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They accused me of killing my parents. The pack turned their backs on me. My mate rejected me without a word. My wolf—my very soul—was bound and silenced, stripped away like everything that once made me whole. I was broken, beaten down, forced to serve as a lowly maid in the same pack that had once been my home. Every day was a torment—mocked, humiliated, tortured by the people I should have trusted most. I was nothing but a shadow fading in the dark, swallowed by pain and despair.
Then he came...

Ashley Evaline Miller was your drop-dead gorgeous perfect girl next door. Decent, smart, focused, and goal-oriented. She didn't have all the luxury one could think of, but she was content with what she had.
Stuck with her self-acclaimed perfect boyfriend, whom she'd do and be anything for, breathing down on her neck and draining every ounce of happiness out of her, plunging her into an oblivious hole of darkness. The love of her life who has taken so much from her, leaving just the shell of who...

Rejected by my soulmate, I sought solace in the arms of a stranger whose magnetic presence I couldn’t resist. In a night of passion, I unknowingly surrendered to the King of the Werewolves. Now, carrying the heir to his throne, I’m torn between resisting his hypnotic pull and protecting the fragile bond forming between us. Shadows threaten our lives at every turn, while each encounter with the King tests my resolve. Will love conquer duty, or will the weight of his crown doom us to heartbreak?

Being the sole heiress of a business conglomerate, 21-year-old Audrey receives the shock of her life when her dad orders her to be married within a year. He forces her to attend a party with a list of all the potential suitors that are up to his standards. But as Audrey plans her escape from the party, she falls into the hands of the Vanderbilt brothers. Caspian, the older brother, is a hot and sexy womanizer with a heart of gold. Killian, the younger brother, is a cold and tortured soul, with e...

20 year old Leilani Whitlock experiences first hand hardship when her once peaceful life goes suddenly from good to terrible in a night.
Her father's Beta Joyner,, then makes himself Alpha by forcing himself into the throne. He at first, takes Leilani and her sister in as his but then after Leilani rejects his many sexual
advancements, he changes towards her and her sister, forces them to practically become
slaves in his kingdom and then sells them off when he no longer found them useful.
Th...

I'm Charlotte Cole, a 22-year-old college sophomore who was just looking forward to a carefree summer break.
Then a single marriage contract shattered my quiet life. To protect my family, I was forced to marry Alexander Kingsley—a tech mogul eight years my senior.
I naively thought we could at least coexist peacefully. Little did I know he'd already labeled me as a gold-digging opportunist, setting us on a collision course from day one.
Now trapped in the Kingsley family, I'm not just dealing wi...

"Mommy, can Uncle Carl stay with us tonight for dinner?" Velma asked, giving me those cute puppy eyes of hers, I could hardly say no to.
"And why is that?" I questioned sweetly.
"Because I want to make him my daddy," she giggled.
Alma got herself tangled in a one-night scandal orchestrated by her step-sister and had to secretly marry the Heir of the Harris multi-billionaire company, Carl Harrison, to cover up for her stepsister's crime.
Three years later, Carl and Alma's step-sister re...

Love is a sacred feeling. It is a combination of trust and faith for all creatures. But what if the one you love betrays you?
Amara Dale is the best of their pack's female warriors. However, she is not an exception to being the spurned one during the Mating Moon. After being rejected by her mate, she suffers from betrayal and torment, just like any other she-wolf who has been rejected by their mate. It takes a long time for her to accept his rejection.
Until the Council of Royalty assigns he...

"Yes! I want to fuck you!" he growled, his cock thrusting rapidly inside me. His climax hit, cum shooting into me as he shouted, "Don't get me wrong, babe. I married that Lyra just because she was still useful to us! Every time I look at her, I think of you, Isabella..."
His words cut deeper than any claw, because I was the Lyra he referred to as "still useful"... The mate bond that should have been my salvation has become my cage.
My name is Lyra Ellis. I once believed Alpha Dominic was my des...

"the scent of your arousal is driving me nuts. Fuck!”Grayson growled..
"Grayson…., " I moaned his name out breathlessly.
“Cum all over my fingers, baby.” He muttered, his voice thick with desire.....
Althea, a weak omega, has suffered greatly in her foster pack. When her mate, Alpha Cassius, rejects her after taking advantage of her, her life drastically changes.
Heartbroken and distraught, Althea flees and ends up in Alpha Grayson's hands who has also lost his first mate to death. Alt...

