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Reagan is the youngest in this generation of Guardians. Because she is much younger than the others, she was never as close to the Guardians as her siblings. Thankfully, when her older brother found his mate, she had a younger sister, Meadow, who was Reagan’s age. The two have become best friends and they have the same close friendship that her siblings share with the other Guardians. Kieran is an Alpha who lives in the western part of the country. He has been waiting a long time to find his mate. He’s refused to take a chosen mate, but at twenty-six, he’s becoming feral, and time is running out. He must either find his fated mate, take a chosen mate, or be put down by his pack. Because she is the last of the Guardians, Reagan’s eighteenth birthday has been opened to all eligible males throughout the country. Her birthday is considered the event of the century, with Alpha werewolves, royal elves, royal vampires, and even warlocks attending. As Kieran's last chance, he attends. The moment he smells his mate, his wolf pushes forward, marking her without consent. Amid the fury of the Guardians and others in attendance, Reagan decides to give Kieran a chance to prove himself before marking him and completing their bond. She leaves the only home she’s ever known to travel across the country, with Meadow insisting that she come. When they arrive at Kieran's home, Reagan finds a pack in chaos. Bullying, manipulation, and subterfuge have been used to run the pack while Kieran has been fighting his demons. Can Reagan, with Meadow’s help, turn the pack around, or will she decide that Kieran isn’t worth the effort, rejecting him and returning home, leaving him to go feral?

"I don't dream anymore. I have no future, I only have 'now'." *** For Samantha Covington, these words are her stark reality after her husband Richard's increasing brutality. Anxious to reclaim her life and autonomy, her lonely and wounded spirit has caught the attention of the protective Alpha wolf in Daniel Sanford, who, despite his misgivings, is drawn to her time and again. In his attentive care, he uncovers the vibrant spirit of the woman her husband labeled worthless. But Daniel’s secrets chillingly echo Richard’s lies. Can Daniel earn her trust? Will his wolf respect her freedom? Or will she forge a new path as she leaves Richard in the wreckage of his self-destruction?

My husband's parents were stung by an unidentified venomous queen hornet and rushed to the hospital. As soon as I heard the news, I hurried to the entomology research institute to seek help from my husband, who was the director, hoping he could assist the doctors with the diagnosis. Instead, he called for security to block me at the entrance. "I don't handle work matters after hours," he said coldly. "Penny's mother is sick, and I need to go take care of her." I tried to show him the critical condition notice from the hospital, but he tore it up in one swift motion. "People die every day. So what if your dad and mom died?" After my in-laws passed away, I filed a lawsuit against Penny Madison, who had deliberately disturbed the beehive that led to the attack. My husband, who had disappeared for several days, suddenly showed up as an expert witness in court. He fabricated a false professional opinion to exonerate Penny. When I decided to leave the country, he lost his temper. "What do your parents' short lives have to do with me? Is it so hard to understand that after a long day at work, I just want to rest? And now you want to drag Penny into this mess. Just because your own family is broken, you want to ruin someone else's? How can you be so vicious? You deserve to lose your parents!" Watching his brazen attempts to twist the truth, I suddenly realized something. He still didn't know that he had become an orphan.

When Ava Hansley lost her family and pack to a rogue attack, she sought revenge and would do anything to get it. But meeting the infamous, ruthless, renowned Casanova, Alpha Chester sways her away from her ultimate life goal. Chester – despite having a harem of whores– was still in search of his mate. Meeting Ava for the first time, he gets struck by her alluring scent and lurks around her from that moment. What happens when Ava realizes she just might be the mate of the one man she never imagines she could have? Will she have to choose between love and revenge? Was Alpha Chester worth giving up her hate and revenge for, or was he yet another hurdle to overcome? A , handsome hurdle, to be exact. Join me in this thrilling but twisted love story of Ava Hensley and Alpha Chester.

Part 1: Naomi Kharkov has already found the perfect man. Except he’s dead. So when her mate bond sparked with another, she ran. Naomi remains a warrior to her core. Falling in love has damaged her once already. When Finn vows to prove his worth, at any cost, she knows her heart is at risk again. But things have changed. Forced to work together, how long before the call of their wolves proves too strong to resist. After all, the Moon Goddess blessed them to be together. Except is the success of their bond only fueling the cruelest of Fate's long-held plans? Part 2: Phoebe Kharkov was meant to be someone important. A Fate. A living Goddess of the Shadowlands, until it was stolen away. A fact her wolf reminds her of daily. Lashing out at those who try to help hurries her leaving, for a fresh start at Rising Star's new Academy. Eager to prove everyone wrong, who will protect Phoebe from her own heart when she's finally out on her own? *** The final book in the Shadowlands trilogy (can be read standalone) Book 1: A Damaged Alpha Book 2: The Luna Who Wants Everything Book 3: Resisting the Beta

