Romans Action & Histoires Protective Forbidden Love

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.

Shane Garcia learned early that obedience could keep the people she loved alive. In her family, whenever someone made a mistake, she was the first to be blamed. to be punished, she was the first to be sacrificed. So she learned to bow her head, follow orders, and remain silent—even when she was innocent. But her obedience is not weakness. It's a disguise. While everyone sees her as nothing more than her father's obedient daughter, Shane has a secret plan of her own. And to protect the people she loves, Shane needs something she has never truly possessed— Power. Then Luxxe Henderson enters her life. For the first time, someone sees Shane not as the daughter of a powerful family, but as a woman with her own dreams, fears, and heart. With him, she learns how to laugh, dream, and love without asking for permission. And she falls in love. But Luxxe has his own reason for getting close to her. Revenge. He carries a deep hatred for the Garcia family—a hatred born from a tragedy that destroyed his life. And Shane is the key to getting close to the family he wants to destroy. His plan is simple. Get close to her. Earn her trust. Make her fall in love. Then destroy everything she loves. But the more he gets to know Shane, the more his carefully planned revenge begins to crumble. Because the woman he was supposed to use becomes the woman he wants to protect. Until Shane discovers the truth. The man she trusted. The man she loved. The man she thought would save her— was the very person who came into her life to destroy her. Love him. Trust him. And when the truth comes out... let him destroy you.

His eyes drops to the wedding ring on my finger. Something shifts in his expression. Something sharp. Possessive. Furious. I had sex with my step son and I’m not even sorry. Well it’s wasn’t my intention to. I had no idea who he was. All I cared about that night was his hard body pressed against mine and his tongue circling the inside of my mouth and deep inside my thighs. But as I took off my veil and stare at the man in front of me, I knew I had started a spark that will soon turn into a full blown fire and consume us both.

Cole McKnight is a disciplined, bodyguard hired by Senator Richard Irwin to protect his 23 years oldson, Ashton, after he begins receiving threats. Cole's impression of Ashton just another rich kid living off his father's money. But small moments reveal Ashton's depth and intelligence, Cole finds his professional mask slipping. When Cole is forced to move into Ashton's house for round-the-clock protection, the tension becomes unbearable. Charged conversations and stolen moments build a connection neither can deny. Cole is terrified not just of his job, but of the senator's power and what he could do to destroy Cole if he discovered his bodyguard had crossed the line. Everything changes when Marcus, Cole's contact and trusted ally, reveals the truth: the threats aren't random. Senator Irwin is involved in campaign finance fraud, embezzlement, and money laundering at the highest levels. The threats are leverage a way to keep him compliant. And Ashton is the point. Cole and Ashton flee to a safe house, their forced proximity finally breaking Cole's resolve. They become intimate, but the moment is shattered by armed attackers. Cole kills the intruders, but one injures Ashton before Cole takes him down. They ran to safe house not knowing it's compromised from the inside. The betrayal becomes clear in the final chapter: Marcus, the man Cole has trusted for years, has been working for the criminal the whole time He orchestrated every every plan, every moment of danger. When Marcus sends Ashton a photo of his father beaten in an industrial warehouse, he demands Cole bring Ashton to him—alone—or he dies. Cole's is No longer a bodyguard bound by professional ethics, he's a warrior. With Ashton's hand in his and backup secretly in place, he walks toward the warehouse, toward Marcus, toward a confrontation that will determine whether they survive

When two best friends end up enemies only to find out they're mates, things take a wild turn. Can Molly and Henry take on an overwhelming evil together or will their hatred for each other bring them to their knees?

"I think we should break up." Dani Costa said it to a stranger at a red light. A guy on a motorcycle, visor down, face hidden. A joke, thrown out the window of her beat-up Civic on graduation night. She never expected him to lift that visor and show her a pair of dark, amused eyes. She never expected to see him again. She does. Three days later, at an underground drift race, she finds him on the starting line. He's Rook, the ghost racer nobody can beat, the heir to a fortune she can't imagine. And Roman Castellano doesn't just want to race her. He wants to know her. What Dani doesn't know is that Roman has six weeks before his uncle takes everything. Before an arranged marriage seals his fate. Before the family name she's falling for becomes the thing that destroys her father's shop. She doesn't know he's been given a bride. She doesn't know men like his uncle don't lose. She knows he makes her laugh. She knows he looks at her like she's the only light in a dark room. She knows she should run. She doesn't. Break Up With Me is a high-heat mafia romance about a girl who builds race cars in secret and the boy whose last name could burn her world to the ground. Told in a clean, cinematic voice, it's a story about choosing someone when the price is everything you've ever built. I