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Esmeralda Cantari has spent her life being told she is a mistake. The unwanted daughter of a powerful angel prince and a disgraced witch, she was cast aside by her father and barely tolerated by her mother’s coven. When her magic fails to appear like every other young mage’s, the coven finally exiles her for good. But the night they drive her out, something awakens. Blood answers her call. Wings of midnight blue and black tear free from her back. And suddenly the powerless girl everyone despised becomes something far more dangerous. Returning to Rosewood Sanctum for her third year, Esmeralda must hide abilities that could make her a target in a school ruled by powerful bloodlines—including the half-siblings who have bullied her for years. Yet strange things are already happening around the academy. Students are disappearing. Bodies are found drained of blood. And rumors of ancient monsters once thought extinct begin to circulate. The only people who seem to notice Esmeralda’s true potential are the most feared group of heirs at Rosewood: a shadow demon with dangerous curiosity, a brooding shifter whose beast reacts to her presence, a brilliant mage who feels he’s seen her before, a relentless fae warrior who sees her strength, and an angel prince who is watching her far too closely. As the mystery deepens, Esmeralda begins to realize her awakening may not be a coincidence. Something ancient is rising in the shadows of the supernatural world. And it has already started hunting for her.

Five years ago, Seraphina's world shattered when her fated mate the ruthless Alpha King, Killian Blackthorne publicly rejected her before the entire pack. Humiliated and exiled to the deadly Rogue Lands, she was left to die. But Seraphina survived. Alone, pregnant, and heartbroken, she built a new life as a skilled healer, determined never to depend on the man who destroyed her. Now, her greatest treasure is slipping away. Her four-year-old son, Leo, is dying from a rare magical disease, and the only cure is the blood of his biological father. Desperate to save her child, Seraphina returns to the last place she ever wanted to see again—the Alpha King's palace. Disguising her scent and concealing her identity beneath a healer's cloak, she enters enemy territory with one goal: save her son and leave before anyone discovers the truth. But the moment she crosses into Killian's territory, the shattered remnants of their fated bond ignite once more. Haunted by the woman he rejected and unable to resist the mysterious healer who stirs memories he thought were buried, Killian becomes obsessed with uncovering her identity. As old wounds reopen and dangerous secrets threaten to surface, Seraphina finds herself trapped in a deadly game of deception. Because if Killian discovers that the fierce little boy hidden within his palace walls is his son, he won't just demand the truth. He'll claim them both. And this time, the Alpha King won't let them go.

Maya grew up in the shadows of Stonehaven — the maid's daughter, human and invisible among wolves. Alec was the Alpha's son, her childhood friend, her first love, her impossible dream. One stolen night changed everything. When Maya discovered she was pregnant, she ran. What she carried was impossible, forbidden, the kind of secret that gets you killed. So she disappeared into the human world and raised her daughter alone, always looking over her shoulder, always one step ahead of discovery. Seven years later, her daughter's power erupts in a surge felt by every pack for a hundred miles. Alec tracks it expecting rogues or a territorial challenge. Instead he finds the woman he thought was dead and the daughter he never knew existed. The love he never got over. The family he never knew he had. Maya is out of options and out of time. She goes home to Stonehaven with her heart in pieces and her daughter in her arms — back to the man she left, back to the pack that never wanted her, back to face wolves who see her child as something that shouldn't exist. Alec will burn the world to protect them and Maya will face any danger to keep their daughter safe, but the little girl caught between them carries a power no one has ever seen — and her surge awoke something in the northern mountains. Something dark and ancient that's coming to claim her. An impossible love. A dangerous secret. A choice that changes everything.

Picking up where Dark Escape leaves off, Tara travels back in time to find she has a doppelganger lying in a magical coma in a cave and a very confused lover. Going back in time exposes Tara to a world that no longer exists in her future life. It's a world where wizards and enchantresses do battle for supremacy and witch doctors lay in wait for a delicious taste of human while shape shifters abound. Danger, heart ache, discovery and love await as they continue to search for the Crystal Key to Shadow Land. If you enjoy fantasy stories with peril, magic, time travel, and love, you won't want to put down book two of the Dark Escape Duo, "The Search for the Crystal Key".

She spent her entire life not knowing who she was, but soon, a great power in her will awaken - will it be enough to save her or the men she grows to love? A thrilling tale of lost kingdoms, prophecies, and destructive lust for power - and the woman who stands between a tyrant and those he would enslave.

They called me an orphaned omega, a wolfless nobody scrubbing floors in the pack that despised me. On my eighteenth birthday, my childhood friend, the Alpha's son, announced I was his fated mate. Then he rejected me in front of everyone, calling me unworthy and banishing me to the borderlands. But the moment I crossed the boundary, my wolf awakened and a silver mark blazed on my wrist. A scarred warrior emerged from the shadows and knelt. "I've been looking for you, princess. The real Alpha King awaits his mate." I am not an omega. I am the last heir of the Silvermoon line, the original royal bloodline thought extinct for twenty years. My birth pack was slaughtered by a conspiracy that includes the very Alpha who rejected me. Now I must return to a hidden kingdom, survive the Rite of the Lost Queen, and claim a throne that belongs to me by blood. But the rite demands I fight the one man I am fated to love, the scarred Alpha who found me, bound by a usurper's magic to be my enemy. Relationships & Dynamics Seraphina rises from broken omega to hidden queen, reclaiming a birthright stolen from her. Kael, the scarred Alpha King, is her fated mate, yet he is magically bound to oppose her in the rite, forging a forbidden and explosive bond. Darian, the Alpha who rejected her, embodies the arrogance of the pack that tried to bury her. As Seraphina's power awakens, his cruelty turns to desperate jealousy. With pack politics, ancient magic, and a slow-burn romance laced with vengeance, she must decide who to destroy first. The wolf they cast out will return as their queen. And queens do not forgive.