys, those covered in tattoos, sexy smirks, ripped jeans, fast cars, motorcycles and, of course, the sweet girls who try to tame them and win their hearts.

Born and raised a Jersey girl, Carian now resides in beautiful New Hampshire with her husband and their multitude of furry pets. She spends most of her time writing dark romances, reading, and vacuuming.

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Carian Cole Books In Order

Storm (Ashes & Embers Book 1) by Carian Cole

Carian Cole brings you her first book in a series of popular interconnected standalones showcasing members of a rock band finding the love of their lives in the most unlikely ways.

A series of weather and driving mishaps leaves me trapped in the woods in the middle of a blizzard with a complete stranger in the back of his pickup truck for forty-eight hours.

A stranger with long hair, tattoos, and rippling with muscle.
A stranger with an insanely sexy voice and a wicked smile that turned my insides to jelly.
A stranger who held me in his arms, calmed me, and then set a fire in me that I couldn’t put out.
A stranger who I later find out, is a famous rock star.

Storm lives up to his name. Dangerously alluring. Tumultuous. A beautiful, unexpected clash of hot and cold. He’s used to getting everything he wants.

And now he wants me.
Me? A quirky, girl-next-door-type who has no business dating a rock star.

Some people chase storms for the thrill. What happens when the storm chases you?

Vandal (Ashes & Embers Book 2) by Carian Cole

Author’s note: Vandal has D/s themes. None of the other books in this series have D/s or dark themes. Vandal is a stand-alone with a happy ending, but this book can be skipped in the series.

Carian Cole brings you a twisty, sexy, emotional journey of trust, love, and healing.

She takes my breath away.
She’s so beautifully damaged.
A mirror of my own tortured soul.
I was powerless to stay away from her.
I was responsible for all the pain and grief that brought her to her knees in front of me.

Broken. Hopeless. Reckless in her agony.
But what I took away I can give back…in ways she cannot even begin to imagine.
Ways that I can’t stop thinking about.
Together we spun a tangled web of lust and need. Power and submission. And dare I say… trust and love.

We’re everything right in all our wrongs.
We found redemption. We found happiness. A chance for a new beginning.
But… she has no idea I’m the one who destroyed her life.

Lukas (Ashes & Embers Book 3) by Carian Cole

A thirty-six year old mother of two finds out life isn’t over after divorce when a sexy as hell twenty-four year old tattoo artist kisses her senseless under a shooting star.

Ivy thought she had it all – married to her high school sweetheart, two great kids, and a beautiful house. But her world comes crashing down when she catches her husband with another woman. When her best friend gives her a gift certificate to a local tattoo parlour to cheer her up, Ivy gets a helluva lot more when inked-up Lukas Valentine – renowned tattoo artist, violin player extraordinaire, and extreme hopeless romantic, captures her heart.

Lukas is an old soul with a heart of gold. When Ivy walks into his shop, he’s instantly drawn to her shy smile and down-to-earth personality. Tired of the dating scene, Lukas is ready to settle down, and he’s hell-bent on making Ivy believe they can have the happily ever after they both dream about – with each other.

Despite their age difference, the chemistry and love they share is undeniable. Lukas is everything Ivy never knew she wanted, but can she trust her heart with a much younger man, and can they overcome the hurdles life keeps throwing in their way?

Talon (Ashes & Embers Book 4)  by Carian Cole

Carian Cole brings readers a new twist on arranged marriage with this heartfelt romance that’s full of witty banter, tantalizing slow-burn chemistry, and two people finding love where they least expect it.

My best friend has a habit of trying to fix all my problems—whether I want her to or not. But when she approaches me with an application to join a marriage experiment, I think she’s finally gone too far.

She’s right, though—my heart (and other body parts)—have been woefully neglected during my three years of singlehood and endless bad dates. I love my cat, but at twenty-five years old, I’d like to settle down with a great guy and start a family.

After some serious soul-searching, I take the biggest leap of faith in my life and agree to marry a total stranger.

I asked for a stable, funny, smart, clean-cut, caring, devoted family man. But when I get to the altar, I find a guy covered in tattoos with wild hair and a sexy, panty-melting grin waiting for me.

Talon Valentine. A rock star. A famous rock star.
I wanted to run. So did he.
But we stayed and said our vows, determined to commit to the experiment.
We fought. We laughed. We cried. We went from not being able to stand each other to not being able to keep our hands off each other. To our surprise, we fell in love.

But then tragedy struck, cracking our fragile foundation and leaving us wondering how this six-month marriage experiment would end.

Will one—or both of us—choose to get divorced, or will we finally get the happily ever after we both dreamed of?

Loving Storm (Ashes & Embers Book 5) by Carian Cole

Loving Storm is a novella that gives an extended look into Storm and Evie’s future with a very happy ending. It is best read after reading Storm (and also Vandal, Lukas, and Talon, as those characters have short cameos in this book)

Evie
I met him in a snowstorm…
We spent forty-eight hours trapped in the back of his pickup truck.
We fought. We touched. We fell. Hard.

