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In the year 2387, humanity has evolved beyond their biological limits. After colonizing various planets and space stations, augmentation technology and genetic engineering have become commonplace. Humans are no longer satisfied with their natural bodies.
Society is divided into castes based on the level of genetic perfection and augmentation they possess. Commanders sit at the top of the hierarchy – humans with the best DNA modifications and the most advanced augmentations. They lead colonies w...

“No, you’re not rejecting me. Wait, do you even know who I am?!” Alpha Steele thundered, stifling the clench that he felt in his chest.
“I don’t fucking care who you are. I WANT TO!” She said glaring back at him
Alexia Rhodes’ life was already hell until her mate, Marcus, impregnated her only to chase her not only out of his life but also into the wilderness. Refused and rejected by the omega scumbag, Marcus Vakander, who only wanted her for her body, salt was added to her wound when he...

Diane, a hard-working single mom, hires a male nanny named "Nick" to look after her son. But little does she know, the man who shows up is actually Ethan, a business heir on the run from danger. Posing as the manny, Ethan blends into Diane's life. Just as their feelings deepen, Diane discovers that Ethan is more than just a manny...

MPREG Romance
“No, I don’t want this… I don’t want you.”
Even as the words left his mouth, Ronan's hands moved without his command, his fingers curling into Dimitri’s linen shirt, as if pulling him closer rather than pushing him away.
Dimitri's hand moved instinctively to the back of Ronan’s neck, pulling him forward, and as their lips brushed, Dimitri felt something raw and primal surge through him.
“I can’t… stop. What is this feeling, Ronan?”
He had to claim him. And there was nothi...

To everyone around her, Kate seems to have a life most would envy—a stable job, a seemingly loving husband, Daniel, and a baby on the way. But when she discovers Daniel’s affair and loses her unborn child, her world comes crashing down.
From that moment on, she loses her marriage, her child, and even her faith in the future. She swears she will never again believe in a man’s sweet words. Just when she resigns herself to living a lonely life, Lucas Reid steps into her world.
Lucas is an enigmatic...

She is the only daughter of a notorious mafia boss, but she is forced by her father to marry a hateful bastard in a contract marriage. To avenge her father, she has a one-night stand with a charming man, but unexpectedly falls into the trap of another terrible man, who is her father's enemy and another mafia boss. His mission is to make her father disappear.
She regards him as her only salvation, but he regards her as a pawn for revenge. When two enemies dance on the sharp knife, what will be t...

In a kingdom filled with power, mystery, and old secrets, King Alden and Elara, an ordinary woman, find themselves in an unexpected fight. When a scary force rises from the darkness, threatening to ruin everything Alden has worked for, they must face a powerful enemy that they can't fully understand. Elara has the key to saving the kingdom, and Alden must keep her safe while his feelings for her grow. However, the danger is getting closer, and it becomes hard to tell who is a friend and who is a...

Scarlet Langston never thought she'd find herself at the mercy of the man who once held her heart. Five years ago, she left Tucker Beaumont to protect herself from the scars of a broken love. But when her family's house is threatened, she has nowhere else to turn. Desperate, she seeks out the only man who can help Tucker, now a ruthless billionaire with an empire of his own.
But Tucker isn't the man she remembers. He's cold, calculating, and vengeful, and when Scarlet steps into his world once ...

In a world bound by destiny and ruled by powerful Alphas, Lyla—a lowly she-wolf from the Darkmoon Pack—has spent years haunted by her sister’s mysterious disappearance. When fate leads her to discover her mate, the discovery is a nightmare: her fated partner is none other than Alpha Kaiden, her sister’s ruthless ex and the very man connected to her vanishing. But instead of acceptance, Lyla faces public humiliation as Kaiden rejects and belittles her, branding her weak and unworthy.
Abandoned ...

I'm sorry, Sophie." Janet Morrison, her now ex-boss, shifted uncomfortably behind her polished mahogany desk. "The merger means consolidation, and your position is redundant."
Redundant. Sophie had always hated that word.
"When Sophie Chen loses everything, a chance encounter with billionaire Alex Blackstone sparks a marriage of convenience. She needs money to save her father; he needs a wife to secure his inheritance. Sophie agrees to the idea, but Alex secrets run deeper than she could have...

