open season c. j. box

As an ordinary wolf-girl, Scarlett Black is turning 17 the only thing she was worrying about was boys, friends and coming closer to her wolf awakening. Little did she know the next few years would change her life forever.

I have seen and heard many women coming out of Cassius's motorhome in the past year. It was painful and repulsive. What makes it worse is that he is married to Charity. Multiple times they have been unfaithful to one another. Sadly, I witnessed the consequences of infidelity when my best friend's mate betrayed her and she lost her life before my eyes. I can't believe that I used to have feelings for him or believed we would be mates someday. I would rather die by rejecting him than go through the same pain my best friend experienced when her mate cheated on her after marking her. Never in a million years did I think rejecting my fated mate, would throw me into a twisted romance with two mates fighting each other for my love. What the hell am I supposed to do now?

To save his childhood sweetheart suffering from a congenital heart condition, my mate Ethan—the storm pack’s Alpha—forced me to remove my heart to be given to his beloved. "Don't worry, you are the rarest white wolf with the strongest healing ability. I have prepared an artificial heart for you, and you will be fine." Ethan said. I tried to explain to my mate Ethan that my healing ability has become very poor in the past year, so that transplanting my heart would kill me. My mate snarled at me with disgust, "Selene is so gravely ill, and here you are, jealous and fighting for attention! She saved my life when I was suffering from silver poisoning a year ago! You won't die anyway, so why can't you help her?" Under the mandatory order of my mate, I was sent to the pack healer for the heart transplant. He didn’t know that I was the one who had exchanged my rare white wolf's healing ability with a witch to save him from silver poisoning. In the end, with my healing abilities gone, I died miserably in a forgotten corner of the empty healer's cabin.

I discovered my Alpha mate Ethan's secret. The ring he gave me on our wedding day was actually used to track and monitor me. But I didn't cry. I pretended my eyes hadn't healed, and witnessed firsthand how Ethan and his mistress clung to each other, entangled in affection. Ethan's voice was low and husky: "Let's be quick. Selene usually wakes up after an hour of rest." The mistress covered her mouth and giggled softly: "She's just a blind wolf. What does it matter if she wakes up? As long as we don't make any noise." Hearing this, Ethan glared at her in warning. "Even though Selene has lost her sight, she's still the person I love most, and she's my bottom line. If you disrespect Selene again, whatever is between us ends right here." But what he didn't know was that my blindness had been cured. I could see everything clearly now. After getting out of bed, I wiped away my tears and made a phone call. "Tell the Alpha of the Shadow Pack that I'm willing to become their Chief Healer."

บัวรัตนาคิดมาพักใหญ่แล้วว่าชีวิตตัวเองช่างเหมือนนิยายน้ำเน่าเสียจริง เธอเกิดเป็นอัลฟ่า แต่เพราะสังคมปิตาธิปไตยบีบให้จำต้องแต่งใครสักคนเข้ามาช่วยดูแลบริษัท ทั้งที่เรื่องทั้งหมดเธอสามารถทำได้ด้วยตัวคนเดียว ภายหลังยังต้องมารับรู้ว่าสามีอัลฟ่าของเธอเคยลักลอบมีสัมพันธ์กับโอเมก้าคนอื่น แถมโอเมก้าคนนั้นยังต้องท้อง ทั้งสองมีลูกด้วยกัน! กับนรกานต์ สามีของเธอ เดิมทีแม้จะแต่งงานกันด้วยเหตุผลทางธุรกิจโดยปราศจากความรัก ทว่าเธอก็ยังหวังว่าเขาจะให้เกียรติกันในฐานะสามีภรรยา ไม่นึกว่าหลังจากได้พบกับชลธารโอเมก้าคนนั้นอีกครั้ง นรกานต์จะมุ่งมั่นตามตื๊ออีกฝ่ายจนไม่สนภาพลักษณ์หรือหน้าตาทางสังคมใด ๆ ถ้าสามีของเธอแค่ต้องการรับผิดชอบเพียงอย่างเดียวก็ว่าไปอย่าง แต่นรกานต์กลับทำทุกอย่างเพื่อให้ได้แต่งอีกฝ่ายเข้าบ้านให้ได้ เพียงเพราะคำว่ารักคำเดียว ทำให้เธอต้องสูญเสียทุกอย่าง ถูกหักหลังจนสิ้นเนื้อประดาตัว แม้แต่ชีวิตก็เอาไม่รอด! ไม่คิดว่าหลังจากตายไป เธอจะได้รับโอกาสกลับมาเกิดใหม่อีกครั้ง ในคืนวันแต่งงานของพวกเขาทั้งสองคน เอาละ กับชลธารคนนั้น เธอถือว่าอีกฝ่ายก็เป็นเหยื่อราคะของนรกานต์เหมือนกันจึงยังพอปล่อยไปได้ แต่สามีสุนัขของเธอคนนี้ต้องได้รับบทเรียนอย่างสาสม!