Scarlett thought she had found true love with Ethan, a charming and caring werewolf. But as time went on, Ethan became possessive and controlling, leading Scarlett to question everything she knew about him. After a terrifying encounter, Scarlett wakes up two years earlier with a newfound determination for revenge. She joins forces with a group of supernatural beings to uncover the secrets of the werewolf pack and the ancient curse that holds the key to her vengeance. But as Scarlett's quest for power intensifies, she realizes that revenge may not be worth sacrificing her loved ones for. Will Scarlett choose revenge or choose to embrace her humanity and break free from the cycle of violence?

LONDON I’ve never been a rule-breaker. Until the God-like and hotter-as-sin, I despise for two years comes back and becomes my temporary bodyguard. I hate his work ethic—Striker Cade never mixes his job with pleasure, but when he looks at me, he’s got heartbreak written all over him. When my father threatens to shut down, the only thing that matters to me, he volunteers to help. Our marriage is supposed to be the solution to my problem, but my father has another evil plan. The more we spend time together, the more I realize I don’t have to act madly in love. I already am. *** STRIKER I’ve never lost focus at work. When London becomes my client, she’s got forbidden fruit written all over her, and she hates my guts, but something tells me she’s worth it. Until I find myself in her bed without any recollections, the next day, we’re engaged. I would love to play her in-love husband. Only we’re trapped by her father’s demands, pawns to his bigger plans. When her life is threatened and our marriage is at stake, I reach out to my last resort. And I realize she has become the person I can’t live without.

Anya Who would have thought turning 21 would change my life and send me into the depths of hell and into the arms of a bad man. A very bad man who has a vendetta against my father. He can never know who I am or my life is over before it even begins. I'm kidnapped during my birthday celebration and tossed into the underground of a hotel to be auctioned off, then bought by the very same man who would love to watch me bleed. I do the only thing I can - fake it, if only to survive one more night. I tell him my name is Anika and he seems to buy my excuses. But how long can I hide behind a mask and how long before he learns of my true identity and brutalizes me for revenge? I'll pay for my father's sins. Maybe even with my life. *** Bastien I've never claimed to be a good man. I trade in the dark; anything, save for humans, can be up for sale to the highest bidder. The king of the black market, this city is my playground. All until tonight... All until her… The auction is held at my hotel once every four months with one iron clad rule in place: no trafficking. So to say that I'm shocked to find her on my stage amongst the goods like a precious lamb to the slaughter is putting it lightly. I had to buy her to appease one of my biggest clients, but the more I look at her, the more I realise… That I want her to be mine alone. But who is this little doll truly and why did she end up on my stage, ready to be sold to the highest bidder?

Heart has no other option but to seek help from her manager. Her father needs a heart operation worth five hundred thousand pesos. As the eldest child, the weight of this responsibility falls on her shoulders. She needs to find a way, even if it means making a difficult decision. For several weeks, she'll be at the mistress of an unknown man, for two hundred fifty thousand pesos, because she's a virgin. That was the offer from an unknown, unscrupulous man. Take it or leave it. She'll let herself be used while she's asleep, so she doesn't have a chance to get to know the man she's selling herself to. Due to extreme desperation, she agreed immediately to save her father, who is on the brink of death. She no longer has the opportunity to learn about the man who will be intimate with her and own her. She has to save her dying father, no matter who takes her. But the man she briefly saw is not ugly. He's incredibly handsome and her boss, the billionaire Deluxe Montesalvo, who has been married for three years!

The Luna of the rose clan is giving off for marriage to protect her clan, she beg and illicit relationship with her husband's kingdom. Arcadia is born out of desire between two lovers and she is faces with the same dilemma that fought her mother; Making her prove her worth as the Luna of her kingdom after she Rejects the most powerful Alpha of the land. Alpha mace is the most powerful Alpha that walked the land, youthful and proud and he seeks arcadia hand in marriage but after her rejection, he is consumed by hatred and vows to bring her to dust as he sees her. Although he is oblivious that it is his fate to now down to her. Losing his kingdom comes with mockery and shame, but when he is forced to meet arcadia for help, his pride slowly beg to fade away as he was subjected under her rule. Falling madly in love with her, he does everything to please his queen , but she is only ready to accept him but on one condition. To be her slave forever.