She was never the prey. She was the spell.
Seraphina Vale has always been more than just a girl with strange dreams — she’s a witch with ancient blood, trained to charm, to control, and to destroy. Possessive, manipulative, and dangerously beautiful, she knows how to bend people to her will... until one man refuses to break.
Lucien Blackthorn is a creature born of fire and darkness, cursed to protect the last blood witch — her. Bound to her soul by an ancient contract, he resists her magic… bu...

Five years ago, Emeline Maxwell fled her fated mate and his pack in the middle of the night, saved at the border by her brother, who took her home to safety. Five years of healing, five years of pain... and she then found her second chance mate, a feat that many didn't even believe possible, in the last place she expected. In the middle of a summit to better support werewolf and Lycan unity. The Lycan King was her second chance mate. Not everyone was happy with this arrangement; traditionalists ...

My malicious stepsister threatened me with my brother's life, forcing me to marry a man rumored to be unspeakably ugly. I had no choice but to comply.
However, after the wedding, I discovered that this man was not ugly at all; on the contrary, he was both handsome and charming, and he was also a billionaire!
（I highly recommend a captivating book that I couldn't put down for three days and nights. It's incredibly engaging and a must-read. The title of the book is "After Car Sex with the CEO." Yo...

After her father's death, Miranda must not only run the orchard alone but also repay a huge debt. By car accident, she meets Noah, a man with amnesia, and lets him pretend to be her cousin to stay and help at the orchard. As they work together, feelings grow between them.
But Noah's true identity is Austin Wilson, the billionaire president of the Wilson Company! The sudden arrival of his fiancée Evelyn and younger brother Dominic shatters their fragile peace. When Austin regains his memory, he f...

Reborn into the world of Greek mythology, she becomes the youngest daughter of Zeus and Hera, the goddess of youth, Hebe. What? She is the weakest and most powerless goddess of youth? The most dispensable cupbearer of the gods? A trophy of the great hero Heracles? Hebe declares that this is impossible. She will use modern scientific wisdom to create her own glory, trampling anyone who dares to humiliate her underfoot!

It’s true what they say about marriage: one partner’s always happier than the other.
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Julie's world is shattered when her husband, Ryan, reveals that he wants an open marriage. His reason: he needs a child as they've been unable to have one. Julie reluctantly agrees to save her marriage.
The next day, Ryan returns home with his secretary, confirming Julie’s long-held suspicion that their affair was taking place behind her back.
Julie, heartbroken and enraged, seeks solace in a bar, where...

Brenda Francisco thought her life was on track until a devastating series of events shattered her peace. Struggling to pay for her comatose mother’s hospital bills, Brenda is forced to make the ultimate sacrifice—agreeing to her father’s heinous plan to sell her to the country’s most feared mafia lord, Damian Adams.
Thrown into a life of opulence laced with cruelty, Brenda hopes to survive in her new marriage. But Damian is not a man of mercy. Known for his ruthlessness and disdain for weakness,...

A seductive boss and his maid……
Note: This book may contain some steamy scenes…..
When a billionaire falls for his maid, what lengths must he go through, in order to make her his???
Using dubious means to get into her panties, does that make him the antagonist or the protagonist????
Read this interesting boss/maid affair story to find out more …..

When Riley caught her girlfriend getting married to her proud brother, she felt betrayed, and her family's taunt broke her. In order to hide her hurting soul, Riley picked the man closest to her and declared that he was her fiance. But the man wasn't just any regular guy, he was Alexander Hamilton-Rodriguez. One of the richest CEO in the country.
Alex was having issues with his wife, Quinoa, and thought Riley would be able to help, so he offered her a contract marriage.
Unfortunately, Riley fo...

In a world where magic and Dragons are real, where magic is taught at a school's and kingdom's rule over the land. Why are dragons so scarce and why is magic not so widely used if it's available for everyone to learn and use. History is told by the victor and that often leads to a miss telling in the tale, leaving those who read it to miss out of the true story. But when Young Nova discovers her past and goes on quest to discover her true self, she will meet friend's she will come to hold as fam...

