Twisted: Romantic Suspense with a Twist

Blair Babylon

Dec 2021 · Malachite Publishing LLC

About this ebook

From USA Today Bestselling Author Blair Babylon, a thrilling romantic suspense tale about a twisted billionaire with a shady past.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime, and for Tristan “Twist” King, the time has come to commit his.

Tristan is twenty-eight years old, six feet four, wealthy, frighteningly good at day-trading stocks, and lives on a yacht in Monaco. The Prince of Monaco is his buddy from boarding school, and his other friends are billionaires, politicians, CEOs, actors, and rock stars. He dates heiresses, minor princesses, models, and Fortune 50 vice presidents. He has it all. 

But a debt has come due, and Tristan needs a large amount of GameShack’s stock. If he doesn’t produce it, he’ll be in debt for the rest of his life. It’s worth far more money than Tristan has or can borrow.

To get the stock, Tristan has to destroy GameShack. 

He haunts the stock forum Sherwood Forest day and night, looking for a crack in the company’s financial armor, until the forum’s moderator, QueenMod, suspects his motives and trolls his every move.

But he’ll figure it out. He has to. Otherwise, he’ll be not only broke and in debt, but it will probably cost him his life.

What Tristan hadn’t counted on was meeting Colleen Frost, a perky, funny GameShack employee while on a recon trip. She has no idea what he’s up to, or so he thought.

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By day, Colleen Frost works the register at GameShack, but by night, she’s a moderator on the infamous stock market activist website Sherwood Forest. She’s paid back half her student loans by trolling short-traders who tried to make a quick buck by setting companies on fire and selling the ashes.

And it’s fun, too.

When her sub-forum begins to crackle with rumors that someone is trying to crash GameShack’s stock, she suspects forum member TwistyTrader might be in on it. So she dogs him every time he’s online, calling out his baloney and making his forum life a living heck.

But when a tall, handsome hunk named Tristan King with incredible sapphire eyes walks into her GameShack store and starts flirting with her, all the while chatting about her favorite videogame, she gives him her online contact info, which turns into a coffee date, which turns into more.

And that’s when things get TWISTED.

Includes your favorite romance tropes! Enemies to lovers, billionaire lifestyle, hidden and secret identity, steamy spicy reads, and so much more! For fans of Lucy Score, Janie Crouch, Nora Roberts, JD Robb, Marie Force, Bella Andre, EL James, and more, you'll love Blair Babylon's Thrillers that Bang!

USA Today Bestselling Author Blair Babylon writes bestselling romance books that will free your mind. These five star billionaire boss, enemies to lovers, friends to lovers, and romantic comedy romantic novels quickly turn into suspense thriller books that will make your pulse pound and soothe your heart. Whether the couple are trapped in a pretend marriage or there's only one bed, Blair's books are like romancing your own duke, mister, or billionaire. Some are an ugly cry, some are an affair to remember with a king or a prince, and some are a few shades darker, but all are unputdownable. Fans of Danielle Steel, E.L. James, Helen Hardt, Anna Todd, and Charlotte Byrd will love Blair's romantic books and romance audiobooks. Set your heart free and download these fantastic, complete series!

Ratings and reviews

Twisted: Romantic Suspense with a Twist (Scholarship Mafia, Book #1) Tristan King receives some correspondence whilst he's on his yacht in Monaco. It sets alarm bells ringing & fear spiking through his blood stream!😳 He hops on a private plane to the U.S. & sets his plan in motion, in the hope of stopping what will ruin him!💥 Colleen Frost works for a GameShack store as a sales & checkout clerk. She didn't finish College. She lives very quietly & frugally, with few friends. She survives hand to mouth, paycheck to paycheck. She is put upon by her boss constantly, he takes vast liberties with her hours, responsibilities & pay.😡 TwistyTrader is a killer whale on the stock market forums. He stays out of trouble, usually, but occasionally he'll push a boundary or thirty. He can sweet talk most of the mods & get himself out of trouble, except with QueenMod. She's strict, by the book & doesn't negotiate!😕 QueenMod is a top moderator on a financial stock market forum called 'Sherwood Forest'. She loathes the killer whales that deliberately con first timers/n00bs into buying bad stock at high prices then making a killing off of them by buying them out at a really low price.😠 One exception is the Killer Whale King! He often tries to step in & shelter the n00bs. He's by no means perfect though & she's caught him trying to trawl for data so she's put him under a 14 day moderated period. He objects & wants to meet *irl* which is strictly against board policy for legal, safety & confidentiality reasons! Within 24 hours Tristan, Collen, QueenMod & TwistyTrader are going to collide in real life *irl*, in unexpected ways and places. Their lives will be put in danger and there is zero guarantee any of them will survive it!😳💥 This is like being edged by book! I nearly cried with frustration when the book finished on a huge 'What The F***ing Hell?!' cliffhanger.😳🙈 , I suppose I'll be waiting, tied up in the Devilhouse, for my, I mean the books, climax!💞😉 I have to say these couples both had the pages on fire.🔥🔥 The journey to, and description of, subspace was so erotic, it transported you straight to the walls of the Devilhouse in all her kink-filled glory!💥👅👄 Roll on this books finale.😉🙏🌟 Debbie, 1970, UK

