Novel Web & Cerita Protective Betrayal Action

Audrey Sterling has spent her life surrounded by wealth, power, and expectations. As the heir to one of America’s most influential business empires, even her engagement to the charming Julian Ashford seems like the perfect match. Then the threats begin. When anonymous messages turn into deadly attacks, Audrey’s family hires Nathan Mercer, an elite bodyguard with one rule he refuses to break: never get emotionally involved with the person he protects. Nathan is cold, disciplined, and impossible to ignore. As the danger around Audrey escalates—from stalking and sabotage to explosions and attempted murder—she begins to trust the one man who stands between her and every threat. But trust becomes attraction, and attraction becomes something neither of them can afford. Someone wants Audrey terrified, isolated, and under control. And as Nathan gets closer to the truth, protecting her may cost him far more than his career. It may cost him his life.

He should have killed her. Instead, he took her to his bed. Maria Rossi witnessed a murder she was never meant to see. The killer should have pulled the trigger. Instead, he dragged her to his mansion and made her sign a contract. Now she sleeps in his house and feels his hands on her skin. Wakes to his gold eyes watching her in the dark. He is cold, brutal, and impossible to resist. Every night, he pulls her closer and every touch leaves her burning. Every kiss makes her forget she is supposed to be his prisoner. But there's nothing humane about the Don who has wrecked her life and when the secret comes out, she is torn between her growing feelings for him and the hands of another who offers her freedom.

As the only daughter of Ilias Dimitrou, I’m next in line to become the head of the Italian mafia. I’m getting good at putting on an act while I learn everything I need to know about the organization, but behind closed doors, I’m terrified. If my father’s men catch a whiff of my fear, they’ll rip me apart. Before I’m able to take over from my father, we’re attacked. I have to depend on my newly formed alliance to come to the rescue while I fight with every ounce of strength in my body to stay alive. I end up being guarded by Antonio Bernadi. For some reason, the damaged sniper refuses to leave my side, and I find myself becoming more and more dependent on him. He follows me like a deadly shadow, and I’m well aware of the fact that he’s the only person standing between me and certain death. I also know that's he's hiding something. When I take my rightful place as the head of the Italian mafia, can I conquer my fears and become the strong leader I was born to be?

Devlin Ashford has spent her whole life being the daughter her family always forgot. Inside the high walls of the Edevane stronghold, built to keep lycans and wolves out and everything else rigidly in, she learned early that love in her family was a privilege distributed by usefulness and she had never been the most useful child. That distinction belonged to Mara, her older sister, who was beautiful and charming beyond words. When their father arranges Devlin's engagement to Corvin Hale, son of a neighboring chief, it is the first time in her life she has been given something that feels like a future. Corvin was at least decent and had a bright future as the youngest son of a Chief. Mara decides that's too good a future for someone like Devlin. Her parents make him choose, marry Devlin and live as just the youngest son of a Chief or marry Mara and become the chief of Edevane. Corbin makes a choice without thinking twice, he chooses the more attractive sister with a bright future tied to it. Inciting Incident Devlin goes over the wall with just forty coins, a knife and an extra set of clothes. She doesn't make it far before she's captured by slave hunters. In the borderlands auction market, the mate bond snaps in place between her and the lycan king, Ronan. That night he marks her in his room.

He came to steal her heart. She stole his first. Julian Vane is dying. His curse burns through him like molten fire, a biological mistake that destroys his bloodline by age 25. He has five months left to live unless he finds the Aethel Stone, a gem fused with human blood that can save him. The stone is embedded in one girl’s chest. Elara Vance doesn’t know she’s a walking death sentence. All she knows is that her father’s botanical gardens are dying, her family is bankrupt, and a mysterious drifter with dark eyes and calloused hands just showed up offering to save the only thing she loves. She hires him. She trusts him. She doesn’t realize he’s the billionaire who destroyed her father’s business or that extracting the stone from her heart will kill her in the exact way her father died. Then everything changes. When feral werewolves attack her family, Julian is forced to shift revealing what he truly is. In that moment, as his beast form towers over her in the rain, Elara discovers the terrible truth: the man she’s beginning to fall for is a predator. And she’s his prey. But Julian is facing an impossible choice. The stone is keeping Elara alive. Taking it means killing her. Leaving it means watching himself burn out from the inside while she dies anyway. His family demands the stone. His curse demands her death. And his heart that cursed, failing heart demands he save her. In a dying garden where nothing should survive, Julian and Elara are bound by a werewolf contract neither fully understands. As danger closes in from all sides, they discover that the most dangerous thing isn’t the curse.

