Mallory Monroe

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About Mallory Monroe

Mallory Monroe, a pseudonym of award-winning, bestselling literary author Teresa McClain-Watson, has well over a hundred bestselling books under her name. They include MaeBelle Marie, the Alex Drakos Romantic Suspense series, the Oz Drakos series, the Reno Gabrini (Mob Boss) series, the Mick Sinatra series, the Sal Gabrini series, the Tommy Gabrini series, the Big Daddy Sinatra series, the Trevor Reese series, the Rags to Romance series, the Teddy Sinatra series, the Boone and Charly series, the Monk Paletti series, the President's Boyfriend series, and the President's Girlfriend/Dutch and Gina series. She has also worked as an executive editor for many years and as an investigator for three. Recently widowed, she has attended Florida State University, Florida A & M. University, the University of North Florida, and the University of Mississippi at Oxford Summer Law Institute. A law school dropout, she holds a Master's degree in history and education and credits God Almighty for ALL of her success. Visit mallorymonroebooks.com or austinbrookpublishing.com for updates and more information on all of her titles. See also amazon.com/author/teresamcclainwatson.

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Alex Drakos: Nothing Left to Lose Jun 8, 2021

by Mallory Monroe

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Billionaire industrialist Alex Drakos has parts of his life he is not proud of. His days as an enforcer and boss in the Greek mob. His failures as a father. His women. But when scum from his past attempts to blackmail him, and they drag his family into it, too, he will stop at nothing to stop them. But when the tables are turned, and all is on the line, he and his lady love find themselves caught up in a high-stakes, deadly game that could cost them everything. Including their love for each other.

In the latest pulse-pounding addition of the Alex Drakos Romantic Suspense Thriller series, Alex and Kari are pushed to the limits of love and life. Until they start pushing back.

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Monty & LaShay: Rescue Me (The Rags to Romance Series Book 5) May 12, 2021

by Mallory Monroe

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Oil baron Monty Shetfield suffers a devastating defeat that causes him to question all he’s ever held dear. But when he meets the alluring LaShay Bradshaw, he is convinced that she’s the one for him. The problem: she may already be taken. But Monty, the heir to the Shetfield Oil fortune, has never taken no for an answer, and is too old to start now. And when he and LaShay embark on a journey that just may cause him to lose her forever, he continues to help her, and stand by her, despite what it all could mean for his love for her in the end.

Monty and LaShay: Rescue Me is the fifth standalone book in the Rags to Romance Suspense Thriller series.

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Reno Gabrini: Sophie's Choice Apr 8, 2021

by Mallory Monroe

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Sophie Gabrini, the daughter of casino mogul Reno Gabrini, isn’t his baby anymore. Now eighteen and gorgeous, she’s ready to make her own way in life. When she meets the man of her dreams, she quickly realizes that dreams can be deceiving. And when Reno discovers that his daughter’s boyfriend is the son of one of his most notorious enemies, and is a gangster himself, all hell breaks loose. Reno, Sal, and Tommy Gabrini partners up, with an assist from Mick Sinatra, to protect the family. And a war nobody saw coming will change all of them forever.

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Gentleman James and Gina (The Rags to Romance Series Book 4) Mar 3, 2021

by Mallory Monroe

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Hunky mob attorney Gentleman James Serrano has winning cases on his mind, not love, when Gina Griffin enters his life. And when he finds himself helping her, although she happens to be opposing counsel, he realizes that he just may have found what he’s been searching for all his life. And there’s something so familiar about her. . .

A struggling attorney just trying to make ends meet, Gina Griffin isn’t looking for love either. Too hungry for that big case that can propel her floundering career, it would take more than a dazzling smile to dazzle her. But when she meets James, and his kindness and decency overwhelms her, it feels as if she’d met him before. And when they both realizes that they had met before, and under very consequential circumstances, they must decide to come together or be torn apart. And when they realize other forces may make that decision for them, they join forces in a way that could solidify them forever.

Gentleman James Serrano and Gina is the latest heart stopping standalone edition of the Rags to Romance romantic suspense thriller series.

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Plain Jane Evans and the Billionaire (The Rags to Romance Series Book 3) Dec 3, 2020

by Mallory Monroe

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Janet Evans never got a break in life, but she refuses to let it kill her spirit. She works hard and lives life to its fullest. But when she meets gorgeous billionaire Richard Shetfield, her entire world changes. And suddenly the girl always relegated to the back of every room becomes the belle of the ball as Richard, enamored with her, treats her like a queen.

But when his lady love becomes the target of those who doesn’t want her at the ball, let alone as its belle, Richard has no choice but to go on the warpath to protect the only woman he’s ever loved, and secure his own heart’s desire.

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Teddy Sinatra: The Heat Is On (Teddy Sinatra series Book 4) Feb 2, 2021

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Joey is gone, but his confusion and drama lives on as more family members are implicated in his scheme. But when Teddy’s woman gets caught up in the blowback, he has no choice but to go to his father for help.

Teddy’s father, the vicious boss of all bosses, Mick Sinatra, is fond of Nikki, too, and the idea that somebody decided to use her to get to them doesn’t sit well with him either. Father and son join forces and will leave no stone unturned as they seek to utterly destroy those who wish to do Nikki, and their family, harm.

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Boone & Charly: Second Chance Love (The Rags to Romance Series Book 2) Sep 12, 2019

by Mallory Monroe

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Bad boy and tortured police chief Robert “Boone” Ryan isn’t thinking about love. All he wants to do is keep his town clean and keep his love life uncomplicated. Already in his forties, he’s still partying like a frat boy and sleeping around with the kind of women he knows would never fall in love with a rascal like him.

