Elizabeth Barone

@elizabethbarone.com

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Dark romance with a body count. Author of the River Reapers MC series, a slow burn saga of two lovers, the revenge club they run, and the bodies they hide. đź”—: elizabethbarone.com đź“Ť: NWCT | Connecticut | New England

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Antiheroine Olivia sits on a motorcycle on the cover of A Risky Prospect, a dark romance with a body count by Elizabeth Barone.
ALT: The biker who saved my sister did hard time for it, so when I pick him up on release, I wanna thank him properly. He walks out looking like I dreamed him into reality, and his eyes linger on me too. After I thank him in the back of a stranger’s car, I cut him loose. Those are my rules, no matter how well we connected. Until the night I call him and say, “I need your help.”
I’m Elizabeth Barone and I write dark romance with a body count. I wrote these books because it’s still illegal to take evil men to the river IRL. If you like biker romance, this is your sign to binge the series and get ready… Arsonist’s Lullaby, the next book in the series (and a standalone), is coming in hot!
Arsonist's Lullaby blurb reveal
I did life to save her, and I'd do it again. I just didn't expect to do it so soon. Kinda wanted to date a little. Then she says I should really meet her sister. We've both got a hell of a body count. Cliff A Disturbing Prospect, by Elizabeth Barone.
Olivia's like a black cat. She takes a while to warm up, but when she does, she's loyal and loving. She's worth it, but l'm only human. She won't even let me tell her I love her. Sometimes, I think she'll be the death of me. A Fatal Prospect, by Elizabeth Barone.
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"man and woman near each other graffiti." A mural on the side of a light teal painted building depicts a man and woman, foreheads touching, their bones visible like an xray. The street art is painted in reds and blues, for viewing with the naked eye and with the red or blue sides of 3D glasses. Artist: insane51.com | IG: insane51 Photo by Francisco Galarza on Unsplash.
Paperbacks from the River Reapers MC series by Elizabeth Barone are displayed over a stock photo of an attractive young woman with chipped black nail polish licking one of her bloodstained fingers.
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Cliff backs me against the washing machines. He tugs my lower lip between his teeth, brings his knee between my legs. With a soft cry for more, I grind against him. The heat in his eyes could reduce me to ashes. I want it so bad, I’m shaking. ElizabethBarone.com
Then there are the dimples that pop every time she smiles. Sweet yet mischievous, a little alluring. There’s a wildness to her and a softness, like she’s straddling heaven and hell. I’d like her to straddle me. ElizabethBarone.com
A mysterious man walks through a dark street shadowed even more by tall pines. Over this video, a caption reads: “I dreamed him into being. He’s tall, and fit, and built to work me out. The prison fight scar on his eyebrow makes him even hotter. He’s next on my To Do list, then I’ll lose him. “What he says next makes me forget my rules. He knows how to find my missing mother.” ElizabethBarone.com
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Screenshot of the beach bar I built for my Animal Crossing island using the festivale series with a spring / St. Paddy’s Day theme
After 20 years in prison, I’m finally free, but I’ll never be free from what I did. There’s only one person who can help me now that I’m out. Assuming she forgives me for what I did to save her. First I have to find her. ElizabethBarone.com
“I got him on the floor, beat his face in with my fists.” I can still hear my flesh connecting with raw meat. “And I kept hitting him. I killed him, Olivia. And I’d do it again. I’d do anything for you,” I confess.
A screenshot from my Animal Crossing: New Horizons shows a mini book shop and café I built for a VIP hotel guest. To the left of the entrance/exit, there’s a checkout counter with a bag filled with of books. Parallel to that is a café stand making smoothies and boba teas. In the back left corner, there’s a moon-shaped chair to read in, with an unfinished puzzle and books on the floor. In the back right corner, there are shelves to get lost in. The shop is decorated in geometric pastel wallpaper with white shelves and counters, and natural wood flooring and other accents to match. At the entrance/exit, there’s a mini split and EXIT sign over the door.
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After 20 years in prison, I’m finally free. All the money I’ve got gets me one night in a motel in the middle of nowhere. If I’m gonna make it out here, I’m gonna need a friend. There’s one person I can call... if she remembers me... if she forgives me for what I did to save her. A Disturbing Prospect, by Elizabeth Barone. River Reapers MC, Book 1.
A woman with light skin and chipped gel nails holds a mug of coffee with frothed milk and cinnamon. White lace curtains and a vintage hardwood floor frame a window where snow can be seen outside.
A screenshot of Animal Crossing: New Horizons showing a little hotdog stand bistro by the beach.
The River Reapers MC series paperbacks rest, spines out, on a weathered hardwood floor. The spines are black, with the series titles in gray and red: A Disturbing Prospect, A Risky Prospect, Her Mercy, and A Fatal Prospect. To the right of the books are a cream colored candle, iridescent green skull, and bouquet of white flowers and a single red rose. Flatlay and ALT by @ElizabethBarone.com.