Shannon Rivers - The striking twenty-four-year-old with a heart of gold who’s running from trouble. Her main focus is surviving the life-or-death scenario she’s been unwittingly cast into the middle of. But when she meets Pete Jenkins, sparks fly despite the desperate circumstances that introduce them. Pete Jenkins – The twenty-eight-year-old U.S. Marshal living and working in Fort Worth, Texas. His routine pre-shift morning ritual is upended when he is assigned to hide and protect two young women - Shannon Rivers, the target of some very ill intentions, and her roommate. Smitten with Shannon at first sight, Pete resolves to keep her safe - at any cost.

They told her he was a monster. They lied. Astrid is the Blade of the Frostmaw, the deadliest warrior in a pack that has never once questioned its Alpha. She has killed Blackmere wolves for years, because she was told they were butchers. Then she meets the eyes of their king across a battlefield, and a voice speaks in her mind: Mate. My mate. They're lying to you. Luca Knox is the alpha she was raised to destroy. He is also the only man alive who will not force her, who will not cage her, and who will wait as long as it takes for her to choose him. But Luca is keeping a promise he made to a dying woman, and some truths can't be told yet. Behind the lie waits a man who raised her, a war built around her, and a secret written in her white fur. And the closer she gets to the truth, the more she learns that the bond between them is not the only thing at stake. One bond. One war. One question she is afraid to ask. Slow-burn enemies-to-lovers. Fated mates. A heroine who learns to choose for herself.

Some houses don’t have exits. Just doors that look like them. Roxy never wanted her mother’s new life. She certainly never wanted Dorian Sinclair, the ruthless billionaire who now calls himself her stepfather. Calm. Calculated. Possessive. Dorian rules his empire with an iron fist, and the moment Roxy moves into his estate, she becomes his ultimate obsession. When he catches her witnessing a secret that could destroy them all, he doesn’t expose her. He locks the gates. Her movements are tracked. Her freedom is slipping away. And every exit leads straight back into his hands. Then Evander returns. Her toxic first love. The boy who broke her heart. The stepbrother who shares a past with her as dangerous as the secrets surrounding his family. Trapped between a man who knows too much and a boy she can no longer trust, Roxy learns that affection in the Sinclair estate comes with a price, and escape is nothing more than an illusion. Because the man she’s forced to call Dad has no intention of ever letting her go.

Vow of the Fallen Star In her first life, she was a fool. In this one, she’s a weapon. Evelyn Kingston had it all: a powerful husband who would have loved her, a beautiful son who needed her, and a genius-level intellect she threw away to please a snake. Blinded by the smooth words of her lover, Marcus, and the fake smiles of her best friend, Sarah, Evelyn committed the ultimate betrayal. She stole her husband’s corporate secrets, destroyed his legacy, and neglected her son—only to be murdered by the very people she sacrificed everything for. But death wasn't the end. Waking up on the morning of the betrayal that started it all, Evelyn realizes she has been given a second chance. This time, she isn't the fragile socialite they remember. Using her hidden mastery of code and a heart hardened by the grave, she sets out to rewrite her future. She will heal the scars she left on her son’s heart. She will earn the trust of the husband she once despised. And for Marcus and Sarah? She has a special kind of digital hell waiting for them. The "Ice Queen" is back, and she’s playing for keeps.

On the night of their grand engagement, Elena Vance catches her fiancé, Julian, pinned against her half sister callously boasting about using Elena just to seize her family's massive fortune.Heartbroken but burning for vengeance, Elena turns to the one man her ex fears most: Damian Vance, the lethal, dangerously handsome titan of the underworld and Julian’s fiercest rival. She offers him a lot high-stakes deal a six-month fake marriage and total control over her family's trade routes in exchange for destroying Julian completely.What starts as a cold contract quickly turns into a dangerous game of irresistible temptation. Damian doesn't just play her husband in public he claims her in private with a fierce, possessive passion that leaves Elena breathless, blurring the line between a fake deal and a deep, consuming obsession.Panicked by the threat to their wealth and status, a desperate Julian and Elena’s envious half-sister team up, frantically scheming in the dark to bring down both Elena and Damian.But as their enemies plot their ruin, Damian wraps Elena in his arms and makes a deadly, devotion-filled vow to the entire city:"Elena isn't just my partner she's my heart, my wife, and my obsession. Touch her, and you die."

Roderick Vantrell is the elite security industry’s most disciplined asset. Elias Storme is the world’s most disciplined disaster. Tasked with protecting the eccentric, target-painted heir, Roderick expects a standard tactical gig. Instead, he gets poisoned cupcakes, high-speed chases, and a corporate conspiracy that cuts deeper than any blade. Trapped between a relentless hit squad and his growing desire for the man he’s sworn to protect, Roderick must decide: is his professional integrity worth his heart, or will the Storme legacy turn them both into ghosts?