what the fireflies knew

Needing to get married before his grandfather dies, Dr. Lyrek Cole goes to the bar to drink away his problems. There he meets the most beautiful bartender he has ever saw. Captivated by her beauty, he tries to catch her attention. Veronica Reed, however, is too preoccupied with her own troubles to notice him. She is drowning in medical bills and her brother is dying of a brain tumor, which is why she is works four jobs. Her brother's brain tumor is inoperable, but she is doing everything she can, in hopes of saving him. Little does she know, Lyrek is exactly who she needs to save her brother. Only if she agrees to marry him. Not only because is the best brain surgeon in the world, but also because he has more money then he knows what to do with.

Nina had the perfect life. She had a caring boyfriend and friends that never left her side until one night when her world came crashing down. Deciding to embark on a new journey, she is met with more questions than answers. After countless rouge attacks she finds herself in a sticky situation and her savior is someone she least expected. Nina now has to figure out if she can fulfill her destiny.

Adriane was living a life she thought was normal, that was up until her sixteenth birthday. This was when she first turned. She had absolutely no knowledge of what was happening and no prior warning about what she was about to go through. It was excruciatingly painful, the single most horrible experience in her life. But what did the most damage was the look of sheer horror on her parents' faces at the mere sight of her. Even her little sister had the mind to call her a monster confirming Adriane's worst fears. She'd turned into the very thing that plagued her nightmares. That's when she lost it, that's when she broke out and ran. She didn't stop running until she plummeted into a world she never knew existed, a world she is now a part of.

Avianna Leondale enters the Amaranthine Institute for Werewolves with two purpose: to graduate from highschool quietly and to get her highschool diploma. She was fine being a loner, an outcast, a nobody. She doesn't have any plan to meet new friends, not even her mate. However, the Moon Goddess seemed to have a different plan for her. In that very school, she met her twin mates. If it's not shocking enough, she had the top competing Alphas as her mates. She wasn't interested, but upon discovering something about her Alphas, she slowly got herself immersed in her fate. She even met new friends and even got herself enemies. Everything had changed. Including her purpose and plans.

Yasmine is a simple village girl who is a little different from everyone else. She doesn't like her proper place as she would rather train to fight like a warrior than wash smelly, dirty clothes or be locked away in a kitchen somewhere like the other girls. Every five years, her village is invaded by what the Elders refer to as the beasts. They ransack everything and kidnap a selected few of the young villages that have just reached or are about to reach their eighteenth year. No one knows what happens to them as they were never seen again. How will Yasmine react when the beasts come for her and the Alpha of the beasts claims her as his own? With human hunters roaming the woods, Rival Packs wanting revenge, Friends and Ex-Lovers causing trouble, Will they overcome each obstacle that is thrown at them and come together as one? Or will they be torn apart??? ** Warning ** This story contains some violence, mature language, and mature scenes. Please read at your own discretion.

"Stop the car!" Shouted Albert "Boss!" "I said stop the car or you are fired!" Albert said coldly. 'Screeeeeeech' the driver stepped on the emergency break. Before he could react, his boss had already flung the door and was running towards a certain direction... .... "Let's go home." Hearing the word home, Velma looked at the man before her dumbly. "Let's go home..." Albert repeated himself. Before waiting for Velma to reply, he took her hand and led her to the car.

** This is book 1 of The alliance series, each book can be read as a stand alone but the stories do follow on. ** ** Book 2 Freeing Freya now available ** The desire to mate is overwhelming and he can no longer ignore his wolfs need but how can anyone find it in them to love the Alpha's dark secret. He's been careful his whole life to keep it hidden, and there is no way that this timid girl before him will be able to handle it but she has a secret of her own, one that will shake him to his core, if only he can hold onto her long enough to find out.

March Yana gave birth to quintuplets in secret. She’s raising her children alone without telling Rod the truth. She doesn’t want to go back to his life but it changed after the accident happened.Rod was already married and that’s the reason why Marcha didn’t tell him the truth. She was a mistress—a disgrace to Rod’s family. She pushed Rod away and escaped with their unborn children in her womb. 7 years later, Rod’s mother found March Yana and asked a favor that leads her to go back to Rod’s life. She wanted to say no but she can’t turned down the woman who helped and raised her when she was still in college. She agreed to nurse Rod and to be his business secretary for the time being. What if Rod learned the truth? Will she still succeeding on hiding Rod’s children? Or will Rod take their children and hide them from her instead?

"Boss! Nasa panganib pong muli ang buhay ng asawa mo!" wika ng kanang-kamay ni Kaizer. "Ihanda mo ang mga tauhan at ililigtas natin siya!" malakas na sigaw ng mafia boss. Mabilis na kumilos ang mga tauhan ng Devil's Angel Mafia Organization. Lahat sila ay handang ialay ang buhay para sa kanilang reyna. Buong tapang na sumakay si Kaizer sa sasakyang naghihintay sa kan'ya. Ngunit ang mga mata niya ay punong-puno ng lungkot. Tumatagos doon ang sakit na nararamdaman ng kaniyang puso. Siya ang asawa ngunit ang puso ng babaeng mahal niya ay nahahati sa dalawa. Hindi siya pwedeng gumamit ng dahas dahil baka tuluyang mawala sa kan'ya si Kryzell. Ang babaeng una at pinangakuan niyang huling iibigin. Sa pag-ibig kung saan ay nakikihati lamang siya, hanggang kailan ni Kaizer kayang maging biktima? May halaga ba ang pagiging mafia boss kung ang mafia's hidden angel ay magdesisyon na muling mabuhay ng payapa at malayo sa magulong mundo na meron siya?

WARNING: R-18 l MATURE CONTENT l SPG l VERY SEXUAL l READ RESPONSIBLY I never knew I could feel so much pain and yet be so in love with the same person causing it. Ezra Monique grow up being independent. She was never valued. Her accomplishments were never recognized. She's always in a shadow of her older sister, second great and never the best. But all of that didn't matter to her. There's only thing that matter, to get the attention of the one man she always wanted, Atty. Tristan Angelo Gonzales. The same man her sister admired. He was uninterested with her but that doesn't stop her from getting his attention. She never stop bugging him until one day he was fed up. He insulted her and threw her out of his office. Broken and insulted she left the country to heal. Don't have plans of coming back. She became the woman every man desired. Successful in her own field. Living the life on her own, serene and untroubled. Everything is perfect for her, she is contented and happy in her own simple way. Life for her is good and not complicated. Not until the day she woke up being in a place she hated the most, with the people whom she never felt the love and acceptance, and with the situation she didn't expect. Will she be able to accept that she is now the Billionaire's Wife?