Ao Haru Ride Books Novels & Stories

Jessie Stewart spent twelve years as an orphan before she was finally brought home to the Stewart family. For the first time in her life, she had parents and brothers. But the very people who promised to love and protect her turned against her. Bruce Stewart, her father, who once vowed she'd be his cherished daughter, told her that if she had any conscience at all, she wouldn't fight Mia Stewart, her adoptive sister, for a man. Her brothers, who swore they'd spoil her rotten, dragged her onto an operating table just to draw blood for Mia. As for her fiancé, Henry Lawson, every time things got dangerous, he chose to protect Mia instead of her. Three years later, Jessie's parents were on their knees in tears. Her once arrogant brothers slapped themselves in shame. Even her arrogant ex-fiancé knelt at her feet. They all begged her to come back. Little did they know, Jessie's heart had long since been closed off during those countless nights of pain and betrayal. She had already met the love of her life. In the years to come, she would never again be alone. He tended to her every need. To him, Jessie was everything and more.

Olivia Bennett is abandoned at the altar by the man she thought she loved. Humiliated, mocked, and left in her wedding dress, she stands alone—until a stranger steps forward and says the words that change her life: “I’m her husband.” This story is a story of heartbreak, fate, second chances, and a love powerful enough to rewrite destiny.

---- Contains some triggering scenes like brutal punishments, steamy scenes, killings, but no rape. ---- "Please," Olivia moaned, gripping the strong forearms that wrapped around her tightly. "More..." "You want more," Titan murmured hoarsely, sliding his hands across her pebbled nipples, his eyes glowing as he watched her writhe with pleasure. "I can give you that. I will give you so much so that every werewolf within a hundred miles radius will hear you scream my name. Feast on your addicting nectar until I tire out... and then," he reached for her face, tilting it upward. The wicked glint in his eyes made her shudder. "-and then I will break you into a million pieces." *** All her life, Olivia Carter had felt unwanted. Being treated like a slave by her stepmom and step-sister, she had longed and hoped for a day she would be truly desired for who she was. A wofless pup. Lycan King Titan Black, rumored to be a ruthless, volatile monster who killed his mate, needed a Luna and sought out a bride. When his betrothed, Olivia's sister runs away in fear, Olivia is chosen as the substitute bride, sent to 'die' in her stead. However, the sizzling attraction between them stuns them both and sends them into a spiral of hate, love, and anger. What happens when an exposed secret that changes everything Titan and Olivia ever knew, is thrown into the mix? Their love may either be their very doom or salvation.

Aria Sinclair has always known her father's world has a dark side. She just never expected to become part of it. When Richard Sinclair's debt to the most feared family in the city comes due, there is only one currency left that will satisfy it. His daughter. Promised to Dante Vitale — charming, ruthless, and utterly untouchable — in an arrangement that leaves Aria no choice and no way out. Dante doesn't want a wife. He wants what the marriage represents. Power. Leverage. Control. But Aria Sinclair refuses to be controlled. And the one thing Dante Vitale has never known how to handle is something he cannot have. As their worlds collide behind closed doors, what begins as a cold arrangement begins to crack at the edges. Dante is used to taking what he wants. Aria is used to fighting for what she believes in. And somewhere between the danger and the defiance, between the secrets and the silence, something neither of them planned begins to take hold. But Dante's world is built on blood and betrayal. And love, in the Vitale family, has always come at a price. Some deals change everything. Some men are impossible to resist. And some women refuse to break — no matter how hard the world tries.

“You will marry him.” Kiva’s breath shook as she stared at her father. “Please,” she whispered. “Don’t do this.” Her brother only laughed. “You should be grateful anyone would even want an omega like you.” Blamed for her twin sister’s death and treated like a servant in her own home, Kiva has spent her entire life unwanted and impossible to love. Until Fabian. The Alpha of the Southern Gates is the only person who has ever looked at her gently. So when he asks her to marry him, Kiva thinks her life is finally changing. She is wrong. Because the moment Damien Orion arrives at the Gates, everything begins to unravel. The Decaulion. Alpha of all Alphas. A man feared like a monster. And the moment he touches Kiva, he looks at her like he has been searching for her his entire life. Now trapped between betrayal, ancient secrets, and a prophecy tied to her hidden bloodline, Kiva is pulled toward a dangerous Alpha whose darkness should terrify her… but somehow feels like home. Because Damien has spent years dreaming about a girl hidden behind a veil. And he is done letting her disappear.