"An agreement? But we only met last night. I appreciate you saving me, but things are not like this," Catherine said, trying to keep her voice calm, but she felt unsettled, a growing sense of unease.
Lucius chuckled softly and approached Catherine, gently lifting her chin to speak, "It's okay, if you don't want to, we can negotiate compensation for breaking the contract. As for your stepfather, I'm not sure." His eyes began to shine now, a confident, assertive demeanor.
"This meaningless contrac...

Thomas Albuquerque was betrayed by his partner and best friend. The family business was the most precious thing in his life, and now the CEO is ready to go bankrupt and swears revenge on his former partner.
Thomas knows he's not going to get the money back, and he's never going to get back everything he lost. He'll have to work hard to rebuild his empire, but he's not about to let his traitor get away with it. And the best way to make him pay for everything he's stolen is to also take what's ...

"Marriage? What the bloody hell is that supposed to mean, Madeline?" I exclaimed incredulously. "How could you sell me out to an old man in his sixties with a potbelly and a bald head?" I threw the questions at my stepmom, Madeline, but she only grinned in response.
"You want to know how much he offered, huh?" she taunted. "He just paid us $75,000 in return to marry you. I mean, where would you ever find somebody who would do that for you? Are you even worth it? Don't you notice that scar on yo...

“Stop! Stop, again. This is risky and you’re my boss and I’m just your surrogate! Nothing else. After this contract, I will leave and you will never see me again!”
“Who said that’s still fucking true? We stopped being just man and surrogate the first time our eyes met.” He walked towards me, boring into my eyes with those eyes of his. “I fucking want you, Vanessa.”
My heart stuttered.
This could not be real.
“But the rules—“
“I made them. I can destroy them. I already destroyed them when I kisse...

"I want a divorce!" Ryan demanded, despite the fact that he had cheated on her with his ex.
Serena is no longer the quiet, romantic lady Ryan Winters married and divorced five years ago.
Serena, now the CEO of Rocky's Designs, is bright, unwavering, and unapologetic about her independence- a far cry from the woman Ryan remembers.
When fate brings them back into one another's lives, Ryan is forced to confront the truth about their past, their newfound hot chemistry, and a surprising revela...

~ ALPHA IAN ~
I have a sexy wife who I let everyone f**k, I feel nothing for her, to me she's my means of release and pride.
My pack not only shares everything, they share everyone. Conquering packs for fun is our hobby. To us there is no such thing as a mate, because of the curse that the moon goddess bestowed upon us.
But ever since I conquered the blood moon pack, I'm beginning to wonder what I feel for the filthy runt of the pack.
I want no one to touch her. And what's worse is that I want t...

"If he lives in the palace, he shall die! You must never let him grow up in the palace!" she warned as the thunder clapped loudly once more.
"My queen, I can't let you die like this," Alpha Ren mumbled soberly, trying to reach for her hand.
"Don't worry about me, I prepared myself for this. She will be the light in the Prince's path, make sure you treat her well," she smiled weakly before the Beta barged in with his crew.
"It's time," he announced and she was dragged out of the cell in tears.
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Pack of the Forgotten is an exciting and emotional story about survival, identity, and finding lost history.
In a busy modern city, werewolves are believed to be extinct. But a small pack, called the Forgotten, hides in the shadows. Led by Lena, a strong and determined leader, they struggle to survive while avoiding hunters who want to destroy them. The pack faces daily challenges—staying safe, finding food, and holding on to hope—while tensions grow among them about their uncertain future.
E...

”I had never been touched there. His fingers worked, making me slick. His mouth moved down further, sucking and lightly bighting as he descended. He sucked on my hips, and I squirmed. My whole body felt hot. I couldn’t stand it. I wanted more. I didn’t want to wait for whatever he planned to do next, I called out frustrated. “Eric fuck me.”
As he kissed me, I could feel that his lips were turned up. He continued his assault of my body with his hands and mouth. My breasts were being squeezed and...

