substituent bride

This is a story about Lucan, a billionaire CEO and a mixture of a vampire and a werewolf, making him the strongest in his clan, he has lived far too long and never experienced any worries but his fate changes when he begins to age which is a thing of worry Because vampires don't age. A witch tells him to find a young virgin girl and he will be alright when he drinks her blood. But everything changes when he meets Mica, a Nineteen year old college student and they fall in love at first sight. what happens when he finds out Mica is the virgin who was destined to save him? will he hurt her to save himself or save her to hurt himself?. And what happens when his own brother is also in love with the woman he chose? His mate is also on the quest to destroy Mica for stealing her hybrid from her A romance filled novel with different twists and plot. A book that will keep you glued.

Nineteen years ago, a prophecy appeared in the land of Calla Empire. "The day has come. The Goblin's Bride will be born. The Goblin will rise again." Mothers who were pregnant were f*rced to abort their unborn children. The Queen who was bearing the King's sole heiress was left with no other choice but to escape and run away from the Empire. Amara Fairoza turned into a lovely little girl. She was loved by the people of the woods and was always been a fan of folklores. "My children, do you want to know a secret?" said by an old woman when Amara was seventeen. "It was the Royal family who cursed the people. They were the ones who spread the disease and blame it to the Goblin. They took the Goblin and locked him under the palace. The Goblin's trapped into a deep sleep. A spell was casted by a witch and no one could wake him except for the kiss of his bride." She didn't have any idea back then that she was the lost queen of the empire and the Goblin's bride.

Receiving a glass of wine from her sister on the night before her wedding was the worst mistake Annalisa could have ever made. Unknown to her, the drink had been spiked, setting her up into having a one night stand with a stranger. But the stranger had been none other than Cristiano Morano, a powerful and ruthless man who controlled half of the city's underworld. To make matters worse, he was also the sworn enemy of her fiancé. Annalisa thought she was going to lose it all, her career and her life, when a scandal about her unfaithfulness broke out. Not only that, she found out her fiancé had been cheating with her blood sister. As her family were about to announce their disowning in a press conference, a dashing man from the audience had come out and said he was going to take responsibility for Anna. They got married, but Cristiano had stated a condition in the contract she signed; He would have full control over her life and career. Would a timid girl like Annalisa survive in Cristiano's world? “You’re mine now, Annalisa. And I always get what's mine.” “W-what do you mean?” “I mean I'll break you,” Cristiano said, a dangerous glint in his eyes. “And then, I'll put you back together again, my way.”

For her whole life, Lyra Suarez had been a good girl. That one girl who was too sweet, too nice, too helpful, too kind, too easy to manipulate, too easy to use, too easy to destroy. Being too pure and too caring sometimes has its bad side. And she knew that too well. At twenty-three, she was busy working her life away just to protect herself and keep her distance from her biological father, who never even claimed her.   With just one laced drink, her trust in her only aunt disappeared. Everybody seemed to see her as a beautiful ticket to a fortune. She was sold to a filthy old man.   While her poor soul cried for help, calling all the saints never seemed to work. And as her last prayer, in her most desperate state, she called for him... the Devil.   Because a deal with the Devil is always better than living in hell. And sometimes, the Devil is not the one to fear.

Rayna is a 27-year-old dance choreography instructor. She falls in love with one of her celebrity clients who betrays her. Needing a break she books a 3 month stay at a secluded resort. She meets the local Club owner Liam, and the attraction is off the charts. Liam is wealthy and has secrets. Even though his kind aren't allowed to marry humans, he can't fight what he feels. He's all in and to hell with the consequences. One of the local ladies is crazy. The trouble she causes pushes Rayna and Liam closer together. There are major obstacles in the way that they overcome together. The rules they live by, threaten to keep the couples apart. Life finds a way. Rayna's heritage shocks them. Their trip to Germany sheds light on everything. Another enemy emerges who’ll stop at only death to have her. A surprise pregnancy changes everything they knew. The next generation will prove to be very powerful. Rayna questions everything she believes. And when it comes to light, her life and others will never be the same again. Becoming the Blue Moon Luna. Rae is fed up with men. Her bestie talks her into playing a paranormal dating game.. It's real people pretending to be paranormal dates. It's just for fun, just for chatting. The game is fake, it’s not real, no way it can be right? Werewolves don't exist! Follow her story as she learns werewolves do exist. And makes the decision to get turned and become the Blue Moon Luna despite those against her. But wait, they find out she’s a special Luna. She fights off a wolf who wants Jake in a death match. The packs are having low mating rates, and she comes up with a plan to fix that.

