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She saved his life.
He ruined hers.
Now they have another chance, but a secret could tear them apart.

Aria Blake is a new maid, unnoticed by the rich and powerful. But when tech billionaire Damian Cross is attacked at home, she's the one who finds him barely alive. She saves him, then vanishes.

The next day, she's fired for something she didn't do. She's silenced, embarrased and sent away.

Dami...

Claire Lockwood is sold into slavery on her eighteenth birthday. Her fate changes when she is purchased by Lucien Draco, the ruthless hybrid feared as the Devil’s Son. Unlike everyone else, Claire is immune to his compulsion. Lucien sees her as a threat he must destroy, but instead, he discovers she is both his destiny and his downfall.

As Lucien searches for ways to end her, he becomes her prote...

She is his death… He is her salvation.
He was born to love her… She was born to kill him.
She is his fated mate and also his fated calamity.
Born on the full moon, Izzy was marked as a curse. Her family was eradicated, but the moon goddess forbids her death.
The shed of her blood on the Lydrian Marsh pack was foretold to bring disaster, but torturing her will cause no harm and no amount of torture...

Ella has spent her life in the shadows, an omega with no voice and no choice. But when the Alpha’s rebellious daughter forces her into a dangerous game of deception, Ella is thrust into a world where one slip could destroy her. At the academy, she wears Lyra’s name, Lyra’s face, yet inside, she trembles with every step.

And then there’s Alex. The dark, commanding Alpha who has sworn to avenge his...

Guinevere of the Louisiana bloodline," Zara's voice echoed. "You stand accused of dangerous and uncontrolled magic, repeated destruction of coven property, endangering the lives of your sisters, how do you answer?"
"Guilty," I whispered.

Guinevere was stripped of her powers and banished from her coven by the witch who killed her parents, the high priestess Zara, because of her inability to co...

In Jacqueline Paige's Animal Senses Series, hearts and tempers collide with wild passions and animal instincts.

Animal shifters live among normal humans (one-forms) and have since the dawn of time. They blend in without any cause for notice until a crime organization finds out and starts hunting them to sell off across the globe.

The shifter alliance is formed to protect all their kind. Their te...

She was sold to her greatest enemies…four ruthless Lycans who ruled with power, danger, and desire.
But fate had a cruel twist… they were her fated mates.

Mira was never meant to be theirs. Traded by her father as nothing more than a breeder, she vowed to destroy the monsters who took everything from her. Yet the moment their eyes met, the bond ignited—a connection that burned hotter than hatred ...

Cassie had a whole life figured out she thought that she have everything going for her and everything in her life was perfect until an unexpected turn of events happened that would change the way she view life and love forever. After a failed engagement and finding out that her fiance had cheated on her and had been doing so for five years and has a child with someone else that she thought her fia...

I woke up in the middle of the night to my mark burning.

Through our bond, I could feel Xavier marking another woman.

Ten years of marriage and a seven-year-old son, all turned to ash at midnight when the blood moon rose.

When he brought Aurora home, I asked him, "What did you do?"

He said, "I couldn't stop it. She was my fated mate."

I was heartbroken, but then I found out something that mad...

The pain hits me while I'm arranging carnations.
One second I'm fine, the next I'm gasping for air.
It feels like someone punched me in the chest with a sledgehammer. I grab the workbench, trying to stay upright, but my legs won't hold me.
This isn't right. This is different from before.
I've had heart palpitations since I was a kid. Little flutters that come and go. But this? This is something el...

I order the same drink from the same coffee cart every morning. Until today, when I received bitter black coffee instead of my caramel macchiato. When I looked up to complain, those familiar eyes made my world stop. But this was impossible... he should be thousands of miles away, doing a completely different job. And those fresh scars on his hands...

Lucas: “You need the money, and I need a wife to shut my grandmother up. We’re a perfect match—don’t overthink it.”
Sophia: “You really know how to sweep a girl off her feet. Where’s the romance?”
Lucas: “I’m offering a solution, not a fairy tale.”
And that's how Sophia Lane got married to the Cruel CEO of Davenport and Co multi billion company, because of money and a burning hope to save her youn...

She lost her child. She was betrayed by her husband. Betrayed by her sister.
And when her pain should have ended, her family sold her to the ruthless Alpha of the Bloodfang Pack in exchange for sparing their pack from death.
Leia had spent her life begging for love that was never returned, fighting to please parents who never saw her as enough. Then she met Andrien, a dying wolf she nursed back to...

