Compelled by V.J. Chambers
Eight complete novels for only $0.99
Dark. Raw. Provocative. Sexy. Tortured.
Are you ready to go to the edge?
Are you ready to go to the edge?
In a V. J. Chambers story, love is searing… but it cannot be resisted. Stakes are high. Danger is imminent. Morality is gray. And characters aren’t perfect.
Read the first books in five different series. And get three standalone novels as a bonus!
Read the first books in five different series. And get three standalone novels as a bonus!
Collection contains:
- Vigil (Standalone): NA Superhero Romance
- Out of Heaven’s Grasp (Standalone): NA Contemporary about a polygamous cult
- The Killing Moon (Cole and Dana #1): Werewolf Urban Fantasy
- Slow Burn (Assassins #1): NA Romantic Thriller
- Frenzy (Standalone): NA Romantic Thriller
- Breathless (Jason and Azazel #1): YA Paranormal
- Dancing Days (The Helicon Muses #1): YA Portal Fantasy
- The Toil and Trouble Trilogy, Book One: YA Urban Fantasy
EXCERPT
In this scene from The Killing Moon, Dana Gray interrogates Cole Randall. Well, attempts to. This is the first time she's seen him since she escaped from him six months ago.
Her hands lurched off her lap, across the table. And then she was touching him. His fingers
were warm.
“You ran from me, beautiful,” he said, caressing her knuckles.
“You were trying to kill me.”
“No.” His gaze was intense. “Not anymore. Not after what happened. You and I are
connected now, don’t you see?”
She snatched her hands back. “I don’t want to talk about it.” She wasn’t connected to him.
She couldn’t be.
“I can’t stop thinking about you, Dana. I think about you when I wake up. I think about you
before I go to sleep. I—”
“Stop.” She didn’t need to hear this. She needed to get the topic back to the reason she came.
She needed to take control here. That was what Cole always robbed her of. Control. If she could
direct the conversation, maybe she could stay on top of her feelings—her very strange, very
disturbing feelings. She squared her shoulders, sucking in a deep breath. “So, what did you want
to say about the rogues? How could you help?”
“Don’t tell me you aren’t thinking about me too. I know—”
“The rogues.”
He sighed. “They’re connected. I’m surprised you didn’t see it. But maybe you weren’t
looking.”
“Connected? They live in different states. They have nothing in common.”
He shook his head. “I know who they are.”
“Say you do. What does it matter? They’re going to be locked up for doing it on purpose no
matter what.”
“Are you sure they did it on purpose?”
“They admitted that.”
“According to the news reports I saw, they admitted only that they knew how to control their
wolves on a full moon.”
Dana sat back in her chair. “If they could control themselves, and they
didn’t control themselves, then it means they did it on purpose.”
Cole raised his eyebrows. “Does it?”
“Don’t play games with me. You either know something, or you don’t.”
Cole’s voice dropped several octaves. “I needed to see you. I thought maybe you needed to
see me too.”
She felt the words like lightning, coursing through her, making her feel weak, but also lit up,
awake. She wished she was touching him again. She wished the table wasn’t between them. She
wished there was nothing between them. Nothing at all.
Yes, I needed to see you. Yes, all I need is to see you. I need you, Cole. I need you.
What have you done to me?
She held his gaze, and she was sure he could see her response written on her face. He drew
in a long, slow breath, like he was savoring her, tasting her.
She couldn’t let this go on. She was supposed to be in control. Even talking about work, only
work, he’d wormed his way inside, taken over. She had to stop it.
She got out of the chair. “So you’ve got nothing, in other words. You’re wasting my time.”
Her voice was disdainful. Good.
Don’t notice how tightly you have me wrapped around your finger, Cole. Please, think I hate
you. Believe I despise you.
Oh, God, if she didn’t get out of here, she was going to lose it. That hypnotic voice of his was going to undo her. She didn’t know what she might do. She stalked to the door.
“Do you think about me, Dana?”
She looked at him, her blood starting to thrum just beneath the surface of her skin.
“I think about you constantly. I think about touching you again.” His voice was a purr, sweet, soft, and liquid.
“Shut up.” She choked on the word. She had to get away from him. She had to stop whatever spell he had on her. She tried to turn the knob on the door, but it was locked.
“You have incredible skin.”
She cringed, but something inside her loved that. Something inside her uncurled, stretched out, and preened. There was a part of her that craved his praise. She banged on the door.
“Think about that later tonight, when you’re lying in bed alone. Think about my fingers on your skin. My lips on your skin.”
“Brooks, d*** it, open the door!”
The door opened. She threw herself out of the room.
“Dana,” called Cole. “Look for the connection. You’re going to feel so stupid to have missed it.” He was laughing. God, he was laughing, and the sound was echoing into her ears, recording itself.
She slammed the door on his laughter, and it cut off. “F***.”
She wanted—more than anything—to open the door again. Closing herself off from him felt like losing a limb.
Meet the Men
(in the boxed set)
Vigil
Secret identity: Callum Rutherford, rich playboy
Occupation: superhero
Turn-ons: danger, tiny t-shirts, being in control
Quote: “You can’t expect me to keep my hands off of you. Not when you’re not wearing
anything except this f****** shirt.”
Out of Heaven’s Grasp
Jesse Wallace
Occupation: Has lived on his family’s farm his entire life.
Turn-ons: Being away from the strict cult he’s grown up in. Abby London
Quote: “I don’t want to let go of you.”
The Killing Moon
Cole Randall
Occupation: werewolf serial killer
What’s on his mind: Dana Gray. All the time.
Turn-ons: chains, submission
Quote: “You want me. You know it’s true. I know it’s true. And no matter what happens, that
feeling isn’t going to go away.”
Slow Burn
Griffin Fawkes
Occupation: Bodyguard
Former occupation: Assassin for Operation Wraith
Turn-ons: camping, waterfalls, blondes
Quote: “Your body is for my eyes only.”
Frenzy
Levi Reed
Occupation: College student/drug dealer
Quirks: Doesn’t use drugs, super secretive
Turn-ons: Women who follow their convictions
Quote: “I want to do the wrong thing, Molly. I want to do the wrong thing with you over and
over and over.”
Breathless
Jason Wodden
Special skills: Fist fighting, quoting Plato, hotwiring cars
Deepest desire: To be a normal teenager
Quote: “If I’m going to have to see you every day, I can’t watch you with him knowing that I
feel the way I do, and I never said anything.”
The Toil and Trouble Trilogy
Brice Ventresca
Career aspiration: Acting
Special skills: Getting people over twenty-one to buy him beer
Deepest secret: Turns into a rage-filled monster every night at midnight
Quote: “I think about you a lot. The way it felt to touch you. The way you sighed…. You regret
it, don’t you?”
AUTHOR BIO
V. J. Chambers writes about being inexplicably attracted to the dangerously alluring. Her works span mundane settings and fantastic ones. She writes about serial killers, cult leaders, werewolves, witches, for-hire assassins, zombies, space pirates, and regular everyday people.
She lives in Shepherdstown, WV, with her boyfriend Aaron and their cat Isis.
She lives in Shepherdstown, WV, with her boyfriend Aaron and their cat Isis.
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