After being brutally rejected by an alpha and enduring the worst day of her life, Savannah is on the run, desperately trying to escape the inevitable. Her heat is coming, and with it, the crushing vulnerability of an omega without a mate.
To protect her sister, she flees, searching for a safe place to endure this agonizing time away from any pack.
But fate has other plans. Her journey leads her into forbidden territory, where the land is ruled by Fenrir, a powerful and ruthless alpha.
Fenrir...

He's the small-town bad boy. She's the sheriff's daughter.
Forbidden from being together, driven by their misconceptions of one another these two aren't exactly happy when their paths cross, but what happens when those misconceptions fade and they get a glimpse of who the other really is?
Juniper McDaniels, better known as June, has lived her entire life, shunned from her peers due to her father's position as a Sheriff. No one wants to hangout with the girl whose father could throw them in jail...

I never intended to run into him again.
I had a passionate one-night encounter with a stranger five years ago; the man's touch pierced my spirit. We never looked back and never swapped names. He was gone by daybreak. I found out I was having his kid a few weeks later.
Without him, I created my life, took care of my kid by myself, and gave my all to my work. Until the harsh hand of destiny chose to play.
I am now facing my new business partner, Johnson Kingston, a millionaire and nasty CEO. My...

Camilla is a decent girl by the books — The greatest bad thing she did was burn her own home.
The other complication in her life is a secret that includes Dylan Emerton.
What's absurd is that Camilla is compelled to move into Dylan's house, the alternative is being homeless.
Being this close to him is futile; Camilla thinks back to her past. His touch. The pain that ensued. But Dylan doesn't. Not even in the slightest.
How long will it take before their past traps them? And of what good is the...

She could feel the pain slowly overcoming her soul. The agony, the grief, taking over all that she once thought was alive in her. She felt so empty that she was sure her whole body will echo if someone was to shake her. But she stood, rigid as though a hundred years old tree, clinging onto the only thing that made her alive; her eyeglasses.
Through those glasses, she had seen things she had wished she could erase. She had hated the things she once loved, places she once cherished and the man...

"Once a proud wolf shifter, Emerald finds herself enslaved and stripped of her former life. When purchased by Alpha Joel, his cold words cut deep:
"You're not here to live. You're here to replace Lena."
Forced to fill the void left by Joel's deceased mate, Emerald sleeps in a dead woman's bed and wears her clothes, a living reminder of what was lost.
"I'm not her," Emerald states, daring to assert her identity.
Joel's eyes, haunted by grief, meet hers. "But every time I look at you, I see he...

“Why did you bend over, Maverick?”
“Because you told me to, assh*le.”
“I’m so tempted to f*ck you right now. You’re the most exquisite woman I’ve ever been with, the only beautiful thing I see and have.”
“Then what are you waiting for? Just punish me already!”
MAVERICK
As a working college student, I struggle to make ends meet until a stranger approaches me with a proposal—to be his employer’s wife for an enormous sum of money.
Knowing the cash will help me pay my gr...

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~ Solaris’ Reign ~
Solaris has reached the end. Her body giving out after her gruesome past and forcing her to accept the future. However, she’s not done yet. There are some last strings tied to her past that she needs to bring together. It brings her home, to the Moon River pack, and to two men she never thought she would see again. However, with their fates intertwined, Solaris needs to pull everyone together before she takes her last breath. To save the lives of everyone she loves but her o...

WARNING ⚠️ This book contains mature scenes of sexual conduct and erotic themes!!
Cherry is a young successful blonde stripper whose world changes when she meets a wealthy Nigerian named Malcolm Balogun. He hires her to be his personal escort during his business trip and not long after, they begin to get sexually drawn to each other.
Cherry's policy is to never get sexually involved with her clients but Malcolm's enigma pulls her like a magnet and his experience in the art of sexual pleasure b...

As a successful businessman, Theo never thought he would switch from a well-respected job to work as a male prostitute. Being an escort wasn't such a bad thing. However, when you have a bossy and uptight client that makes you want to pull her hair out, this becomes a tough job for Theo. His number one priority before he joined was never to sleep with clients.
When the 40-year bold billionaire Aleia comes into his world, he felt so hard to fight his attraction towards her. Her presence made him w...

