Atul Gawande Being Mortal

In the late and wild night, Samantha and Jace found theirselves sharing the heat thinking that it would just be a one night stand. Pero hindi inaasahang nakita muli nila ang isa't-isa sa probinsya ng Masvedo kung saan kilala ang kanilang mga pamilya na mortal na magkaaway. Shane tried to avoid Jace but the tension between them could not let that happen. They found theirselves craving each other's heat and comfort despite of their family rivalry. But as they both fell in love the secrets about their lives slowly revealed. Ano ang gagawin nila kung may mas malalim pang dahilan para hindi sila magkatuluyan bukod sa pagkakalaban ng kanilang mga pamilya? Ano ang gagawin nila upang parehong takasan ang katotohanan na posibleng sa mata ng tao at sa mata ng diyos ay mali ang namamagitan sa kanila? Will they be strong enough to seek and face for the truth? Will they fight together for their entangled hearts?

As each finger was cruelly broken, the agony that surged through her body revealed the truth—her nanny and maids had betrayed her long ago. When her sister confessed to carrying her husband's child, Miranda realized that their prior kindness had been nothing but an act in a sinister play. When her gentle husband, a man she had once loved, directed his new lover to claim her life, she understood she had been nothing more than a stepping stone to his ascent to power... Twenty years in this mortal world, and she was merely a puppet manipulated by others. Yet, fate, in its mercy, offered her a second chance. This time, it was her turn to consign those deceivers to hell! Although she returned only to exact vengeance, how did she unwittingly capture the interest of a powerful magnate this time around? Watching the delicate yet resilient girl, the Duke turned to his subordinate and said “Remove the filth that marred her eyes. Feed it to the dogs."

Jaden Robert is a formidable VamWolf hybrid with no one in the Vampires or Werewolves clans aware of his presence. His mother (Susan) was the most powerful vampire in their clan, while his father (Austin), is the Alpha of Omega's pack. Austin's and Susan's families refused to embrace their love as a result of a prophecy seen by a seer over a decade ago. However, as fate would have it, Austin and Susan ended their relationship without Austin learning about Susan's pregnancy. Susan's abilities were sapped with the birth of Jaden, and she reverted to mortal form. Jaden grew up with another man as his father, surrounded by animosity from his biological mother and had no idea why she despised him. Jaden's life became more complicated when he enrolled in the Werewolves and Vampires Academy (WAVA) and encountered his most formidable adversary, James Maxwell, the academy's most powerful werewolf. Would Jaden be able to survive in WAVA if he became entangled with Roselyn, Omega's pack's youngest Luna?

They can’t leave. She can’t escape. Desire was never supposed to be the key. When Elarys bleeds on ancient stone, she doesn’t just open a door—she awakens a prison. Now she’s trapped inside with four cursed beings bound to the ruin… and to her. A starving vampire who aches for her blood… and her surrender. A wolf who guards her like prey he hasn’t yet claimed. An arrogant fae who would wrap her in vines and ruin. A hollow one who watches her every breath. They were never supposed to want her. She was never supposed to love them. But the prison is changing. It responds to touch, trust, and tension. And as the curse unravels, so does the truth: the only way out is through desire. Through them. Bound to Ruin is a dark, sensual, slow-burn, reverse harem monster romance featuring possessive supernatural beings, forced proximity, and one mortal girl at the center of it all. Contains graphic content, obsession, blood, and monsters who don’t know how to be gentle—but learn, for her.

Imagine being kidnapped; being held hostage; being threatened with hunger and violence; surviving with unknown people. Imagine finding a connection, finding love in that oh so terrible prison. Imagine being loved by that love. Imagine being lost, torn away from that love; slapped back to the reality of your fate. Imagine being tortured; the pain not mostly from your own torture, but from the knowledge that the love was somewhere else, somewhere close but far; also being tortured. Imagine your whole life being questioned, threatened to be a lie. Imagine that love being questioned. Imagine being alone. Imagine Love In Bondage.

