A Grief Observed

“A black rose symbolises death and grief but new beginnings as well.” Rojean Cai has the most perfect life anyone could ever imagine. She has a stable job that pays her well, a fiance who loves her so much, and a family that will continue to support and care for her and she feels like life has just been really kind to her. Unbeknownst to her, when Krister Usoro approached her for a favour-- a favour in which she felt she couldn’t decline, her life had turned for the worse as it had never been. All hell breaks loose when the truth about a person she never thought she’d meet unveils, leaving her clinging to the thin thread of hope she has left.

Liora is a mute Omega, a defective mate who spent years enduring the coldness of her husband, Alpha Damien. She thought her pregnancy would finally bring hope to their hollow marriage—instead, it became her nightmare. Claiming her "inferior genes" would taint the Alpha bloodline, Damien’s mother forces Liora to undergo an abortion. While Liora is collapsing in a pool of blood and grief, Damien is busy celebrating her stepsister's birthday, dismissing his wife’s silent agony as a mere "attention-seeking scene." Damien has no idea his heir was murdered. He thinks Liora’s sudden demand for divorce is just a tantrum, unaware what he lost, the only woman who ever truly loved him.

When profiler Ava Cross returns to her father’s secluded hometown after his sudden death, she expects grief and old ghosts — not a series of brutal killings and a predator with glowing gold eyes watching her window. Drawn into the secrets of Silverpine, Ava discovers a hidden world of shapeshifters bound by a centuries-old pact now crumbling under a blood-moon prophecy. Everyone wants something from her: Rowan, the deputy who swore to protect her; Elias, the alpha who claims she belongs to the pack; and Silas, the rogue who warns she’s in danger from them all. Torn between loyalty and survival, Ava must uncover the truth about her heritage and make an impossible choice—before the next full moon rises and the hunt begins.

After losing his mate and unborn child, Alpha Tedros abandons everything he holds dear, drowning in grief and refusing to confront his pain. But fate intervenes when Elodie Campbell, his late mate's best friend, reappears in his life. Elodie has harbored a lifelong love for Tedros, having survived the same tragic accident that claimed his wife's life. Refusing to speak of that fateful day, she hides her feelings and offers Tedros a proposition: a marriage of convenience to save his failing business. Can Elodie, the quiet girl with a hidden strength, win the heart of the alpha who spurns love? As danger lurks on both sides, will she achieve her dream of making him fall for her, or will their shared past tear them apart?

Three years in a loveless marriage, whilst enduring disdain and hatred from her husband for being a barren, Dany witnessed him cheating on her with her best friend. And they were unbothered by her realization, turns out it was a deliberate plan all along manipulating her into signing off ownership of her father's company that she Inherited to him and putting her on an infertility tea so she doesn't conceive for him. Dany lost everything after the divorce, whilst drowning herself in her grief she had a one night stand with a random gigolo before fleeing the country, and she had Sextuplets for the gigolo after three years of barrenness. Unbeknownst to her the gigolo was a powerful billionaire Magnate Laurent Jade who loathes her so much.

--- River Witch Some bloodlines are bound to water. Some debts are never paid in full. When Evelyn Blake returns to the remote riverside village of Elowen after fifteen years away, she expects grief and silence—but not the whispers that rise from the mist-covered water. As bodies resurface and ghostly lights drift through the fog, Evelyn uncovers a buried legacy: a pact made generations ago between her family and a nameless spirit that haunts the river. With the curse's final reckoning approaching, Evelyn must confront the sins of her bloodline, unravel the truth behind her ancestor’s forbidden ritual, and decide whether to escape the fate written for her—or embrace it. In a village where no one speaks of the drowned, the river never forgets. And it always collects what it’s owed.

Harris Black's sister died, which has sent his world in a spiral gloom. Having to juggle the loss of his closest family member, and high school, Harris struggles to find the light in his life. He just wants to run away with his girlfriend, Sarah, to Stonefall where they can live off their musical dreams. While Harris struggles with the darkness of grief, Sarah White deals with her own issues. Her dad is a drunk, and hardly pays attention to her, and she faces bullies at school because of what she wears. As they navigate their lives together, willing to work through their own pain to create something wonderful, secrets come out, and a loss larger than Harris's sister shakes the lives of these two teens.

Scarlett was supposed to walk down the aisle in white silk, glowing with love and a secret growing inside her. Instead, she walked out of a hospital with shaking hands, a shattered heartbeat, and a womb that would never feel the flutter she had been so excited to announce. Her fairytale didn’t just crack. It detonated. On the same day she should have become a wife, she became a woman drowning in betrayal—betrayal delivered by the very man who had once fixed her broken-down car and promised her a forever. While the world demanded answers from Daniel Cross, the perfect fiancé on camera, Scarlett hid in a borrowed guest room, wearing a stranger’s dress and a grief no one could soothe. But heartbreak has a way of sharpening bones.

Sophia, the granddaughter of a notorious Mafia Don, sneaks out for one night of freedom, and ends up in the arms of a stranger. That stranger turns out to be Ryker, the Alpha-elect of a powerful werewolf pack. When he discovers she’s human, he rejects her, fearing the backlash of taking a human mate. But Sophia is already carrying his twins. After her father’s sudden death, Sophia is consumed by grief and the weight of her bloodline. She keeps the pregnancy, determined to keep her family legacy going while she tries to protect her children. Years later, Ryker uncovers the truth. Now, he must navigate a dangerous world of loyalty, power, and rekindled desire to reclaim what he lost. But will Sophia ever let him close again… especially now that she’s become the new Don?

COMPLETED!!!! WARNINGS: SEXUAL CONTENT, DOMESTIC ABUSE, SUICIDE, GRIEF, AND VIOLENCE! Melanie Stokes is Alpha Damon’s eldest daughter and heir. Jaxon Miller is the fatherless male wolf that snatches the title right from underneath her. After they begin to work together as Alpha and Beta, they make a deal to have a casual relationship until the Mating Ball, when they will both meet their mates and decide their fates from then. What happens when Jaxon discovers they are mates a month before the ball and that the Moon Goddess chose her from birth to become a member of “The Alpha Council” that will force her to leave the pack? Can he make her fall in love with him before her hatred causes her to reject him? Can love even prevail the challenges they will face if she does choose him?