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King Lucien Draven rules the United Packs with cold iron strength. He has crushed every rebellion and refused every mating alliance. Lycan law demands a king produce heirs with a royal female or face challenge to his throne. Male omegas are disposable tributes, never equals. Then Caelan Ashford arrives as tribute from a fading noble pack. The quiet, scarred omega expects death in the royal palace. Instead, his scent ignites the ancient mate bond the instant their eyes meet. The pull is raw, immediate, and utterly forbidden. Lucien fights the bond with ruthless control. He confines Caelan to the lower halls, assigns him to brutal training, and buries desire beneath duty. But every stolen glance and accidental brush erodes his restraint. The bond grows stronger, darker, impossible to ignore. Caelan hides a deadly secret: royal blood from the dynasty Lucien’s ancestors destroyed. His silver collar dulls his true scent, yet it cannot hide him from the king or from Prince Rowan Draven, Lucien’s charismatic and dangerous younger brother. Rowan sees Caelan as both prize and weapon. He offers protection and power in exchange for loyalty, circling like a predator while court intrigue thickens with assassination plots and rising rebellion. Torn between throne and heart, Lucien must decide how much he will risk for his forbidden mate. Caelan, trapped between two lethal alphas, navigates betrayal, awakening power, and a bond that could destroy the kingdom or remake it. In a slow-burning dance of denial and surrender, where every touch courts war and every refusal cuts deeper, one forbidden connection threatens an empire and two wounded souls who were never meant to find each other.

WARNING ⚠️: CONTAINS EXPLICIT SCENES AND SUITABLE FOR 18+ I knew I was going to die in that alley. There was blood everywhere, rogues closing in, and then he showed up my sworn enemy, Dante Veyron. We’ve hated each other since college. Every fight ended in blood or broken bones. But that night, he saved me. And after being trapped together in an abandoned warehouse for two nights, everything changed. Now our packs are forcing us to lead side by side against a rising rogue threat. To the world, we are allies. In truth, I can’t decide if I want to tear Dante’s throat out… or taste his lips again. But in a city where betrayal hides in every shadow, loving your enemy could destroy us both.

“I paid you! Why do you keep stalking me, then?” She burst out, while glancing at the door as if she was expecting someone to come in and save her. Not that she needed any saving though. I placed both hands on the table, and leaned down towards her. “We fucked.” My lips curled. Her face colored crimson. “It was a nightstand. Adults have one nightstands all the time. Moreover, I paid you-” “I’m not other people, Inez Raymond,” I said, cutting off her words. “Let’s make a deal.” Interest sparked within her eyes, yet she eyed me cautiously. “What deal?” “That you'll agree to be my wife for three months. If you don't fall in love with me during that period, I'll let you be.” She hesitated. “No sex?” I smirked. “I can't promise that. So, what do you say?” She took a deep breath. “Okay.” *** In her drunken and broken hearted haze, Inez Raymond has a one nightstand with a stranger. She pays him off the next morning, and part ways with him. But then, he starts stalking her. When he forces her into a deal with him, she agrees. What she doesn't know is that the stranger was connected with her in ways she could never imagine. Nor was she aware that she was the only heiress of the most powerful family in Europe, second only to the Celvins. While she's determined not to fall in love with him within three months, he's determined to make her fall in love with him, to find out who made her lose her memory years ago, while helping her get revenge on her ex-husband. Who will emerge champion, in their little game of chess?

Professional hockey has one rule every player fears. Never let instinct become stronger than the game. As the Alpha captain of the New York Titans, Adrian Cross has everything a player could want. Champion. Olympic gold medalist. The face of professional hockey. No distractions. No weaknesses. Especially not the Omega he was never supposed to love. Noah Bennett, captain of the rival Chicago Wolves, is the league's most celebrated Omega. Fierce, fearless, and determined to prove that an Omega belongs at the top of professional hockey, he has spent his life fighting prejudice. Only one secret could destroy everything he has earned. Three years ago, they became fated mates. For three years, they loved each other in secret. Then someone tried to kill Adrian. A sabotaged team bus plunges into an icy river, leaving three players dead and Adrian fighting for his life. When he wakes, the last three years of his memories are gone—including every memory of Noah. To Adrian, Noah is nothing more than the rival Omega captain the league expects him to hate. To Noah, Adrian is the Alpha who promised forever... and now looks at him like a stranger. As anonymous threats close in and evidence surrounding the crash disappears, Noah realizes the accident was no accident at all. Someone is hunting everyone connected to the truth, and Adrian is still the target. Now an Alpha who cannot remember his mate must protect an Omega he cannot explain, while an Omega with a broken heart must save the man who no longer remembers loving him. But instincts cannot forget. And neither can the people willing to kill to keep their secrets buried beneath the ice. In a league built on rivalry, corruption, betrayal, and blood, can love survive when even memory has been stolen?

When two enemies finally stop trying to strangle each other, the sparks won't just fly, they'll set the room on fire. °-----*-----*-----•**•-----*-----*-----° The Bloodmoon Alpha demands a tribute from the Nightveil pack every year. This time, Kradamian asks for the Crown Princess. To save the only sister who has ever shown her kindness, Akira offers herself in her place. Delivered to the most feared Alpha alive, Akira has only one goal: kill him... or die trying. If you love angst, emotional damage, hilarious bickering, and a payoff worth waiting for, you've found your next obsession. Welcome to a romance where love doesn't bloom overnight: it kicks, bites, growls, argues, and occasionally plots murder first.💀 M.E.M.F.A is a slow-burn enemies-to-lovers romance, so please don't expect my stubborn Alpha and equally stubborn heroine to fall head over heels after three chapters. Expect explosive banter, possessive moments, stolen glances, jealousy, emotional damage, and enough unresolved tension to make you yell, “JUST KISS ALREADY!"

The masked stranger slammed into him with one devastating thrust, stretching Carter so perfectly he sobbed against the desk. “Fuck—yes, just like that!” he begged, hips slamming back as the masked alpha set a brutal rhythm, fisting his hair and stroking his cock in time. “Finally mine, after all this time,” the man growled, then sank razor-sharp teeth into his neck and pleasure exploded through him like lightning. Until the mask slipped and Dallas Cross, his childhood bully and bane of his existence, stared back with a vicious, satisfied smirk. On the day Carter was supposed to propose to the love of his life, Carter walked in to find her in bed with his mortal enemy, Dallas Cross, wealthy heir of the Cross Group global empire. One week later, a drunken club hookup leaves him marked, mated, and impossibly, pregnant with Dallas’s heir. The ruthless werewolf storms back into his life, demanding Carter pack his bags and move into the luxurious pack mansion to accept their unbreakable bond and carry his son… or watch his bankrupt family lose everything. Trapped between red-hot hate, an unexpected pregnancy, and the tiny life already growing inside him, Carter faces an impossible choice. His strict parents are pressuring him to forgive the cheating fiancée and save them from ruin. Meanwhile, Dallas’s possessive alpha instincts won’t let him go, blocking every escape, and whispering dark promises of protection, pleasure, and forever. With every heated glare turning into uncontrollable lust and every denial crumbling under the mate bond, Carter must decide: run from the enemy who destroyed him… or surrender completely to the powerful alpha who now owns his body, his heart, and his fate.