My precognitive gift should have been a blessing. Instead, it became my curse.

At six, I could predict any sports outcome. My parents turned me into their money-printing machine—basement prison, electric torture, carved punishments for every mistake. They called me "princess" while salting my wounds.

When my gift earned them tens of millions, they showered me with the most expensive toys. When m...

Samantha's life took a drastic turn when her sister, Olivia, stole from Nicolas Lewis, the most powerful man in the city and the feared king of Wrath, a cold mafia lord. Olivia, the third child in their family, put both herself and Samantha in peril. Fearing for her sister's life, Samantha took the blame for Olivia's crime. However, Nicolas had no intention of sparing anyone who crossed him, belie...

When Abby Anderson rebels against her father’s plan to remarry, she escapes into the night and surrenders to a passionate one-night stand with a stranger. But her world shatters when she learns the man she can’t forget is Kevin Stone—her soon-to-be stepbrother.

Forced to live under the same roof, Abby and Kevin fight a losing battle against their desire, stealing kisses and moments that could des...

“Divorce? Divorce?” Camilla brokenly asked her husband. She couldn't believe what she heard.

“Yes, I think we should just get a divorce.” Caesar barked.

Camilla Garrison was betrayed by her fiance, by sleeping with her step sister.

That wasn't enough; she was also chased out from the house her maternal grandfather left for her and was tricked by her blood brother and father to sign her company ...

I came back to Willowvale to save my grandmother's coffee shop, not to deal with five years' worth of rumors about me and my three best friends. Apparently, the whole town thinks I'm some kind of heartbreaker who can't keep her hands off Knox, Sage, and River. The truth? They're like my brothers. But when the new vet in town looks at me like I'm exactly what everyone says I am, I realize coming ho...

Zara Alaric had always lived in the shadow of her stepsister, Selene was pampered, adored, and destined for a life of luxury. But when Selene disappears on the eve of her wedding, leaving only a letter behind, Zara is thrust into a world she never asked for: forced to marry Adrian Voss, a ruthless billionaire CEO with a heart as cold as his empire.
At first, Adrian despises her, and surviving his ...

"Tere bina jeena... ek Kargil hai."
"He gave me a folded flag. I wanted a future."
"I fight for India, but I dream of her."

In the snow-wrapped silence of Siachen and the scarred corridors of military hospitals, Waiting to be His tells the story of Major Shashwat "Lion" Rajput-a battle-hardened soldier with frostbite scars and unsent poetry-and Dr. Kavya Malhotra, a psychologist who saves soldier...

He was my father's best friend and my legal guardian. I mistook his obsessive control for protection—until the night of my eighteenth birthday, when he shattered that illusion in his study. For eight long years, I lived a double life: his pure, adopted daughter by day, and his dirty little secret by night.
I thought it was love. Then today, a Wall Street alert announced his engagement to a media h...

My marriage to sports management CEO Kieran Vale was supposed to be simple.
Two years. Two million dollars. Stay out of each other's way.
For eighteen months, we barely spoke. He was the ice-cold businessman, I was the broke boxing coach who needed the money.
Then something changed.
Suddenly, Kieran started caring about what I ate, where I went, how I felt. He hired nutritionists, canceled meeting...

Rule one: never love your stepbrother. Rule two: never trust a bad boy. I broke both.
The day Carter traded up and called me a "disgusting mistake," Liam—the most dangerous guy in school—knelt in the rubble of my life. "Want to make him pay?" he murmured, his grip firm on my chin. "I'll show you how."
It was supposed to be a game. But his lessons came with a secret: he'd been claiming me since the...

During the wedding ceremony, just as the priest asked if I would take my fiancé Derek to be my husband, the church doors suddenly burst open.

A muddy little girl rushed in, shouting at Derek: "Daddy!"

Derek looked completely bewildered, and I just stood there frozen, because this girl really did look a lot like Derek.

The girl said her name was Mia, that she was Derek and Isabelle's daughter fr...

The devil doesn’t wear horns. He wears a tailored suit.
Mara should have run the night she met Damian Hale—the city’s most feared CEO, a man with enough power to ruin nations. Instead, one reckless choice binds her to him in a marriage built on secrets and lies. He’s cruel, he’s dangerous, and he’s breaking her piece by piece… until she can’t tell whether she wants to escape him or beg him to nev...