Miranda was never meant to be a bride, she was collateral. She was shock to learn that her gambling-addicted father sold her to settle an unforgivable debt, she was just a young woman who is forced into a loveless marriage with an aging Mafia King, Salvatore DeLuca. A man whose power commands fear and whose name ends wars. Trapped inside a gilded prison of wealth, violence, and silence, she learns quickly that obedience is her only survival. But within the shadows of the empire lives his handsome son, the heir. Cold, ruthless, and bound by blood and loyalty, he despises the transaction that bought her life. Anger burns in him every time he sees her wearing his father's name, yet desire follows just as fiercely. What begins as resentment turns into dangerous attraction. Every glance to her is a sin, he knows that. Every stolen moment is treason. Yet Lorenzo couldn't help it. In a world where power decides fate, their forbidden love could either destroy the empire, or set them both free.

She's a young woman who's trying to understand everything about her life. After losing her mother she's been on a run since, running from something should couldn't understand. What is it that her Step Brother wants from her ? What are Lisa's intentions, her best friend? She has been kept in the dark with all her questions unanswered. But it won't be long before she finds the truth. Things take a wild turn when she has to make an unexpected decisions forced by circumstances. Marry the notorious Alpha, Ethan. Ethan on his side battling with the provocative elders trying to push his buttons. The council set against his success. Everyone knows he's the most powerful Alpha and has lead his pack to success from the moment he stepped into place. And now everyone wants a piece of the success and power that comes with it. All trying so hard to put him on the strings so they can sway him around. But he's perfectly aware. And all their attempts make him angrier. Awakening the beast lodged inside him. What will happen when he meets his new arranged Bride? Would he be able to love and accept her? Will he see past what The Council set her out to be? What is Natasha's plan? Will she join alliance with and battle the world that stand against them? Or would both of them crush and burn like how everyone else expected. And Natasha has what everyone needs. She has the key unveiling hidden secrets. Now it's only a game of: Who can she really trust?

When Princess Lyanna is chosen to pay the price for peace for her kingdom which is to be sacrificed as a bride to the cruel Lycan god, she flees with her lover and her loyal maid Kaela is forced to take her place. But Kaela has seen her entire village slaughtered by the Lycans and she vows never to bow to their kind. What happens when she is bound by magic to the Lycan god Rhaedros and she is thrown into a world where love is forbidden, and trust could mean death? When a vengeful dragoness plots to reclaim power, Kaela discovers she’s not just connected to an artifact that could reshape their world or destroy it entirely but a grieving god who may not be the monster she imagined. As enemies rise and loyalties are tested, Kaela must decide: Will she fight for her freedom, or for the Lycan who has captured her heart?

The Wolf King had a million soldiers under his command, but he could not defy his master’s order to marry a woman that he barely knew. When Andrius and Luna met, they agreed to call off the marriage arrangement, but when things took a surprising turn, the couple decided to fake their marriage and pretend to be husband and wife. Can the Wolf King charm his ‘bride’ within the stipulated duration or will the bride lose her future before they can even get a divorce?

The Shadow Bride is a haunting tale of duty, mystery, and a love that defies fate. When 23-year-old Avery is forced to marry her late sister’s fiancé to preserve a long-standing family tradition, she finds herself leaving behind her dreams for a life she never chose. Set in the quiet, eerie countryside of Montana, Avery is thrown into a loveless union with the brooding and distant Elias—a man mourning the woman he was meant to marry. But Avery soon senses something more than grief lurking in Elias’s eyes. Whispers of secrets buried in the woods, a strange connection to the moon, and a family with a history shrouded in darkness begin to unravel around her. She may have said “I do” out of obligation—but what she doesn’t know is that her husband’s curse is only just beginning to unfold.