The Billie Eilish song “you should see me in a crown” plays over a slow shot of dark romance sticker packs being assembled on a worn table. There’s a peek of ElizabethBarone.com branded heart-shaped book mail stickers, and the matching red envelopes the sticker packs are shipped in. The packs of three stickers include A Disturbing Prospect title logo, “touch her and die” words typewritten, and “romance with a body count” typewritten. The video text reads: Sticker packs are ready! Starting at $1. Add ElizabethBarone on Whatnot and save the show!”
A flatlay of the romance novel The Stairs Between Us by Elizabeth Barone. White and pink baby’s breath, rose, and peony flowers surround a paperback on a worn hardwood floor. To the left of the paperback is a glass teapot full of fairy lights. The cover of the book depicts a young man and woman nearly kissing. The Stairs Between Us: It took everything for single mom Noah to leave her husband and his dirty mistress: surgery. One year later, the pressure of raising their son and building her own career is making her wonder if she made a mistake. It doesn’t help that every time she sees her ex Levi, his presence alone brings all those old feelings rushing back, for better and worse. She can’t ever let herself wonder if she made a mistake, because she can’t ever let Levi hurt her again—or their son. Levi saves other people’s children every day, but he couldn’t save his marriage. Noah left him alone with an empty house and a hole in his heart, with only surgery to keep him going. In a desperate attempt to anesthetize some of the pain he’s in, he decides to sell the home they used to share. What he really needs is his family back, though, so when the apartment upstairs from Noah becomes available, he seizes the opportunity to fix things. He’ll show her that he can be a present father to their son, and that he’s finally ready to be the husband she deserves. There will always be an emergency taking him away from his family, though. Guilt plays tug-o-war with his heart while Noah strengthens the walls around hers, and he’s running out of time to convince her that what they had is worth fighting for. Small town romance, second chance romance. Ebook and paperback editions available everywhere books are sold.
A light blue Gilmore Girls mug decorated with Luke’s Diner and other references is about half full of coffee with milk and cinnamon. Photo by Elizabeth Barone.
The silhouette of a man shines a flashlight into a dark cellar on a graphic designed to look like an invitation for the River Reapers MC Halloween special. Spiderwebs decorate each of the four corners, and the River Reapers MC series logo—a winged skull behind the MC name—is displayed front and center. Text reads: “River Reapers MC Halloween Special: Part I & Part II. You’re invited…”
Four books from the River Reapers MC series lie on a weathered hardwood floor with their spines out. The titles are A Disturbing Prospect, A Risky Prospect, Her Mercy, and A Fatal Prospect. To the right of them is an iridescent green skull, a cream candle, cream colored flowers, a red rose, and some greenery. Books and flatlay photo by Elizabeth Barone. Covers by Natasha Snow.
A screenshot from Elizabeth Barone’s scheduled Whatnot show. The time, “Tomorrow, 4:00 PM,” is listed in the upper left corner. In the upper right corner is the bookmark tool, showing that 4 people have saved the show. The background is a flatlay of author Elizabeth Barone’s River Reapers MC series, with the books’ spines out. The titles read, from left to right: A Disturbing Prospect, A Risky Prospect, Her Mercy, and A Fatal Prospect. To the right of the books is a cream colored candle and iridescent green skull. At the bottom of the screenshot, you can read an excerpt of the stream title: “Dark romance book series, live author signing.” The show is categorized under Books and tagged Romance, Fiction, Buy Now. Please note that the show is scheduled for Friday, October 24th at 4 pm EST.
Paperback editions of The Stairs Between Us (small town romance, standalone), A Fatal Prospect (dark romance, River Reapers MC Series Book 3), Her Mercy (dark romance, River Reapers MC standalone prequel), and Sade on the Wall (YA, standalone) by Elizabeth Barone, listed in the Walmart app.
On a weathered hardwood floor, a paperback copy of the dark romance Her Mercy lies open. A closed copy of A Risky Prospect, Book 2 in the River Reapers MC series by Elizabeth Barone, rests partially on the open book. The cover of A Risky Prospect depicts a beautiful fierce woman sitting atop a motorcycle. The cover is in gritty black and white, with the word Prospect red in the title. An iridescent green skull, white flowers, a red rose, and some greenery—all faux—are grouped in the upper right of the photo. Cover design by Natasha Snow. Flatlay by Elizabeth Barone. Books featured: A Risky Prospect Her Mercy
The ebook cover for A Touch of Gold by Elizabeth Barone is an illustration of purple roses and yellow pansies on a dark purple background, accented by green leaves. Across the top of the cover, it says “A Kobo Original” in white sans-serif font. The title A Touch of Gold is gold and is a mix of sans-serif and calligraphy font. The author, Elizabeth Barone, is in gold on the bottom of the cover, in sans-serif font. Cover by Miblart
Point-of-view shot of a hardcover edition of Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward lying open on a copper-rose blanket, with a compression-gloved hand holding a cream-colored nearly empty mug of coffee with a dark red rim. It coordinates with the book, which is open to pages 148-149. On the bottom of page 148, Catriona Ward writes, “Each layer deeper that I penetrate they take something from me. My name, at the gate. Then at the next checkpoint someone takes my sweater away—it’s beige and looks too much like the colour of the inmates’ uniforms. My possessions are stripped from me as I journey inwards towards him. It’s like being prepared for sacrifice.” I love these lines. Wilder is on a spiritual journey, not just physical, as he processes what happened and self-actualizes. Healing trauma involves peeling back the layers, returning to the self. I love how Ward parallels it with the loss of self and humanity that inmates experience. Can this cold place be where Wilder finds closure? (I know the answer, of course, but I love the foreshadowing here.)