Twisted by Blair Babylon Book #1 in the Scholarship Mafia series. Reviewed by Kay Davis. Tristan “Twist” King is six feet four, 28 years old, lives on a yacht in Monaco and is frighteningly good at day-trading stocks. He has it all, or so it seems. A debt has come due and to pay it he needs a large amount of GameShacks stock. To do this, he needs to destroy GameShack. He never countered on meeting GameShack employee Colleen Frost. Together they are on a recon trip that is full of surprises for both Colleen and Tristan. WOW OH FREAKING WOW! I have completely and utterly fallen in love with Tristan and Colleen. That surprises me as I had not taken to Tristan “Twist” initially. But I should have known Blair would be full of surprises as she has a knack for creating wonderful, everyday characters that your heart can’t help but to fall for. Twist almost seems lost; it feels to me that he is looking for somewhere to belong. Colleen needs loving and accepting for who she is. Both are perfect for each other. When danger comes calling Colleen is full of surprises, the usually meet little is full of sass and has a hidden inner strength that seems to shock herself and Tristan too. In typical Blair style, and as the title proclaims, there are a few twists in the story as well as a visit to a fan favourite, The Devilhouse. This will certainly have you excitedly waiting for more, I know I am!

A new series is off to a fantastic start! Twisted is book one of the Twisted/Tangled duology and it is a fantastic super-hot book. It is part of Blair Babylon’s Billionaire’s in Disguise world but each individual mini-series stands alone. OMG this story just about melted my ereader. 😊 It has all of the elements I’ve come to expect from a Blair Babylon book: a hot, sexy main male character, a bit of light BDSM, dirty talk 😊 and a visit to the Devilhouse! It also has something a little new… Tristan wants a “little” and he wants Colleen to be his. This book doesn’t go into the Daddy/little scene much at all, most of it is in Tristan’s mind, but I expect that will change in Tangled which is the conclusion to Twisted. TBH, I’ve never read an M/F Daddy/little story but I’ve read several M/M ones and really enjoyed them. I’m curious to see how Blair treats this trope and how the characters respond. I love how Blair has created this huge world of connected stories. I’ve read every one of them as they were published. If you’re new to her books you’re in for a treat. You’re also lucky in that you can read the stories in chronological order (vs published order) so you can more easily follow the characters. A year or so ago I got a family member hooked on this series and I almost envied her that she could read them that way – and the fact that she could read them all one right after the other without having to wait! I don’t know how Blair is going to get Tristan and Colleen out of their current situation with the Russian mafia but I know that she will – and she will keep me thoroughly engaged while reading the next book, Tangled. An advanced copy of this book was provided to me at my request but my review was voluntary and not influenced by the author.

About the author

“I’m passionate about books and literature. Books delve into what it means to be human and connect us to each other. I write intense, deeply imagined romance novels for serious readers because the world needs more love.” ~~Blair Babylon Blair Babylon is an award-winning, USA Today bestselling author who used to publish literary fiction. Because professional reviews of her other fiction usually included the caveat that there was too much deviant sex and too much interesting plot, she decided to abandon all literary pretensions, let her freak flag fly, and write hot, sexy, suspenseful romance. Fans of E.L. James, Ivy Smoak, R.S. Grey, J.S. Scott, and L.J. Shen will love Blair Babylon's books!