There had been a prophecy told
for generations. It was common knowledge among all supernatural beings, whether they were good or evil. This prophecy was also known among the gods, titans, and demigods.
A runt wolf would meet her beloved and start one of the worst wars the supernatural world would ever see. The runt wolf would need to do everything she could to defeat the titan, Atlas.
Will she be able to overcome the challenges and defeat Atlas?
Or will Atlas win and bring the gods to their...

Alpha werewolves should be cruel and merciless with unquestionable strength and authority, at least that’s what Alpha Charles Redmen believes and he doesn’t hesitate to raise his kids to be the same way.
Alpha Cole Redmen is the youngest of six born to Alpha Charles and Luna Sara Mae, leaders of the Red Fang pack. Born prematurely, Alpha Charles rejected him without hesitation as weak and undeserving of his very life. He is reminded daily of his father’s hatred for him paving the way for the res...

The gods' realms have fallen into war, and the mortal world, while unaware, is feeling the effects. Whispers of a plague that turns people into monsters ripple to every end of the earth, but no one can stop the sickness.
The Gold Moon Pack has thrived in chaos before, but the long respected alpha has only just handed the reins to his son, Henry. It’s the ultimate test for a new Alpha, and his Luna, Dorothy. If he fails, he’ll be one of many that could not save his people during the mass extinct...

So it's true. I am their mate! I am the one they have been waiting for all this time. How can that be? Can I really be so lucky?
"Don't bother celebrating. We do not intend to make a detestable human servant our queen." Angel Fenris states, his voice laced with disgust just like the last time we met.
His rude words hurt me more now than they did yesterday. The full moon must have heightened my emotions.
"Surely you did not think that you're befitting in any way to sit by our side. A beautifu...

Warning: R18+, Only for mature readers.
"We agreed to share you." He whispered, his green eyes sparkling like embers.
"What?" I blinked, stunned and breathless.
Olcan's hand replaced Lowell's, gripping my chin and turning my face to look at him.
"Do you think you can handle both of us?" he asked, leaving me in shock.
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An imposed fate, a denied choice. In a world where destiny is an intertwined thread...
Morana always knew her fate was sealed. Betrothed since childhood to the wolf prince,...

“Please, no, please don’t” I said, a soft cry escaping from my lips.
His blue eyes pierced into mine. Why were they so gorgeous? No, I couldn’t think this way. I hated this man, I hated how he trapped me.
“I'm a sworn virgin to the goddess of Athena,” I said to him. Hades did not like this answer.
"I'll break you soon enough." He said.
“You’re going to suffer for this, Zeus will be furious!” I said after him as he exited the room.
“Zeus would pay to watch."
Kore for the whole summer bef...

“ I am sorry but I couldn’t fight it anymore,” he whispered next to her ears,“You are so hot. I miss you.”
She was on his lap, and she was going upside down in his c**ck while he was holding her waist supporting her to get in and out of his shaft in her cavern.
He saw when she bit her lower lip as if she was trying to stop herself from shouting.
What he did was he suck her breasts as she went up and down in his d*ck.
"Oh... Levi! I'm coming…" Amelia screamed while her hands were on his sh...

He unfastened it, freeing her breasts, and he squeezed them hard, pinching her nipples between his thumbs and forefingers, eliciting a moan from her.
"You like that, huh?" he growled playfully in her ear. She didn't respond – she couldn't.
Words had lost all meaning in the wake of the mind-blowing pleasure that coursed through her body. He moved his lips to her breasts, teasing her nipples with his tongue, nibbling them gently before closing his lips around them and sucking. Her body arched towa...

Brianna grew up among the socialites of the Occult in New Orleans. When her adoptive father is murdered when she is only 10 she discovers just how sinister her mother can be. Now 21 she is in a race against time to get out before the Vipers find out exactly what they are losing. So that one day she can return and seek the retribution owed for the death of her father and to keep his coven's legacy from falling into her mother's darkness.
Following her fathers divine word as a seer she takes to t...