Dusin loves Jenna and he has no doubts, but he still harbors feelings for his first love. When she comes back distraught, he ends up falling into her trap. By the time he realizes why Julia is after Jenna, it’s already too late– She’s left him.
Dustin finds out Jenna is living with another male wolf, whom she trusts more than herself.
What does Julia want from Jenna?
Who is Jenna living with?
Will...

“Andreas,” I moaned in pleasure, threading my fingers through his soft hair. He responded, gently sucking and licking my skin. “Mmm,” I whimpered, “more.”

I tilted my head back, my head cradled in his hand as his lips captured mine. My hands even slid downward as he tore open the front of my top, freeing my breasts to press against his woolen robe. I shivered. He took my right breast into his war...

“You are not a prisoner, but you are my wife. You are officially a Davenport for the next six months, so act like one!” He warned me.

“Fuck you.” I spat at him.

“If you want my dick, all you have to do is strip and bend over the table. I might consider you and fuck you.”
…………………..

THIS IS A SPICY AND DARK MAFIA ROMANCE BOOK. KILLIAN DAVENPORT IS UNHINGED!! R18.

185 days.
That’s how long Aspe...

Angela Hills was born to rule. As the heiress of the Royalkins Empire and the cape kingdom’s treasured princess, her life was shaped by power, duty, and the promise of a throne. Every step of her path was scripted—until fate struck unexpectedly. A tragic accident leaves Angela with no memory of her past, no crown upon her head, and no knowledge of the destiny she once carried.

Lost in the wildern...

All my life, I've been the invisible daughter in this family.

My sister Madison radiates brilliance, my brother Ryan is the beloved golden child, while I'm Harper—just an "unplanned surprise," as my parents openly admit, their unwanted burden.

Serving as unpaid labor at engagement parties, abandoned with a 103-degree fever while they vacationed in the Bahamas, having my very bloodline questioned...

When Diana returns back to her home after the death of her ex husband and her father, she finds out that things are no longer the same, and the boyfriend she was forced to leave was now a powerful CEO.

She tries to navigate her new job, even though he hates her and makes her life hell, but then, she is thrown a curveball.

Her father's death might not have been accident, and all evidences point...

He marked her as his… Now there’s no way out.

Isla Monroe is a struggling college student with big dreams—until a single night changes her fate for good when she crosses paths with Damian Cross, the dangerous and charming powerful heir to a ruthless mafia empire.

With one claim, he marks her as his. But Damian didn’t choose her by accident—his secrets are tied to her past. As enemies close in an...

"Didn't know a clumsy girl would be sent to me?" He said, and I felt a ripple go through me.

His voice!

It was the deepest one I have ever heard. His aura screams power but I don't know why I kept on looking at his face as if I was under a love spell.

"You keep looking at me, did you find me too pretty?" He asked, and his deep voice jolted me awake, goosebumps traveling down my skin when I rea...

No one warned me that the man who used to slip me extra birthday money and ruffle my hair would come back ten years later looking like every bad decision I wanted to make. No one told me the man behind half of New York’s skyline, the ruthless, billionaire CEO with the devil’s mouth and my father’s trust, would look at me like I was a woman. Not a child. Not his best friend’s daughter.
Now every ti...

I didn't look up until I was done packing, then I clutched my suitcase and looked at him. He glared so hard at me, so hard that I feared he was going to do something again. His eyes were cold and I knew he was fighting so hard to keep the anger just beneath the surface. But I had made up my mind. I was leaving. I couldn't stay here any longer, not like this.

"I can't believe you're doing this,...

Blurb
One Lycan, Two Alpha, One Omega, One mate
All her life, Lena has had her father use her as his pawn in his game of power and greed.
In a quest to break through the shackles of being a prisoner in her own life, she makes a daring offer to the ruthless Lycan, one he can't refuse.
She's on a fast rise to power as she begins to unravel secrets and hidden entities within herself, but she's qui...

My sixteen-year-old cousin needed blood. Emergency surgery. Life or death.
But instead of buying blood from the hospital, Uncle Daryl just pointed at Grandma Maggie. "Use hers. She's tough. She can handle it."
They drained her until she collapsed. Then they took my cousin home to celebrate his recovery, leaving Grandma bleeding unconscious in the hospital parking lot.
When she finally came to, cra...

