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"You want my forgiveness?" I asked, my voice dropping to a dangerous timbre.
Before she could answer, I moved closer, suddenly looming over her, my face inches from hers. Her breath caught, her lips parting in surprise.
"Then this is the price for speaking ill of me to others," I murmured, nipping her lower lip before claiming her mouth in a real kiss. It began as punishment but quickly transformed into something else entirely as she responded, her initial rigidity melting into compliance, th...

Xavier Knight, a 25-year-old billionaire playboy, leads a life dedicated to relentless work and extravagant parties. He relishes his freedom and lives by his own rules, shunning commitments.
Contrastingly, Aurora Johnson, a 20-year-old orphan girl, was taken in by her guardian Uncle Thomas. Her existence is governed by the oppressive regulations imposed by her cruel relatives, leaving her feeling helpless and yearning for affection and care. Additionally, Aurora grapples with a stutter, furthe...

Alice only wanted to help her younger brother when she confronted his bully. She ends up agreeing to do whatever Adam wants in return for him leaving her brother alone. He goes one step further, befriending and protecting her brother, but only for as long as Alice agrees to follow his orders. Orders that become increasingly difficult for her to agree to.

Thorne Grey—the youngest Alpha and Supreme Judge in Grey Moon Pack history—was the man I desperately chased for five years. However, after our bond was confirmed, he banished me with his own hands to the Forgotten Wilds, a desolate wilderness hundreds of miles from pack territory.
During those three years of exile, I fought tooth and claw just to survive.
When my banishment ended, I returned to find my family destroyed, my bloodline disgraced. To survive, I shed my identity as an elite pack da...

CONTENT WARNING: This story contains themes of non-consensual encounters, emotional manipulation, and intense dark romance. Reader discretion is advised.
Blurb:
One stolen thing. One dangerous mistake. Now, she belongs to him.
She didn’t know the fire she was playing with… until it burned her.
He’s a devil in an Armani suit—a cold, calculating billionaire whose empire is built on blood and betrayal. To cross him is to sign your own death warrant.
But she never meant to steal from him. She d...

"Look at me!" He spoke angrily.
"You're a monster," I said softly, almost whispering, refusing me to obey.
"Look at me!" He shouted, making me comply. "I rule this place, ragazza! You only speak or move in my presence if I allow it. I decide whether you live or die. I am the Don, ragazza," he said, pointing the gun at me again, this time at my head, the same place he had just shot.
I struggled to breathe, my chest rising and falling, his words echoing in every part of my body. He stared inten...

Wynter and the Wolf is a Werewolf retelling of Beauty and the Beast.
Fenrir, an arrogant Werewolf prince is cursed by a Witch until he learns to love and be loved in return. The spirited, headstrong Wynter has run away from an abusive relationship. She’s ready to start a new life, and heal from the past. She didn't expect to have a passionate encounter with a stranger in the forest, but Fate wouldn't be denied.
Can Wynter learn to love a true Beast and uncover the secrets of the Castle? Her e...

I am Ophelia.
Three years ago, my adoptive parents and sister personally sent me to a mental institution.
When Blake came to the psychiatric hospital and took me away, I had nothing. Later, he spoiled me tremendously.
But none of them knew that this very situation gave me the perfect opportunity for revenge...

Warning… This novel contains themes of dominance, submission, sexual exploration and including Bdsm. No rape!*
“Since you’re mine now, I want you to strip naked, turn around and position your ass on my crotch so I can spank you like the good girl you are,” he purred, his voice thick with lust.
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Claudia Addison was a young virgin who was sold by her abusive father to a man old enough to be her grandfather, all because her father wished to pay off a debt he owed.
With no other option, Claudi...

Helena is a sweet woman who falls hopelessly in love with Hugo, but unfortunately this romance does not last long. She gets pregnant and loses contact with him, and when she runs into him by chance at the company where she works, she tells him about her pregnancy and also finds out about his wife. But of course the story doesn't end there,there are more mysteries to unravel and he has a score to settle with Helena.