"Stop squirming, Babydoll. I won't let you go," he said without blinking his eyes, frightening Pearl as he restrained her body.
"Who are you? I don't know you," Pearl answered fearfully. He stroked Pearl's flawless skin with the tips of his fingers, then took hold of her jaw. Pearl opened her eyes wide at once. Her breath stopped. This time, she will die.
"You know me well, doll. You are my mate.”
Pearl Rosental has one big dream: to get the best position at a famous design company, The ...

Anna Miller
"I see...even after a year apart, your ice barricades hadn't melted yet Kardoula mou...." He was looking at her with a faint hint of aversion.
It was like waving a red cloth in front of an angry bull. She felt mad. 'How arrogant can a man be? A year ago, she had barely escaped the cell, where he had locked her up - in his ancestral castle in Greece ......after marrying her, and then throwing her away like a used toy that no longer interested him.
And if that hadn't been enough......

Reign was one the most successful and popular rock artist in the world, she was a star in her own right. She worked ten times harder than her male counterparts. There was a handful of female artists who had achieved the same kind of success she has at such a young age. She was very proud of what she had accomplished in the last three years. It wasn’t easy, she was only fifteen when her manager, Mac, discovered her.
She’d been touring and recording nonstop since she started three years ago. ...

After treacherous attacks from the Red Dragons, the Golden Dragons were almost eliminated from the face of the Earth, with only a few of them surviving and having to face decades of war against their persistent enemies.
In the middle of the conflict a new hope was found, one more surviving member of the Golden breed, Kemely. Except there was nothing they could do to take her from her current state of unconsciousness.
Under the sun of her new home in Marbella, Kemy’s future was unclear as the o...

Being drugged by her adopted family, Eden Bleu lost her first to a mysterious man on her graduation day from college.
Desperate and helpless, she escaped from that city, only to find that she was pregnant.
Against all odds, she became a single mother and lived on her own.
Seven years later, she came back with her kids, determined to take revenge, and find her birth parents.
In her quest to unravel the riddle of her origins, she discovered a man, called Victor Alwynn, who had a strong connection ...

Ten years ago, hybrid alpha-vampire Ethan Parker met a girl on the darkest day of his life. She gave him hope that he could live on.
When they met again, he was strong enough to do anything for her, but she didn't seem to remember him...
Kylie Finch is a b-list actress after witnessing her mother die, being kicked out of the house by her father, and being betrayed by the man she loved for five years. She learned that she could only survive if she became stronger.
When her life gets into trouble ...

The person I loved most—Sebastian, the youngest judge in history, sent me to prison himself.
During those three years, all my pride was worn away.
After my release, my family was ruined, and with nowhere to live, I could only become a lowly bar hostess.
Fate brought Sebastian and me together again.
He looked coldly at my exposed mini-skirt, gripped my waist tightly, and said through gritted teeth, "Gloria, who gave you permission to work here?"
I flashed a seductive smile, enticing him. "Sir, a ...

My family abused me and showed no concern for me, while they showered their adopted daughter with love and care. My status in the household was even lower than that of a servant!
Even when I was kidnapped and murdered, no one cared about me... I hate them so much!
Fortunately, by a twist of fate, I was reborn!
With a second chance at life, I will live for myself, and I will become the queen of the entertainment industry!
And I will seek revenge!
Those who once bullied and hurt me, I will make th...

Adela widened her eyes, looked at her hands, and gently touched her face. She murmured to herself, "What is going on? I was dead, right?"
Adela leaped out of bed as she considered moving toward the mirror.
"Oh my God, I'm still alive!"
"I'm grateful to God for giving me this second chance. This time, I will not let you down!"
Adela made a bow, closed her eyes, and expressed her gratitude to God.
"This time, I won't get myself into any problems. I won't harm anyone. I'll ignore the prince ...

