🎬 Behind the Scenes: Ending 2025 With Desperate Secrets - Releasing December 22
As 2025 comes to a close, I’m feeling all kinds of emotional—proud, grateful, a little breathless—because this month marks the release of the final book in my Mergers & Acquisitions series: Desperate Secrets.
This series has been a labor of love from the very first word I wrote. What started as a darkish exploration of obsession, devotion, and the razor-thin line between power and vulnerability grew into something bigger:
Eight men, eight loves, eight messy, magnetic, unforgettable stories.
If you haven’t heard about Mergers & Acquisitions, here’s the heart of it:
Mergers & Acquisitions: A Darkish Contemporary Romance Series
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Sometimes that means acquiring the one thing you never thought you’d need…love.
With histories that haunt them, each of our heroes is forced to confront his destiny with grit and determination. He can’t afford to look desperate. But all it takes is the love of a good woman to bring him to his knees.
Do our possessive alpha males have what it takes to make these mergers last?
🔥 Meet the MMCs who made this series what it is:
Liam O’Doyle - Desperate Measures
Connor Callahan - Desperate Needs
Ono Botarelli - Desperate Desires
Sammy Ramirez - Desperate Actions
Balor Cruz - Desperate People
Nico Fury Jr. - Desperate Crimes
Remy Falco - Desperate Games
Atlas James Stavros - Desperate Secrets
Books 1–7 are already live and available wherever eBooks are sold, and yes — you can grab the discreet-cover print editions on Amazon if you love a gorgeous paperback moment.
🎧 And for audiobook lovers? Books 1–3 are now available on Audible, with more on the way!
Mergers & Acquisitions is a contemporary romance series of connected standalones. Some stories feature the offspring of main characters from the Wild Billionaire Romance and Jersey Bad Boys series. Prepare to see familiar tropes such as enemies to lovers, forced proximity, arranged marriages, secret babies, with some violence, stalking, romantic obsessions, foul language, and explicit scenes.
Common Themes/Tropes found in the series: Contemporary Romance, Strangers to Lovers, Steamy Romance, Dark Romance, Forced Marriage, Touch Her & D*e, OTT Book Boyfriend, InstaLove, Obsession, Spicy Scenes, Age Gap, Br33ding K1nk Lite, Praise K1nk, Hades/Persephone Energy…
✨ Want the ultimate version of this series?
Click Notify Me and be the first to know when my Kickstarter for the SPECIAL ILLUSTRATED COVER EDITIONS goes live:
These editions have been in the works for months — custom art, bespoke design, and collector-quality finishes — and I cannot wait for you to see them.
As I close out the year with this final installment, I just want to say thank you for taking this dark, romantic, twisted, beautiful journey with me. Writing this series has pushed me, challenged me, and inspired me… and your enthusiasm has made every book, every late-night chapter, and every emotional moment worth it.
Here’s to Desperate Secrets, to the entire M&A world, and to YOU — the readers who made this series possible.
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C.D. Gorri