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Forbidden By Her Mafia Stepbrother

“You are my stepbrother,” Viola whispered, her back pressing against the locked mahogany door. “Stepbrother.” The word left Sebastian’s lips like a curse. His shadow swallowed the room, caging her against the wood. He caught her chin, forcing her violet eyes to meet the ruthless amber of his. “A piece of paper doesn’t make us family, Dulzura,” he murmured, his thumb brushing her trembling lower lip. “It just makes you mine.” ************************************* Sebastian Cain Hierro doesn’t do romance. There are no gentle promises, no soft apologies, and absolutely no love games. A man bred in the violence of the cartel only understands one language: absolute, brutal control. For Viola, being dragged into his dark orbit is a terrifying awakening. She is a girl who only ever wanted to be cherished, suddenly trapped in a forbidden reality with a stepbrother who demands her complete surrender. Every touch behind closed doors is a sin. Every whisper is a command. Surviving him means playing by his twisted rules. She can have his protection, his heavy gaze, and his suffocating obsession—but he has made it dangerously clear that she can never, ever have his heart. But a girl like Viola doesn't know how to give her body without giving her soul. And when she inevitably pours all her desperate, unspoken love into a monster who is completely incapable of loving her back... where is her shattered heart supposed to go? *** Follow me on Instagram: @authorpria for exclusive teasers, sneak peeks, and book updates.

Game Over, Mr. CEO: Your Wife Is Done

Like many women who refuse to give up until they hit a dead end, Winter Scott once tried to make a man like Chris Xander fall in love with her. But after three years of marriage, they were nothing more than strangers. When she was brutally attacked and her life was hanging by a thread, Chris wasn’t with her. He was by the side of his former love. Winter forced herself to let go. Yet the powerful man she thought she had left behind refused to disappear from her life. Step by step, he closed in on her, cutting off any chance of a new romance in her life and blocking every path of retreat. “You’re the one who insisted on marrying me back then,” he said coldly. “As long as I don’t agree to a divorce, you’ll never be free of me.” Winter looked at him coldly. “Sorry, Mr. Xander. Game over. This marriage ends when I say it ends.”

Married at First Sight

Since the day Serenity got hitched to a stranger on their blind date, she had assumed married life would be ordinary but respectful and mundane. It never crossed her mind that her new husband would be clingy like a piece of gum stuck to the bottom of a shoe. To her utmost surprise, he could make her troubles disappear whenever she was in a fix. Despite her questioning, her husband would always pass it off as luck. Until one day, she watched an interview with a local billionaire known for fussing over his wife. That was when she noticed the uncanny resemblance of the billionaire to her husband. The wife whom he was showering attention on turned out to be her!

In Heat For My Step-brother

Isabella had been in love with her stepbrother since her mother remarried, but she could never confess her feelings because Maximilian cut ties with his girlfriends the moment the relationship became anything more than physical. Afraid of losing him forever, she kept her feelings hidden until her 18th birthday arrived and, being wolfless, her countdown from the pack finally ended. She was broken at the thought of being separated from Maximilian forever and was preparing to leave when Maximilian went into rut. And Isabella blindfolded him taking place of his fling.

Alpha’s Rue: His Shunned Luna

He took away my choice of being marked. “I hate you.” I spit. “You think I want this?” He snickers. “Being mated to you is my worst nightmare come alive, but if you dare run from me? Make sure you can hide well because I will hunt you down, Mate.” ♡ I came back for one day. One stupid day to appease my father but now I’m trapped for life by a bond I never asked for. Alpha Kingston has a girlfriend, she's the Luna he and his pack desire not me. I was once his Bestfriend, the girl he would burn the world for but now I'm the one he’d burn to save her. Everyone says I'm the villian, but every villian has a story right? One they never tried to hear. I don't belong here, not anymore. Mooncrest has done nothing but break me, I want to leave but I'm the Alpha’s mate, and he promises to catch me if I run. Staying in Mooncrest brings back feelings I didn't know I had. Can King and I be as we were before or did I lose him forever without an explanation?

