Books About Ancient China

“Mate!" All of a sudden, it wasn't just his beauty that shook me to the core anymore. But also the voice that spoke the word in my head. My heart sank to the pit of my stomach and I caught his eyes. Of all the people the moon goddess could have cursed me to, she chose the most merciless of all Alphas, Rolan McDrago, the Lycan-king of Bloodfrost kingdom. *** Anya Vale endures the brutal agony of her existence... served by her stepmother and basically everyone else in Silverfang pack. But The Fates spin a rare wheel and mark her mate to the Lycan-king of Bloodfrost Kingdom. Rejecting the impossibly handsome but ruthless tyrant would certainly get her executed, and accepting him would bring them both great doom. Torn between losing her life at the hands of the ruthless Alpha or eventually meeting her end by the ancient curse everyone believed she carried in her blood, Anya slowly begin to develop feelings for him. Struggling with his own lustful desires for Anya, his coldness does not just start to fade off, but he defies death itself for her. On the rough path of understanding the truth about herself, will Anya embrace the cursed bond between she and Rolan, or reject it at the ultimate risk of everything?

Olivia Morgan never believed in monsters, but the woods outside her hometown seem to disagree. Haunted by dreams she’s never been able to explain, Olivia’s life takes a sharp turn one Halloween night when she discovers a black wolf caged beneath silver bars. But when the wolf shifts into Ezekiel—a warm-hearted Alpha with an infuriating smile—Olivia’s reality fractures. Upon freeing him, she finds out he's her fated mate and se's bound to him and a world of wolves and Lycans she never knew existed. Her senses heighten, shadows stalk her every step, and Ezekiel insists she’s no longer safe among humans. When her estranged grandfather, Roman, Alpha Ezekiel's Beta, appears with answers Olivia never asked for, she learns she’s not just anyone—she’s the daughter of a prince and part of a royal Lycan bloodline. Torn between the familiar world she’s known and the legacy pulling her deeper into Silver Lake’s supernatural web, Olivia is faced with enemies she can’t yet understand. Malakai, the feared adversary of her family, seems to know more about her past than anyone, and his motives feel far more complicated than simple vengeance. As Olivia unlocks her dormant powers and unearths secrets about her parents’ deaths, she realizes nothing is as it seems. And when an ancient curse sweeps through Silver Lake, threatening everyone she’s come to care for, Olivia must decide: run from the destiny she never asked for or stand and fight.

Caroline just wanted to make it home for Christmas. Instead, she spun off the road in the ice-silent realm of the mountains and nearly died in the blizzard. When she opens her eyes, the first thing she sees is a tall, muscular man with jet-black hair, emerald-green eyes, and an intensity so visceral it steals her breath away. Rowan Blackthorn. The man who saved her and who looks at her as if he wants to drive her away and devour her all at once. Rowan is cold, arrogant, ruthless. He doesn’t ask, he doesn’t explain: he only commands. Every movement he makes is tense, dominant, dangerously masculine, and Caroline’s skin tingles at his every touch, as if her body recognizes some forbidden truth. The man clings to her with fury, yet desperately tries to keep her at a distance. But when Caroline simply walks past him, Rowan’s gaze rakes over her as if he could strip her bare with a single look. The tension between them is almost tactile, hotter than the fireplace flames in the mountain cabin where they are trapped by the storm. And while Rowan denies this desire with every fiber of his being, something dark and ancient stirs in the forest, reacting to Caroline’s presence. As if her arrival were more than a mere accident. As if she herself were the winter-bound secret that upends everything. Rowan says she brought danger with her. Caroline only feels one thing: the true danger is Rowan himself, and the fire his body ignites within her. One thing is certain: This holiday won't be about peace and joy. It will be about survival, the power of craving, and the fact that sometimes the most dangerous man is the one you most want to run from.

Hope Black is a Delta, a person who was born among werewolves, but does not have a wolf... Despite this, she is one of the best warriors, always being at the forefront of training. With the chance to train in the great Lycan royal castle, Hope enlists with the hope of further improving her fighting skills, she just didn't expect to find her Destined on the first day. Dylan Miller is an Alpha, future leader of the Blue Moon pack, he enlisted in royal training to escape a forced union, he is against the ancient rule that he needs to unite with someone of pure and ancient blood. With this chance he hopes to find his Destined and thus be able to free himself from the forced union his father and his elders placed for him. The only thing he didn't expect was for the Moon Goddess to put him together with a Delta who doesn't want him.

