🧡IRRESISTIBLY WICKED (The Wickeds: Dark Knights at Bayside7) by Melissa Foster🧡
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date November 19, 2025
Get ready to fall hard for everyone’s favorite playboy, Zander Wicked, in Irresistibly Wicked. When the woman who helps save his life needs a little saving herself, Zander takes on a role he never saw himself playing—husband of convenience. Irresistibly Wicked may be enjoyed as a standalone romance or as part of the larger series.
Zander Wicked lives life fast, on his bike, on the job, and with women. But one split second shatters his world and forces him to face truths he’s spent a lifetime outrunning. His family doubts he can change, but Zander knows better, and when the woman who helped save him needs more than a little help herself, he sets out to prove everyone wrong.
Shauna Flores knows what it means to fight for survival. As an EMT and a person in recovery, she’s rebuilt her life piece by piece while carrying the weight of a best friend she refuses to give up on. The last thing she expects is to end up bound to a man like Zander Wicked, or to find herself in a marriage of convenience that blurs every line between right and wrong.
Two people with checkered pasts, an arrangement that ties them together, and a future neither sees coming—one that will test their limits, their loyalties, and the lengths they’re willing to go to for the people they love.
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REVIEW: IRRESISTIBLY WICKED is the seventh instalment in Melissa Foster’s contemporary, adult THE WICKEDS: DARK KNIGHTS AT BAYSIDE erotic, romance series. This is thirty year old Alexander ‘Zander’ Wicked, and twenty-four year old, EMT Shauna Flores’ story line. IRRESISTIBLY WICKED can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary.
Told from omniscient dual third person perspectives (Zander and Shauna) follows in the wake of an accident that left Zander Wicked fighting for his life. EMT Shauna Flores never expected anything to come of the visit to our story line hero but when Zander discovers Shauna’s roommate is more than she can handle, Zander offers up some help, that will quickly turn into a marriage of convenience. Shauna must be married to collect her inheritance , money she wants for a friend in need. Married to Zander is only temporary, but our couple find themselves falling with an end date fast approaching.
The world building focuses on several pathways including Zander’s struggle in the wake of his accident, and Shauna’s need to protect a friend whose recovery may cost a friendship or a life. As the Wicked’s circle the proverbial wagons to welcome Shauna into their lives, there is always the reminder that their relationship is only temporary.
The relationship between Shauna and Zander is a marriage of convenience in which Shauna is helping a friend who refuses to help himself. Living with Zander brings Shauna up close and personal with the Wickeds, and the man with whom she is falling in love but the expiry date on their marriage comes too soon. The $ex scenes are erotic and intense without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.
As per Melissa’s style of writing, there is a large ensemble cast of colorful, familiar and determined secondary and supporting characters including Zander’s sibling, their parents, as well as Shauna’s roommate Brian, co-workers and Captain Rodney Chaney.
IRRESISTIBLY WICKED is a story of secrets and lies, betrayal and trust, addiction and recovery, family and friendships, relationships and love. The character driven premise is thought provoking, and edgy; the romance is seductive and passionate; the characters are determined, desperate and charismatic.
Reading Order and Previous Reviews
Tru Blue
Truly Madly Whiskey
Driving Whiskey Wild
Wicked Whiskey Love
Mad About Moon
Taming My Whiskey
The Gritty Truth
Running on Diesel
Crazy Wicked Love
The Wicked Truth
His Wicked Ways
Talk Wicked to Med
Copy supplied for review
Reviewed by Sandy
Melissa Foster is a New York Times & USA Today bestselling and award-winning author. She writes sexy and heartwarming contemporary romance, new adult romance and women’s fiction with emotionally compelling characters that stay with you long after you turn the last page. Readers adore Melissa’s fun, flirty, and sinfully sexy, award-winning big-family romance collection, LOVE IN BLOOM featuring the Snow Sisters, Bradens, Remingtons, Ryders, Seaside Summer, Harborside Nights, Wild Boys and Bad Boys After Dark, and the Montgomerys. Melissa’s emotional journeys are lovingly erotic and always family oriented– perfect beach reads for contemporary romance lovers who enjoy reading about loyal, wealthy heroes and smart, sassy heroines with complex and relatable issues.Melissa also writes sweet and clean romance under the pen name Addison Cole.
Melissa has painted and donated several murals to The Hospital for Sick Children in Washington, DC. Her interests include her family, reading, writing, painting, friends, helping others see the positive side of life, and visiting Cape Cod.
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