A Woman Worth Billions, Dated the Wrong Brother

Amber built an empire she was never allowed to claim. Brilliant, strategic, and fiercely loyal, Amber was the mind behind a billion-dollar real estate empire—the woman who identified undervalued properties, structured acquisitions, and designed expansion projects that reshaped skylines. But when betrayal strikes, she’s fired, humiliated, and discarded by the man she helped rise to the top. She walks away with nothing but her intelligence, her dignity… and the projects that were always hers. What her ex-fiancé never expects is his powerful half-brother. A billionaire real estate magnate in his own right, controlled, private, and raising two adopted children on his own, he offers Amber something unexpected: a contractual marriage. No romance. No lies. Just mutual benefit. A public wife to stabilize his corporate image—and a strategic partner who understands the business better than anyone. Amber accepts. She takes her real estate projects with her—developments she sourced, designed, and negotiated from the ground up—and brings them into her new husband’s company. Entire portfolios shift overnight. Investments follow her. For the first time, her name is on the contracts, her voice dominates boardrooms, and her success is undeniable. As Amber rises, the real estate empire she once built in silence begins to crumble. Deals collapse without her leadership. Bad investments surface. And the company her ex-fiancé claimed as his own crashes spectacularly—while Amber thrives, wealthier and more powerful than ever. But what begins as a business arrangement slowly becomes something far more dangerous. Because power is intoxicating. Trust is fragile. And love was never part of the contract.

DARK INFATUATION

Luciano Knight'Analise James'. A woman who owns my heart. She is not my only love but also light in my dark world. She is special and beautiful. When I first saw her in my club working as a waitress, I was mesmerized by her beauty. For once in my life I felt my heart was alive.I watched her everyday stopping myself from claiming her because she is too pure for my dark world. But one day when I saw someone trying to rape her.I lost it and claimed my beautiful angel. Now she is only mine to love and to possess...................................He gave her everything but stole her freedom and broke her soul.

SIR

By day, Nora Ellis is nothing more than the quiet secretary to one of the most powerful CEOs in the city. She has spent a year secretly lusting after David Reid, the cold, untouchable billionaire who barely seems to notice her. But when night falls, Nora is the Mistress of The Red Room, a private club where powerful men kneel at her feet and beg for her attention. Her two worlds have always remained perfectly separate... until David walks through the doors of The Red Room. He doesn't recognize his secretary beneath the red wig and mask. And Nora intends to keep it that way. But David Reid has secrets of his own. And when Nora finally discovers who she has allowed into her bed, she realizes she hasn't just fallen for her boss. She's fallen for a man capable of destroying anyone who threatens what belongs to him. Including her. (Not your typical Boss/Secretary romance)

The Forced Bride Of The Devil Alvaro

Being a bride had always been Cyra’s sweet dream but what she didn't know was that in order to save her love and boyfriend, Ethan, she would have to become the forced bride of Zaiden Alvaro’s…aka…the Devil Alvaro. Read To Find Out.

His Exception

She can't escape him now. He'll do whatever it takes to get what, or rather, who he wants. Ellie is a 19-year-old girl desperately in need of money to take care of her disabled mother. After losing her father, she has no choice but to find a higher-paying job to keep her family going. That's when she gets an opportunity at the Salvatore mansion, the home of the ruthless, cold, and emotionless Mafia don, Kalon Salvatore. Ellie has no idea what she is getting herself into when she accepts the job. She only knows she needs the money. But Kalon notices something about her that he has never seen in anyone before, her innocence and purity. Soon, his interest turns into an obsession. Kalon becomes determined to corrupt the naive, lovely soul he finds so angelic, even if it means destroying the very innocence that drew him to her in the first place. But Ellie doesn't know the kind of man she has walked into the life of. Will Eliana Rose discover Kalon's true intentions and flee before it's too late, or will she become so entangled with this demon of a man that he changes her, or perhaps, she changes him?

DIVORCED, THEN CHOSEN BY THE MAFIA DON AND HIS SON

Anne is abandoned and divorced by her husband after her body changes and she becomes overweight, and she is diagnosed with cancer. Her home, company, and dignity are all taken from her overnight. Now, she has to survive on the streets. At that very moment, she meets Elio, a four-year-old boy who has run away in search of a mother figure, and Elio takes an immediate liking to Anne. This encounter leads her to Nicola Conti, a cold and ruthless Mafia Don. Nicola offers Anne a job as Elio’s nanny. Anne accepts because she needs the money. One day, Nicola offers her a contract marriage. Anne refuses, but after discovering that her ex-husband manipulated her medical diagnosis and that she is actually healthy, Anne accepts. Nicola is not an ordinary man. Behind his expensive suits and cold demeanor, he harbors dark intimate desires. Anne was supposed to be nothing more than a part of the contract, but instead, she finds herself entangled in every touch of his.