The paperwork was perfectly clear—the deal was exactly what the Elders had said it would be.
I would provide eggs, Nathan would provide sperm, and the clinic would combine them to make our baby.
Then they would implant it into me and, when it was born, my official and legal responsibilities would end.
I left the pack all those years ago.
Left her when she needed me the most.
Now I’m back to take my position as the Alpha.
Only I can’t. Not until I have an heir.
The Elders ha...

“They want you dead.” I managed to say, my voice barely audible.
“I don't care!” He yelled.
“Its not possible, the two most powerful Mafia's want you dead Conrad.” The tears I tried so hard to conceal all came pouring down. I didn't want to leave him. I didn't want to go.
“I don't fucking care.” He's words hung tight in the air.” It's you Veronica, I want you.” He whispered the words I so badly longed to hear. “The rest can all burn in hell.”
All he ever knew was pain. She wanted...

It is a betrayal, torture to love, secret baby book that has a billionaire CEO and a young not so rich lady working for him. Betrayal comes to the least you expect in the book.

“Tonight, you belong to me,” Ethan declared, his voice a husky whisper that sent delightful shivers down her spine.
With one swift motion, Ethan surged forward, entering her with a deep, purposeful thrust that sent pleasure spiraling through Lila. A gasp escaped her lips.
*
When Lila Thompson uncovers the shocking truth that her boss is also her master, will she dare to embrace her deepest desires, or will she choose to walk away?

In the Shadow Realm, beings of the Light and the Darkness alike walk the marble-paved streets of Echelon, a city hidden from human eyes and ears where Mystics of every class are free to unmask and live as they please.
The city's heart beats like a heavy metal drum line and debauchery flows through its veins like blood. Music, sex, and drugs overflow from the numerous clubs and into the streets at most hours.
Malfizan, the powerful son of a desire demon and a minor goddess, serves both the co...

Ember had always been the underdog, the one everyone at the werewolf academy loved to pick on. They saw her as weak, a failure because she hadn't found a mate and her skills were… well, let's just say they needed work. Then there was Pete, her friend, who offered her a way out: a secret mating, a chance to finally belong. On the night of the ceremony, though, everything crumbled. She didn't love Pete. Panic seized her, and she ran, desperate to escape the life she didn't want.
Fate, it seemed, ...

Dragons are real. A draconic apocalypse is poised to strike at Humanity. Just one wyrm stands in the way. As a young dragon living by the ideals of virtue and honor, Dauria wanted nothing more than to live in peace and harmony with Humanity. When that failed, she helped establish a pact that forced Dragonkind into the shadows. When she awakens after millennia of slumber, she finds the Earth a very different place than she remembers. To make matters worse, upon exiting her lair she finds herse...

Crysta had to accept the harsh reality when her father betrothed her to one of the princes from the eastern region. There was no other choice for her because King Brent's words were absolute and could not be changed. She who could only obey put aside her feelings that had actually been anchored to a prince.
However, every prince who was betrothed to her always died in a terrible tragedy. Killed by the same person. Namely a shadow who moves in the darkness of the night and has an army called the...

This story tells of a witch whose blood was beheaded by her lover Merris because he was accused of killing a member of the kingdom. however he was given a second chance and was reborn into a weak werewolf named Elisa. Elisa is reborn with memories of her past. Elisa was born in the same pack where she was punished. His desire and vow to take revenge on the person who killed him led him to a complicated fate. By chance Elisa became friends with one of the descendants of the person who had punishe...

"Chloe's,Do you know that Ethan is getting married too? His wedding is on the same day as yours," Evelyn said as her grip on the steering wheel tightened.
A frozen smile appeared on the corner of Chloe's mouth in an instant. In the end, she shook her head and looked out the window.
The green light came on, and the car started moving. Evelyn looked ahead, unable to help but recall the past.
"Back in school, you two were so high-profile. Everyone said that if you two ever separated, neith...

From the moment Selene was adopted into the Bloodmoon Pack, she belonged—but only as a sister, never more. As the Alpha’s cherished yet forbidden sibling, she grew up in the shadow of pack laws that dictated her place. But fate had other plans. When the Moon Goddess intertwined her soul with the one man she could never have—Kieran, her adoptive brother and the future Alpha—love became her greatest sin.
Bound by duty, Kieran had no choice but to reject her, casting her out under the weight of an...

