Novels by Lanzer Author

Nine’s POVUp to today, I still couldn’t fully comprehend why I stopped for that teenage girl on that day.It was one of the coldest winter nights in this strange country, chill, dark, and the iciness was just seeping under your skin.There was no wind that night, just snow, flake by flake, but in quite large sizes, falling off from heaven.I walked aimlessly in the thick snow on the street. The melted mud soiled my furs on my legs.There weren’t many street lights either, just cars and scarce passersby running past hurriedly. I heard loud music and laughing noises coming from those colorful stores on both sides of the street. It was still early in the night, but the street was so dark and quiet like it had been devoured by the demon.I walked haphazardly on the sidewalk, eyes fixed in the air, mind wandering restlessly.It was the 60th day I arrived in the city. As always, I found no one even slightly looking like my aim. It was quite disappointing, but I didn’t think much about it.

Amelia was waiting outside the village in the car. Up to today, they had been traveling around the country for 7 months. They paid a visit to Emily first, and then went to Fay and Gregson’s son and all the other wolves who were once part of the murder.They hunted down every wolf who was responsible and made them pay their debts.James’s house was their last stop. After today, they would head back to their home and start a new life.Amelia said “No” when he asked if she wanted to visit her parents with him. Darren knew the reason. James and Doris were just the most ignorant and stupid couple he had ever met. Harm would be the only thing they might have caused Amelia if there was a reunion.He wrapped his coat a little tighter because of the autumn’s cold wind, then quickened his steps to the outside of the village.The sky’s color was sullen yellow today. While he was still far from their car, suddenly he saw Doris standing beside it with Amelia. His heart clenched. He then ran toward

James was pretty upset about his retirement life.Nearly three years had passed since he lost his pack to the rogue he hated most, Darren. Though he had successfully persuaded himself to accept the fact and have a life with nothing a long time ago. Still, he was worried all the time about his adopted son, Ian. Three years ago, right after Darren took all his property from the Wolf Committee, Ian showed up at his front door later that day with a heavily wounded face. He plunged himself into James’s arms and cried. “The Rogue has put a wanted notice on me. He wants me to be dead!”James patted his back and sighed, knowing it was the ending of his and his pack’s glory. Still, he had this tiny expectation left in his heart that maybe someday, Ian could find a way to defeat Darren and regain everything. He was a smart kid, and had always been. And, he was the heir of the most powerful pack, Green Lake.At that point, James could hardly tell. Did he adopt Ian out of his condolences to hi

“Mom, Dad, Emily….”He drifted back to his childhood in that cold, suffocating lake water, reliving everything that was so treasurable and amiable for him….When he was sinking, the lost memories of his slowly grew back piece by piece. He remembered how his sister fell from the cliff on the exact same day, and how Roy caught him in the lake, then took him to a secret chamber underneath it. That’s how he survived.“Hope you can have a normal but happy life, kid.” Roy sighed and wept beside his bed, then did something to his wounded eye. He couldn’t remember.Next, another surge of hatred and fury overwhelmed him.Now he could see clearly how he and his sister saved that wounded rogue boy in the forest, but got betrayed and attacked by him.“Fuck you! Fuck! How dare you use the Alpha tone on me?!” The rogue boy cursed, riding on top of him, using that sharp rock in his hand, repeatedly beating his head. After crushing his left eye, the rogue stood up and started to kick his chest and s

Adam had no idea why he agreed to help Mia. Mia was just an orphan he picked up from the street 10 years ago. A girl who had grown up, but refused to leave. When he told her that she was free to go at any time, she just said, “You need someone to take care of you, Master. And I am that perfect someone”, and then stayed as his maid.Adam didn’t try to persuade her. He didn’t even talk with her that much. He wasn’t a passionate person, had never had too many emotions. During the past 600 years, he had witnessed the death of too many people. For him, people were just things, or even less than things. Because things can last and stay, while people change and decay so quickly.No matter what kind of lives they have, or how reluctantly they behave, the endings of them are just the same.They will all die eventually, being buried into the earth soundlessly, and then quickly dispersed into nowhere.Years later, sometimes even days later, no one would ever remember them. Only he, the outsid

The moment Amelia heard that she felt her blood freeze.She quickly turned her head and then looked towards the castle, then saw Jovian grabbing a young girl in uniform by her throat, dragging her to the window.It wasn’t the girl who served food for them tonight, but Mia. The torch dropped on the floor had ignited the curtain beside the window, the whole place was about to sink into fire.Jovian giggled at the window, tightening his grip on Mia’s throat, “Guess what I will do to her, baby brother? I am going to eat her alive, starting from the fingers.” He reached his other hand to Mia’s wrist and broke it off like it was a chopstick. Mia screamed out of pain, but it was quickly cut off by the hand on her throat. Her face instantly turned purple. Tears streamed down from the corners of her eyes.“Or I am going to rape her right here and dismember her. You hate that kind of thing, don’t you, little brother? I hear you deprived a wolf for a human girl.”Adam’s face turned pale. Ameli