Bound To The Enemy's Heir

Lyra Vance’s beautiful life shatters when a car crash steals her parents and leaves her an orphan. Taken in by a fake savior who steals her inheritance, Lyra is reduced to an unpaid hungry maid,caged in a nightmare of endless abuse. With no money and nowhere to escape, her fate takes a terrifying turn when her guardian’s massive debt attracts the attention of the mafia. To clear her four-million-dollar debt, Victoria sells Lyra off as human collateral to Dante Valerius. A cold, ruthless, untouchable, feared heir to the city's most dangerous syndicate. Now Lyra belongs to him. Just when she thinks she has entered another cage, Dante sweeps her away to his fortified estate and promises her absolute protection. But the deeper she falls into his dark world, the more secrets she uncovers. Because Dante didn't buy her out of pity. Creeping into his private study at two in the morning, Lyra discovers a blood-stained ledger with a horrifying truth: Her parents were executed on orders from Dante’s father. The man who promised her protection is the son of the man who took the most precious thing from her. As a deadly syndicate war begins and a long-buried past comes back to hunt them, Lyra realizes something terrifying. The ruthless mob prince who owns her body might be the only man standing between her and a bullet. And in Dante Valerius’s world, Love can be just as deadly as revenge.

Blackmailed by the Bully

PART 2 - OWNED BY THE BULLY - IS OUT NOW! Alice only wanted to help her younger brother when she confronted his bully. She ends up agreeing to do whatever Adam wants in return for him leaving her brother alone. He goes one step further, befriending and protecting her brother, but only for as long as Alice agrees to follow his orders. Orders that become increasingly difficult for her to agree to.

MAKAILA

Abandoned by her mum at the age of ten, Abused by her own father since then and bullied at school every single day, Makaila wanted nothing more than to feel the love of a father, a mother, a friend... Or that special someone. Then, He came into her life. Will he give her that love she has always craved for? Or will he just make matters worse?

Her Rock

Ella Mae Emerson, the girl who stays hidden at all costs, the girl who likes to be alone with eyes glued to the floor, words coming out as stutters, and nervousness her own personal shadow. She's just a girl who's trying to make it through the day with anxiety clinging to her back.Declan Olin Anderson, the new kid who transferred with drooling features and a charming attitude. Football is his sport, you could say he's quite the stellar athlete who's got game both on and off the field. If you push he'll pull, he doesn't quit because no good athlete does.She wasn't like him and he wasn't like her. They each got their own problems but finding each other wasn't one of them.*"You're beautiful Ellie, that's why they're staring." He whispers into my ear. My cheeks go hot as my eyes meet his. I don't know why, but when Declan calls me beautiful I get this feeling that I can't describe. He makes me feel so special. At this moment it's just me and him, he smirks and adds, "You're my girl, not theirs, they are jealous and they should be."

$50K to Fake-Date My Brother's Hockey Star

“We shouldn’t be doing this,” I whispered breathlessly, my hand pressed against Scott’s chest. “We shouldn’t,” he whispered back, staring at me with hungry eyes, barely restraining himself. For a moment we just stared at each other, our breaths labored, then his eyes fell on my lips, and I knew it was over. He pushed me against the wall and claimed my lips. And for one reckless moment, I forgot every reason we were supposed to stay away from each other and let him have me. Scott Dylan is my brother’s best friend, Silverice’s star hockey player, and the last man I’m allowed to fall for. He’s also the arrogant team captain I’ve spent years arguing with—and the one man I’d rather interview than date. I’m a student journalist determined to build a career in sports journalism, and after a major opportunity slips through my fingers, I need money and connections to keep chasing the future I’ve always wanted. So when Scott’s reckless reputation threatens his chances of making it to the NHL, he comes to me with a ridiculous proposition: pretend to be his girlfriend until he secures his shot at the league. The price? Fifty thousand dollars. I should say no. Instead, I agree. We make three rules. No real feelings. No secret kisses. And absolutely no falling in love. Simple. Clean. Completely fake. At least, that's what we tell ourselves. Until one room and one bed turn our fake relationship into something neither of us can control. Now every stolen glance feels dangerous. Every touch feels like a betrayal. And every kiss makes it harder to remember where pretending ends and love begins. Because Scott was never supposed to want me. And I shouldn't love.

The lords' maid

A stolen identity. A masquerade dance. Two lords who refuse to let her go. ​To the noble town of Valenridge, Eva is merely a new servant girl who knows her place. ​To Lord Lucian, she is the infuriatingly familiar maid who feels far too much like the masked girl in yellow he can’t forget. ​To Lord Leo, she is the ultimate mystery worth unraveling. ​Eva came for revenge. She never counted on falling for the very masters she set out to deceive.

Fake Love With The Hockey Prince

Sky, a rising starlet, is photographed kissing Drake Frazen, the country’s most famous hockey star. To keep sponsors from pulling out on both sides, they are forced to stage a fake relationship. But rivals in showbiz and sports are determined to uncover the truth and prove their romance is nothing but an act. One is cheerful, while the other is quiet, distant, and cold. How will these two people with opposite personalities convince the public they are truly in love? In this tangled game of pretense and growing affection, who will fall first? And who will fall the hardest?  

