Nobela ni Avery Monroe

Ailsa Fraser has built her life around one rule: if you can’t leave, staying means nothing. As the founder of Exit, she helps people escape relationships where money, family, and power have turned choice into an illusion. So when billionaire heiress Eilidh Sinclair walks away from her society wedding, Ailsa makes sure she can actually leave. The problem is Eilidh’s furious brother. Callum Sinclair is the powerful CEO of Sinclair Group, and his sister’s broken engagement has left his family scrambling to protect an alliance. When the solution becomes a replacement marriage for Callum himself, he turns to the woman he blames for starting the disaster. His proposal? A fake engagement. Ailsa agrees only after securing future Sinclair support for Exit—and with one condition Callum cannot misunderstand: There will never be a wedding. But pretending to belong to each other becomes dangerously convincing, and Callum soon discovers that loving Ailsa will require the one thing a man like him has never learned to do: let her remain free.

Everyone in Cerys’s post-apocalyptic underground pack knows her as the weakest wolf in the silo. She is dependable in hydroponics, loved by her community—and every Wolf Night she returns torn apart, barely alive, with no memory of what happened outside. When Rhys, her childhood love, is chosen as Alpha, Cerys believes the future they planned together is finally within reach. Instead, he ends their relationship. He cannot keep waiting for the night she never comes home, and he cannot ignore what the pack will think of an Alpha tied to its weakest wolf. After the next Wolf Night leaves Cerys nearly dead, Elis, the healer who has known her injuries for years, becomes an unexpected source of trust, attraction, and a life that might not revolve around Rhys. Then Cerys is declared unfit to shift. She stays inside for the first Wolf Night of her adult life. By dawn, the pack returns devastated by a coordinated attack from the Lost. It is supposed to be their first assault. But the timing makes no sense. As Rhys begins to face what his choice cost him and Elis becomes a real romantic possibility, Cerys is pulled into a growing conflict with Idris, the Lost war leader, whose strange familiarity with her raises a terrifying question: What if everyone—including Cerys herself—has been wrong about the kind of wolf she really is?

Hallie dies knowing exactly what it cost to spend her life waiting for the mate who chose power over her—then wakes up on the day he rejects her all over again. This time, when newly crowned Alpha Austin sacrifices their future for a political alliance, Hallie does the one thing no one expects: she walks away. And instead of begging fate for another chance, she heads for Cedar Draw—and the Alpha every respectable pack fears. Grant rules a territory built from rogues, exiles, survivors, and wolves no traditional pack wanted. He doesn’t promise to break Hallie’s mate bond. He offers her something far more dangerous: a marriage that will make her choice impossible for Austin—or anyone else—to ignore. What begins as protection becomes partnership. Partnership becomes desire. And as Hallie earns her place in Cedar Draw, she discovers that the feared Alpha beside her may be the first man who wants her without demanding that she become what destiny chose for her. But Austin is still her fated mate, and the bond between them refuses to disappear. With rival Alphas watching, old prejudices closing in, and a regional war drawing nearer, Hallie’s second life will force her to answer a question fate never allowed her to ask the first time: If destiny chooses one man for her, how much is she willing to risk for the man she chooses herself?

Murdered by one of her fated mate’s women after he betrayed her, Lorelai wakes forty days before the marking ceremony and rejects Caelan before he can bind her again. To escape him—and prevent the massacre she remembers—she marries Karl Ashborne, Caelan’s much older, supposedly wolfless uncle, the man destined to be assassinated. But Karl hides the most powerful wolf of his generation, Lorelai carries the last royal witch blood, and an obsessive vampire prince is already preparing to claim her as his bride. In her first life, Lorelai gave Caelan everything: her loyalty, her body, and the mark that made their bond impossible to escape. He rewarded her by surrounding himself with other women—and one of them poisoned Lorelai, drove silver into her ribs, and left her to die. Now Lorelai has one chance to change the future. Her marriage to Karl is meant to be nothing more than a bargain: separate rooms, separate property, no sex, no mark, and the freedom to leave whenever she chooses. Karl offers her something Caelan never did—the right to decide what happens to her own life. But the man everyone calls weak is anything but harmless. Karl’s control hides a dangerous power, and every step Lorelai takes to prevent his murder draws her deeper into his world—and closer to the husband she never intended to desire. Meanwhile, Caelan refuses to accept that his rejected mate has chosen another man. The women responsible for Lorelai’s death begin gathering again. And Valerian Noctis, a beautiful and ruthless vampire prince, invokes an ancient blood right to seize Lorelai’s body, crown, and future. Saving Karl may stop Greyhaven from burning. Loving him may awaken a prophecy capable of restoring the witch dynasty the wolves destroyed—and plunging every kingdom into war.