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Sienna moved to the city seeking freedom, passion, and a life far from the quiet predictability of her past. Bold, fearless, and unafraid to chase what she wants, she never expected the city to test her in ways she couldn’t imagine. Lucian is everything she should avoid: dangerous, magnetic, and untouchable. At twenty-six, he holds power over the city, a man who commands attention without asking for it. But when he crosses paths with Sienna, the rules that govern his world begin to crumble. Desire ignites between them, a tension neither can deny, and secrets begin to pull them closer into a web of obsession, lust, and power. Every glance, every brush of hands, feels electric. Every choice carries risk. And in a city where danger lurks in shadowed alleyways and luxury hides betrayal, Sienna and Lucian must navigate a fragile line between control and surrender, between passion and peril. As their connection deepens, Sienna realizes that surrendering to desire comes at a price — one that may consume them both. In a world fueled by power, obsession, and secrets, there is no turning back from what burns between them.

Adia Mbeki is running on no sleep, no money, and no backup. Single mom. Coffee shop night shifts. A baby who cries more than she sleeps. She can’t afford to be late on rent. Not again. Enter Kael Sterling: cold, brooding billionaire CEO. Her landlord. The man who signs eviction notices before breakfast. But when he finds her asleep behind the counter at 3AM with her baby, something shifts. His deal is simple: Move into his penthouse. Be his “fake” live-in nanny. Let him pay the bills. No touching. No feelings. Just 90 days. The problem? He’s too quiet. Too careful with her daughter. Too good at showing up when she’s breaking. And Adia’s rule is clear: Billionaires break hearts. Single moms can’t afford that.

For seven years, Tessa Marlowe lived as Roman Ashbourne’s secret wife, hidden from the powerful family that would never accept her. On the night he finally promised to introduce her to the world, he looked into her eyes and said the words that destroyed everything. “I have never met this woman.” Overnight, her marriage certificate belongs to her sister, her business is taken from her, her bank accounts are frozen, and every official record insists that Tessa Marlowe no longer legally exists. Yet the same man who erased her in public secretly pays her rent, protects her from unseen enemies, and still carries proof of a marriage he swears never happened. As Tessa fights to reclaim her name, she uncovers a conspiracy buried inside the Ashbourne family, one powerful enough to rewrite identities, erase lives, and silence anyone who learns the truth. If Roman truly betrayed her, why is he risking everything to keep her alive? And if he didn’t, who stole her life?

Amelia Carter only wanted a quiet drink after work. Instead, she found herself trapped by a man who refused to take "no" for an answer. Luckily, a devastatingly handsome stranger slides into the empty seat beside her, slips an arm around her shoulders, and casually announces, "There you are, sweetheart. I've been looking everywhere for you." It's the perfect fake-boyfriend rescue. At least... it was supposed to be. Jake Harper only meant to save a woman from an uncomfortable situation. He definitely didn't expect the simple contact of his arm around her shoulders to send every instinct inside him into absolute chaos. Because Amelia isn't just any woman. She's his mate. The one person every werewolf spends a lifetime searching for. The problem? Amelia has absolutely no idea werewolves exist. Determined to let her fall for him before dropping the biggest supernatural bombshell in history, Jake agrees to keep dating her like a perfectly normal human boyfriend. There's just one tiny problem. Normal couples hold hands, cuddle, kiss and eventually end up in bed together. And every innocent touch has Jake's wolf snarling to claim her and make her his forever. Meanwhile, Amelia is becoming increasingly convinced she's somehow landed the world's hottest commitment-phobe. Why does he freeze every time she reaches for his hand? Why does he practically launch himself off the sofa when she tries to snuggle? And why does the man kiss like he's starving... only to sprint out of the room looking utterly traumatised? As Jake battles possessive instincts and a secret that grows harder to hide with every day, Amelia is determined to figure out what on earth is going on with her ridiculously attractive, maddeningly confusing new boyfriend. After all, love is complicated. Falling for a werewolf is a whole different beast.

Seven years ago, Seraphina Vale lost her father in what the authorities called a tragic accident. Refusing to believe the official story, she dedicates her life to uncovering the truth behind his death. Her investigation leads her to one name: Damian Blackwood, the cold and powerful billionaire CEO of Blackwood Holdings. Determined to expose him, Seraphina infiltrates his company under a false identity. But the closer she gets to her supposed enemy, the more she discovers that Damian is not the monster she imagined. Behind his ruthless reputation lies a man haunted by secrets, betrayal, and a past as painful as her own. As hidden conspiracies unravel and dangerous enemies emerge from the shadows, hatred slowly transforms into something neither of them expected. Torn between revenge and love, Seraphina must decide whether to destroy the man she once blamed for everything or trust him with her heart.