Synopsis.  "Don't you ever, in your lifetime; mention that word "MATE" to me again, or else, I wouldn't hesitate to slit your throat open." Amora growled, with her little dagger positioned at the dying boy's neck. After Amora, her mother and pack members went through the worst torture in the hands of a man that was supposed to act as a father, a husband, and an Alpha, Amora  knew that it was time to make a decision and stop his father from further destroying them. She would become Alpha and liberate her people. She would never have a mate, given what her father had put them through.  Would her decision last long as she found this boy in the forest proclaiming her as his mate?

Vivian, an 18 year old final year student, graduated from university and got entangled in a love situation. Growing up, Vivian had always dreamed of becoming a top model and working with top models. But what happens when her crush in the university asked her out and she got too attached in the newly found relationship, forgetting that she had dreams to fulfill?. And what happens when she found out that her longtime crush turned out to be the kind of boy she doesn't want to be with? Her mother died when she was just two, she didn't have much memory of her, but she was blessed with a caring father that Carried out both the mother and father role. Life of course has its own way of giving you a beautiful thing but taking it in an unexpected way. This story will make you cry, laugh and even hate some of the characters at some point, but most important, learn that all that glitters are not gold.

A week before my death, my Alpha mate's childhood sweetheart Sarah returned to our pack. That night, he didn't come home. The next day, I received his mind-link. "I've purchased a mate-bond severing potion from the pack witch. Come home now so we can break our bond." In our pack, the Moon Goddess was very serious about mate bonds. Once two wolves chose to form a mate, the mate bond could not be severed, unless the witch's potion was used. This potion was very expensive, costing up to $500,000 per bottle. I smiled bitterly. He was very generous to sever the bond with me. I coughed twice before answering, "I'm in the healing center." His voice turned ice cold. "I don't care where you are. Even if you're about to die, you need to come back." I calmly replied, "Fine." He didn't know that I really was dying. Three years ago, during a rogue wolf attack, I blocked the silver dagger for him to protect him while he was unconscious. I was poisoned by silver and became weaker and weaker over the past three years. I only had one week left to live. On the day of my funeral, my mate was busy holding his marking ceremony with Sarah. Later, he knelt before my grave in pristine white ceremonial clothes, clutching my headstone and whispering through tears. "If there's another life after this one, I still want to marry you." That day was his marking ceremony with his childhood sweetheart. It was also my funeral.

Five years and a divorce paper in my hand before I realized that I invested my time, effort and devotion to the wrong man. Right after he got the contract that would make his company a subsidiary of the SF Conglomerate, Greg Combs, my husband of five years, dropped me and my sick daughter for another woman. Devastated and with mounting bills to pay at the hospital, I was surprised when I got help from someone who I least expected to help me, Lucas Sanders, my husband’s new boss. His offer was too-good-to-be-true. It does not add up to the ruthless and aloof billionaire I know. But then, beggars can’t be choosers. My daughter’s health is way more important than assessing the motives of this seemingly perfect man. When he reached out for my hand, a small electric current shot through my arm. I gasped as a mixture of excitement and fear sent shivers up my spine. While I looked at our clasped hands, I knew it was time to say goodbye to the past, and say hello to the present. But as to what cost?

A Brothers Terra tale where we follow two young brothers and their companions, explore and navigate the jungles of Ma'Nyla. Forming alliances, and fighting for survival against warring tribes and things beyond their capacity. Fighting to prove their love and worth for Ma'Nyla's greatest princess and warrior. The first book in the series Brothers Terra's Sagas of Ma'Nyla.