They say I should just accept my fate. At thirty-one, I'm a walking cliché: a failed career, endless disastrous blind dates. My life was going nowhere—until I discovered a secret that let me communicate with the past. I found a way to save the boy who died for me when we were seventeen.
But this second chance comes with a cruel condition: to rewrite history and keep him alive, I must make him fall...

Three chances I had to travel back and save my grandmother. Three times I failed, and each failure was worse than the last.
I watched her die. I failed her again. Then, my desperate attempt to change fate shattered the life of Garrett, the boy who loved me, turning him into a killer for my sake.
Now I've returned for the last time. I carry the weight of eight years and the cold steel of a blade. T...

My best friend paid me 150k to make her playboy brother fall in love with me, then ditch him hard. Sounds perfect, right? But no one warned me about the way Jax Vanderbilt would look at me with those sincere eyes. No one told me my heart would ache this badly when I discovered the vulnerability beneath his icy exterior. Now I'm torn between his kisses and my lies... How do I choose between saving ...

I thought that one night's mistake would be our biggest secret, until two pink lines appeared on the pregnancy test.

Patrick was my stepbrother, the forbidden territory I should stay away from, the person I thought would never belong to me. When I saw Luna's text, when I thought I was just his drunken substitute, I decided to disappear with this secret.

But on that stormy afternoon, when he bloc...

“I love you, Derek, and I need you to understand,” she said, her voice thick with emotion as tears streamed down her cheeks. Her hands trembled as they grasped his shirt, conveying the depth of her feelings.

Sensing the intensity of the moment, he stepped closer, placing his hands on her shoulders in a calming gesture. Leaning down, he kissed her gently, allowing that shared connection to commun...

She never intended to fall for anyone—let alone three of them.

Trying to make ends meet in Los Angeles, Alexis didn’t expect to be caught between her childhood crush, his irresistible brother, and a rising celebrity she was only supposed to fake date.

With family chaos, betrayal, and forbidden love threatening to tear everything apart, Alexis must figure out where her heart truly belongs… before...

Plot

Maureen and her brother Lancelot were the children of the Beta male and female both love each other like every sibling. Suddenly things changed when Lancelot turned eighteen, he began acting strange and wanted his sister to stay away from him which broke his sister's heart. In an angry frenzy, he nearly killed his sister while trying to make her stay away from him.
He had to insist ...

Reader Advisory!!!
This story contains steamy scenes, mature language, and forbidden romance.
Recommended for readers 18+ who enjoy emotionally intense and sexually charged love stories with depth.
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“I’m going to turn every dirty page you’ve ever read into your reality, Teyana.”
And Jeremy Carter did.
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It started with a simple party dare and ended with my legs wrapped around the ever-addictive J...

Seven months pregnant and finally happy, I thought my past was buried. Then I walked into that upscale baby boutique and saw him—Donovan Ashworth, the billionaire who kept me as his secret for ten years. Standing beside him was Charlotte, his picture-perfect fiancée, flashing a diamond that could buy my house.
But Charlotte had her own agenda. A fake pregnancy. A desperate plan. And when she deman...

Vera Sinclair had everything, wealth and a future mapped out by her ambitious father. But on the night of her extravagant eighteenth birthday party, a heated argument with her father shattered everything.

Seeking an escape, she drowned her pain in reckless indulgence, only to wake up in the arms of Logan Grey, the dark, untouchable heir to one of the most feared Mafia empires. She had worshiped ...

I'm dead, but I'm begging you—please save my baby girl.
My eight-year-old daughter Grace sits by the window every night, wearing my rescue jacket that's way too big for her, waiting for mommy to come home. She doesn't know I died in that helicopter crash. She doesn't know she's about to be thrown into foster care.
And she has no idea that her father is Senator William Hawthorne.
Grace clutches my ...

I used to think emotional distance was the deadliest poison in a marriage—until I caught my husband using my phone at 5 a.m.
When my Wall Street elite husband started hitting the gym obsessively, changing his hairstyle, splurging on luxury skincare, yet showed complete indifference to my late-night returns… I was convinced his heart belonged to someone else.
But then he pinned me against the CNN m...

I busted my ass working for five years, completely wrecked my health just to scrape together money for his eye surgery. Then I discovered—he was never blind to begin with.

When I asked him why.

"Because you owe me," Matthew stared at me with those cold eyes.

But I can't remember a damn thing...

Now I'm about to die from late-stage stomach cancer. I wonder if Matthew will be pleased?