What happens when it's time to come together with your long-time crush but something happens pulling you far apart from him? Ellie becoming winner of the Miss Wolf World International pulls the interest of her Alpha to her who had been treating her like scum before despite her crushing on him. He proposes a very expensive marriage to her because he needs a girl to sustain his reign as Alpha of the Southern Crescent Pack. Before he could get to claim her, his twin brother, the Alpha of the Northern Crescent Pack had already did and when Ellie discovered they were mates, she was delighted thinking it was Brian. When the real Brian later returned, her illusion was gone. Now trapped between this twin who wants her more than anything in the world. Will she go for her fated mate or the one she has been dying hard to be with for many years and who finally responded to her call?

The Frost Demon Morozko, Prince of Russia's immortal land of Buyan, has waited ages for a mate. And she is Stravinksy's fabled Firebird - incarnated as an orphaned witch! Cast out by the King of the Ice Kingdom, Morozko wanders Buyan, a Miyazaki haven for cherti, nechist, and witches - but a dark curse plagues the land - Koschei the Deathless. Can this bastard prince and the young human girl Anya that conniving Baba Yaga gave Morozko to raise with his found family of cutthroat spirits stand a chance against the immortal sorcerer King Kaschei, who has trapped Anya's soul in the Deathless realms, in gardens of dead wives? Anya is burgeoning with power, living a double life between Cold War Russia and D.C., and coming into her own as a witch to rival Baba Yaga. When her newfound love for Morozko is at stake, she will risk it all to follow the darkly tempting Kaschei to the Deathless lands, face the travails that put all Russia in peril - and save Morozko, as much as he saves her. With epic love, sorcery, adventure, treachery, a Slavic inn for spirits, and plenty of blini warm by the fire, come read this daring journey, and find out if an immortal love can withstand death Himself!

Detective Jane Michaels arrives in Ridgeview to start fresh after a catastrophic case nearly ended her career. On her first day, she’s assigned a gruesome case involving a serial killer who dresses his victims as brides and leaves a single rose. As Jane dives deeper, she uncovers unsettling details about the victims and their lives. Amidst the investigation, she crosses paths with Nathaniel Carter, a kind and mysterious local writer who slowly chips away at her walls. But Ridgeview is a town of secrets, and the truth is never as it seems. When a victim escapes the killer’s clutches and gives a description, the case takes an unexpected turn. The town is rocked as the killer is unmasked—someone who was hiding in plain sight. In the final confrontation, Jane must use her wit and emotional resilience to bring the killer to justice. But even as the case is solved, a sinister shadow lingers, and Jane faces her own demons, left with an unsettling gift that raises more questions than answers.

Today was supposed to be my wedding day. The D-day, the big day—whatever people liked to call it. For me, it was meant to be the happiest day of my life. Our life. But to the likes of me, happiness was nothing but a cruel illusion. The groom, Clyde Monroe, wasn’t waiting for me at the altar. Instead, the ruthless, calculating billionaire—known for his icy demeanor and unmatched power—was on one knee before someone else. Someone who was supposed to be dead. His ex-girlfriend. As the truth unraveled, so did the fragile threads of the life we were building. Betrayal, grief, humiliation—I felt it all. Clyde’s haunted past, one I had only glimpsed, was now ripping apart the fragile illusion of the bond I thought we shared. The truth? I was nothing more than a pawn, a random babymaker caught in a game I never signed up to play. My name is Margaux Olsen, and I am his unwanted bride.

Janiyah finds herself reluctantly on the auction stage in a world where women are auctioned off for one-night stands because she is desperately trying to get money for her sick sister's medical care. Janiyah becomes increasingly uncomfortable as the auction continues, especially when an unexpected bidder makes an astonishing fifty million dollars for her.