1 Second After Novels & Stories

Elena endured an unhappy marriage with Damon for 3 years, constantly mistreated and betrayed. Her brilliant mind was ignored, and her personality was erased as she became a porcelain doll. But one night, she decided to seek revenge by sleeping with a complete stranger! The last thing Elena could expect was that the man she slept with was actually Aaron Granger, the wealthiest CEO in the entire city, a man who had everything he wanted. And he wanted her.

As an orphan, Cassie Holt has always been an outcast, a punching bag for her peers, who hated her because she was a weak omega. She always kept to herself but wished everyone would accept her. It would seem the moon goddess answered her prayers by making her cross paths with the alpha of her pack, resulting in a one-night stand, a baby, and marriage to the alpha, but if anything, it was a curse. Alpha Axel hated her weakness and he wanted nothing to do with her. But when a rogue attack claims the life of her son, Cassie decides there's nothing more for her in the pack and leaves, but a year later, she crosses paths with her ex-husband and alpha. What's worse? He wants her back.

My widowed mother-in-law has an affair with a married man. Whenever she goes out to meet him, she uses me as an excuse and says I need her to run errands. Slowly but surely, my husband, William Sanders, thinks of me as a cruel daughter-in-law who orders her mother-in-law around. One day, my mother-in-law gets pregnant. She secretly uses my name when getting a checkup at the gynecology department and even wants to play the child off as mine and William's. Her lover's wife mistakes me for his mistress and strips me in public before beating me to death. When I open my eyes again, I'm back to the day when my mother-in-law's lover's wife finds out about her going to the gynecology department under my name. This time, I'm calm as I tell the woman what to do. "Let's get to the bottom of this. Let's ask the doctor who the actual patient was!"

Ellie Reigns is the only child of her father, a notorious Mafia Boss. She was raised under a roof of strict rules and regulations. She is his prized possession, his precious rose. When Ellie’s mother gave birth to her, something tragic happened: she died minutes later, not even getting the chance to hold her child in her arms. Ellie is now 19 years old, yet her father keeps her hidden from the world, afraid that he would lose her as he did her mother. Because of this, she has zero experience with love. She is deprived of the normalcy of a teenager. A day came when Ellie got sick of being locked away from the outside world, and that was when she met Dexter Mill. He is known as a bad boy and a player, but to Ellie, he becomes known as the guy that took her breath away; the one that raised goosebumps on her skin. Dexter becomes known to her as the boy with mesmerizing eyes. Maybe it was love at first sight, but it only took a second for Ellie to see eternity in those green eyes of his.

Willow was a strong female wolf with issues. She has recently found out that her boyfriend was cheating on her with her evil halfsister. He tried to explain, but Willow couldn't and wouldn't hear it. Her father ended up cheating on her mother with his mate, her now stepmother, and forced her mother to leave the pack never to return. Willow was giving up. She was giving up on finding her true mate, and she was giving up having a happy, healthy father and daughter relationship because her dad, who was the alpha of her wolf pack, always took her halfsisters side. Then, one day, fate changed. The lycan pack came to visit, and the Lycan beta informed her father that the Lycan king Adien was hosting a celebration. He was looking for a Luna and demanded that a few females from each pack attend. Willow was forced to pack her things and head to the ruling Lycan pack. A pack ruled by the dangerous, deadly, and cruel Lycan Alpha. Willow has heard whispers about the Lycan king, and all were bad. His mate died years ago, and when he was at his weakest point, some members of the ruling family tried to kill him. Those two events have left the Lycan King cold and ruthless.

Sophie McDermott's life in fast-paced San Francisco was already complicated as a single mother balancing the demands of work and raising her son, Dawson. Just when she believed her life couldn't get any more hectic, fate intervenes. Being employed by Polo Enterprise should be a dream come true, but Sophie is about to come face to face with the last person she ever expected- Alex Hernadez, her first and only love whom she has spent years trying to forget. What will happen when these two get to work closely? Will he get a chance to find out Dawson is his son and will they find a way to overcome the damages of the past and finally claim the happiness they have always yearned for? Or will shadows of deceit and jealousy tear them apart once more?