"Take your bastard child and get out of my house!" She was his secret ingredient. He was her dangerous craving. Camila Torres spent a decade hiding her light to make her husband look bright. In return, he called her a "poor thing," mocked her cooking, and kicked her out for a younger woman.  But Jaxon Carter made one mistake: he underestimated the woman he married. When Billionaire Nico Romano finds Camila, he doesn’t see a "poor" divorcee. He sees a woman with a palate like a goddess and a tongue sharp enough to cut through his mystery. He gives her the keys to his kingdom, and suddenly, the ex-wife everyone mocked is the boss everyone fears.  The Carters want her back. Nico wants her forever. In this game of power and passion, revenge is a dish best served... scorched.

When Iris loses everything due to her father’s reckless decisions, she’s forced to leave behind her old life and move into the home of her dad's mysterious childhood friend, Jackson Kim. Expecting nothing but discomfort in an unfamiliar place, Iris instead finds herself drawn to the quiet charm of their new home and dangerously captivated by the man who owns it. "Who was the guy who dropped you off today?" he asked when I stopped giving him any attention. I ignored him as if I hadn’t heard. "I’m asking you something," he pressed, clearly irritated by my silence. I said nothing. He’d had enough. Grabbing my shoulders, he spun me around to face him. His eyes locked onto mine, sharp and intense. I caught a flicker of jealousy in them and somehow, that made me feel a little better. "I said, who is the guy?" he demanded again. I held his gaze for a few seconds before replying nonchalantly, "Someone my age. Didn’t you tell me to find someone my age instead of going after a man yours?"

Content warning: This book contains explicit sexual content, a step-sibling taboo theme, age gap romance, and power dynamics. For adult readers, 18+ only. Part 1: Taken by my Stepbrother Mia comes home from college to find out that her mother has remarried. Damian, her new stepbrother, is silent, cold, and devastatingly handsome. She catches him watching her through his half-open door; neither of them looks away. And one night changes everything. Part 2: My Stepbrother's Punishment Ivy has spent all summer provoking her cold stepbrother, Maddox. She wanted his attention, and she got it. She stumbles home drunk at 3 AM, and she's met by her stepbrother waiting. His punishment is slow, devastating, and deliberate, and she doesn't want it to stop either. Part 3: My Stepbrother's Obsession Clara discovers her stepbrother Lucas has been keeping a secret folder of her photos for over a year. She confronts him, and he admits he can't stop. She's supposed to run, but instead she locks the bedroom door. Forbidden Kin: A stepbrother compilation, is a dark, explicit stepbrother romance compilation featuring steamy novellas with enemies to lovers, age gap, and dominant and possessive heroes.

Gavin Montez is what you would call a model student. Perfect grades, perfect attendance record,class president and kind(perhaps too kind). When a teacher solicits his help to tutor one of the school's bad boy and Gavin's childhood best friend turned personal bully Ryan Montegue, he simply cannot refuse.What is supposed to be a tutoring assignment soon catapults into something more when Ryan starts to behave like someone that is unlike the monster that he portrays himself to be.Will this arrangement lead to something more or actually push them apart forever?

Lucien Delacroix is a vampire prince, feared, lethal, and bound by duty and laws that demand he marry a powerful witch to secure his family’s rule. All his life as a vampire, duty has always come before desire. Disobedience is not an option. Until he meets her. She is human. Fragile. Forbidden. Everything his world warns him to stay far away from. Yet the more he resists, the stronger the pull becomes, awakening something dangerous in a world where love is considered a weakness. With a ruthless father demanding obedience and diligence, rival clans hunting his family's most sacred secret. Lucien is forced to choose: surrender to the life decided for him, or risk war, betrayal, and damnation for a love that could be his redemption or his ruin.

Everyone believes Elara Cross has the perfect life—a wealthy husband, a beautiful home, and a future anyone would envy. But behind closed doors, her marriage is a prison built on fear, bruises, and carefully guarded secrets. Everything changes when Mara Quinn, a quiet and fiercely protective bodyguard, enters her life. What begins as a job soon becomes something neither woman can ignore. In a world where every stolen glance is dangerous and every heartbeat could expose them, falling in love comes at a devastating cost. Then one night changes everything. A man is dead. The truth could destroy them both. And the only thing standing between freedom and prison... is an alibi. How far would you go to protect the person you love?

