queen's gambit

Three fated lovers: a shieldmaiden, a Troll Queen, and a Valkyrie. One price: the fate of all Midgard. Turiel is crown princess, but from the outlawed Northern Holds, bloodbound to Troll Queen Jarngrimr, and best friends with the stablelass Yolanda, her first love - until her poison kiss turned Yola into a Valkyrie, and whisks Yolanda from Turiel's grasp. Now, Turiel has been stolen into wily Queen Jarngrimr's realm, with only the goddess Skadhi and Yola - back from the dead! - to guide her. Lussi, the Snow King, craves a bride - and it is Dia's troth alone. Dia, the last blood mage from the line of the Isa, is all that is left of Turiel's legacy. Dia has been raised as Lussi's Magdalene - his ritual Bride - and ritual Slayer - for the past three years. Every Winter Solstice, Lussi can die, and Dia must kill him. But as Dia falls deeper into Lussi's sexy web - and in love - her heart is on the line! Other works and Ko-Fi: linktr.ee/avnelson

Trigger warning!!! miscarriage. Signing that contract might have been a mistake but I knew the rules. I was only there for one reason and one reason only. To bear the Alpha King, a pup, an heir to his throne, while he enjoyed life with his wife, and for some reason it was enough for me. Being his second wife was enough for me, until I fell in love with him, and who could blame me? My husband was what any woman would want in a man but I was not what he wanted in a woman, he loved his first wife! I was just a means to an end.

"His lips traced the curve of her neck, searing fire into her skin as his hands roamed, claiming every inch of her. Selene gasped, arching into him, her nails raking down his back. “Say it,” Ryker growled against her throat, his breath ragged, his body demanding. “Say you belong to me.” But she wasn’t just his. She was power itself. And tonight, she would show him exactly why." A strikingly beautiful and powerful Alpha, she was raised to lead her pack with strength and wisdom. But on the night of her ascension, she was shattered. Her fated mate—the one destined to stand beside her—rejected her. Publicly. Brutally. And in that moment, Selene broke. Or maybe… something awakened. As the humiliation settles like poison in her veins, Selene discovers a truth long buried—she is Moonborn, the child of an ancient prophecy. With power that eclipses even the strongest Alphas, she is meant to rule not just her pack, but all packs.. Then there’s him. Ryker—a rogue wolf with a past carved in blood. He steps into her territory like a storm, bringing with him danger, temptation, and secrets as deadly as her own. Their attraction is instant. Catastrophic. And though she fights it, Ryker is the one who stirs her deepest desires. But is he her salvation? Or her downfall? Betrayal lurks within her own pack. An enemy from the shadows seeks to claim her throne. The council of elders wants her power erased. And when Ryker’s true agenda is revealed, Selene is faced with the most devastating heartbreak of all. But she is no longer the broken Alpha. A story of rejection, seduction, and the rise of a ruler who will not be tamed. The Lunar Queen is coming. And she bows to no one.

Sixteen-year-old Seraphina Gray thought her life would change forever when she turned eighteen and found her fated mate. As the Alpha’s destined Luna, she’d always believed in the sacred bond that tied werewolves together. But when Alpha Kael Ashford, the cold and ruthless leader of the Silver Moon Pack, rejects her in front of the entire pack, Seraphina’s world shatters. Humiliated and heartbroken, Seraphina flees, seeking solace in the mysterious woods that border her territory. There, she stumbles upon an ancient power that awakens a side of her she never knew existed—a side that makes her more powerful than any Alpha. As Kael battles his own demons and realizes too late the weight of his rejection, a dangerous war brews between packs, with Seraphina caught in the crossfire. Forced to choose between revenge and redemption, Seraphina must decide if she can forgive the boy who broke her or forge a new path—one where she rules not as a Luna but as a queen. In a world where bonds can break but scars remain, will love find its way back, or will the pain of rejection become eternal

Moving to France was the first step that Jingfei did to achieve her dream and the first step to move on from her failed relationship that ended seven years ago. She wanted to search for the love that she deserves but an unexpected incident happened that messed up the feelings that she had been suppressing for the past years.

Vivienne Crane was a billionaire and vampire queen looking for a way to make synthetic blood for vampires in the Imperial Colony which had been once an old city where vampires fed on humans for blood. She reversed the state so the city became naturally kind for the humans to live. Love was never in her mind as she was so sure that being a vampire queen meant legal for her to be alone forever, until she met Dr. Lazlo Howard who would help her formulate the synthetic blood for the vampires. A constant temptation was all about him. There was something ancient about the scientist that Vivienne's crystal ball couldn't see what behind his genius brain and drop-dead gorgeous feature was. Curiosity could kill you. But it wouldn't matter if you were the vampire queen. Especially when you found out he was also an incubus, the perfect lover for a vampire queen. Will Vivienne be able to resist falling for her handsome colleague? Or she'll be wondering forever after their one night stand?

Elara is the future Alpha Queen, a princess who doesn't have a wolf yet possesses an anonymous power that protects her. Only she and her best friend knew a secret condition of her wolf. She belongs to the direct descendants of the Moon Goddess thus her pack is forbidden to reject their mates but will the princess make a new rule when she gets to know that she is mated to a rogue?. Will she go against the rules and risk her life to reject her mate just because he's a rogue and Alpha of a rogue pack? (This book is on pause and will be resumed in August. Kindly, check out my other ongoing book where I'm giving daily updates - Betrayed by fated, Chased by his half-brother)

The Alpha King pins Everleigh to the ground, declaring that she will be his new bride. But she can never marry him - if he ever found out her secret, that she KNOWS his son Auden and is the mother of secret twins, the King will kill her instantly. Desperate, Everleigh runs away in the night. Can Prince Auden catch Everleigh and bring her back to the palace to meet her fate and marry the King? Who will be the first to figure out that Auden has more in common with Everleigh's secret twins than he originally suspected?

Crystal is a dragon queen and the Guardian of the portals to other realms. She has been forced by her duties to protect this world to leave her mate behind. Finding him in prison, she had no choice to complete the mate bond and then she was forced to leave him. She had kept his existence a secret to protect him. Now duty is calling and it is putting her straight in the arms of her mate. Can she finally be the mate he needs or will her duties and the secret she carries destroy them both. Alpha Rook of the Moonfall Mountains pack discovered his mate in the war. Having successfully completed the mating bond he is forced to let her go. He is patient only for her. His family and pack don’t believe he has found his mate as none of them have ever seen her. As he battles the women they are forcing onto him, he is loosing control and wonders if he will ever have his mate by his side again. When her duties bring her back into his arms. He will do everything in his power to keep her by his side forever. But can his family and pack accept that a dragon is his true mate and their Luna or will their differences and the secret she is hiding destroy them as they battle evil that wants to destroy the whole world.

Twenty five years ago, Kevin's parents were brutally murdered. Two decades later, Kevin is forced to watch helplessly as his fiancée suffers torture at the hands of the same murderer. Never fully recovering from the trauma, he moves into a new city, hoping to start his life anew, leaving his devastating past behind. But things doesn't go as planned when he meets Natasha—the daughter of an officer hunting for his kind. They soon discover the battered corpse of a missing detective assigned to investigate the murder of his fiancée, which signalled a new danger. However, when the horror from his past returns, Kevin is forced to stay away from Natasha—or watch her fall victim to a ghoul who takes pleasure in tormenting him.