Marsh: I wanted a life where I could get both lives. I was BI and I only realized it until I met the girl my parents chose for me. Afraid of losing my inheritance, I left the only person who loved me whole heartily. But now I regret every moment of it. And I can get him back. Right? Josh: I felt myself the luckiest guy in the world. I had this perfect business. My own chain of restaurants. I am independent. I am earning good and in love with a man of everyone’s dream. Until it was everything but a dream. He was never mine and I never wanted to be a dirty secret. So I left him. Will life ever give me another chance? Bolt: He was broken and I knew the moment I laid my eyes on him. He appeared to be all rude and tough but I can well read the fear and vulnerability in his eyes. He isn’t as tough as he thinks he is. And fuck me if I don’t want to replace the insecurity in his eyes with the twinkle of happiness. But will he give me any chance?

Tania got separated from her parents when she was just a little baby, no one knew why she was left in front of the pack, but they all assumed it was because she was a low born. She was discriminated and bullied because of the unknown but she was able to keep up with it all only because of her friendship with the soon to be alpha, Allerick Sullivan. But these all came to an end when Allerick found out that Tiana was her mate! He quickly rejects her and gave her the disgrace of her life, it has only been a pretense after all. She had thought Allerick would be the end of all her suffering. She could pick herself up by leaving the pack while risking being tagged as a rogue or staying in the pack, while she sits in humiliation and bullying for the rest of her life. She chose the latter. But fate was on her side when she finds her second Chance mate in the Alpha who ordered her to be captured and killed. He soon took to her liking and taught her how to fight back, he started to help her find her powers, her wolf and her parent. And he finally helped her see her qualities and her worth…

Kimberly keeps having these weird dreams were she finds herself wrapped in the arms of this powerful demigod with the eye of a beast and the body of a god. Suddenly her perfect life as a human was unbalanced when she meets with one of the creatures she has sworn all her life never to believe in__a werewolf. He tells her so many things about her life she never thought were possible among which was the fact that she was reincarnated, and her life span reducing everyday and eventually, she was going to die if she doesn't find her mate. But the problem was... How is she going to ever find this mysterious man? How is she expected to find a creature that calls bluff everything she had ever believed in? How is she going to deal with the knowledge of the barrier that has been placed on her and the Alpha, from finding each other? And finally, How is she going to cope with the way her body reacts against her will, to the touches of his ?

My ex-husband is getting married. and.... I’m the one hired to plan the wedding. My name is Arabella Paloma Garcia. Five years ago, I was arranged to marry an Italian heir with an angel’s face and the personality of something between a blizzard and a natural disaster: Rafael Vittorio Ricciardi. We spent one year of marriage arguing hard enough to make a lawyer retire early. Then his ex came back, and I left with a divorce bracelet on my finger… and a pair of babies in my belly. Now I live in San Francisco. I own a wedding planning company, I’m a single mom to two demon twins, and I’m very, very proud of the fact that the name Ricciardi doesn’t appear anywhere in my life. Until one email lands in my inbox: Ricciardi–Marino Wedding. Groom: Rafael Vittorio Ricciardi. Bride: Alessandra Marino… the woman who once became the reason I got kicked out of his life. I should’ve said no. But Alessandra is infuriating, and I want to prove I’m over Rafael. So I take the job. But he walks in with a cold stare that sends my stomach straight to the floor. No recognition. A helicopter crash two years ago wiped six years of his life. Including me. Including our marriage. Perfect. I’ll plan my ex-husband’s wedding, send him down the aisle, and go back to my life. The plan goes smoothly. Right up until the wedding day. The bride disappears. The guests are waiting. The media is already rolling. And Rafael closes the bridal suite door… drops a bomb that earns him my fist in his face: “You’re the one who going to walk down the aisle with me.”