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Valentina Ríos never believed in fairy tales—especially not the kind written in blood.
When a secret investigation leads her straight to the most feared name in the underworld—the Moretti family—her life spirals into a dangerous game between truth and temptation. Alessio Moretti, the charismatic and lethal heir to the clan, isn’t just her biggest obstacle… he’s also the darkest temptation she’s ever faced.
He doesn’t give warnings.
She doesn’t take orders.
Between sparks of tension, buried se...

Ashes in Her Mouth
The fire took more than walls. It took names. Faces. Pieces of me I’ll never get back.
Now it’s back. Different street, same smoke. Same teeth in the dark.
The brass call it arson. I call it unfinished business.
Every blaze leaves a mark a body, a whisper, a threat carved in soot. Someone wants me chasing. Someone wants me choking on the past.
I should walk away. Let the flames eat the city clean. But the next fire is already lit. And I know where it’s burning.
Not a m...

Her current chapter explored a love story between two women in 1950s New York – a time of profound social constraint and hidden desires. Based on interviews with older queer women, the narrative revealed extraordinary resilience.
"Sometimes," Sarah told Rebecca, "the most radical act is simply existing. Refusing to be erased."
The typewriter continued its percussive rhythm. Each keystroke was an act of documentation, of resistance.

Anna an orphan girl, manages to make ends meet running her small business until her lover, Ethan needs money to grow his business, she sacrifices everything she has to help him grow. She has to work so she accepts his offer to work as his secretary, where she is underpaid.
lillian(Ethan’s new lover) steps into the story and Ethan’s humiliation grows.
Things take another dramatic turn when, Mrs. Desmond the billionaire’s wife meets Anna and finds out that She is their long lost daughter, The he...

Vivienne Payton is a 19 years old girl with endless beauty, she was raised in an orphanage, she knew nothing of her birth parents or who brought her to such a place but at the age of ten, she was thrown out for a crime she didn't commit, she never thought life was easy but she made sure she worked hard her entire life to give herself a better life and future but for how long when life problems presented themselves, bringing her back to the reality that she was all alone with no one to call her o...

The city doesn’t sleep, it whispers.
Detective Rae Mercer has spent her life tuned to static. Her late father was a police radio operator, and the hum of dead frequencies was the soundtrack of her childhood. Now, those same whispers are back, hijacking radio towers across a rust-belt city and bleeding into murder scenes no one can trace.
Every broadcast brings a new body. Every frequency carries a hidden message. And when the killer’s voice begins to taunt her directly, Rae realizes the case i...

Ronnie is a witch who lost both her parents at a tender age. She has to live with her step mother and annoying step sister. She gets married off to an alpha wolf who hasn't found his mate. She becomes the queen so she could leave as soon as he finds his mate. What will happen when they both finds out she's his mate and he doesn't love her. Find out.

After ending an on-again, off-again relationship of seven years, Vera decides to foster a Siberian husky named Evan to mark the start of her new single life. She can’t wait to cuddle with her new furry roommate, take him on walks, and play fetch. But Evan is no ordinary dog . . .and when night falls, Vera is in for a surprise.

There’s nothing more exciting than fate, nothing more desirable than forbidden love and nothing more consuming than the burning desire of a lover.
First daughter and pride of the Blue Hive, Clarissa Mark was a blessed girl loved by her father and every member of her pack.
Brought up in a happy home, she had everything she wanted and people who would do anything to provide what she needed. She was confident about her future and to make it more exciting, she found love.
A lover so passion...

After being betrayed, Anne Spencer is disheartened and drowns her sorrows, only to run into Alexander Williams, whom she mistakes for a nightclub staffer. They share a heated, ambiguous encounter. Later, Anne is dumped by her ex when she becomes pregnant, and her own sister and family seize the opportunity to push her down. She gives birth to quintuplets and raises them alone. Now, with her children in tow, Anne returns, only to find that the kids coincidentally meet their biological father, Ale...

“I’ll marry you Drake, not because I get weak in the knees and cream my panties whenever I see you, but because I want Riley to suffer for hurting me.” “I don’t care what your reasons are my love, just say yes to me and I’ll worship your sweet, curvy body for the rest of my life, I’ll make you the envy of every woman on earth, just say yes to me, my love.” Mia’s wedding to the big boss, Riley Osborne was cancelled on her wedding day. There was a rumor that she cheated on Riley and ended up getti...