Alana is a beautiful girl, kind, cheerful, innocent and sociable. Due to a slander Quenza Alana was kicked out of the house by her parents. Even his family members no longer considered him and removed his name from the family register.
Alana decided to go abroad, namely Germany. While living there, Alana managed to build a company and found a new family who loved her very much.
There, Alana also met a handsome young man whom she had once helped. The young man’s name was Devan Alexand...

“I know your wolf Ryder doesn't want to reject me, but I know you've already made up your mind.” She said, making me look at her in confusion. No one knows my wolf's name, not even my father or mother, so how did she know my wolf's name, and how was she able to tell that he didn't want to reject her?
“How do you know his name?” I asked, genuinely curious.
“It doesn't matter,” she said, looking down.
"Okay, let's get on with it then. And since you don't have a wolf, it won't be that painful.” ...

I kissed him back, sliding my hands around his neck and pressing him closer, eliminating any distance between us. My pussy was soaking wet, and at this point, I just needed him to fuck me—not soft or sweet, but rough, hardcore, and merciless.
As if he heard my traitorous thoughts, his hands slid down my back, gripping my waist before cupping my ass. He kneaded the soft flesh, pulling me tighter, and a moan escaped before I could stop it.
"Alpha," I managed to gasp between kisses.
His te...

James Harristian, aka James Belgenza, is the mafia leader of Daga Nero, a splinter group of one of the oldest famous mafia families in Naples. Apart from his powerful ruler of the town who controlled the underground weapon industry in Europe, James was also a successful owner of a high-tech motor company.
One day, James was deceived into a scam dinner by his mistress. It strived to kill him, but somehow, he escaped. Being trapped in gunshots with his enemy, a flower girl saves James' life from...

‘I had not expected to breed you, little girl.’ He said, his voice emotionless but his eyes were hot with lust,’ You were just a plaything to be used till I tired of you, but there was no way I would let any child of mine grow up as a bastard.’
My breath caught in my throat at the sheer cruelty, the heartlessness of his words. Was that all I had been to him?
The young innocent woman and the older, heartless Mafia Boss who cannot have enough of her.
When the cynical, jaded Mafia Don Lucien D...

Amelia's honey hole was already wet and had become a swamp, and the penis outside it almost effortlessly, with a slight effort, half of the meat stick was inserted into Amelia's honey hole.
Amelia used to be Oliver's lover. She thought that by escaping Oliver's world, she could start a new life, but she ran into him again at an upscale club in New York. At this point, Amelia had a new boyfriend, Lucas, and Oliver's appearance shattered her peace.
What could she do? Run as far away from hi...

"My king…” I said in a low, needy voice, I didn't know, belonged to me.
“Stay right there. Bended that well.” He growled and he took a deep breath. As if inhaling my scent in.
I froze, my heart pounding wildly in my chest. My face flushed with embarrassment, my body betraying me in ways I couldn’t explain.
“I can smell you,” he murmured, his voice sending shivers down my spine. Before I could react, his hand moved, brushing against my thigh, then slipping under the fabric of my dress.
****...

Warning ###This story contains explicit sexual content, coarse language, and potentially provocative scenes. Viewer discretion is advised.###
I have a gorgeous and sensual girlfriend who is both captivating and elegant. It took a great deal of effort to win her over. I thought she was a noble and pure girl. However, one day, through our apartment window, I caught a glimpse of another side of her—a connection with her ex that I had never suspected. I never imagined she had another face, one so ha...

On the cusp of turning 18, I still don't have a wolf of my own—the very reason I was expelled from my original Pack. My parents and I sought refuge with the Sunrise Peak Pack, where I now face a double challenge: proving my worth to my new Alpha while concealing my secret.
But then I discover something shocking—the Alpha already knows what I've been hiding. Even more surprising? I am his destined mate. This revelation brings both hope and terror: without a wolf form, will he accept me as his ...

The romantic lives of three teenagers are intertwined in unimaginable ways the moment one of them returns from the States.
And with all of the impediments that come with living in a conservative town, these set of queer youth struggle the most with drugs, trauma and crime, inadvertently testing deeply entrenched beliefs about life, friendships, love and sexuality.
This book encompasses all their lives, and tells their heartwarming coming of age stories as they embark on a journey of finding ...