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From New York Times bestselling author Krista Lakes comes a sexy standalone novel about a billionaire and the indecent proposal he gives the local barista. Billionaire CEO Jackson Weathers needs a family for a PR boost, and I've signed a contract agreeing to give him one. A doting girlfriend in public. A wedding ceremony to invite all the socialites to. And finally, a baby for him to parade around, to show he's really a wholesome, down-to-Earth man. I've tried to remain cynical about it. He's going to make all my dreams come true. So what if it's supposed to be a loveless marriage? Only, his tenderness in private has me hooked. The way he kisses me drives me wild. When we make love, I lose myself to him. His body feels like it was meant to be on top of mine, like we fit together like two puzzle pieces. I can't help but begin to fall for him. I can't tell him, or I risk losing everything. And nobody else can find out about our little "arrangement" or it will destroy his reputation. Still, I feel like I have to know how he feels, before the marriage, before the baby, before I give my entire life over to him. Is it still just pretend?

After I dropped out of school, my parents didn't pressure me to do anything. But Nicole Hicks kept calling nonstop. She was my boyfriend's childhood friend who had established a reputation as a genius. I was too busy helping out in the fields, growing vegetables, and splashing around in the creek, living my best carefree life. Writing code wasn't even on my mind. In my past life, she had turned in a project just one day before I did. Her codes were exactly the same as mine. Everyone called me a fraud and said I had stolen it. I tried to explain, but no one believed me. Later, she even did a livestream, accusing me online of being a school bully. People went wild. They didn't just come for me—they went after my whole family. Some obsessed troll chased my parents in a car, and they died in a crash. I couldn't take it anymore. I jumped off a high-rise, my eyes still wide open, refusing to accept the way it all ended. Even in my last moment, I couldn't figure it out. That code was mine. My hard work. So how did she manage to post it before me? When I opened my eyes again, I was back, right before everything fell apart.

Brandon Fenton, a scholarship student my father had been supporting, was drugged one night. After some consideration, I chose to lie beneath him. I had loved him for ten years. Giving myself to him felt like something I had long decided, something I owed to that love. But everything fell apart the moment Melissa Giles, his childhood sweetheart, walked in on us. Before she could even process what she saw, she ran out in a panic and was struck by a passing car, killing her on the spot. Brandon held me afterward, telling me it wasn't my fault. He even proposed to me. Because of that, Dad placed the entire company into his hands. But the day before our wedding, he set his plans in motion. He deliberately caused a car accident that took Dad's life. When I was at my lowest, drowning in grief, Brandon took me deep into the woods. There, he drove his car over my body, crushing me repeatedly just so I could feel the same agony Melissa had suffered before she died. "If you hadn't drugged me, why would I have ever touched you? If not for you, Melissa would still be alive! I hate you. All of you deserve to die!" And then, after the pain reached its unbearable peak... I opened my eyes and found myself back on the very day Brandon was drugged.

She discovers her fiancé and her sister having sex right before her wedding. Determined to expose them, she played the tape on her wedding day, but her parents didn't support her. What happens next? Find out!

Alpha Archer, King of the Werewolves, needs his mate in order to survive. If he doesn't bond with her before the next full moon, he will die. After days of searching, Archer finally finds her but she is not who he expects her to be.

He challenged a witch and lost to her. A curse was placed on him. He will suffer before he finds his mate and he must do so before he turns thirty-five. Only when he finds his mate will this curse be broken. And for many years, Arthur Murray, the most powerful Alpha, searched for his mate and Luna. Far and near, nook and cranny of all the packs that ever existed! But when he finally finds her, he discovers she carries a blood that he has hated all his life. The blood that has hunted his clan down for decades. A human! His next hated people after the vampires! Eleanor is the future Luna of Crescent pack and mate to Alpha Arthur. Something she would learn and detest. In her parents and the world's eyes, she is just a human girl but could she really be more than a human?

When I was ten years old, both my parents passed away. My sister, Brianna, and I only had each other left. We were tormented at the orphanage before the Larsons adopted us. They doted on Brianna and me, and even allowed their daughter, Vivian Larson, to get engaged to me when I was 20 years old. It was a wonderful tale of love. Vivian didn't let any of us down. She would have given me the moon if she could, and she loved me with all her heart. During the ten years we spent with the Larsons, Brianna and I led a good life and never suffered at all. The night before we got married, Vivian took out a treasured bottle of vintage wine. It was to be served at our wedding. However, I poisoned the wine and killed everyone in the Larson family, including my own sister.

Nathan and Lily fell in love during the summer before there senior year. Nathan is the bad boy of his school and the only reason he is passing is because he and his friends bully people into doing there work. Lily is a straight A student who has very few friends. They met by accident in the beginning of the summer before there Senior year. Everything was perfect during the summer until it wasn't. She wanted to tell everyone they were dating but Nathan cared more about his reputation. Lily broke off things with him not wanting to get hurt. Despite saying he didn't want to ruin his reputation he completely changed the way he acts at school to be near her. Will he realize just how much he loves her. Will she take him back once she realizes how much he loves her.

Eliana Osiris has known pain and torture her whole life after her parents were brutally murdered before her very eyes. She had watched her pregnant mother hanged before her eyes and watched her struggle to drag in breaths all to no avail til she gave up. Now she lay in the cells ,beaten and bruised and unable to move for five years and just when she was finally giving up. She is saved by none other than Alpha Fermion. The ruthless alpha who would do anything for her, even burn the whole world down for her. When she asks him for a rejection and he refused, what would Eliana take of this when it was her first mate who had murdered her own parents and rejected her just because she had no wolf in her… How exactly would this turn out?

A month before I was set to present my life’s work—the Moonlight Therapy—Marcus, my Alpha and fiancé of five years, asked me to give the entire research project to his old flame, Isabella. I refused. He spent the entire month trying to convince me, insisting he was only fulfilling her dying wish. Then, two weeks before the presentation, a link from a friend arrived. That’s when I discovered Isabella was already promoting my research online as her own. He had never intended to ask for my permission at all. In that instant, I chose to sever our five-year bond. What Marcus didn’t know was that the core research he’d stolen was critically flawed. On the very day Isabella presented that faulty data to the world, I walked through the doors of the Boston Werewolf Medical Institute instead. I never looked back.