Aria Collins has spent almost a year searching for a stable job, determined to build a better future for herself and her struggling family. When she receives an unexpected interview invitation from Blackwood Group, one of the most powerful corporations in the country, she sees it as the opportunity she has been praying for. But she never expected to become the personal assistant to Ethan Blackwood—the thirty-two-year-old billionaire CEO known for his ruthless standards, intimidating personality, and complete lack of interest in relationships. Ethan has never trusted people easily. Everyone around him seems to want his money, power, or family name. Then Aria walks into his office and treats him like an ordinary man. She doesn’t flirt with him. She doesn’t seek special treatment. She simply works hard, speaks honestly, and quietly notices the things everyone else ignores. For the first time, Ethan finds himself looking forward to seeing someone. What begins as professional curiosity slowly becomes an undeniable attraction. Ethan falls first—and falls harder. He remembers every little detail about Aria, protects her without thinking, and finds countless excuses to keep her close. But Aria doesn’t believe a billionaire like Ethan could genuinely love someone like her. As office jealousy, cruel rumors, and Vanessa Sinclair’s growing obsession with Ethan threaten Aria’s position, the difference between their worlds becomes impossible to ignore. Ethan is willing to risk everything to prove his feelings are real. But when loving him begins to cost Aria more than she can bear, she makes a heartbreaking decision that could destroy the only love either of them has ever truly wanted. Can Ethan convince Aria that she is worthy of his love? Or will the woman who changed the billionaire’s heart become the one person he can never keep?

I hated Kane Ravenwood before I ever spoke to him. The ruthless captain of the Ravens Hockey Team ruined my brother’s career and turned our family into campus gossip. Everyone worships him like a king, but I know the monster beneath the crown. Arrogant. Violent. Untouchable. So when he suddenly asks me to fake date him to save his reputation after a scandal, I should’ve said no. Instead, I made a deal with the devil. Now he’s everywhere. Touching me. Watching me. Controlling who talks to me. Calling me like he already owns me. The worst part? The fake relationship doesn’t feel fake anymore. Because behind his cruel smirk and bloodstained knuckles is a broken boy hiding dangerous secrets… secrets that somehow pull me closer instead of pushing me away. But Kane has enemies. And when his obsession with me turns violent, I realize something terrifying: I’m no longer pretending to be the hockey captain’s girlfriend. I’ve become his weakness. And he’ll destroy anyone who tries to take me away.

When Ivy Bennett's father's medical debt is quietly bought up by Cole Dynamics, she storms into Ethan Cole's office demanding answers — and instead finds a proposition. A clause in his late father's will requires Ethan to marry before his 33rd birthday or lose the company to a rival board member. He offers Ivy one year, on paper, in exchange for erasing her father's debt. What starts as a transaction is complicated by proximity, unexpected kindness, and a small, unexplained detail Ivy notices early — a photo, a name, a familiarity in the Cole household that doesn't add up — until it resurfaces as a full-blown scandal that threatens to end everything they've built.

Kim has spent most of her life on the edges—quiet, guarded, invisible. At nineteen, she’s only just beginning to learn what it means to be seen, to want, to belong. Erik was never meant to be more than a safe place, a steady presence in a world that once hurt her too deeply. He’s older, scarred by a past he doesn’t talk about, and painfully aware that loving her might mean holding her back. What begins as comfort turns into something dangerous: a love built in stolen mornings, unsaid fears, and promises neither of them knows how to keep. When Luca enters the picture—warm, easy, and part of the life Kim has never lived—everything Erik fears starts to feel inevitable. A single party. One careless moment. One kiss seen by the wrong eyes. Now Kim is torn between the man she comes home to and the future she’s only just daring to imagine, while Erik must decide whether love means fighting for her… or letting her go.

