Fate is a Moreno Brothers spinoff series
When Rose tagged along with her big sister to a baby shower the last thing she expected was to meet a guy. But this wasn’t just any guy. This was the exciting, sexy as sin, way out of her league black sheep of his family--Vincent Moreno. Even more surprising, this heart-stopping bad boy seemed interested in her.
Fate always had a way of interfering in Vince’s best-laid plans. His forced attendance to his annoyingly perfect cousin’s baby shower was no different. He was sure to be bored out of his skull, but instead, he met sweet little Rosie Zendejas.
What begins as a unlikely friendship between two very different teens turns into one of the most intense and passionate relationships that neither ever saw coming. But just like it had so many times in Vince’s troubled past, Fate steps in once again, threatening to take away the one thing he can’t seem to even breathe without now—Rose.
Mature YA - New Young Adult
Fate released as a much anticipated first book of a new series which was a spinoff series of my best selling series "Moreno Brothers." The last book in that series "Making You Mine" introduced the new younger characters Rose and Vince (the black sheep/bad boy of the Moreno family). They were a side story to the main story in that back. Readers knew the two had hit it off but that something happened, the bad boy did something that broke Rose's heart. There was only a vague reference that drove the readers crazy until I finally released their own book. Fate has over 260 Amazon ratings with an average of 4.5 out of 5. It has almost 5k Goodreads ratings and 280 reviews with an average of 4.7 stars. Fate is the first in a seven book best selling series.
“What’s your name, boy?” The heavyset cop asked Vince from behind him as he handcuffed him.
“Vincent.” He squeezed his eyes shut for a second and thought of how disappointed his parents would be. The cop turned him around so he could face him.
“Vincent what?”
“Moreno.”
“How old are you, Moreno?”
“Sixteen.”
“You in a gang?”
“No sir.”
“You sure about that?” The cop asked gesturing toward his friends.
Vince glanced over at Alfonso who was now sitting on the curb handcuffed then at the rest of them who were still lying face down on the ground with their legs spread and their hands behind their heads. Not a gang his ass.
“Yeah, I’m sure.”
“You were the only one without a marker in your possession or doing any tagging when I drove up. Why’s that? You the look out, Moreno?”
“No sir.”
The cop smiled, crossing his arms in front of him. “So you hang out with a bunch of punks who come and cross out another gang’s tags, but you’re not in a gang?”
“No, sir, I’m not.” As stupid as that sounded, he was sticking to his story. The last thing he needed was to get labeled a gang member by the local authorities. For months he’d been trying to straighten his shit out.
After his brother Lorenzo had gotten caught shoplifting and his mother blamed Vince for being a bad influence even though he’d never stolen a thing in his life, he swore to her he’d straighten out.
Vince didn’t even let Lorenzo hang out with him and the guys anymore if he even thought they’d be up to anything that smelled like trouble—like tonight.
