Sophia Thorne is an author, editor, poet, and publisher. She is the author of the Distance Duet, a dark literary romace. Book one, Desire and Social Distance, is available now, and features a dual-POV narrative, an author FMC and former prof / new publishing CEO MMC: second chance, billionaire, workplace romance, prof / student backstory, video chat spice, unforgettable characters, chemistry that leaps off the pages, and loud-out-loud witty banter. Book two, Time Is the Greatest Distance, is available for preorder now, and is the Gothic, psychological-thriller, edge-of-your-seat conclusion to the Distance Duet – an homage to Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, but with a much wilder plot twist!
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Dark Zeus by Sophia Thorne is a dark mafia revenge marriage romantic suspense with enemies-to-lovers, forced proximity, kidnapping, touch-her-and-die vibes, and he falls first and hard. Blurb:
“Everybody wants to be a mafia princess til it’s time to be a mafia princess.”
Zeus Valentino.
King of the gods.
One of three powerful brothers in a war for absolute control.
All other men rise in his presence.
But it’s his enemy’s daughter–his unwilling bride–whom he wants to bring to her knees.
BIANCA
My father had insisted that my wedding to Cosimo Agosta, my high school sweetheart, take place away from our current town to avoid publicity. He approved of our union, said Cosimo came from good people, and was honored to have him join the family. But my father would not be able to attend the ceremony. He said it was for my own protection that he not be there. He’d been extra cautious lately for some reason. He handed me his AMEX Black and told me to have it wherever in the world I wanted it, so long as no media caught wind.
This was the man that my father, Bernardo Abbruzzo, was. He might not always have been able to do the right thing, but he always did something to make up for it. I hugged him to me tight.
“Thanks, Papa,” I said.
I called my best friend Gia immediately to brainstorm, and in under ten minutes we had nailed down a destination and a ceremony type.
“And you’re sure you want to be this man’s wife?” she asked.
“He’s nice. He comes from a good family. He’s loyal,” I began to list.
“He’s boring,” Gia stated. “You’re already bored, how do you think it will be in ten years?”
I hesitated. “Gia, I couldn’t hurt him.”
She was quiet for a moment. “You could. You just don’t want to.”
ZEUS
I’d had my guys staking out the Abbruzzos since Bernardo had my father killed. He’d gone into hiding, going out for nothing, allowing only his servants and men in and out of his home. We weren’t even certain he was inside the house. He had many properties, and he and his family could have already been gone before my father was dead. Nobody in his family had been spotted since then by anyone loyal to me.
But I wasn’t impatient to have my revenge. This would not be a mere murder. I would exact every type of torture upon Bernardo Abbruzzo that I could conceive of – mental, emotional, physical, and—if possible—spiritual. His death would be anticlimactic compared to the agony he would suffer in the final days of his life.
“Got something you might wanna see,” Nicòlo said, thrusting his phone in front of my face. An Instagram profile was pulled up. The name was Bianca Abbruzzo.
“Bernardo’s daughter?” I asked, honing in on her face.
“Yeah,” he confirmed. “One of our guys has a burner account following her, and it looks like she’s planning a destination wedding in Santorini,” he continued. “They’re leaving tomorrow. And I received some good information that says Bernardo won’t be there.”
“Do you think it’s a trap?” Bruno said suddenly from behind Nicòlo.
Nicòlo stepped aside for Bruno to approach. “The bitch probably isn’t even getting married. Bernardo’s not stupid enough to let something like this happen. He probably told her to post these photos. They’ll be waiting for us. It’ll be an ambush.”
I kept studying her feed. “No,” I said after a moment. “These are genuine. This is the authentic ignorance of a spoiled boss-man’s daughter, unaware of what a chess piece in this game she truly is. She has no clue that she is risking her safety, and Bernardo has no clue she’s posting this information. Her ego will lead her right into the palm of my hand.”
And just like that, I knew exactly how to hurt Bernardo Abbruzzo worse than anything else could.
“Gentlemen,” I said, returning Bruno’s phone, “tomorrow we travel to Greece.”
My Dark Valentine is book one of the Valentine Duet by Sophia Thorne. A gripping tale of stalker / masked-man enemies-to-lovers with seating-hot chemistry and spicy scenes that will set your Kindle on fire.
Secrets, surveillance, and obsession. Loving her could kill them both.
It started when I was on vacation in Sicily with my two friends. An unknown gentleman sent me a drink as my friends and I dined at a seaside restaurant. Then an expensive gift left at the front desk of the resort where we were staying. And then a note taped to the door of our resort room. The secret admirer was starting to make me feel unsettled, but our vacation was almost over, and I didn’t want some rando ruining the vibe.
So I enjoyed my last two days in Cefalù and flew back home to the states, leaving the memory of the creepy stalker behind me.
Until it became apparent–from yet more gifts and notes slipped into my mailbox–that the stalker had followed me home.
But it wasn’t until I came face to face with him that I realized what I was up against, and even worse, that my stalker had been originally sent to kill me, but now was my only chance at staying alive.
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What begins as a terrifying stalking situation quickly escalates into a whirlwind of revelations when Noelle Felix comes face-to-face with Nikolai Vandiver. A non-stop thrill-ride of enemies-to-lovers tension threaded with simmering desire and jaw-dropping plot twists, My Dark Valentine tells a captivating love story where desire has never burned so hot, but the stakes have never been so high.
A non-stop thrill-ride of enemies-to-lovers tension threaded with simmering desire and jaw-dropping plot twists, Darkly Ever After by Sophia Thorne tells the tale of impossible odds, dangerous games, and searing-hot feminine rage, and is book two of the Valentine Duet.
Desire, vengeance, and feminine rage. Their love is worth dying for.
My entire life up until I met Nikolai was a lie. The tragedy that shaped my childhood was more than a freak accident, and now that I had that information, avenging my mother was all I could think about.
Nikolai tells me I have to let it go. That it’s bigger than I know. But that makes me angry. How can he know the intimate details of what transpired so well and still say that?
I love Nikolai with everything that I am, but if I have to gain my vengeance alone, then I will.
Sophia Thorne 
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