Wall Street Titan: An Alpha Zone Novel

· Mozaika LLC
4.6
39 reviews
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287
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A billionaire who wants a perfect wife...


At thirty-five, Marcus Carelli has it all: wealth, power, and the kind of looks that leave women breathless. A self-made billionaire, he heads one of the largest hedge funds on Wall Street and can take down major corporations with a single word. The only thing he’s missing? A wife who’d be as big of an achievement as the billions in his bank account.


A cat lady who needs a date… 


Twenty-six-year-old bookstore clerk Emma Walsh has it on good authority that she’s a cat lady. She doesn’t necessarily agree with that assessment, but it’s hard to argue with the facts. Raggedy clothes covered with cat hair? Check. Last professional haircut? Over a year ago. Oh, and three cats in a tiny Brooklyn studio? Yep, she’s got those.


And yes, fine, she hasn’t had a date since… well, she can’t recall. But that part is fixable. Isn’t that what the dating sites are for?


A case of mistaken identity…


One high-end matchmaker, one dating app, one mix-up that changes everything... Opposites may attract, but can this last?

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4.6
39 reviews
Dakalia Johnson
June 19, 2022
So good I had to buy it!! I started with the sample and quickly got sucked in. It's so worth the read! Marcus is so explosive and possessive its really sexy. Emma is such a sweetheart but lowkey badass. This book consumed my attention. Time to see how this ends!
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Hettie Ivers
November 19, 2019
The author who opened women’s eyes to the darkly erotic possibilities to be found in their own kitchen sinks with Tormentor Mine knocks it out of the park with a swoon-worthy rom-com that may have you racing to your nearest animal shelter to adopt every stray cat in sight in a desire to embrace the glamorous, sexy cat-lady life Zaires creates in Wall Street Titan. Did you read the book blurb and think: Not another novel about a mousy heroine falling for a high-powered billionaire totally out of her league?! Yes! Yes, this is just that. And it isn’t. Because Wall Street Titan delivers a NEXT-LEVEL mousy bookstore clerk cat-lady heroine who smashes the tired stereotype you’re expecting her to be. Sure, Emma’s character is set up to embody many trappings of her trope, but she’s no virgin waiting to be rescued. She doesn’t want a Pretty Woman makeover. And she’d walk away from the most eligible bachelor in NYC without a second glance if he couldn’t make nice with her cats. Emma owns her cat-lady-ness and her Salvation Army sense of style in a way that is at once hilarious, badass, and simply inspired. She’s comfortable with her life and has no desire to change her ways to accommodate any man—no matter how charming, wealthy, or dead sexy he may be. And somehow she manages to turn Marcus’s whole world upside down without doing anything but being herself during every encounter they have. But zany lovable as Emma’s quirky character is, Marcus’s humorous thoughts and reactions to Emma tickled me the most throughout as Emma’s nonchalant take-me-as-I-am-with-all-my-cats-or-get-lost attitude causes the self-assured billionaire hedge fund manager to unravel as he begins to question who he is and what he really wants out of life. Zaires’s eloquent, fluid writing-style never fails to grip me from the start. But of all her books I’ve read to date, Wall Street Titan came to life for me with a cinematic quality unlike any other. From their first meet-cute, the pairing of Emma and Marcus sets the stage for a fresh and compelling opposites-attract relationship dynamic in a contemporary romance that is sexy, humorous, and enchanting straight out of the gate. I found the characters to be genuine and engaging, the storyline immersing, and the pacing on point. So much so that I read Wall Street Titan cover to cover in one sitting because I Could. Not. Put. It. Down. It surpassed all my wildest expectations while managing to completely take me by surprise. Wall Street Titan has all the markers of a safe, feel-good romantic comedy but with all the taut, underlying erotic tension and explosive sexual payoff readers have come to expect from an Anna Zaires’s dark romance. FLOVED it and highly recommend!
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Carvanz
November 19, 2019
Oh my gosh! I was hooked on this book from the very beginning! Emma made Marcus work for every inch forward and the process was a tantalizing tease. When Emma has to face the fact that she is indeed a cat lady, she decides to dip her toe into her dating app possibilities. But when her date ends up being a real jerk, she high tails it out of there PDQ. Things are not exactly as she first assumed, however, and despite the attraction she feels for her the man she mistakenly thought was her date, things can’t progress. He’s looking for a sophisticated wife and she’s everything but. I connected with Emma on so many levels. She is your girl next door, your best friend, or your book buddy. I loved her conversations with her cats and the way she generally processed what was happening and worked them out in her head. She may not have always been right, but I could totally relate to her reasoning. The fact that she stuck to her main dating rule made me love her all the more. Mostly because it was one of the things that drew Marcus even further into her sphere. She was cute, bookish, a bit shy, and absolutely perfect for this hero. ’With that dimpled smile, the little redhead looks so … adorable I want to lick her like an ice cream cone.’ Marcus’ criteria in a wife was by far romantically ideal and I immediately knew he was going to be twisted up by what this author was offering instead. I loved that he had to chase Emma and he did so in such a way that I fell deeper and deeper in love with him. A “mine” mentality is not part of his makeup, but the more he gets to know Emma, the more that part of him emerges. ’It’s impossible to be suave and seductive with the vilent hunger beating at me, demanding that I take her, that I do whatever it takes to make her mine. If these were more primitive times, I’d have already thrown her over my shoulder and carried her off to my cave.’ This isn’t insta-anything, except perhaps attraction and I was completely engaged in how this couple went about developing a relationship. There is no deny the sizzling chemistry between them and while some might consider this a bit of a slow burn, it never felt that way to me. And once this couple come together, holy fireballs! Things are absolutely explosive! Whew! Talk about steam! I loved every single thing about this story. The characters are each developed in such a way that I couldn’t help but cheer them on. The drama never heavy and the angst relatively light until the last part of the book. That’s when things take a decidedly anxious turn for both Emma and myself. I found myself keeping an eye on the percentage mark left in the book and them BAM! Gah! How did I not know this ended in a cliffhanger? And while I want so much more of Marcus and Emma…I’ve gotta wait for it!!! But no problem, I’ll just stalk the author until that time.
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Anna Zaires fell in love with books at the age of five, when her grandmother taught her to read. She wrote her first story shortly thereafter. Since then, she has always lived partially in a fantasy world where the only limits were those of her imagination. Currently residing in Florida, Anna is happily married to Dima Zales (a science fiction and fantasy author) and closely collaborates with him on all their works.


After graduating from the University of Chicago with a degree in Economics, Anna spent eight years on Wall Street analyzing stocks and writing research reports. In 2013, she became a full-time author, pursuing her lifelong dream of writing romance novels.


Dima Zales is the love of her life and a huge inspiration in all aspects of her writing. Every book Anna writes is a product of their unique collaborative process.


In addition to reading and writing, Anna enjoys drinking tea (coconut oolong, anyone?), watching addictive TV shows, and discussing book ideas during long walks with her amazing husband.


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