The billionaire’s forever contract is set in the city of New York where the billionaire Rodrigues’ family control everything. This book talks about their love stories. Jason Rodrigues is a billionaire in search of a surrogate to bear him an heir. He encounters Elizabeth who is a graduate working in a superstore and in need of money. She has a sick mother and a younger brother and so she agrees to be Jason’s surrogate but along the line, they begin to have feelings for each other but when she los...

Nestled in the heart of a picturesque small town lies Willowcreek Library, a haven for a book lover and the quiet refuge of Evelyn Harper. A reserved librarian with a passion for literature and a past she keeps under locked away. Evelyn is perfectly content hiding behind the pages of her books until Theo Sinclair arrives.
Theo, a charismatic bookshop owner with a mysterious past and an easy smile, opens a modern book café clash with Evelyn’s hushed sanctuary. Sparks fly, and their rivalry turns ...

"Exclusive clause. Party B will be unable to participate in sexual affairs of any kind, private or public." He read off, before looking back at me. "You're asking me to never have sex again." "You could still, you know…" I cleared my throat. "Pleasure yourself....................... Alexandra Templeton, or Allie for short, is a twenty-five-year-old heiress to her dad's multi-billion dollar enterprise, and life couldn't be better. She owns all of the latest fashions, only eats at the nicest resta...

“You are certainly handsome, for a bloodthirsty vampire.” I blurted, unable to stop the words as they slipped from my lips.
“Funny, no one has ever complimented my looks in the thousands of years I have walked these halls.” He smiled, his elongated fangs almost piercing his lips.
I took a sharp breath, forcing myself not to stare at his mouth. “Then you are clearly surrounding yourself with the wrong people.”
***When Ariel finds her sister just and she is murdered and thrust into the same ...

"You've made a deal with the devil, chica. And you're going to suffer the consequences."
Esmeralda Hernandez likes to play pretend. She likes to pretend her life is perfect, that she has a very good mental health and that she's just an innocent rich girl.
Milo Chase is an asshole. Cold, loaded, with a new girl every week, and hates Esmeralda with his entire being.
Milo and Esmeralda made a deal.
Childhood friends at first and enemies later, they both are well known celebrities and their rep...

"Arrr," she screamed, her ribs cracking, the eerie sound like a car crash to her sensitive ears. "No."
It seemed as if the pain stopped and Isabella managed to get back on her feet, but it didn't even take a second and she was on her knees, gasping.
"Ah." The sound rang through the forest, bouncing off the trees and making the ground shake. Needles prickled on her skin as fur peeked through her pores. Claws with a dangerously painful slowness replaced her nails. The sensation was no different t...

The goddess of death has arisen from the Dead Sea of Thallyn. Caoimhe's destiny was decided the moment she was born, with her father’s treachery of her family’s death, and her mother’s curse of sacrifice that she placed upon her death bed.
“Death to the firstborn.”
Can Caoimhe face her destiny the moment it arises?

“I have to feel instant attraction to my roommate, unlike anything I have felt before, but he is not only straight, but a player!”-Remington
“My best friend is a geek in the most adorable way ever.”-Cassidy
Sometimes opposites really do attract. These seemingly very different college room mates have become best friends over the last decade, but how long can Remington keep the decade long secret of his infatuation with his best friend, especially, when Cassidy is such a playboy with the ladies an...

Alpha Kai has no intention of choosing a mate. He prefers taking a different woman to his bed every night. Things are going great for the Dark Moon Wolf Pack until he gets a call from Alpha Jake from the Red River Pack. He has a problem with two of his warriors and needs to relocate one. Alpha Kai can always use another warrior. The new wolf Beta Finn has a wife, Alaska, and she is the woman of Alpha Kai's dreams. Alpha Kai wants Alaska to be his mate, and he will stop at nothing to have her.

The best intentions can go to hell.
I walked into a dark alley with the best of intentions and look where that got me. Drugged, kidnapped and thrown into a world I didn't even know existed.
Now I'm held captive by a brutal vampire while trying to keep his wife from killing me and, oh yeah, he's the leader of the Russian mob and suddenly I'm a target. good for me! I can
safely say that I'm not sure I'll ever do anything for anyone again.

