How Did Lara King Become Famous?

“You’re not worthy of anything,” he said, his voice cold as ice. “Not love. Not a mate. Not even your life.” All her life, Leona Hawthorne has carried the weight of being unwanted by her father, rejected by her mate, and ultimately disowned by her mother. Each wound left her feeling alone, and just when she thought she had reached her lowest point, life found a way to prove her wrong. Until when she is sold to the Lycan King, Archie Gray, he will do anything to get what he wants. He is cold, manipulative, and ruthless—until he meets Leona. To the world, she is disgraced, deemed unworthy of love or even her own life, but her resilience begins to challenge everything he thought he knew. It was only meant to be a trade. But when she is taken from him, he will stop at nothing. He will burn the world to bring her back.

I went to sleep a nobody. I woke up a Queen. One night I was just a broke, exhausted college girl. The next, I opened my eyes in silk sheets, with strangers bowing and calling me Luna Queen. The face in the mirror is mine. The body is mine. But the life isn’t. The bruises on my wrists tell a story I don’t remember, and the King I’m bound to doesn’t love me—he loathes me. They whisper that his mistress rules the palace. They say the Queen was weak. Silent. Broken. But that was before me. Now I must survive a palace that wants me dead, a King whose touch burns as much as it scars, and a kingdom waiting for me to fail. The old Luna Queen bowed to cruelty. I am not her. And if this King thinks I’ll kneel, he’s about to learn what a true Queen is made of.

“I, Alpha Gabriel Abbott, banish you, Paige Abbott, from Sky Moon Pack as my daughter and a member of this pack.” **** “You're a disgrace to this pack. I can't have you as my mate. I, Victor Creek, reject you, Paige Abbott, as my future mate and wife.” **** From princess to pauper, Paige’s life took a different turn when her father publicly accused her of seducing him, which led to her banishment. Rejected by her betrothed mate due to the banishment, she moved to the human world, and there she met a stranger at her workplace on an auspicious night, and they had a passionate, unforgettable night together. As Paige faced her new life, she found out she was pregnant, and the father of the baby was her ex. But that wasn't the beginning; Paige discovered that the stranger she had spent the night with was her true mate. And to her surprise, her true mate was no other than Azriel King, the ruthless Alpha King.

He was the campus king. She was the only heart he couldn't steal. Jace Kingston is untouchable. Star hockey player. Campus legend. A walking trail of broken hearts and whispered warnings. Girls call him King. They say it like a prayer. I say it like a curse. He nearly ran me over with his sports car last semester. He throws money around like it means nothing. He smirks while girls cry over him. And now, thanks to my tutoring job, he's my assignment. One semester. One paper. Five hundred dollars that I desperately need to keep a roof over my head. The rules are simple. He shows up. He does the work. He doesn't flirt with me, charm me, or treat me like another conquest. But Jace Kingston doesn't follow rules. He shows up with bruises he won't explain. He looks at me like I'm something he wants to break. And when he accidentally lets his armor slip, I see something terrifying underneath. A boy afraid of becoming a monster. A boy who flinches at loud voices and keeps a photograph of his mother hidden in his drawer. A boy who might be just as broken as I am. I can't afford to fall for him. I have rent to pay. A future to build. A promise I made to myself when I watched my mother die with nothing but debt and a daughter who couldn't save her. I swore I'd never depend on anyone again. But Jace is everywhere now. In my study sessions. In my thoughts. In the way my pulse stutters when he says my name. And when his demons come hunting, I realize the worst truth of all. He's not just my enemy anymore. He's the one person I might destroy myself to save.

As the only heir to the Alpha King, his perfect life collapsed when a witch cursed the doom of his kind. The only solution? A marriage to the daughter of a human hunter family. He resented the marriage that bound him to a human girl because human beings were his most hated and weakest creatures, and she hated the fierce werewolf kind that treated humans like pathetic and weak creatures. They were born to be enemies. This marriage demanded no real affection, no interference in each other's lives, and a promise to part once she gave birth to a baby—but what would happen when their feelings started to get mingled, and the people around them wanted to pull them apart?

Lara is the epitome of evil, the sign of destruction, she is a savior to one and destruction to the other.