The space between them disappeared. She arched into him, tilting her head as his lips traced a slow path down her jaw, then lower.
Goodness, she wanted more.
Valentina De Luca was never meant to be a Caruso bride. That was her sister's role—until Alecia ran off with her fiancé, leaving behind a family drowning in debt and a deal that couldn’t be undone. Now, Valentina is the one offered up as collateral, forced into marriage with Naples’ most dangerous man.
Luca Caruso has no use for a w...

Seraphina Beryl, Luna of the Rising Diamond pack and Marchioness of Blackmont, caught her mate, Alpha of the Rising Diamond pack and Marquis of Blackmont, sleeping with a courtesan. Not only that, she caught that Desmond has been kissed by their Beta's sister.
She is not a fool to stay with him anymore. She decides to abscond from their pack and abandons her Luna duties and her marriage with him.
However, at that moment, she finds out that she is pregnant with his pup. After five years of bei...

"I, Caiden Vance of the Moon Howlers Pack, reject you Kamara Steele, as my mate. You were a nobody before we were mated, now you'll go back to being a worthless she-wolf."
A stab of pain shot through my heart. Not only did I feel shattered, but my wolf also experienced the anguish of rejection. I questioned when I gave in to the delusion that Caiden was genuinely in love with me. How on earth could he trick me for three years straight? I questioned myself.
“I, Kamara Steele, accept your reject...

Sophie is a half-breed and she's rejected by her mate, the powerful Alpha's son, Kieran. Humiliated and heartbroken, she vows never to return to the pack.
Years roll by, and Sophie embarks on a new life, determined to leave her painful past behind. Yet fate has other plans. In an unexpected twist, Sophie and Kieran's paths cross once more.
Kieran discovers that even though he's rejected her, he could never forget her.
Can a bond once shattered be pieced back together? Will a rejected mate ...

Alexa Jocelyn Heart is an orphan because her parents abandoned her in an orphanage. She grew up with unusual physical characteristics, compared to other children her age at the orphanage, which made it difficult for the girl to make friends. Things got worse when Alexa was a teenager. She cursed a girl who was a rival there for wanting to burn her room so that the enemy's body turned to ashes. What is the fate of Alexa next? Who is she and what power does she have?

Kind Lena was framed and forced to be separated from her lover Raphael by misunderstanding. In order to revenge Lena, Raphael deliberately approached Lena and designed a plot, but they fell in love with each other again and their love never disappeared. But there is more than one conspiracy, the betrayal of friends and families ...... In order to protect each other, they cooperate, eventually built a happy family under many obstacles.

The biggest mistake of my life was falling in love with the wrong man.
The second biggest mistake was betraying the only man who had ever loved me.
The third biggest mistake was not leaving Veross City while I had the chance.
Now, I’m trapped in a dark room while he watches me every moment of the day and night.
I don’t know his real name, only the number Azael gave him in the medical facility—514.
Each time I tried to communicate with 514, he looked at me with hatred in his eyes, so I stopped t...

Hugly is simple. A nice guy. Foreign, uneducated and shy, he gets along with children, rabbits and rats much better than with the sophisticated who tinker with society through their agents. The enemies may be educated, wealthy and powerful, and even seductive and vicious, but Hugly’s got more than a few tricks up his sleeve. He’s got friends in high and low places that never lose sight of him. His sometimes deluded and skeptical friends may think he’s there to help them, but they’ve got it all w...

Elora, a young werewolf and daughter of the Beta of Darwin Pack, is forced into slavery together with her siblings when her father is betrayed and branded as a slaver by his own Alpha. Her only goal is to find a way to clear her father's name and find a good home far away from their kingdom where her family could be together but a lot of enemies stand in her way. Becoming the mistress of the Lycan king seemed a good way to get a step further in getting her revenge but it only exposed her to more...

After a stolen, illicit night of passion, will Victoria's life ever be the same again?
Freshly dumped by her boyfriend, and thinking more and more about the things she has to do with her life before it's too late, Victoria is having a bad day at work.
Alexander Reigns, dashing billionaire and gorgeously handsome boss of Victoria, has too much on his mind; an upcoming divorce with a wife he does not love, and the stresses of business are taking a heavy toll. But he'll soon find a distraction...
...