"He is the strongest weapon of 'Night Guard'!
Roaring throughout the world, the ultimate Killer!
Three years ago, during a special mission, he suffered severe injuries and lost his memory.
He was saved by someone and, to repay the kindness, he married his savior's daughter.
For the past three years, he has worked tirelessly for his mother-in-law and wife, but in their eyes, he is still no better than a dog.
Finally, his memory awakens, and the king returns!

"Why do you stare at me", I ask, still not looking away from the dancing fish, "because I am captivated by you,", he replies, not missing a beat, "and I am wondering what is going on inside that beautiful but sad mind of yours", before I could control them my eyes find his, "I am thinking, I just lost the most important person in my life, though I am deeply aggrieved by this, I cant help but feel happy when I am with you, as though nothing else matters when you are with me", I say honestly, I fi...

When the Deus decided to take over the continent, they didn’t want their own race mixing with others, they saw themselves and their race as superior to all others, their blood was pure and had to be protected at all costs.
But not everyone agreed with this, and when Tuviel fell in love with an elven warrior it changed the course of not only her own life, but the lives of everyone on the continent.
Astria was born in secret, and that is how she had spent her life, hidden and invisible. The fera a...

In a dystopian America in the year 2040, women have been stripped of their rights and forced into subservience under the draconian Liberty Control Act. The nation is a surveillance state, cloaked in the illusion of order and morality—but beneath the surface, rebellion simmers.
Daniel Sheridan, a brilliant but cautious woman, hides her identity behind the digital persona of LibertyRose, a masked OnlyFans model. Through her seductive but anonymous livestreams, she maintains independence in a soci...

Dr. Anna Sinclair never believed in monsters until she met Don Vincenzo Torrino.As Chicago's top forensic psychologist, Anna thought she could handle any criminal mind. But when the city's most feared mafia don escapes from prison and drags her along, she discovers the real monsters wear government badges.Now Anna is trapped between a crime boss who claims he's protecting her and corrupt officials who want her dead. Don Vincenzo says the explosion at the prison was meant to kill them both. He sa...

Synopsis
He’s an Alpha and he needs a maid. She a weirdo and she’s a dethroned maid. She’s pretty and silent but her mind tells the whole truth.
What happens when she meets Mr Alien who’s the Alpha?
She seems tensed but nothing scares her more than her fathers death. She looks to him In the eye and wants him to herself unintentionally. Craving for him, will her wish be granted?
Only one way to find out…
The Alphas Maid

At twenty- two, Rain has been waiting for her mate to arrive although she was not in a hurry. For her, the right one will come at the right moment. And that moment arrived when she learned that her own Alpha was her destined mate.
That should have been the happiest moment for Rain if only fate didn't play hard on her. Alpha Killian has already had his chosen mate and she's pregnant with their child. Even if she was the right one and didn't wish to be rejected, she agreed to her mate's terms. ...

When Isla MacLeod leaves her small-town life behind for the University of Edinburgh, she expects ancient libraries and cobbled streets—not a haunting legend tied to her name.
A mysterious book.
A prince lost to history.
A dream that feels like memory.
Drawn into the tale of Lachlan Strathclyde—a proud, tragic Highland ruler—Isla begins to unravel more than a forgotten love story. The deeper she reads, the more real it becomes... until one night, she wakes in his arms.
Now trapped between two ...

"Devil?" I watch as his red eyes light up in amusement, his fangs gleaming in the moonlit night before he answers, grinning. "I like the sound of that."
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Solaris Mont's life was the normal and average everyday human teenager life until one night when she goes camping with her family, they are attacked by a group of travelling vampires and while the rest of her family is dead, she is the only one alive.
Not as a human anymore but a transitioning vampire and everyone knew that blood like hers ...

Nicole Robinson is a twenty seven year old beautiful and cheerful waitress, who works at a VIP section of a lounge bar. She began to make ends meet at quite a young age after the death of her mother and wanted nothing more in life than to live a very comfortable and adventurous life without having to worry about anything.
She covers a shift for a friend, and that night, Nicole’s whole life changes. She is tempted with a mouth watering offer that she never imagined, even in her wildest dreams....