He thinks I'm a stuck-up, prudish bitch and I think he is an arrogant, stubborn man whore. I don't like him and he certainly doesn't have many nice things to say about me but I need to make this work. After it's all done I can cut ties with him and never have to see him again.
I never thought I would have to give up my dreams to make up for my father's mistakes but here I am working three jobs to get my family out of the hole he dug and now he fucks up royally one final time. Because of his mes...

"I am so tired of pretending, where is my happy ending "
Jessa's mother was jilted by her father before the twins were born, leaving only the house where they once lived. It was a tough and unpredictable roller coaster that was sure to leave one scared for life.
Well that's until a cause was proclaimed on the family that stole her twins from her on the day of their birth.
Will the causes be fulfilled at the appointed time?
Will the twins eventually locate their mother?
Will she be sane ...

Amaya didn't expect her life to drastically change, she had moved to the US to work and support her family. She thought she was coming to work as a house maid not knowing she is going to be surrogate for a billionaire who has decided not to marry but want to be a father.

“Put them on.” I took the dress and the underwear, then I wanted to go back to the bathroom, but she stopped me. It felt like my heart stopped for a second when I heard her order. “Get dressed here. Let me see you.” I didn't get what she meant at first, but when she stared at me with impatience, I knew I must do what she said. I opened my robe and put it on the white sofa next to me. Holding the dress, I wanted to put it on when I heard her again. “Stop.” My heart nearly jumped out of my chest. ...

"Wait, she's YOUR mate?" Mark asked, "That's...wow... I did not see that coming..."
"WHO did that to her?!" Andres asked again, still staring at the girl.
Her injuries were darkening with the passing of each minute.
Her skin even seemed paler in comparison to the deep browns and purples.
"I called the doctor over. You think it's internal bleeding?"
Stace addressed Alex but looked back to Lita, "She was fine, I mean flustered and bruised but fine, ya know. And then boom, she was passing out. ...

"I knew I wanted you right from first glance and I came for you."
"Let go of me!!!" I yelled back but when his fingers connected to my skin, I gasped and a moan escaped my lips.
"Do you not like this, my pet?"
I looked at my captor, hunger shooting to my spine and my thighs in heat. I swallowed hard and I gave a nod. "I like it, Daddy."
Kidnapped by a ruthless Mafia Lord, Nora should be scared of her fate but deep down, this monster isn't really a monster. Is it not her fate that she was made...

Briana Schneider believed she could win Maxim Yoder’s love. Yet, after three years of marriage, all she got were photos of Maxim in bed with another woman-Kiley Schneider, who happened to be Briana’s twin sister. At that point, Briana chose to let go of her quest for Maxim’s affection and moved forward. It seemed like the right decision for both of them. However, when she handed the divorce papers to Maxim, he angrily tore them apart and cornered her against the wall. “We’re not getting a divorc...

Mafia boss Alessandro Rossi retrieves his heir from his runaway wife.
He employs the young Victoria to care for his son. After spending one drunken night together, she is pregnant for him.
Their lives are entwined now and they end up in a loveless marriage. She finds comfort in the arms of another.
Read to find out what happens when the nanny and wife to the mafia boss brings the enemy straight to their doorstep.

The contract clearly stated that I was paying her twenty-five million dollars to have my baby.
No love. No sleeping together.
Those were the rules, but here’s one thing you need to know about me… I’m a rule breaker.
My biggest mistake was having her move into my place. Anne was nothing like the other girls I’d been with. I was drawn to her like a moth to a flame.
On top of that, she was pregnant with my baby. Only I knew how badly I wanted her to be the real mother. I was being reckless. Mak...

“Babe, I can smell your arousal for me,” he says as he hovers over my lips and slowly moves his way down my neck.
“Theo please....” I say, but it comes out as a whimper.
I can feel the smirk on his lips as he hoovers on my neck.
“I know you want me, Hayley,” he says.
He moves both of his hands to my waist, his scent engulfing me, which makes me into a trembling mess.
I can feel the circles he is doing on my hips through my dress, which is hiking up my dress up higher…
I fucked up.
I am ...

