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[WARNING! FOR 18+ ONLY] After a fight with her stepmother, Beverley Holmes suddenly received a wedding invitation that made her face pale. Not because it was from her ex-boyfriend, who was getting married to another woman. It was because the bride's name written on it was her own! How could it be?! So, her stepmother didn't lie to her? The woman had actually sold her to pay off a multi-million dollar debt? Then who is her future husband? *** The first time Brent Oliver saw his future wife on the wedding altar, he vowed never to be seduced by her beauty and sexiness. However, he didn't expect that the more time he spent with her, her innocent, virtuous, and hard-to-get demeanor would be so seductive that it drove him crazy. Can he continue to maintain his relationship with his secret lover? Or is he stuck with his alluring wife instead?

The story revolves around two entities: a vicious and domineering human girl who hunts down dragons to extinction, and a long-lived dragon sage, who aims to reclaim what was rightfully his. Due to an unforeseen event, they accidentally created a pact that ceased them from exterminating each other, that they ended up using one another for their own benefits instead. ---And the one whose heart falters first is ought to die. One world, two races. Their distinct beliefs set a feud that caused a centuries-year-old war to begin with. Which race will play the role of the meek sheep and who will be the cunning fox? Who will be the predator and who will be the prey? -2021 by _iLied-

Five years after finding out what she is, Bella Mackenzie spent this years knowing nothing but hate and scorn, treated as an outcast by even her own family "Wait for mate and end this curse. "That was Bella's notion until the night of her step-sister's ritual ceremony and the one who was supposed to love despises her like no other, her mate. Sold for a price to Alpha Damien, her supposed mate, Bella has a new identity in the Bloodbath pack, 'slave and property of the cold blooded mafia alpha. Despite being under the mercy of the notorious alpha of all, Bella is determined to make him acknowledge her as his mate, but Damien already made a vow to make her suffer, for trying to deceive him with her manipulative stealer powers. What will happen when destiny plays its role in their lives? Or maybe her destiny is cursed too, and at the end of the tunnel there is nothing but darkness. ***** "Brace up stealer, you have a lot coming your way." He moved back and crossed his arms behind him, his face morphed into a plain emotionless look. "Tonight you'll be initiated into the pack, then you begin your duty as my slave."

I wasn't supposed to stay out in the dark, was supposed to be indoors like the others. But being so stubborn, I left into the woods to play with my best friend Micky, my little puppy. But the night wasn't a safe one for me. My hour was darkness, and every single night creatures trembled at the authority of rawl. I found her while she patted her little dog by the back. She was little and innocent, but that has nothing to do with me. She disobeyed the rules, therefore, she must serve the consequences.

Isabella Sforza, the 20-year-old heir to a powerful Mafa empire, had always known 34-year-old Niccolo Este as her father's most trusted bodyguard. He was loyal, composed, and nothing more than a shadow in her life-until one fateful night. While out partying with her friends, she ended up in his arms, sharing a night of passion she would soor forget. But Niccolò remembered every moment. And when the time came, he did the unthinkable-he assassinated her father, seized the Mafia throne, and forced her into marriage Now bound to the man she despises, Isabella sees him as nothing but a ruthless traitor. What she doesn't know is that Niccolo's actions were driven by a reason far bigger than she could ever imagine. The truth lies hidden beneath layers of secrets, waiting to be uncovered.

I saved a stranger. Now, I belong to him. Luna thought she was doing the right thing when she helped the wounded man whom she stumbled into on her way going back home from work in the dead of night. She never expected to wake up in his world-trapped, claimed, and bound to a man who doesn't take no for an answer. Hardin DeVante is a kingpin in the business world, a man whose power extends far beyond boardrooms and balance sheets. He's ruthless, calculated, and dangerously captivating. And now, he's decided Luna will be his wife. She wants to fight. He wants to break her. But in the game of power and possession, will she escape... or will she surrender to the man who holds her fate in his hands?

Amanda is a biracial Nigerian teenager who's still struggling to come to terms with her new life mother's death years prior after a traumatic accident that almost claimed both their lives. Upon relocation to Port-harcourt she meets Chideziri, another teen who helps her make peace with her life. Chideziri is an unlikely teen from a dysfunctional family and an abusive father. He is constantly on the run from reality, but when he meets Amanda he begins find reasons to pick the fragments even if it means facing off his demons. She belongs to the sky is a brutally honest coming of age story set in contemporary Nigerian society. It trails two teens who in trying to find themselves find each other, and discover that their spark may not be fate's design alone.

Abused from a young age, Katalayha was forced to run a house hold, tormented and tortured at every turn. She was the maid, the chef, the cleaner, the punching bag, the daughter that was never wanted. All her life she has been hurt by those who should love her, forced to abandon her very nature, and her birthright. Two months before her eighteenth birthday, Katalayha is given away to a ruthless Alpha, not as payment but as a token of good faith. Money is owed, and Katalayha's entire future is the price for extending the due date. Forced to marry, and mate with a man that she doesn't know, Katalayha becomes a shell of the beaten person she was. Who would have thought that the very man that put her in the position she's in, would become the one driving her to succeed? Is it love, or is she going to betray him to finally claim her freedom? She is Katalayha Slovak, first born of Alpha Kade and first Alpha-Female. It seems men have beaten her down one way or another her entire life, it's time the roles were reversed. Don't you agree?

Naya is the adopted daughter of the Genreys but has never been to been treated like their child. Her life takes a drastic turn when she was forced to into an arranged marriage by her adopted parents to Leon Valois in exchange to save her sisters life. Leon, the illegitimate son of the Valois family, is crippled, hated, and underestimated. Manipulated into this marriage, he has his own reasons for agreeing, ones that could destroy the very family that cast him aside. In a world of betrayal, family secrets, and scheming rivals, Naya and Leon find themselves drawn to each other in ways they never expected. As they fight their enemies and their growing feelings. Naya and Leon must decide if love is worth risking everything. Their marriage started as a cruel deal, but will it end as their greatest strength?

"Damn, girl," Kade mutters. "You really do have the sauce." He steps closer, his hand finding its way to my waist. "Can’t wait to get a taste of you," he whispers. ~ I’m Zara Draven and I’m my father’s worst mistake. I have always being the unwanted one. My sisters remind me every day that I’m worth less than the dust underneath their shoes, and everyone in the Crimson Wolf pack calls me cursed. When the moon goddess surprises me with a second chance, I’m reborn two years in the past to the night of my 18th birthday. Now I have four mates, and I’m ready to make hell all let loose…..