"I'm your slave, right?"
"Yes, you are my slave!"
"You don't need to ask, you just need to give orders, Master!" She said as she stood up and accepted Lucas' request to dance on the dance floor.
"Instead of dancing like this, I would rather see you dancing erotically in front of me."
"Erotic dancing?"
Lucas brought his face closer to Lyra's ear and whispered. "I've prepared a special room, so you can do it in front of me. How about it? Are you willing, my slave?"
**...

Lily's world is upended when two strangers arrive at her family's door seeking answers about a missing friend. Before she knows it, Lily finds herself a virtual prisoner in the lavish estate of Don Bianchi, the ruthless leader of the most dangerous mafia family in the city. Forced to take the place of the Don's recently deceased daughter to protect her own family from retaliation, Lily must shed her old identity and adopt the etiquette and duties of mafia royalty.
Just when she earns a precari...

Once every hundred years, the wolf clans call The Hunt, a brutal tradition where rival alphas compete to capture one chosen prey. The winner claims the right to rule all packs for the next century.
This time, the prey isn’t a wolf. It’s me. Ryanna Varelli, heir to the Werewolf Underworld, and I bite back.
I wake in a moonlit forest with no memory, no shoes, and a silver tracker burning into my ankle. A crescent brand on my skin marks me as this century’s prize. The rules are simple: survive u...

Nicole Robinson is a twenty seven year old beautiful and cheerful waitress, who works at a VIP section of a lounge bar. She began to make ends meet at quite a young age after the death of her mother and wanted nothing more in life than to live a very comfortable and adventurous life without having to worry about anything.
She covers a shift for a friend, and that night, Nicole’s whole life changes. She is tempted with a mouth watering offer that she never imagined, even in her wildest dreams.
...

“You got me pregnant!” I shouted at him.
“You can’t just barge in here after seven years and say trash to my face! Get out! Or I’ll have the guard drag you out.” He growled with hatred laced in his voice.
“I’m not lying to you, Vlad. These are your sons, Lex, Lois, and Lincoln.” I wiped the tears from my eyes.
His gaze softened at me. “...We are no longer mates.”
Humiliated and rejected by her mate, seven years ago. She flee to find shelter in the world of humans and there she discovered ...

Submitting to the lead singer
Tamia is a shy, ordinary girl living in Los Angeles, often teased by her peers because she's not up on the latest trends.
A trip to the mall with her friends turns into a chance encounter with the lead singer of a boyband (Jason Draper)- but Tamia has no idea who he is.
The two become fast friends, as Jason is relieved to meet someone who doesn't know anything about his fame. But what happens when Jason's identity is revealed?
*This st...

Throwing money after beautiful girls. One date every three days. This is the private life of Ethan D Clapton, the Alpha of the largest pack in North America, the Blue Moon pack. He doesn't expect or even believes he'll meet the mate the Moon God has planned for him. There are so many women in the world, and he doesn't want to be tied to just one.
As the CEO of Blue Moon Group, he believes nothing can't be bought with money, including the pet discarded by his ex. Until the day he meets that aver...

Lena Stormrider, a feisty, independent werewolf who has no interest in marrying for power, has consistently disregarded the Shadowfang pack's norms. However, everything she believed to be true about love and loyalty is destroyed by a single, intense night spent with Kai Blackthorn, the heir to the opposing Blackthorn pack. What started out as a brief moment of escape turns into a tempest that could destroy their worlds.
An unanticipated result of Lena and Kai's forbidden desire is a pregnancy th...

Lila Voss returns to her childhood home only to find her world in ruins: her grandmother lies terminally ill, her father has gambled away their fortune, and a deranged ex-fiancé named Xavier is blackmailing her into marriage. To save her grandmother’s life, she strikes a desperate deal with Killian Hart—the enigmatic tycoon whose name alone makes the city’s elite tremble.
Their arrangement is cold, transactional: her compliance for his money. But one reckless night shatters the balance, leav...