A prophecy caused a great chaos in the Vamp-Wolfish Clan making the king of the clan to get distressed and disturbed. An incarnated Lycan will be born and dwell in the human world who will destroy the Vamp wolfish Clan. The innocent young CEO kept having nightmares of weird ancient things which made him lose himself in anger and confusion seeking answers to what they meant. His parents couldn't give him a clue cause they didn't want to spill the dark truth yet. It was going to destroy him especially if he knew about the Vamp Wolfish Clan. It would make the king go on a rampage and kill him. Hiding the truth from the man didn't stop him for digging for answers to his nightmares,he found out the most dreadest and sacred truth of himself and his dark past. This should be kept from everypne he knew especially for the crazy mysterious girl he fell hard for. He was madly in love with her but his most hated enemy took her away from him. His enemy was going to use the girl they both love to destroy him and prevent the Lycans from taking over the kingdom again. His dark past was either going to kill him or make him survive.

Her ordinary life shatters when a brutal attack reveals a hidden world and a powerful Alpha who claims her as his fated mate. But Olivia is no ordinary human, she's the legendary Alpha Lost Heir, whose parents, the strongest in the werewolf continent, were murdered by Ronan's own family for their power and inheritance, orchestrating Olivia's "adoption" as a calculated scheme. Now burdened with an ancient prophecy and a terrifying elemental power she can barely control, Olivia finds herself bound to the son of her parents' killers,a man she might see as a brother, and also a man who is also the best friend of the Alpha she truly loves from another pack. As a consuming darkness, the Shadow Wielders, rise, draining life force and corrupting the land, Olivia must confront the horrifying truth about her lineage. Guided by a conflicted Ronan, whose own loyalties are torn, she must decide if their fractured bond can truly lead her to confront the enemy's insidious power at its source. Can Olivia harness her untamed elemental force and overcome the ultimate betrayal, or will the encroaching shadows and the weight of her past consume everything she loves, including her chance at true belonging and vengeance?

Arianna had not planned on using magic to summon anything, she just wanted to get out of an arranged marriage. She was told of the ancient magic of summoning a guardian but instead she had summoned a demon—the demon king himself. But what would he ask in return for his loyalty to this princess?

Title: Whispers of Frost and Fire Author: Seraphina Belladona Synopsis: Aurelia had always been certain about one thing: she and Jeremy Philings were meant to be. As the captain of the cheerleading squad, daughter of the Ravenclaw pack’s beta, and a beloved figure in her pack’s community, everything seemed to fall into place. With Jeremy, the captain of the football team and soon-to-be alpha, by her side, Aurelia was sure that their bond would be sealed on his 18th birthday. The moment they’d been waiting for—the moment when the goddess would confirm their mate bond—was just around the corner. But when midnight strikes on Jeremy’s birthday, everything changes.As the clock chimes, Jeremy’s wolf emerges, his eyes locking onto Aurelia with a chilling coldness that shatters her world. With a single, harsh command, “Move,” he pushes her aside and walks straight toward Shanika Mason, the graceful, confident captain of the soccer team—and the daughter of the first Gamma couple. The girl he has chosen as his mate. Devastated and humiliated, Aurelia flees the celebration, unable to comprehend how the life she’d imagined for years has evaporated in an instant. In her pain, Aurelia is forced to confront the cold truth: she is not the one Jeremy wants, and she must find a way to heal from the heartbreak of losing her mate. But Aurelia’s journey is far from over. Sent to her mother’s old pack in the frozen wilderness of Alaska to escape the painful memories, Aurelia begins to unravel the mysteries of her own past. The Foraker Mountain pack is everything her former home was not—rugged, cold, and steeped in ancient traditions—but it’s here, in the frozen lands of Chase, that Aurelia discovers the truth about her lineage.

Ling's parents have been separated since she was young, and she copes with the separation by taking good care of her father. When the public school her father works at receives news of a donor who'd supply the school with new books, Ling becomes enthusiastic. But upon meeting Joshua Aragon Villafuerte, the donor, all her senses tell her this handsome, rich boy is more than what he is. Joshua grew up never knowing what a mother's love was. He doesn't mind though since he sails through life easily with a rich father as his support. Though charming and your general nice guy, behind his easy-going smile Joshua isn't faring well--not when you witnessed your own mother put a bullet to her head at the tender age of six. Just when two people try to overcome their childhood heartaches, Ling and Joshua discover what links them together. And whatever truth comes out of their predicament, they can't deny that they need each other to get pass their demons.

Born to a witch and a mutated king in the ancient land of magic and mystery called the Nile Delta, the first alpha rises to power. Follow his adventures as he discovers and unleashes his strengths, meets his mate, forms the first pack, and causes the inception of a new world and order.