Storm
She literally crashed into my life…
The last thing I wanted was a relationship. Especially with a quirky chick who drove me insane. But something about her got under my skin, and into my heart. And I had to have her. All of her. Now.

Falling in love in the back of a pickup truck, just the two of us, was easy. Dealing with crazy fans, jealous ex’s, and demons from the past… not so easy. But nothing is going to stop us from having our happily ever after.

No Tomorrow by Carian Cole

Carian Cole brings you a unique angsty love story that will grab you from the first page and keep you in a chokehold.

They say you never forget your first love, and that’s true. But some loves wrap themselves around your heart and never let go. They’re not just your first love but your forever love.

That’s what Blue is to me. My first, only, and forever love.

I’ll never forget the day I first saw him. He was playing the guitar in a park with his adorable dog at his side. His smile made my heart race, and his eyes stilled my soul. I was completely captivated by his alluring melancholy. We fell hard and fast, and I dreamed of a forever with him.

Then he disappeared without a trace.

Five years later, I found him. Famous. Charming. Still just as in love with me as I was with him.
But behind the fame and the sexy smile, the quiet, tortured soul I met in the park years ago still lived. I was naive. I didn’t realise that Blue, my love, was fighting a battle no one could see.
Not even me.

He called me the keeper of his heart, and I guarded it fiercely. He promised me all his tomorrows, and I cherished every single one.
I never wanted or needed a perfect love. I only wanted his love. Our love.

This is our story. It’s raw and sexy and beautiful and sad and filled with endless ups and downs.
They say love conquers all, and I hope—I believe—that’s true.

Asher (Ashes & Embers Book 6) by Carian Cole

Carian Cole unapologetically pulls out all the feels in this romance! Reading this book will have you asking yourself if you would stay committed to your spouse in the face of unspeakable tragedy. And would they stay committed to you?

I should have died.
I should have been forgotten.
But I didn’t, and I wasn’t.

Living the life most women only dream about, I was madly in love with my soulmate—Asher Valentine—amazing husband, loving father, and rock’s favorite kick-ass frontman. A man who loved me every day, in every way, since we first met as teens. We were blessed with a beautiful daughter who was the light of our life. My all-female rock band was tearing up the charts.

Then tragedy struck, and I lost it all.

Now all I have is a stack of journals, an antique key, and a big black void where my memories should be.
Used to be.
And I have him—this man with wild hair, tattoos from head to toe, a soft voice, and an even softer touch that gives me butterflies. He’s clearly hopelessly in love with his wife.
I’m told that’s me.

But that wife is gone, and she took everything they once had, leaving me in her place. A broken replacement. A new version that doesn’t quite fit. I’m slowly falling in love with him, but will he ever truly love me? Or will he forever be in love with her, the phantom woman who haunts us both?

Don’t Kiss the Bride by Carian Cole

Carian Cole delivers a sweet but sexy slow burn, age gap, marriage of convenience romance with major swoony feels!

I guess you could say I was a damsel in distress, and he was my knight in shining armour. But more accurately, I was a girl with a lot of bad luck, and he was a guy with a lot of muscles and tattoos and a big heart.

Jude “Lucky” Lucketti wasn’t just a sexy, brooding construction worker. He was my own personal hero, showing up in all the right places at the right times. Like when my car broke down and I needed a ride home, and when I face-planted on the sidewalk right in front of him, and he rushed me to the emergency room. 
Those weren’t exactly my best moments, but they were his.

When he approached me with a crazy idea to help me out with my many problems, I couldn’t say no. He offered me a lifeline.

The arrangement was supposed to be temporary. A marriage on paper and a safe place to live—nothing else.

It should’ve been easy, but it wasn’t. Because here I am, eighteen years-old, married to a man sixteen years older than me who I was never supposed to fall in love with. We had just one simple rule—no kissing the bride. But then, we broke that rule.

Now, I really don’t want that divorce we agreed to.
Does he?

Totally Booked UK Review: At eighteen, you would think that Skylar’s life would be about parties, friends and boys. However, her life is nothing like having a complex living situation at home with her mom. Financial worries, especially those around paying for her car and health issues. Hiding all of this away from the world, she is attempting to graduate high school after being held back a year and save enough for an RV so she can travel the world.

Jude has been working on a home renovation next to his old school for several weeks. Spotting Skylar one day as she arrives in her old Corvette. Seeing her again later as she is struggling with a car issue, Jude offers to help arrange a tow truck and garage for her and a lift home. Although she is wary of him, she accepts, and 

they chat as they drive. Over the coming days, they say hi to each other, etc., until she collapses one morning. Taking her to the ER, she is made aware of her health problems and how she needs to follow a treatment plan – not that she can afford to do that.