Charlie Wayne’s life is perfect. Or it was. As a VP who commands boardrooms and a playboy who elegantly ends every date at his door by 3 AM, Charlie’s world is built on control. But lately, his system has a glitch. A streak of bizarre, comically bad luck—flat tires at dawn, mysterious fire alarms, untimely food poisoning—keeps derailing his plans. His flawless exit strategy is in shambles. Carly Dorrington’s life is a lie. But a necessary one. After a blowout fight with her father over their family companies’ merger, Carly needs a place to stay. Where better than with her childhood best friend, Charlie? It’s just temporary. Just two best friends sharing a space. It has nothing to do with the two decades she’s spent loving him from the sidelines, or the quiet hope that maybe, just maybe, proximity will make the world’s most oblivious man finally see her. Now, under his roof, the "coincidences" multiply. Charlie’s chaotic love life grinds to a halt just as Carly’s presence becomes a permanent, comforting fixture. His sacred rules don’t seem to apply to her. His peaceful solitude feels warmer with her in it. As the lines of their friendship blur, Charlie is left to wonder: Is Carly the calm in the center of his storm… or is she the one who’s been stirring it up all along? Note: This is a slow-burn, dual-POV story about best friends, blurred lines, and the long game. If you find yourself wondering"where is this going?" in the early chapters... keep reading. Everything becomes clear in Chapter 4. The foundation is being laid for a reason. Thank you for trusting the process.

In the heart of the wolf city of Mooncrest, the daughter of an Alpha, Davina Shadowclaw finds her heart twisted with that of an Alpha who was her father's best friend. His presence sends her shivers but she fights these imminent feelings and tries to avoid Alpha Aiden Nightshade. Just when she thought she had escaped the horrors of a forbidden knot, her strongest feelings became her boss. Davina is left with a choice she never wanted to make and a heartache that would never stop.

Ember never meant to make a king. She was just trying to survive her heat without embarrassing herself in front of the massive, infuriatingly calm wolf living in the loft next door. Ember has spent most of her life keeping people at a distance. She’s stubborn, private, and perfectly happy suffering through things alone—including the inconvenient attraction she’s been pretending not to feel toward Ghost. Ghost notices everything. He notices when Ember skips meals. When she hasn’t slept. When she’s pretending she doesn’t need help. Calm, steady, and impossible to shake, he’s the kind of man who doesn’t push—but also doesn’t leave. Which becomes a problem when a violent storm destroys half of Ember’s apartment and Ghost is the one who drags her out of the wreckage. Suddenly the fiercely independent she-wolf who hates relying on anyone is stuck living next door to the one man she’s been trying not to want. Then Ember’s heat hits. What starts as proximity and stubborn attraction turns into something neither of them expected when their bond snaps fully into place—awakening a long-buried bloodline Ember never knew she carried. For generations, wolves like her were known as Kingmakers—rare mates capable of exposing corruption and keeping pack leadership honest. Twenty years ago, someone tried to wipe them out. Now Ember’s power has awakened. And the quiet city she and Ghost call home—long governed by careful politics instead of true pack leadership—is about to change. Because Ghost never wanted to be an Alpha. But Ember’s bloodline has a habit of exposing exactly the kind of wolf who should be. And Ember might have just made a king.

Prince Julian is cursed to never father an heir, a death sentence for his lineage in a kingdom of vultures. His most loyal knight, Kael, discovers a forbidden ritual that can break the curse through a biological sacrifice. After drinking a transformative potion and sharing a night of desperate passion with the prince, Kael finds himself carrying the unthinkable: the next King of Oakhaven. Now, Julian must shield his pregnant protector from the very court that wants them both dead.

Kryzelle Rivera is a hardworking and bubbly barista in a cozy café in Makati, well-known for her warm smile and her talent for crafting the perfect cappuccino. One day, a wealthy young entrepreneur named Zander Castillo walks into the café. He is known for his charm, striking good looks, and a slightly tsundere personality. Because of a small incident in the café—a spilled coffee and a misunderstanding—their awkward encounters begin, slowly turning into playful banter, heart-fluttering moments, and a sweet romance. As they get to know each other, they discover that both of them carry emotional scars and hidden secrets. Despite coming from completely different worlds—barista and rich businessman—it becomes harder to stop their feelings from growing. From simple coffee orders to fancy events, unexpected trips, and comedic situations, they slowly learn that love is much like a perfect cappuccino—smooth, warm, and balanced with just the right mix of sweetness and bitterness. Though their worlds are far apart, a love begins to bloom. But sometimes, love is like coffee—it needs the right blend, or it turns bitter. But what if one day, the man she loves is hiding a secret that should have stayed buried long ago? Will she run away from the struggle, or will she fight for love and protect the sweetness they’ve built together?