"I hate all of you! You all left me! You all forgot me!"
"What are you talking about, Clara? That's not true!" Papa denied my accusation against them.
"It's true, Papa! All of you have forgotten me, especially you. since you lost mom, you've completely forgotten that I'm your daughter..." My tears

Late at night, when I think I'm alone, I feel his breath on the side of my face, and I know--he's watching me.
Ever since I moved into this ancient mansion to take care of my sick aunt, I've been experiencing strange things. When I discover she has a boarder, a mysterious, sexy artist who lives on the third floor, I think some of that is explained. The bumps in the night. The whispers from the shadows.
But once Dalton and I are properly introduced, the strange occurrences don't stop. If anythi...

Iris Maeve Hanson is a thousand-year-old tribrid running from her demons. So, when the heart-throb Dragon Alpha Alfonso Dominic McBlaze, who has been waiting a thousand years for his fated mate sets his eyes on her, all he sees is a wilding who doesn't look capable of ruling the shifters which is Dom's future. He asks his men to find everything about her with every intention to reject her.
But what he finds about her, changes everything.
With a newfound purpose in life to protect his tortured ma...

EXCERPT - Adalyn's wolf smirked then tightened her thighs around Kai's waist. It was like she was trying to taunt him. She hoped that if she prolonged her attempts to seduce him that Kai's wolf would fully take over and mate her, but Kai's control over his own wolf was too strong.
Kai leaned in to her ear and whispered. "We can play this little game for as long as you want but you're not gonna win here". He applied a little bit more pressure to her throat. This had the desired effect. Realising...

Drawn kicking and screaming into a centuries-old war, can a woman on the brink of madness fulfill the realm's bloodiest prophecy? Crystalyn Creek is a tenacious survivor in her fading, hi-tech birth world. So when she spots a tome full of strange symbols at her otherwise mind-numbing job, she's grateful for the distraction. But after her odd affinity for the book's designs inadvertently opens a portal, she's shocked when her carefree younger sister tumbles through. Determined to pull her sibli...

A ruthless alpha. A gifted omega. A burning passion.
For taking her mother’s life during childbirth, Sihana is condemned to be hated all her life. Desperate to be loved, she works hard to please her pack and prove her worth but ends up a pseudo-slave to them.
The bitter experience of being mated to her bully who promptly rejects her puts her off mating but the goddess gives her a second chance mate in the person of Alpha Cahir Armani.
The Alpha of the strongest pack in the world, Cahir Armani ha...

Deep in debt and desperate to pay for her mother’s life-saving medical treatment, a young woman makes a drastic decision. Seeing no other way out, she signs up for a high-end escort website, hoping to earn the money she so desperately needs. But what she doesn’t expect is to attract the attention of a mysterious and powerful man, a dominator who offers her a tempting sum: 500 thousand dolares to spend a year as his sex slave.
The contract is simple, but the implications are profound. Under the ...

"Mmmmnnn!" I moaned as his hand moved fast and clamped hard on my jaw, his thumb moving forward towards the entrance of my mouth and prying my lips open forcefully.
His thumb invaded my mouth, and my pussy clenched even harder at that move, my eyes getting hooded as Ethan watched me intently.
My tongue moved around his thumb as I sucked hard on it, but just then, he pried his finger out, and I was left gasping hard, my face heated with arousal.
"You are one slutty little red kitten who need...

"I don't want anything to do with her. I'd rather marry her mother than marry her."
Manny, the perfect heiress to Millicent's fashion house, is constantly pressured by her mother to get married and have a baby. Traumatized by past relationships, she decides to undergo IVF.
But what happens when she discovers that there has been a mistake, and she is now carrying the child of the arrogant billionaire Andrew Cooper, who won't let her keep the baby? Will she win this battle for her child?
And...

She has fallen in love with a character from a book she has read a thousand times and after an incident, has awakened in her arms, but who knew that one's opinion could change so much upon seeing the actions of such a being up close.
Even though she no longer sees him romantically, she wants to save him and his little son, she wants to give everyone a happy ending, but... what if they are right in the middle of THEIR happy ending? It should be okay, right? After all...
This was never a story a...