Banter Chains Novels & Stories

"Ava, now!" Virin's voice sliced through the suffocating darkness, sharp and urgent. My body moved before my mind could catch up, legs burning as I sprinted toward the van where Kyra and Priti waited, their faces pale with terror. "Run! Faster, Ava!" Priti's frantic scream tore through the night, her fists slamming the steering wheel as if sheer willpower could propel me forward. My lungs screamed for air, my legs trembled with exhaustion, but I couldn't stop-not when freedom was just ten steps away. Ten. Nine. Eight- "Ava!" His voice cut through the chaos, low and venomous, freezing me mid-stride. It wasn't a command. It was a threat-a promise of destruction. "If you don't stop right now, I'll kill everyone who dares to stand between us!" The weight of his words coiled around me like chains, choking the air from my lungs. I knew he didn't bluff. I knew what he was capable of. "Not now, Ava! Run!" Virin's desperate voice shattered my paralysis as his grip yanked me forward, dragging me the final agonizing steps to the van. We tumbled inside, slamming the doors shut. For a fleeting moment, I dared to look back. There he stood, his figure looming in the distance, chest heaving with fury. His dark eyes burned with a rage that made my stomach twist. Slowly, he raised a finger, pointing at me. "You are mine," he growled, stabbing the same finger into his chest. Over my dead body. ***** Ava's life once seemed perfect-best friends, a family she adored, and a love that felt like destiny. But perfection shatters. Caught between two men-one who sparks a fire she can't extinguish, and another who offers solace laced with shadows- Ava is thrust into a web of secrets, lies, and dangerous temptations.

I was the most spoiled little princess in the shifter world, because I had four powerful daddies. Darius is the head of the Dragon clan, and the King who rules over the entire shifter world. The other three are the heads of the Lion clan, the Serpent clan, and the Eagle clan. Everyone fears their power. My mother was their childhood sweetheart. When she was killed by rogue wolves, they found me still barely breathing inside her, and saved my life. The four of them spoiled me rotten. Whatever I looked at twice, it would be sitting in front of me by the next morning. Every girl in the shifter world envied me. Until the year I turned sixteen, when Vivian came back. She was the daughter of their first love. From that day on, my four daddies were completely different. Vivian cried to Daddy Darius and said I'd pushed her down the stairs. Without a single question, he threw me in a cell, bound my wrists in silver chains, and made me kneel on broken silver shards for seven straight days. Then she went to Daddy Orion and said I'd stolen the necklace her mother left her. So Daddy Orion melted down the only ring my mother ever left me and had it remade into a necklace for her. The last time, Vivian stabbed herself and cried that I'd tried to kill her. Daddy Rex didn't even ask. He just sentenced me to four years in the silver prison. The silver prison holds the worst criminals in the shifter world. The guards whipped me with silver every day, forced me to wash everyone's clothes, and some weeks I went days without a bite of food. Today, when my door got kicked open again, I was huddled in the corner shaking. I hadn't eaten in two days. Then I heard the Moon Goddess's gentle voice. “Child, do you want to leave here and go back to your mother?”

"When your daughter turns eighteen," Anna said, "my son will come for her. He'll claim her as his wife. And he'll make her Luna of Dark Howl Pack." Mike Hawthorne went very still. “Anna, what are you saying?” He asked, his voice barely a whisper. “This is the only way I can repay you, Mike." Her voice cracked, but she didn't stop. "I owe you my life, so in return I'm giving your baby Olivia a future. The best future a shewolf could ever have." She hurried to the bed and reached down, brushing her fingers against Olivia's tiny hand. "You're going to be a queen someday," Anna whispered. "My son will come for you. I promise." **** Olivia Hawthorn’s life shatters the day war destroys everything she has ever known. To save her family from execution, Olivia is forced to assume the identity of her best friend, the spoiled princess of the defeated Silvermoon Pack, and marry the most feared Alpha in the kingdom. Alpha King Vulcan, the ruthless ruler of Dark Howl. However, the woman Alpha Vulcan drags into his palace in chains isn't the princess he hates and seeks to exert vengeance on. She is Olivia Hawthorne, the girl who he was promised to marry by his mother. Trapped inside Dark Howl, Olivia must hide who she truly is while enduring the cruelty of a king determined to punish her for crimes she never committed. As enemies gather around the throne and old betrayals resurface, Olivia finds herself caught between duty and a mate who swears he will never love her. How long can Olivia hide her identity from the Alpha King? And what will Vulcan do when he discovers that the woman he has been breaking is the very woman he was always meant to protect?