And then Charly comes to town.

Charlene “Charly” Johnson isn’t looking for love either. After a disastrous marriage that cost her everything, including what was once a very promising career, she is shocked to learn that a small private school in Kentucky is interested in hiring her as their new dean of students. Once in town, she discovers that the school was forced to diversify their staff by hiring her as their first African-American faculty member, and nobody on the board of directors favors her selection. She also discovers, on her very first day, that there’s a dead body on campus.

And then she meets Boone Ryan.

They team up to find out why a woman died on campus. And when Charly’s past threatens to take her out, too, she turns to Boone, the only man she feels she can trust. And together two unlikely, broken people realize that the very thing neither one of them was looking for just might be the very thing that they need.

Boone and Charly: Second Chance Love is their first book in the Rags to Romance Interracial Romantic Suspense Thriller series.

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Bobby Sinatra: In All the Wrong Places (The Rags to Romance Series Book 1) Apr 18, 2019

by Mallory Monroe

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Renita “Rain” Hopson isn’t looking for love in all the right places, wrong places, or any places when hard times hit and she ends up in Jericho, Maine. All she wants is a job, a roof over her and her son’s heads, and peace. Finally, peace. But can she find all of that, and more, in Jericho?

Heartthrob Robert “Bobby” Sinatra, the bad boy of the Big Daddy Sinatra big clan, isn’t looking for love either. As the mayor of Jericho, he has his hands full and has no interest in putting those hands, or his heart, anywhere else. But when he lays eyes on Rain, everything changes. He wants her. Badly. And what Bobby wants, Bobby gets.
Their relationship is a whirlwind, as Bobby goes from a stranger to her rescuer to her lover in no time flat. Rain goes from hands off, to hands all over Bobby, just as fast.
But Bobby has a past. And Rain has a lot of pain. And when his past and her pain collide, will their blooming, earnest love survive?

Bobby Sinatra: In All The Wrong Places is the first explosive installment in the Rags to Romance series.

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Sinatra versus Gabrini: Family at War Dec 30, 2020

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A shocking death in the Sinatra family and a Gabrini is to blame. Mob boss Sal Gabrini and his uncle, boss of all bosses Mick Sinatra, find themselves on opposite sides of a deadly battle when Mick the Tick will stop at nothing to avenge what he views as cold-blooded murder. The Gabrinis stick together. The Sinatras stick together. Until both sides realize that more may be at work than meets the eye, and instead of playing each other, they themselves may be getting played.

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The President's Boyfriend Aug 30, 2020

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Katherine “Kay” Laine is poised to become the first black woman to serve as President of the United States. If that wasn’t enough of a jolt to her system, she is hit with a situation from her past ten days before the election. The only person that can help her now is the very person who once broke her heart. But time and need collide, and she has no choice but to seek his help.

Nicholas “Nico” Bacard is nobody’s knight in shining armor. A former fixer for the mob, he’s now one of the most notorious mob bosses in the world who stays under the radar by fixing problems for powerful people who keeps his face out of the papers and his name off of the government’s watch list. But when the only woman he has ever loved calls in need of his help, he is more than willing to become her knight. He sets aside all to help Kay. But after he helps her, and after she achieves her lifelong goal and becomes president, will she want him tomorrow?

The President’s Boyfriend is a fast-paced romantic thriller that answers the age-old question: can two people find true love when the entire world opposes their union?

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Monk Paletti: Commanding Love (The Monk Paletti Series Book 2) Oct 29, 2020

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Frankie “the Monk” Paletti is poised to become the head of the Bonaducci crime family and Ashley Sinatra, the daughter of Big Daddy Charles Sinatra, wants to be right by his side. Problem is, everybody’s not happy with Monk as boss, and a black lady as the boss’s woman. They will do whatever it takes to change that dynamic. But Ashley has another problem too. She suddenly realizes that she’s fallen, not just for a dominant man, but for a man so domineering she may lose herself in him. Will their differences and all of the forces against them tear them apart, or will it all only work to solidify their love?

Monk Paletti: Commanding Love is the second book in the Monk Paletti Interracial Romantic Suspense Thriller series.

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Mick Sinatra: Needing Her Again Jun 28, 2020

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Mick “The Tick” Sinatra, the boss of all bosses, is at a breaking point. His organization in Rome has been infiltrated and the Feds are closer to tearing the whole thing down than ever before. His oldest daughter’s mother, Bella Caine, has decided to reassert herself into his life by giving him what no other woman can give to him: insider information on a rival organization, an organization Mick believes is behind the infiltration. And his beloved wife, African-American actress Roz Graham-Sinatra, is having a career crisis of her own and is fed up with Mick’s neglect. He used to always be there for her, but now that Bella is front and center in his life again, he’s hardly ever around. And he’s not around when she needs him the most. She gets emotional support from a close friend, a powerful producer, who also happens to care for her.

At first Mick is jealous and enraged and believes reminding that producer of just who Roz’s husband really is will be the end of that “emotional support” he was giving to her, but Mick quickly realizes that his ruthless scare tactics aren’t going to be enough this time. Because Roz leaves him. She will no longer settle for his leftover time and leftover love. Her decision causes Mick to do something he has never done before: to confront his own failures as a husband, and to fight with all he has to regain the love and trust of his wife.

And if that doesn’t work, he’ll beg.

Mick Sinatra: Needing Her Again is another gripping installment in the Mick Sinatra Romantic Suspense Thriller series.

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