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Death has a mate - a teenage girl, the Grim Reaper's Bride. All Callie has known is that someone watches her in the woods - Samael, the Grim Reaper. Drawn into his intoxicating web of desires, secrets, and shadows, and hating him with a burning passion - can these two unlikely heroes stop the Apocalypse? Or will Samael start it for love?

"Killing you would be a mercy. And mercy is not what this family gives." Sold to pay her father's debt. Married to the youngest son of the deadliest mafia family in Spain. Widowed before the wedding night was over. Now Alondra Reyes-Salamanca belongs to the older brother, the man who watched her try to run and pulled her back into the dark. Dante Vidal-Montenegro has sworn to make her pay for a murder she did not commit. But someone in this house is hiding the truth. Someone wanted Iker dead. And the more Dante hurts her, the more he begins to suspect that the woman trembling in his bed every night may be the only innocent thing left in his entire bloodline. Enemies to lovers. Mafia kings to confessions in the dark. A debt paid in blood, a bride paid in pain, and a love story written in everything they were never supposed to feel.

Nikola Hernando, the ruthless Mafia King, is as the Devil. Marilyn Diaz is known as an Angel. When their fathers force them into an arranged marriage to unite two powerful mafia families, Marilyn expects a monster. But as secrets unfold, she discovers that even the Devil was once an Angel.

“Forbidden marriage, dangerous love, and a bloody inheritance.” Enola Spark was nothing more than a “useless child” in the eyes of her family—beautiful but always looked down upon, oppressed by her uncle, and sidelined by her cousin, Clarine, the perfect heiress. But everything changed on the night of Clarine’s engagement to Damian Cassel, the tyrannical heir feared by the entire city. A scandal erupted in front of family and guests: Damian chose Enola instead. One night of sin binds them in a marriage that shocks everyone. Clarine is humiliated, her uncle is furious, and Damian’s stepbrother vows to bring them down. The wedding is only the beginning of the war. Enola must endure humiliation, jealousy, and betrayal from the family dinner table to the corporate boardroom. Yet behind Damian’s cold exterior, Enola discovers a side of the man he only shows her. In a world filled with intrigue and inheritance battles, can Enola survive? Or will this forbidden love be their downfall?

Clara's world crumbles when she finds out that she has been offered to the ruthless Lycan king as compensation by her pack. All her life, she has been preparing to be the Luna of the Shadows falls pack, since she was mated to the alpha. But things change when she finds out that her little sister is already pregnant with her mate's child, and now, in place of her step-sister, she is being forced to marry the ruthless Lycan king while pretending to be her step-sister. Will she survive being the Lycan king Asher Blackwood's substitute mate, or will her secret be leaked? What will happen when the Lycan king finds out about her secret?

I never planned to marry him. Especially not a man like him. The arrogant, ruthless Mafia Lord who owns half the city and destroys anyone foolish enough to cross him. But when my family’s lives were threatened, I had no choice but to become his bride. Not for love. Not willingly. But to survive. Now I’m trapped in his deadly world, a world where guns are treated like toys, blood stains every secret, and danger hides behind every smile. And at the center of it all is him. Cold. Possessive. Merciless. A man whose touch burns hotter than fire and whose enemies never live long enough to beg for mercy. He swears I belong to him now. That I’ll never escape. That every part of me is his to claim. But the more I fight him, the more dangerous our attraction becomes. Every kiss feels like war. Every touch pulls me deeper into his darkness. Yet I’m hiding secrets of my own. Secrets powerful enough to destroy his empire from the inside out. And when the truth finally comes to light, the man who vowed to protect me may become the one who ruins me. This marriage was supposed to save my life. Instead, it may be the very thing that kills me.

Fresh out of the National Research Institute, I loaded up on my wife's favorite snacks and ordered a vibrant bouquet of roses, eager to surprise her. I stashed the treats in her office, then stepped out to grab the flowers. But in those fleeting minutes, a stranger had ripped open every package and devoured everything. I glared at him. "Who gave you permission to touch those?" He shot me a look of pure disdain. "Buzz off, flower boy. Drop your crap and scram!" The secretary at the door snickered. "You heard the man. He's Ms. Bowman's husband. Better run before he leaves a bad review." I pulled out my phone and called my wife. "Who is this guy in your office?"

When she dies mysteriously, Isla is given a choice by a demon– Either let her soul vanish with the wind with no resting place at the moon goddess' bosom or be reborn to exert her revenge. She agrees to the latter but there is a condition– She has to kill three Alphas. She agrees to the contract but she later finds out the man she loves is amongst her hit list. Will she choose love or revenge?

This book is for 18 years and over, it includes strong language, graphic sexual content and violence. Life is not always the way we wish it would be and this is the case for Arwen, follow as she learns about life, family and love. Born only to be sold by her parents to the king of their race, along with eleven other females. Arwen always knew her life was never her own and she was resigned to that fact. To never meet her mate and be a breeding machine to the king. Only life took a turn when she found her mate in an unexpected place. This story follows two sets of siblings and how they meet their mates.

Five years. That's how long I survived behind those iron bars for a crime I didn't commit. A crime that my own parents pinned on me to protect my sister, Laura. My mate, Alpha Victor Smith, promised to wait for me. He promised to protect our newborn twins. Promised it would all be okay. But, he wasn't there when the prison gates opened. I found him at a Valentine's Day celebration instead, standing beside Laura like she belonged there. My son Jasper doesn't recognize me as his mother. He hates me, he sees only the murderer everyone told him I was. Now my sister wears my life like a stolen coat—my mate, my son, even my legacy. She's taken everything while I rotted in a cell for her crime. But I'm done being their scapegoat. I'm petitioning the council for a divorce. I'm going to expose every lie, clear my name, and reclaim everything they stole from me. They should have killed me instead of just caging me. Now they'll learn what a betrayed Luna can do.