On a weathered hardwood floor, a paperback copy of A Risky Prospect lies open. On top of it rests a paperback of A Disturbing Prospect, with the cover facing up. A sexy rugged man with long hair sits astride a motorcycle on the cover, with ominous clouds in the background; the cover is gritty black and white, with the word Disturbing in the title in red to stand out. To the right of the books are an iridescent green skull, cream colored flowers, a red rose, and some greenery. Books featured: A Disturbing Prospect, by Elizabeth Barone A Risky Prospect, by Elizabeth Barone Cover designed by Natasha Snow. Flatlay by Elizabeth Barone.
On a weathered hardwood floor, a paperback copy of the dark romance Her Mercy lies open. A closed copy of A Risky Prospect, Book 2 in the River Reapers MC series by Elizabeth Barone, rests partially on the open book. The cover of A Risky Prospect depicts a beautiful fierce woman sitting atop a motorcycle. The cover is in gritty black and white, with the word Prospect red in the title. An iridescent green skull, white flowers, a red rose, and some greenery—all faux—are grouped in the upper right of the photo. Cover design by Natasha Snow. Flatlay by Elizabeth Barone. Books featured: A Risky Prospect Her Mercy
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A white woman’s hand holds a die cut sticker that says “Kill* Your Rapist (*Fictionally): Overcoming Sexual Trauma with Creative Writing. Copyright 2025 ElizabethBarone.com”
The cover of the mini zine Kill* Your Rapist (*Fictionally): Overcoming Sexual Trauma with Creative Writing, by Elizabeth Barone, is in black and white with a mix of calligraphy and sans serif fonts.
A stack of books from the River Reapers MC series by Elizabeth Barone is displayed on a worn hardwood floor over a bed of vibrant faux fall leaves, with three resin mushroom figures as accents. The book on top of the stack is A Disturbing Prospect, the first in the series. The other books’ spines are obscured by shadow. The red fall leaves tie together with the red of the font in the word “Prospect” on a black and white cover design depicting a sexy shirtless rugged white man sitting atop a motorcycle with a stormy sky in the background. Flatlay by Elizabeth Barone. Cover design by Natasha Snow.
A 1971 Montgomery Ward catalog listing for a “battery operated facial massager.” An illustration shows a white woman in 70s style holding a dildo up to her face. The product description reads: “Enjoy the benefits of a cordless massager that gives a gentle, penetrating massage to help soothe away tensions. Helps increase circulation and works effectively as a beauty aid to massage in cream and lotion and to improve skin tone. Contoured to use comfortably around eyes, brows, chin and other parts of the body. Handy purse size; about 7 in. long. Sturdy high impact plastic; lightweight and manageable. Two C batteries are included.” This item retailed for $4.99.
Text on a white background. “Kill* Your Rapist (*fictionally): Overcoming Sexual Trauma with Creative Writing. Copyright 2025 ElizabethBarone.com”
A fierce and beautiful woman sits atop a motorcycle on the cover of A Risky Prospect, a dark romance by Elizabeth Barone.
A flatlay of the dark romance A Risky Prospect shows a paperback copy of the book on a bed of red, gold, yellow, and brown leaves, displayed on a weathered hardwood floor, with three resin mushrooms to the left of the paperback. One mushroom cap is beige, another sage, and the third a muted red. The cover of the novel depicts a beautiful, fierce woman with curly hair and smoky eyes sitting atop a motorcycle. The title reads A Risky Prospect, and the author Elizabeth Barone is displayed beneath it. The word “Prospect” in the title is red, popping against the gritty black and sepia cover.
A flat lay of the River Reapers MC series, a dark romance by Elizabeth Barone. All four of the books are displayed on a weathered hardwood floor, with a bed of bright red, orange, gold, and yellow autumn leaves. Three resin mushroom figures lie to the left of the books. Their caps are beige, sage, and muted red. Three of the books are displayed with their spines out. They read: A Disturbing Prospect (1), A Risky Prospect (2), and Her Mercy. Elizabeth Barone is also printed on each spine. The fourth book is displayed with its cover out, depicting a rugged handsome biker man with a fierce beautiful biker woman looking out into the distance. A grimy city is displayed in the background against a dark sky. The cover displays the author’s name and the series name, and is gritty and various shades of black and white, with only the title text Prospect in red, to make it pop. All covers were designed by Natasha Snow. This flatlay was designed and photographed by Elizabeth Barone.
A fierce woman sits atop a motorcycle on the cover of the dark romance novel A Risky Prospect, by Elizabeth Barone.