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My mother was a traitor. To my pack, I am no better. I'm used to being overlooked. I've been unwanted from the time I was born, and my pack, River Crest, made it abundantly clear every chance they could that I was not welcome. No one and nowhere was safe. I've spent my entire life alone, with no family, no friends, and now, no mate. At 24 years old, unmated and unwanted, I've accepted that I must be one of the mateless. Wretched, forsaken wolves who are cursed to live out their lives alone. Or worse. The legends and histories claim that being a mateless wolf is worse than death. They suggest choosing a mate and forming a bond before madness sets in or the pack rejects me. But I've been rejected. I'm used to the feeling. I thrive in it. Because the more they push me away, the less pain and humiliation I have to face. If I can make it another year unmated, I could face banishment, and I'll finally be free. That's my goal. And I'll be damned if I let anyone get in my way. Even my mate.  

"I rather get dragged in the mud with chains by moving horses or be beaten with a club with nails on it than lose my virginity to you," she spat, looking at him with hate in her eyes, hoping her eyes conveyed the degree of contempt she felt when she spat out the words. Anger and disbelief flashed in his eyes. She was going to be the first woman that would ever reject him, and in such a preposterous manner. He stood up and went over to her while she gummed her back to the wall, having no other room to step back. He gripped her chin with his strong palm, forcing her to look at him, his wicked grey eyes bore into her hazel ones. "What if it's your only ticket to freedom?" "As I said, I rather die." He quickly shoved her onto the bed and she scooted away as he moved towards her. "I am Eros Castillo, leader of the El dragon gang, you dare not reject me, nobody rejects me," he said in a low husky voice, his eyes five shades darker, his countenance grim and dangerous.

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.

One night of forbidden passion broke her heart. One secret will change his empire. Three years ago, Elara Vance was a "nobody" Omega—a servant in the Silver Moon packhouse who committed the ultimate sin: falling for the Alpha King, Silas Thorne. But Silas didn't want a mate; he wanted a legacy. After a brutal rejection that left her soul in tatters, Elara vanished into the human world, carrying a secret that could topple a throne. Now, she’s back. But she didn't come for a second chance. She came to save her son. Leo is three years old, growing stronger by the day, and his awakening power is a death sentence without the protection of a pack. Elara only intended to stay long enough to stabilize him—to take the medicine and run. She didn't account for the primal, suffocating intensity of the bond she thought she’d killed. Silas Thorne is a man of ice and iron, but the moment he catches the scent of his own blood on the boy, the beast within him awakens. He doesn't just want his heir; he wants the woman who "stole" him. "You ran once, Elara. But in my territory, everything belongs to the Alpha. Including you." Trapped in a gilded cage and surrounded by enemies who want her dead, Elara must survive a deadly Blood Trial to prove she is worthy of the crown. But the real danger isn't the pack... it’s the man who claims to hate her, yet refuses to let her go.

“You scrape by, taking me to cheap dinners, wearing the same old clothes, living like you're stuck in some broke college life. It’s embarrassing. You’re embarrassing!” Claire scoffed at Julian,“We’re done, Julian. Take your pathetic cheap gift and get out of my life. This is over.” -- Julian, a young man, barely getting by as a janitor, had always been belittled and looked down upon by society. He was constantly treated like he was worthless. Not caring what the world thought of him, he never stopped trying to make his fiance Claire happy, pouring every ounce of himself into their relationship. However,Julian uncovers the painful trut, that Claire has been cheating on him with his boss, leaving him broken hearted. That same night, he’s left homeless. Faced with the harsh reality, he was forced to reclaim his estranged family empire, to teach those who looked down on him, and treated him like dirt a lesson.

Her ordinary life shatters when a brutal attack reveals a hidden world and a powerful Alpha who claims her as his fated mate. But Olivia is no ordinary human, she's the legendary Alpha Lost Heir, whose parents, the strongest in the werewolf continent, were murdered by Ronan's own family for their power and inheritance, orchestrating Olivia's "adoption" as a calculated scheme. Now burdened with an ancient prophecy and a terrifying elemental power she can barely control, Olivia finds herself bound to the son of her parents' killers,a man she might see as a brother, and also a man who is also the best friend of the Alpha she truly loves from another pack. As a consuming darkness, the Shadow Wielders, rise, draining life force and corrupting the land, Olivia must confront the horrifying truth about her lineage. Guided by a conflicted Ronan, whose own loyalties are torn, she must decide if their fractured bond can truly lead her to confront the enemy's insidious power at its source. Can Olivia harness her untamed elemental force and overcome the ultimate betrayal, or will the encroaching shadows and the weight of her past consume everything she loves, including her chance at true belonging and vengeance?