A Clock Without Hands

Claire was almost convinced that she couldn't find a mate because she failed to shift on her eighteenth birthday. The next year, without getting her hopes up, she sneaked out of her pack to attend another pack's mating ball out of curiosity. As a gatecrasher who has broken the rules, she was certain she wouldn't get caught because the event was a masquerade ball and none of the people would see her face. But guess what? She danced with the new alpha who was without a mask, and he immediately knew she was an outsider because she failed to recognize him! Running away, the clock tolled, signaling it was already midnight. She bolted into her wolf form for the first time and smelled a potent scent all over her, and realized that the man she danced with was her mate! However, upon returning home, Claire found out her father, the alpha of their pack, was killed by her uncle, and she was then exiled before meeting her mate again. But everything changed when a month later, a man barged into the barren place where she was imprisoned, and she met her savior's enigmatic blue eyes.

William Parker is a mafia boss. Everyone knows that I'm his weak spot. When I was abducted back in the day, he gave everything he had—including his gun—and ran the risk of being shot to get me back. To keep me from being bullied or mistreated, he's constantly toeing the line between the authorities and the underworld. After I fall pregnant, he's by my side around the clock and doesn't even let my feet touch the ground. Rumor has it that he has a secret lover that he dotes on to no end, but I've never believed it… until she appears before me to challenge me. William slices one of his fingers off to beg for my forgiveness. The very next day, his secret lover throws a pregnancy test in my face. "Will's so desperate to knock me up that he can't keep his hands off me—I can't take it anymore!"

Jessica, a kind- hearted 25 year old drowning in poverty and personal trauma, never imagined she's end up married to one of the most feared billionaires in the city. Romeo Blackwood, a cold, ruthless CEO known for crushing rivals without mercy. When Romeo offers her a one year contract marriage to help him defeat his business rival and protect his empire, Jessica has no choice but to accept. The terms are clear: No love. No intimacy. Just appearance. Break the rules, and she'll face the consequences. But as the days pass, walls begin to crumble. Romeo, hiding a devastating secret- a terminal illness finds unexpected comfort in Jessica's warmth. And Jessica, still hauted by past trauma, begins to trust the man she once feared. What starts as a fake union slowly becomes something dangerously real.... but can love bloom under the weight of lies, secrets, and a ticking clock?

Hazel Thorne loses her mate to her evil twin sister on the day of her turning, and Keith Thorne's oath with the Wyoming Alpha was that the twin without a mate must be sold off to him. When Hazel runs from her buyer days later, she comes back to wolf city to find her lost mate, but she doesn't get to return. Someone betrays her. A silver dagger lands in her heart, and then she meets Raglan. The demon Prince Raglan has an offer to save her dying self. Her days are numbered and her clock ticks at a rate of knots. She has to do everything he asks, but when a forbidden romance gets her in the path of trouble, what could possibly go wrong with baby-trapping a demon Prince? Especially when this pregnancy might belong to the sexy rogue werewolf, Micah...

Getting married to an old man when Athina Papageorgiou clocked eighteen isn't what she planned for, on the day of her wedding she ran away from home. Establishing a business which soared isn't what she expected but she accepted with a good fate, coming back from her business trip she met him Colton Martakis. The mistake she made was believing she would get married to an old man, what she never knew was that the old man actually came to take her off for his nephew, Colton Martakis. Colton knows what belongs to him and was ready to go for it, he was angry that she would leave him stranded at the altar, he would go to any length to have her as his. Even after seven years of searching for her, he never gave up, only that the timing was a little bit late. Would he still be able to change the hands of the clock, which had turned her into something else, or would he make it a whole lot of baggage on her?

At a dinner party, my genius painter of a husband, Henry Shepherd, used his hands, hands insured for millions, to shell crabs for his young assistant, Tamara Lee. This was all to coax her into eating a few bites when she claimed she had no appetite. Meanwhile, I drank myself into a bloody mess, trying to secure investments for him. When I asked him to hand me some antacids, he refused without even looking up. “These hands are for painting. Use your own.” For ten years, he couldn’t even be bothered to change the way he treated me. That night, as I sobered up in the cold wind, I asked my lawyer to draft a divorce agreement. "Henry, in this vast, chaotic world, our paths end here," I said inwardly

Aliyah was a girl from 2020 and in just a snap of the clock, she was transported to a year where the biggest twist of her life was about to happen, where she was destined to meet a young soldier who will change her fate. In the year 1950, where her boring life will change.

My brother brings home a scheming girlfriend. He wants to kick me out of the house for her sake and claims that everything at home belongs to him. I hand the company over with both hands and leave without hesitation. Less than a month later, my brother, who can't manage the company, grovels at my feet and begs me to return.

Patrick and Clare wake up trapped in a basement, a thin wall separating their cells. Their captor is mysteriously absent, which at first seems like a blessing. As more time passes with no food or water, they begin to realize a clock is ticking for their survival.They know their captor is still out there, and it is only a matter of time before he returns.©️ Crystal Lake Publishing

Kris is a special kind of Werewolf, he falls in love with the beautiful and lovely Ava. After they're mated, Ava is brutally kidnapped by Werewolf Hunters leaving Kris' heart in shreds. Now he's on a mission to find his mate and uncover the secrets of his past while the clock of Ava's life keeps tic