Forever Loved, Like Day One

In my sixth year with Nathan Bennett. "Nathan, I'm getting married," I said. He jolted, suddenly snapping back to reality, looking somewhat troubled. "Hannah, you know the company is at a crucial point with our financing. I'm not in the mood to..." “It’s okay,” I replied, my smile calm and composed. Nathan misunderstood. I was getting married, but not to him.

Pregnant Without a Man

On the day Ethan Moore and I are supposed to marry, his adoptive sister, Hazel Moore, threatens to jump off a building. Ethan abandons me in my wedding dress and leaves me jilted for her. As the guests watch me mockingly, I boldly announce, "I'll marry anyone who dares walk down this aisle to me!" Three years later, Ethan returns to the Moore residence with Hazel. I'm seated on the couch and enjoying some oatmeal while watching TV. Ethan stares at my baby bump and snarls, "Who's the father of that child in your belly?" I sip my oatmeal and smile faintly. "A member of the Moore family, of course."

My Love Brought Me to My Death

My husband’s childhood friend was trapped in an elevator for half an hour. In his anger, he stuffed me inside a luggage bag and locked me inside. “You’re paying double for all the suffering Grace went through.” My body was forced into a curled-up state. I had a hard time breathing. I cried as I apologized, but all I got was my husband’s cold reproach. “You’re going through the entirety of this punishment. Once you’ve learned your lesson, you’ll behave.” He then locked the luggage bag in the closet. I screamed in despair and struggled to break free. My blood seeped out of the bag and soaked the floor. Five days later, he felt sorry for me and decided to end the punishment. “Let this punishment be a warning for you. This time, I’ll let you go.” Little did he know that my body was already rotting inside the luggage bag.

He Never Wanted Our Children, So I Chose to Forget Him

Simon Quinn was a man who clawed his way out of hell. Cold and ruthless, he feared nothing, except Yara Shaw. She was only fourteen when she took odd jobs and slowly raised him. Yara was the only person he believed in. Later, Simon gave Yara a love story the entire city envied. She believed in their love completely, until she lost three babies, one after another. The first time, a mysterious car accident caused her to miscarry from severe bleeding. The second time, a fire broke out in their home in the middle of the night. It left her disfigured and cost her another baby. The third time, a kidnapper stabbed her in the abdomen. When she was rescued, the baby was gone, and she had a divorce decree in her hand. On the night she was discharged from the hospital, she heard her husband say with a bitter laugh, "Cindy is the only one I love. Yara is family to me, nothing more. Why would I let her have my child?" Yara couldn't stop vomiting. In the end, she arranged to have her memories erased one month later.

Love in Signs, Pain in Silence

My girlfriend, Ayla Gardner, and I can both hear perfectly well, yet we only communicate through sign language. Our friends all say she's kind-hearted. She's even taken the initiative to get me to change my usual way of communicating so she can master sign language and help people with hearing impairments. Nobody knows that she's doing it all for one person. At first, Ayla suggests we immerse ourselves in sign language practice. We are to avoid speaking or texting as much as possible. One day, when it's pouring outside, I text her and ask her to pick me up. She tells me to video call her and use sign language. I fumble through a few clumsy gestures before she hangs up. In the end, I have to walk home in the rain. By midnight, my fever has soared to 104 degrees. When I finally manage to ask her to take me to the hospital, she simply gestures for me to use sign language. I'm so sick I can barely lift my hands. She waits two seconds, then rolls over and falls asleep. Eventually, I learned. When an old injury flares up, I break out in a cold sweat and tremble as I sign to her. "My stomach hurts. Take me to the hospital." Ayla smiles, her eyes crinkling at the corners. "Not bad. But I promised Johnny to go to an exhibition with him. You'll have to bear with it for now." Johnny Baker is a deaf teenager she met while volunteering. I'm in so much pain that I begin groaning involuntarily. She doesn't even flinch. "I can't understand you. Use sign language." Tears roll down my cheeks. Ayla hasn't wanted to teach me sign language. She just doesn't want to hear me speak. Fine by me. I'm leaving soon anyway. From then on, she won't hear my voice again, even if she wants to.

I Simped for the Wrong Girl

There are two things Sienna Crawford can't shake off. One is her Malamute. The other is me. But I still won her favor by being her simp. The day before our wedding, she was hospitalized after a reckless drive for her first love. I rush to the hospital in a panic, only to find that the scar that should be on her chest is missing. My face goes pale, and I ask, "Where is the scar from her heart surgery?" "Don't jinx my daughter! She's never had such a dreadful surgery!" Just like that, I realize I've been in love with the wrong person for the past three years. On the day Sienna is discharged from the hospital, she calls off our wedding for the sake of her first love. Everyone is eager to see me make a fool of myself, expecting me to lose my mind. Instead, I calmly reply, "Fine." Little do they know that I have never loved her. The person I loved died many years ago.