Genre: Dark Romantic Fantasy Kaelen Thorne has always been an outsider—a struggling mage-in-training in a quiet border village. But when his home is ravaged by a pack of werewolves, he unleashes a torrent of magic that should not exist in mortal blood. In the ruins, he finds Elira, a wounded elf whose violet eyes mark him as the heir to a forgotten dynasty. Bound to him by an ancient oath, Elira becomes both his protector and his curse. Together they journey through burning villages, cursed forests, and the shadowed courts of vampires, unraveling secrets of Kaelen’s lineage. He is the last of the Thorne bloodline, destined to decide the fate of three warring races. Yet the prophecy that hails him as savior conceals a devastating truth: the peace his ancestors forged was built not on unity, but on sacrifice. As Kaelen and Elira’s bond deepens into love, the cost of his destiny becomes clear. To end the war and save the realm, Elira must give her life. Torn between love and duty, Kaelen fights to defy fate—but Elira has already made her choice. In the ashes of war, Kaelen will be remembered not as a hero, but as the last guardian of a promise sealed in fire and blood: the Silver Oath.

"I, Primitivo Alexander O' Cleirigh, accept you—where are you going, woman?!" "Enough, Fluffy. Or I'll get you back on a leash." --- Soraya takes the kid she babysits to an animal shelter to get her first puppy. Of all the dogs she could pick, the little girl chooses the aloof massive dog. It turns out that the dog is a werewolf who comes to the mortal world to find the mate he's been looking for hundreds of years, and it's the babysitter. Primitivo is frustrated to have to travel to another world for his mate and to find out she's a human, to say the least. Yet he cannot complain as the mating process becomes a life-and-death situation. She's crazy to think he's crazy. Primo's trying to be patient with her. He's a tyrant in his world, and he doesn't want to show that early on to his mate and risk scaring her. Soon, he will love his stay in her world, but time is ticking in his world and his pack without their Alpha. He must take her to Agartha to bear his heir before the second full moon — or risk going extinct.

Barry Ocason, extreme sportsman and outdoor travel writer, receives a magazine in his mailbox and opens to an ad for an adventure in the Bavarian Alps. Initially dismissing the invitation, which seems to have been meant specifically for him, he soon finds himself involved in a larger plot and seeking answers to why an individual known only as the elephant man is terrorizing his family. Barry and his daughter Kristen, who survived a twin sister taken from the family at a young age, travel from Juneau, Alaska to the sinister Spider Festival in Rio Tago, Brazil, before he ultimately answers the call to Bavaria, where the puzzle begins to come together. Amid tribulation, death, madness, and institutionalization, a document emerges describing a scientist’s bloody bid to breed a theoretical “third twin,” which is believed to have the potential, through its connection with its siblings, to bridge the gulf between life and afterlife. The godlike creature that soon emerges turns out to be Barry’s own offspring, and she has dark plans for the world of her conception that neither her father nor any other mortal can stop. ©️ Crystal Lake Publishing

Thyme Xenon Sandoval become woman hater after break up. He's a billionaire who want to own everything he wanted. One thing he want to be his own is the Ranch of his father but it's a lot of condition to make it his own. Is he take all the conditions of his father just to get his want? Or he make his own way to get that Ranch in his own way? Zanevy Frealiza Acosta a daughter of his father best friend he need to marry on purpose. He use her at first, not until he feels different. But, do he need to protect his girl if he discovered the secret behind her simple life? Do he can continue what she’d started if he's the one who fall in love with the beautiful lady? “I thought, using you is the way to wash away the pain I felt before, but fuck! Using you is the biggest mistake I ever had. I can't imagine that the girl I kept is the daughter of my mortal enemy. Yeah! I love the daughter of the Mafia Queen!” —Thyme Sandoval.

She thought she was just a wolf. She was wrong. Raven Blackwood, the wild-hearted biker princess of the Iron Fang, is used to ruling the road with steel and fire. But the night Axel Voss; ruthless Alpha of the rival gang claims her as his Luna, her world rips open. Raven isn’t only a wolf. She’s something more. Something dangerous. Something hunted. As her powers awaken, so do her guardians; mystical protectors bound to her bloodline: A dragon trapped in mortal flesh, A siren with a voice that can command the living and the damned and others yet to rise. Each one is drawn to her… body, heart, and soul. Each one destined to fight for her and perhaps claim her. Now Raven stands at the center of a storm: Rival packs warring for dominance, betrayals simmering in the dark, hunters and rogues armed with god-forged weapons and a love so savage it threatens to burn her alive. In a world of chrome and claws, where loyalty cuts deeper than steel and desire is as dangerous as war, Raven must decide Will she surrender to one mate? Or rise as the Luna who commands them all?