Novels by Vela Raven

One month married, and I'm regretting my husband. I wanted a marriage worth envying. Instead, I got a man who has me questioning why I said yes in the first place. If I could turn back time, I'd think a lot harder before putting on that wedding ring. Then there's Kael, my father-in-law. Older. Powerful. Commanding. The kind of man who doesn't need to raise his voice to remind everyone who's in charge. His son may have married me, but Kael has the presence, and authority that make his son look like the wrong choice. And somehow, Kael has become too involved in a marriage that should have nothing to do with him. He's my husband's father. I'm his son's wife. The family tree alone should be enough to send me running in the opposite direction. But I'm not running. I know what people would call me if the truth came out. Unfaithful wife. Homewrecker. The woman who allowed a family scandal to threaten everything she had promised to protect. And I can already hear the outrage. My marriage is on the line, my reputation would never recover, and Kael is the last man I should allow to complicate my life. Yet the more entangled our lives become, the less interested I am in pretending this situation is as simple as right and wrong. I married his son. I crossed a line I should have respected. And now I'm discovering that the consequences may be far worse than the scandal itself. Maybe I'm a terrible wife. Maybe I deserve every judgment coming my way. But I'm done pretending that wearing a wedding ring automatically makes a woman happy. So go ahead. Judge me. But if you were married to his son, would you really be able to resist his father?

I made a mistake with the Alpha. A deliciously dangerous mistake, as it turns out. I'm Ava Monroe. I've never been the respectable girl people bring home to meet their parents. Men talk about me, women judge me, and I've long since stopped wasting my time correcting people who think they know my business. But I certainly didn't know Damien Cross was an Alpha, and I had no idea werewolves were real. I knew he was trouble, but trouble has never been a good enough reason for me to walk away. To Damien, I was just another human woman, someone who could never belong in his world. He had power, status, and an ego enough to fill his entire territory. The last thing he expected was for his wolf to recognize me as his mate. Now the Alpha who once looked down on me wants me at his side. He wants my loyalty, my attention, and a say in what I do. He's used to women falling into line when he gives an order. Unfortunately for him, I've never been particularly good at behaving. Damien can be possessive, and dangerously hard to ignore. But being his mate doesn't make me his property, and I'm not about to become a well-behaved little wife just because fate has tied us together. Getting close to Damien means entering a world where power is everything and weakness can get you killed. He knows how to handle enemies who challenge him openly. What he doesn't know is what to do with a woman who refuses to fear him. I'm human. And that may be the one thing that saves me, or destroys him. Damien Cross thinks fate has given him a mate. He has no idea what it has put within my reach. Kill him.

I caught my boyfriend in bed with another woman on our anniversary night. So I did the only thing that made sense. I spent one reckless night with his ruthless billionaire brother in his Rolls-Royce. One night of revenge. One mistake I never expected to pay for nine months later. Now I'm pregnant with Damien Voss's baby, and he refuses to let me go. He moved me into his million-dollar penthouse, paid my dying mother's hospital bills, and made it clear that walking away from him was no longer an option. But the worst part? He's been obsessed with me for years. He's the reason my life fell apart, and I'm beginning to suspect our night together was never an accident. Now my cheating ex is back, begging for another chance and claiming the baby should have been his, while Damien's powerful family is determined to destroy me. I wanted revenge. Instead, I'm carrying my ex's brother's child, trapped with the man who ruined my life, and dangerously close to wanting him despite everything he's done. Will I bring the Voss empire to its knees, or become the one thing Damien Voss will never let go?

The world is turning into a graveyard, and the graves are emptying faster than the living can bury their dead. A bite is a death sentence. The infected tear through families, schools, hospitals, entire cities. People barricade themselves inside their homes while their loved ones claw at the doors, begging to be let in with mouths full of blood. Those who escape spend their days scavenging through abandoned shops and their nights listening to the dead gather outside. Nina Calloway has watched the world become a slaughterhouse. She has seen people trampled over a bottle of water, strangers dragged from hiding places, and desperate survivors trade human lives for a few more hours of safety. Every place that promises shelter eventually becomes another feeding ground. The infection is spreading. Humanity is losing. And the worst part is that the zombies are only what everyone can see. Doom is older than the world humans built, older than their gods, their wars, and their countless attempts to cheat death. He does not need to infect anyone to destroy what humanity has made. His existence carries a consequence the living have never been equipped to understand. Now the dead are swallowing the earth, and the world is approaching a point from which it may never return. The last broadcasts have become recordings of people screaming. Entire populations have vanished between one sunrise and the next. Somewhere, a child is being eaten alive while armed men argue over whether the ammunition is worth wasting. The living have started locking their wounded outside, because mercy has become another way to die. And beneath the carnage lies a truth far more horrifying than any infected mouth. The answer is Doom. And humanity has already reached the beginning of its end.

The prince chose his bride before the entire kingdom, then spent the night begging his male bodyguard not to leave him. Adrian Valemont is expected to marry a princess, produce an heir, and become the king his people deserve. Unfortunately, his heart has other plans, and they have a name: Lucien Vale. Lucien is his bodyguard, his closest confidant, and the one man Adrian refuses to stop choosing. He doesn't care that the kingdom expects him to marry a woman. He doesn't care that loving Lucien could destroy his reputation. And he's growing tired of pretending the man he wants beside him is merely an employee. Lucien calls it a royal mistake. Adrian calls it the truth he's hidden for years. Now the prince must face a question no crown can answer for him: will he marry for the kingdom's approval, or risk his throne for the one man he refuses to give up?