"Will Elsie be your Luna one day?"
"You're asking a lot of questions," Rory stated "But if you must know, no. Elsie will never be my Luna, she is just a hole for me, an obedient toy who is at my beck and call,"
"If Elsie is not fit to be your Luna, then why is she good enough to bear your children?" the woman lying under him questioned further.
Rory grunted once more, "I killed Elsie's parents to become Alpha, why would I want Elsie to be the Luna of the Autumn Pack? Do I look like an idiot? ...

Her tight walls clamped around my cock as she came under me. I closed my lips over the perfect skin at her throat and bit down, wanting to leave my mark. My angel. She tensed and shuddered even harder.
I leaned down. “And you thought I wouldn’t own you, Angel,” I said softly then kissed her ear.
Bella, the ArchAngel of war's daughter fell in love with her captive, a beast and even got pregnant with triplets for him. The dreadful choice is to choose between her forbidden taboo love f...

My name is Hazel, the only child of my parents as they have no male child. I am the opposite of other girls, brave, strong, active, beautiful, just name it.
My life became uneven when I found out that I am a mate to one of the triplet alpha's after the blue moon. What's more frightening is that I seem to have some hidden mysterious power and a destiny that I cannot escape...
With the revelation of my true mate came problems and along side those problems came secrets we never knew about and the...

Trigger Warning!
This book contains adult content.
"Let me take off your clothes, baby, we want to see you completely naked in front of us." The beautiful lady said softly, slowly walking towards me.
I swallowed hard and pulled up my bra, took off my panties and stood naked in front of them.
"Now get on all fours on the bed." At that moment, the handsome man ne...

“Next! Male. Aged seventeen. Would make a good butler or servant. Starting bid is one hundred coins…”
Ellie couldn’t believe that she was seeing people being bought and sold like cattle.
“I want my human.”
“Humans are not meant to be our slaves! You cannot have her!”
“My, my. You are stunning. For a human, of course. I would love to take you out to dinner some time.” Avery said suavely.
“Thank you. I’d really just like to get home. I’m not interested in you or staying here long...

Follow the life of Sakamo Ryu on Earth, a fifteen-year-old boy with ascendency of English-Japanese.
His other life is as Alex Brim, a Hero for Hire on the Magical World Azurath to where he can travel by using a magical pendant.
His help is needed from time to time, because of the Magical Voids that appear in the sky from where Monsters fall, making the lives of the different species that lives there, a very hard one.
…
Alex shouted to the Orc, surprising everyone, “Eat him already! He is in ...

"You smell so FUCKING good. I want to eat you!" He growled against my neck, followed by a sharp sting. Damn it! He bit me!
"Oh, GOD!" My body arched involuntarily on the piano, my hips instinctively meeting his thrusts. "Harder..."
After Lira Anderson discovered her boyfriend kissing another woman, she impulsively slept with a stranger. But she never imagined this man would turn out to be her professor, and also a...
Then Lira found herself trapped in deadly danger. Her only refuge? Nathan's ...

"Who are you, Sebastian?"
"I think I can ask the same. Where did you come from, Anastasia?"
As soon as the last syllable escapes my lips, we find ourselves interlocked in a kiss. Knowing my full attention, I stop to ask, "Are you sure you want to do this, Anastasia?"
"The only thing I'm sure of is the way you are making me feel."
Unable to contain myself, I pull her into a fiery and passionate kiss. All my thoughts are obliterated. For the first time in over two hundred years, I am kissing a...

Karen's life took a wild turn after she discovered that she drunkenly had a one-night stand with her boss. It was a decision fueled by the pain of betrayal caused by her ex, Liam.
But her boss thought badly of her, accusing her of purposely seducing him to secure her position in his company.
But what happens when Karen finds out that her boss is her ex's father?
And how will she handle the surprising test result that says she is four weeks pregnant?

"You planned all this, didn't you?" Damian’s accusation hit me like a slap. "Did you kill Airina to get to me? Have you been obsessed with me all these years? You knew Airina was my fated mate, yet you kissed me willingly. You killed your own sister to take her place!"
My dead sister's fiancé is my true fated mate.
"Damian, I beg you to accept my rejection, in the name of the Moon Goddess."
"Very well, you little bitch," Damian finally snarled. "You win. The Moon Goddess clearly made a mistak...

Babes is a strip club where the dancers danced, there are strict rules for the dancer not to offer themselves to their clients. Prostitution is a big no at the club. Though rules are meant to be broken, especially when the dancers are desperate enough to get extra cash.
Babes cater to a high-end clientele of well-dressed men with various backgrounds, from rich sleazy playboys, and bad boys CEO executives, to cheating husbands with cash to spend for a private lap dance.
The dancers at Babes are b...

