Scarlett Kade

2 booksRomanceCrime FictionThriller

Scarlett Kade writes dark mafia romance about dangerous alliances, resilient women, morally gray men, and the secrets that bind them. Her stories combine high-stakes suspense, emotional tension, and hard-won romantic partnerships. Stolen Vows is the first novel in her interconnected Chicago mafia-romance series.

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Stolen Vows

In a world of blood and secrets, survival demands the ultimate sacrifice

Romance
Crime Fiction
Thriller

She witnessed a murder. Now he owns her silence. Art conservator Sloane Matthews is used to uncovering hidden truths beneath layers of paint, but nothing prepares her for witnessing an execution in a private Chicago gallery. Escaping into the night with a coded ledger page that could bring down the city's criminal elite, she becomes the ultimate target. Enter Nicolo Moretti: ruthless mafia heir, brilliant strategist, and the only man capable of keeping her alive. His solution is cold, calculating, and non-negotiable—a forced marriage to bring Sloane under his absolute protection and control. Locked inside his gilded fortress, Sloane refuses to play the fragile captive. Utilizing her analytical mind to unravel a deadly syndicate conspiracy, she transforms from pawn to partner. As bullets fly and dangerous secrets bleed into the open, a searing, forbidden desire ignites between them. In a deadly game of betrayal and power, Sloane must decide if she can trust the lethal predator who put a ring on her finger—or if their stolen vows will seal her fate.

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AI Systems for Independent Authors

Harness Artificial Intelligence to Write, Edit, and Publish Market-Ready Books with Creative Control

Business & Entrepreneurship
Self-Help
Instructional Guide

Independent authors do not need a large publishing staff to produce a professional book. They need a clear system for making decisions, reviewing AI-assisted work, and moving a manuscript from draft to release. AI Systems for Independent Authors presents a practical workflow for using artificial intelligence without surrendering creative control. Across five chapters, Rick Franklin explains how to structure prompts, validate audience and market assumptions, draft efficiently, apply multi-pass editorial review, and prepare a book for packaging and launch. You will learn how to establish quality-control gates, preserve a consistent authorial voice, organize reusable production checklists, evaluate metadata and sales copy, and plan launch communications around measurable milestones. The book also addresses source verification, platform-policy review, and the human judgments that automated tools cannot replace. Designed for independent authors and small publishing teams, this guide turns an open-ended AI experiment into a repeatable publishing workflow. Use it to make faster decisions, identify weak drafts earlier, and build a market-ready book while keeping editorial responsibility where it belongs: with the author.

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