Under The Sign Of Saturn: Essays

These are the tales society whispers about but never dares to speak aloud: the aching pull of step-parents and step-children, the dangerous heat of family secrets, and the kind of love that thrives in shadows. From scorching heterosexual passion to steamy lesbian and gay encounters, every flavor of forbidden ecstasy awaits. Here, rules are shattered. Hearts betray reason. Characters surrender to the raw, uncontrollable urge to touch what they shouldn’t, step-fathers, step-mothers, blood-bound temptations, and every wicked variation in between. This is not gentle romance. This is wild, sinful, unapologetic lust wrapped in love. A dance on the razor’s edge between control and chaos, guilt and surrender. Between the crushing weight of sin and the sweet sting of redemption, these lovers become entangled in secrets, temptation, and pleasure so intense it borders on madness. Because sometimes the most dangerous thing isn’t the sin itself…

Reborn into a new life, the first thing I did was call off my marking ceremony with Alexander. I even handed the Luna Crown over to my younger sister, Lilith. I deliberately engineered every opportunity for them to be alone, quietly stepping out of their way. I did it because in our past life, we were husband and wife. Yet, when I was old, bedridden, and drawing my final breaths, he never visited me once. Instead, he spent every single day by Lilith's side. Only later did I discover that he had been sleeping with her behind my back. They had even had pups together. On my deathbed, he actually fell to his knees and begged me, with sickening devotion, to dissolve our bond so he could finally fulfill his "true love" with my sister. Now that I’ve been given a second chance, my only wish is to go somewhere he can never reach me.

“You think I want this?” she hisses. “You think I asked for this bond? I hate you. I hate everything about you. You killed my husband. You took everything from me!” “Then kill me,” I growl, my voice barely more than a whisper. “If you hate me so much, kill me and end this.” She shakes her head, her eyes narrowing. “I’m not giving you the easy way out. Not until I know what rejecting this bond will do to me and my pack. Not until I know what we’re dealing with. Until then, I invoke The Gallows Law.” *** Luna Katya's world is shattered when her husband, Alpha Andrei, is killed by the ruthless Rogue Alpha Ruslan. Grieving and pregnant, Katya is ready to see the man responsible for her loss executed. But when Ruslan is brought before her, the mate bond snaps into place, throwing her life into chaos. Shocked and horrified, Katya calls for a stay of execution, invoking an old law known as The Gallows Law, which forbids the execution of a fated mate. Now, Katya must not only face the anger of her pack, who are disgusted by her sudden connection to the man they all hate, but a mate who hates her and who she hates in equal measure. Caught in a web of anger and attraction, Katya must decide whether to reject the bond and risk its unknown consequences, or keep the Rogue alive long enough to figure out what the Goddess has cursed her with. But the clock is ticking, and the pack won’t wait forever for justice.

For three years, Isla Hale believed she had found the kind of love that defies tradition and rewrites destiny. She ran away from an arranged mating, abandoned her powerful birthright as the Alpha’s daughter of the Crescent Moon Pack, and chose her fated mate instead Rowan Vale, the charismatic heir to the Vale Pack in Harbor Ridge. Their bond was real. Fierce. Or so she thought. On a night meant to be ordinary, Isla overhears a truth that shatters everything: Rowan never stopped loving his first love. Worse, he had been drawn to Isla because she resembled her. To him, she was safe. Loyal. Convenient. A substitute. Humiliated but composed, Isla makes a quiet decision that will change all their lives she will return home and accept the arranged mating she once rejected. A political union with Adrian Blackwood, the cold and formidable Alpha whose name commands respect across territories. What Rowan doesn’t know is that Isla is not the gentle, ordinary she-wolf he assumed her to be. She is heir to one of the oldest bloodlines in the region. And once she leaves, she will not return the same. As old feelings resurface, alliances shift, and secrets unravel, Rowan begins to realize that love is not about resemblance or convenience it is about choice. But by the time he understands what Isla truly meant to him, she may already belong to another Alpha… and to a future far beyond his reach. Whispers beneath the silver moon is an emotionally charged romance about pride, power, identity, and the devastating cost of being someone’s second choice. It is a story about the kind of love that wounds and the kind that forces you to decide whether destiny is enough or if love must be chosen every single day.

I had always shared a perfect relationship with my mother-in-law, Betsy Dutton. We were the model pair of a wealthy family. She and my father-in-law, Rourke Dutton had been childhood sweethearts, their bond seemingly unbreakable. But one day, she told me something that changed my entire perception of them.  She clutched my hand and tears were streaming down her face. “Naomi,” she sobbed, “your father-in-law… he’s been keeping a mistress. They even have a child together! “For over ten years, I’ve been in the dark, made into a laughingstock!” My throat tightened, and I couldn’t hold back my own confession.  “Mom, actually… Julius is no better. He bought a whole apartment building for his mistress!” We wept in each other’s arms, our heartbreak spilling out in waves.  After what felt like an eternity, she sniffled and straightened herself. “Men are utterly unreliable creatures!” “I’m done with that old man, Naomi!” I gripped her hand tightly. “Mom, wherever you go, I’ll follow. I’m done with Julius, too!”

To get the man of her dreams, Rishel is ready to take a leap of blind reverence towards her ultimate idol --- Levi. It doesn't take long for him to notice her for she do become his girlfriend and an idol too making her in equal footing with him. As things between them get deeper, Rishel realize that it's not her who is obsess with whom. For Levi's obsession for her exceeds far that it's hard to believe his keeping a mistress alongside with her. To end the things between her and Levi, Rishel sleep with the CEO Lyndon leaving a bunch of problems after she run away with his child. When she come back a few years later, Rishel realize that both men are waiting for her return.