His lips traveled from the nape of her neck down to her bouncy breast, he kissed her cleavage and then placed his lips on her right nipple and began passionately sucking it, his fingers playing with the other nipple. Carina let out a moan,
"uuh, just how I like it."
she slipped her hand in between his thighs brought out his hard and fat c*ck and rubbed it up and down in her hands.
Carina has been forced into marriage with Harry while she's already pregnant with another man's baby....

Being the mutt loathed by your Alpha family, you were forced to take your pregnant sister's place in the ruthless Lycan king's bride selection.
To survive, you tried to escape, only to crash right into his muscular, towering frame.
Everyone thought you were dead for sure.
But wait, you're not just his mate?!
You also look exactly like his beloved ex-wife?!

A collision of two worlds brought them together. Two single parents, with different personalities and distinct parenting styles.
Henderson Bain a playboy billionaire cares about nothing else aside from his daughter, Itzel who is a spoilt brat all thanks to her father.
Lena Cohen is hunted by her past but despite that, she is an amazing mother to Trent, a sweet well well-behaved boy but life wasn't rosy for them.
Henderson Bain is having a hard time searching for a nanny for Itzel until show...

Jennifer Fidelis is a young lady......who believes in herself. She got appointed at Rashnix company and started falling head hill for her boss.
Jennifer was attracted to his boss, but her boss made it clear that he can't be with someone like her.
She decided to kill her feeling, but then her boss all of a sudden asked her to be his friend.
Her boss who had been so cold to her, suddenly become so nice towards her, which was just not like him.
"Would Jennifer be able to win her boss's heart...

“ You told me your parents were multimillionaires, You even said You own fashion houses and now you're here as a... a secretary?' Travis' eyes narrowed, his voice dripping with accusation. “So, you lied to me?”
Hillary's heart sank as she realized her deception had been exposed.
Hillary meets Travis on an exclusive online dating site for wealthy and influential people. She pulled off as a wealthy girl hiding behind the mask of a poor girl because she was desperate to sleep for money but while ...

Nalzen Villarreal is the epitome of beauty.
Behind that beautiful face is a darker side of her.
She is a spoiled brat daughter from a rich family.
Her parents died, leaving a last will and testament.
Stating that she needs to get married to inherit their Company.
Her boyfriend Nathan is not yet ready to marry her.
Then she found the perfect Husband for Rent that will turn her life upside down...
Aaron Montgomery, who turned out to be the most famous International Multi- Billionaire Business Tyc...

Caught in a web of betrayal, Nicole’s life shatters in a single evening when her mother-in-law, Veronica, sets her up in an elaborate scheme.
Blindsided, Nicole faces her husband Taylor’s cold rage as he casts her out of his life and home, accusing her of infidelity and theft. As she tries to defend herself, her best friend, Sarah, adds another blow by denying their loyalty.
“Please, Taylor, you have to believe me!” Nicole pleads, her voice breaking, but his icy response is a dagger to her hea...

Dave is the handsome, arrogant and calculative heir to Tianshi's company and some others. He lost the will to love after the incident that happened between him and his ex, his friend named Michael and his dad. He lost his mother at a tender age and learned to rely on himself and his work. He meets with Jones, a woman who is more concerned with upholding of her dignity than pleasing someone. Dave tries to teach her a lesson but falls harder in love with her. Meanwhile, Michael is the person Jones...

At 30, Abby Williams is a young and talented beautiful lady with a renowned profession as a lawyer.
Growing up as a child, she dreamt of becoming a model, but her older brother and father were murdered in cold blood by some unknown criminals and this was the incident that marked her whole life, as she chose to become a justice server.
Her profession was highly recognized and she was highly recommended as she had never lost a case before since she began her career.
Her beauty and intelligence ...

When I turned 18, my mother married my stepfather, a retired mafia kingpin, and I moved with her into a luxurious mansion.
Just when I thought my life was heading toward happiness, my stepbrother, the new mafia boss, stormed into my life.
He was like a devil, with delicate eyebrows, a high, sharp nose, and lips that were always tightly pressed together beneath a cold expression. Every time our eyes met, I felt a chill run through me, making it hard to breathe.
I tried my best to avoid him, but h...