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When Lyra gets forced into a contract marriage with a dying aristocrat by her greedy adoptive father, she is resistant. But what she doesn't expect is that the man who she is in a contract marriage with isn't Ill or dying at all. Instead, he is a multi-faced arrogant aristocrat vampire who also happens to be her boss.

When songwriting major Anya Scott goes to a prestigious college, she believes her unfortunate fate will forever change its course. Her supportive boyfriend lavishes her with attention, and she receives financial assistance from a mysterious benefactor. Despite her traumatic past, she’s doing better than she ever imagined and is on the cusp of achieving her goals. Until she’s not. She encounters a man who is brilliant, rich, and obviously unobtainable. Julian Sebastian—a renowned Hollywood composer and her new professor. Anya soon realizes she has stronger feelings for him and tries to suppress them for all the right reasons. Julian, too, is captivated by Anya's wit, beauty, and resolve. A forbidden, passionate affair awaits them. It’s a wrong and dangerous ride, but it feels so right that she wants to explore her own desires. Just one . Only one touch. They are all it will take to cross the line.

ZOEY: Once upon a time, I fell in love with the notorious antagonist.💔🥺 LUCA: Once upon a time, my heart beats only for one thing: her destruction.💀🖤 🔞❗❗Trigger warning: This story contains mature themes, graphic content, explicit scenes, and may be triggering for some readers❗❗🔞

The world has changed. All species have moved to their own island. Everyone is flourishing in their new environment except for humans. They are being bred as slaves for the rest of the world. The only problem is Samatha is a born a dragon, but only her breeder knows. She is given medicine to suppress her dragon side. That is until her new master decided to stop giving her, her medicine. Now she needs to learn how to be a queen to the dragon world.

Two women fighting different fates. Freya should be content as Luna of Rising Star but everything about her twisted mate repulses her. Even when she has a chance at happiness she's forced back to where it all began to try and save the people she loves. Including Zeke, her damaged, gruff bodyguard. Zena doesn't give a f--k. Until she suddenly has to, when her coven demands her talents. But her casual attitude has left with her with one unrequited love, one obsessive stalker and a quiet, heartstruck man who will battle everything to prove she's more than a tool for everyone else's Fate. Book 2 of the Shadowlands Series (Can all be read standalone) Book 1: A Damaged Alpha Book 2: The Luna Who Wants Everything Book 3: Resisting the Beta (2024) First Generation: White Forest Pack Series (can all be read standalone) Book 1: A Banished Alpha Book 2: The Luna's Rejected Assassin Book 3: The Beta's Prize

Lilianna Vera is the one and only daughter of her parents. Because of that, she is always pampered and put on pedestal. As a child, Lilianna see that treatment as a form of love but it's not the case anymore since the day she turned legal. She thought that it wasn't right that she's always restricted from doing anything, especially her passion for dancing and drawing. Then she met a guy named Kairos, the guy who would let her experience all of the 'firsts' life could offer... including falling in love romantically for the first time.

Lisa Ravenwing is the daughter of the Beta of the Moonstrider Pack as a Beta's daughter she should be loved and respected by the pack but instead she is abused and bullied because the pack thinks she's wolfless little do they know that she does have a wolf but when she turns 18 and finds her mate the future Alpha Eric Moonstrider and he rejects her she leaves and builds her own pack what happens when her old pack requests her new packs aid and they see her will Eric want her back and will she even take him back or will she find someone else

Amelie Cavanaugh has faced many hardships in her life. She was orphaned at 8 years old, ran away with her brother from foster care at 14 years old, and constantly worked to achieve her goal of the university. Just when her life is going to plan, life is turned upside down one blustery November day as her brother is injured during a football game. Billionaire Dr. Nathan Michaels is next in line to take over Michaels Investment Group as his grandfather, Carrington Michaels, is retiring. The problem is that the board members think his playboy ways need to be in line for the CEO position. Solution: Carrington Michaels tells Nathan he has 6 weeks to get married, or he will lose the company. A chance sighting of the stunning brown-haired Amelie in the hospital cafe sends Nathan's world into a spin, but when he turns around after receiving his order, she is gone. Who is she? Where did she go? How can he make her his? Will it even matter when a dark family secret involving both families could threaten any chance of happiness?

Anastasia Tomes (Ana) is an abandoned orphan she-wolf who endures a lifetime of physical, mental, psychological and medical abuse at the hands of Janice, the housemother of the orphanage she is raised in, and Kaira, a witch who is working with the Janice. On her 18th birthday, she is not only kicked out of the Moon Valley Orphanage, but she also meets, and is subsequently rejected by, her destined mate. Ana never shifted and began to believe that she was wolf-less, until after she has left the orphanage. She was kept drugged with wolfsbane, Bella donna and other herbal concoctions, as well as liquid silver which all keep her from developing normally. Ana has been given injections throughout her life and was told it was a medical procedure to keep her alive. These cocktails of toxins caused her to have poor eyesight and extremely low metabolism, causing weight problems, both anomalies of werewolves. Ana meets her wolf, Scarlett, on her birthday after she leaves the orphanage. Scarlett helps her through as she experiences a pattern of rejections: from her parents to her destined mate. Although Ana feels that her life is worthless and that she is unlovable, she feels that she needs to go on a fact-finding journey to find out who she is, what her truths are and what her contribution to the world is. In her travels, she finds that there are unsavory people who will do whatever they can to keep her from her destiny, a destiny she has yet to realize. Will Ana be able to unravel the web of deceit whe has believed all her live, realize her potential and become the she-wolf she was destined to or will she tuck tail and run to keep her sanity and life intact?

Like a nightmare for an Omega, she has to accept the fact that her Alpha rejects her for another woman he has liked for a long time. Olivia tries to endure the pain of ending her life as an outcast Luna after Hunter throws her out of the house and chooses Emily, another Omega who has been betraying her. But Olivia's departure left a question mark, because after 5 months of their divorce, Hunter found Olivia pregnant, but unfortunately at that time the Omega was not alone, another Alpha was accompanying her. Thinking that the baby Olivia was carrying was the result of an affair with another Alpha, made Hunter angry and asked the entire pack to ban her from entering their area, including the Alpha who was with her. Hunter is a handsome and rich Alpha. His father is highly respected in their region and has only one desire, he wants to have a son to succeed his throne. But unfortunately, after being married to Olivia for 5 years, he didn't get what he wanted until betrayal came and destroyed everything. However, what if Hunter finds out the truth about the baby Olivia is carrying? Will Olivia's fate change? Or it's too late to fix it.