Simon shifted to this huge, yellow dragon and roared into the sky. He flashed across the dark sky like lightning, and then disappeared into the thick night chasing the wolf carrying his sister.Once the snow stopped, the temperature started to rise. Everything around started melting slowly. Elena felt her phone vibrate. She pulled it out of her pocket and checked, and then saw a message from her mother.He is awake. It said.Elena let out a relieved sigh and smiled. The sky above her head had never been so clear. She knew it was the end of it.All these hates, and betrayals, and revenge, and greed. It was finally cleared out. They were free now. She and Ragnar, they could finally start their new life.“We need to get home like now,” Nyla strongly urged in her head.Elena nodded her head, and then looked around.The two dragon Betas were still there. The demise of the Princess was a huge deal. They needed to find a proper explanation to their Alpha.After meeting Elena’s eyes, the old

She squatted in front of the wheelchair to get closer to him, and then kissed his hand with tears streaming down the corners of her eyes. “I am sorry, Simon,” she said, “I am truly sorry.”Simon leaned forward a little to stroke her hair. “It’s alright, Little one. It’s not your fault,” he said, and his voice was so gentle, “It’s nobody’s fault. No one could foresee this to happen.”Lennie shook her head. She held her brother’s hand with both her hands and leaned on it with her forehead. She knew it was time to tell him the truth, and she felt so sorry and regretful that she had to disappoint him. “I am sorry, Simon,” she raised her head, looked towards her brother, and confessed, “I killed Cory the other day because I want to have my own kingdom. I want to be a real Queen, Simon. I am sorry, but I just … want it.”Simon’s face turned pale. His heart sank. No matter what horrible mistakes Lennie had made, he would forgive her as long as she didn’t mean to be bad. They all would. But

Hearing Lennie’s “confession”, Elena knitted her brows. Nyla whispered in her head, “She is lying again.”Elena knew but she didn’t interrupt. She knew Simon would naturally trust Lennie more than her and she was just here to make sure the necklace to be destroyed. She needed to save Ragnar first. Simon widened his eyes. He recognized it was the necklace Lennie had been wearing since she was a child. But he couldn’t understand how a necklace could threaten people. “What does it mean, Little one?” he asked, but in a soft tone, “You have to explain to me first.”Lennie sniffed, wiping her tears with the back of her hand, and then explained, “There is a werewolf living in the necklace. His name is Tyron. He is the ancestor of the wolf brothers. He started to speak to me in my head after I turned 18. He threatened me to kill all the wolves, the old wolf king, Cory and his big brother, Ragnar. He hated them for some reason. He wanted to destroy the wolf kingdom. And he is very powerful,

The moment Lennie locked her eyes with Elena, she clenched her fists. She had never expected to meet Elena at her own home, and she didn’t like it when Elena spoke of her necklace in front of all the others. It was supposed to be her secret.She stared at the unexpected guest and smirked, coldly.“How dare you come to my home, you pathetic loser? You are not welcome here,” she said. Elena didn’t reply right away. She took off her cloak and passed it to Brian, and then said to the dripping princess in an indifferent tone, “I wouldn’t call myself a winner if it was my mate who poisoned my brothers.” She had just learned from Jack that, not only Alex, Lennie’s youngest brother, Liam, was affected by the snow too. Lennie clenched her fists even tighter. She hated what Elena was suggesting here. She wasn’t Zeno’s mate. She was a dragon. She was herself. She would never be anyone’s mate. “I guess there is a reason why your stupid ex put you into that hospital,” she said contemptuously,

Lennie was in a huge fury.The meeting place she agreed with Elena was where she escaped from Ragnar the day before. She reached the same place long before sunset and observed the whole place carefully in order to catch Elena.Her permit to the wolf kingdom had been deactivated. But to make the exchange, she and Elena, one of them, must cross the border. She knew Elena wouldn’t come into the dragon’s land, but it didn’t matter.She brought a special plant with her. It looked like a piece of dead vine, but was actually alive. Once the vine reached its target, it would grow rapidly to wrap the target up and then drag the target back to its owner.Her third brother, Simon, brought it to her from one of his mysterious trips years ago as a toy. Lennie hadn’t played with it for a long time. It took her a while to dig it out from her piles of precious gifts.She then carefully twined the necklace on that vine. If Elena wanted the necklace, then she would have to take the vine with it and tou

“Who is that?”Noticing Elena had turned back, Chris reined the horse too and came near her.Elena didn’t reply. She was hesitating whether to check it or not.The sun had already gone under the horizon. Lennie should have already found that she didn’t go to the borderline to exchange the necklace. She must get in touch with dragons before Lennie figured out what she intended to do.And they only had two horses. It wasn’t that easy to help an unconscious person.Chris made no further comment, waiting for her decision.Elena hesitated for like 5 seconds, and then got off the horse and walked closer to that person.The snow had covered most of his body. Only the shape of a person and some of his clothes could be vaguely seen.Elena knelt beside him and wiped the snow off his body with her gloved hands. A tall man lying face down gradually showed. He was very strong but na/ked with clothes piled on his back. It seemed like he passed out somehow in his dragon form and shifted back to huma