Understanding Skylar’s home and health issues Jude suggests that they get married so that he can add her to his health plan as well as provide her somewhere safe to live. At 34, there is a sizeable age difference between them, but this is just friends helping each other out. Whilst they manage friendship and being housemates relatively easily, their relationship has a growing undercurrent. Crossing the line and pulling back again.

A will they? Won’t they? A scenario that will pull on your heartstrings as they attempt to see if they can find someone who will stay in their lives.

Nightingale: An Anthology for Ukraine

Published 3rd April 2022

Format: Paperback
Pages: 820

Available to buy from Amazon

NIGHTINGALE is a romance anthology with over FIFTY original, never-before-seen stories from bestselling authors. 100% of the royalties will be donated to relief and human rights organisations working in Ukraine. 

Torn (All Torn Up Book 1) by Carian Cole

“Well-written tension and forbidden longing. The angst in this was incredible! Loved every second!”
—Penelope Douglas, New York Times bestselling author of Credence

When I was five years old, I told Toren Grace we were going to get married someday. He’d been my closest friend, my protector, and my rock since the day I was born. But during my senior year, our relationship slowly changed. Silly conversations morphed into serious heart-to-hearts. Innocent friendship turned to stolen glances.

Then one day, an unexpected kiss changed everything. While that kiss was all I’d ever dreamed of, it knocked Tor clear off his axis. His strong moral compass makes it impossible for him to accept our feelings for each other. Because, not only am I eighteen and fifteen years younger than him, I’m the one person he should never, ever want.

Tor is my father’s best friend—my pseudo-uncle.

Neither one of us can stand to betray or hurt my dad, but we can’t keep our relationship hidden forever. Will there be a way for us to find our happily ever after? Or will we all be torn apart?

Tied (All Torn Up Book 2) by Carian Cole

“Holy dark and delicious angst. Carian Cole did not hold back. I dare you not to shed a tear.” 
―L.J. Shen, USA Today & Wall Street Journal bestselling author of VICIOUS

My innocence was stolen when I was abducted at five years old. For eleven years, I held on by clinging to childhood fairytales. I waited for a prince to someday save me and carry me off to a happily ever after.

I had no idea my saviour would come as a scarred recluse, covered in tattoos, who can’t—or won’t—speak a word. Nevertheless, the moment our eyes met I knew he was the one.  My prince.

With his bare hands, he killed the monster who kept me captive. But people have a way of distorting the truth when the hero looks like a villain. As it turns out, Tyler Grace is many things:  A myth. An outcast. A nightmare. Haunted by tragedy, he lives secluded in the forest. Some say they see him ride through town at night—straddling a black motorcycle, his face covered by a skeletal mask.

I’ve been warned to stay away, yet I can’t stop thinking about him. I ache to hear his voice. And I want nothing more than to break through his walls. I know he’s the only one who can break through mine. 

Do we dare dream of a love that once felt impossible to find? Or will only our horrible, twisted past tie us together?

The Lovely Return by Carian Cole

What if love can transcend time and death?

When I was three years old, I started drawing a house with a red door. Next to the house, I drew a happy family—a husband, a wife, a baby, and their dog. For years, I cried every night, clutching the drawings, begging my mother to take me home to my real family.

I was labelled odd—a talented child with an overactive imagination.

But one day, I wandered straight to that house with the red door, and I found the man and the dog I had been drawing.

Alex Fox was quiet. A sexy, brooding artist. A recluse hiding behind an eye patch and shaggy hair. A grieving widower, suspended in time, never moving forward and waiting for his love to return.

As I grew up, we developed an unlikely but easy friendship, bonding over our mutual love of art. He felt familiar; his home felt like home. But as the years passed, I found it harder and harder to ignore not only my growing feelings for him but also the odd visions that played through my mind every time I got too close to him or spent time in his house.

Or more accurately, when I touched his late wife’s things. Like her wedding gown. And her husband’s lips.

Dreams, reality, and sanity began to blur until I came to a startling revelation. I wasn’t having visions, and I wasn’t delusional. I was having memories. Alex’s late wife’s memories, to be exact.

Alex fights our undeniable connection, believing I’m off-limits and too young for him. He tries desperately to do what’s right—pushing away the one and only thing he’s been wishing for since that tragic day when he lost everything. Or so he thinks.

He was mine, once upon a time, in a prior life.

And I’m going to make him mine again.

Book Series by Carian Cole

Ashes & Embers Series (6 Books) by Carian Cole

An interconnected series of standalone books, the Ashers & Embers series are adult romance books and are not intended for anyone under the age of 18. It contains intimate scenes and explicit language.

1. Storm
3. Lukas
4. Talon
5. Loving Storm 
6. Asher

All Torn Up Series (2 Books) by Carian Cole

The All Torn Up series from Carian Cole brings an unputdownable, angsty age-gap romance that is a top favourite in its genre.

• Tied
• Torn

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