Built In Nook Bench Novels & Stories

In politics, love is leverage. Charlie Vale is collateral damage the son of a man branded a traitor, erased by the state and left to survive in its shadows. Dexter Ashcroft is the architect of power, a strategist so ruthless they call him the Kingmaker. When their lives collide, Dexter doesn’t silence Charlie. He owns him. Bound by a contract masquerading as salvation, Charlie becomes Dexter’s public partner and private liability. Every smile is staged. Every kindness costs something. And every truth is buried deeper. But when the past resurfaces and the wrong man is sacrificed again, the crown Dexter built begins to crack. Because the one thing power cannot control is what it destroys. A story of manipulation, redemption, and a love that refuses to survive on lies.

BLURB Katerina Romano was born to inherit an empire built on fear — but she has no intention of living as her father’s obedient princess. After one reckless act threatens the stability of the Romano dynasty, her father assigns her a new bodyguard to keep her under control. Xavier Carter is cold, unyielding, and impossible to intimidate. He challenges her authority, blocks her rebellion, and watches her like she’s both a threat and a temptation. They clash. They provoke. They circle each other like enemies. But hatred turns into hunger. Control turns into possession. And the more Katerina tries to break free from her father’s empire, the more she finds herself craving the one man sent to restrain her.

Catherine "Cat" Evans is an independent eighteen-year-old shifter with strength in her bones and fire in her blood. She has plans for her future - and none of them include being claimed by fate. In a world where pack hierarchy and destined mates rule everything, Cat refuses to be boxed in. She trains harder, fights smarter, and keeps her heart guarded. But when an alpha enters her orbit - powerful, relentless, and impossible to ignore - the life she's carefully built begins to fracture. Can you outrun destiny? Can you fight fate? Or is the fight itself exactly what fate intended? Cat isn't going down without a battle. Even if the hardest war she'll face is the one inside her own heart.

“I want to ruin you. It has always been my dream. But the more I desire your ruin… the more I crave you.” Ava Duval, heiress to one of the most feared organizations, was never meant to be prey. But one brutal attack shatters her world—and leaves her with no choice but to seek protection. Ethan is chosen instantly. Quiet. Deadly. Unreadable. The perfect weapon. To the world, Ava is untouchable— the nation’s most valuable asset. To Ethan, she’s a mission. A means to an end. A weakness waiting to be exploited. But the closer he gets, the more the lines begin to blur. What starts as a calculated game of control spirals into obsession— dangerous, consuming, and impossible to escape. Because in a world built on power and betrayal, desire is the deadliest mistake of all.

Seven years ago, I disappeared without a word. Today, the man I ruined owns the contract that decides whether I breathe freely or not. Adrian Blackwood is untouchable. A man whose signature ends careers, whose silence erases people. His empire was built too fast, too violently, for anyone to question how. When I come to him desperate for money, he doesn’t ask for explanations. He offers a contract. One year. One signature. Public role: Lover. Private role: Property. The rules are simple and unforgiving. How will I survive being the kitten of Adrian into his dark passionate world? ⌘⌘⌘ A dark MM romance where love is mistaken for ownership and redemption comes only after damage is done. ⌘⌘⌘

Serena Vale gave everything to her husband; her loyalty, her dreams and the best years of her life. In return, Adrian Laurent betrayed her, discarded her, and left her to die the moment she became inconvenient—or so she thought. But Serena survived. Four years later, she returns as Selene Arden, a mysterious billionaire with beauty, power, and influence beyond Adrian’s reach. While he struggles to save the empire he built, the woman he once humiliated now stands among the elite he could never compete with. As buried secrets begin to surface, Adrian confirms Serena’s death was never an accident. And the woman he humiliated may be the only person capable of destroying him.

Lena built The Crib as neutral ground : a sanctuary where vampires don’t hunt, witches don’t curse, and even Alphas respect her authority. No chaos. No war. No attachments. Until a cursed Alpha collapses at her door. Darion carries betrayal in his past, danger in his blood, and a bond with Lena that should never exist. Protecting him means exposing the secret power she’s hidden for years — a power strong enough to start a war. Now enemies are closing in, the sanctuary is no longer safe, and Lena must choose: Protect the Alpha fate tied to her… Or protect the secret that could destroy them both. Because some mates aren’t meant to find each other. And some sanctuaries were never meant to fall.

Content Warning 18+ Mature themes: betrayal, miscarriage, coercive control, imprisonment, emotional abuse, and mild-to-moderate sexual content later in the story. Nia has survived five years as a Luna in a marriage built on control and lies. When betrayal is exposed and she loses a pregnancy in the same night, her entire life fractures. Locked away by her Alpha husband, she escapes—and runs straight into Riven, a far more powerful Alpha who offers her protection under a temporary contract inside his pack. But safety has rules, and her past refuses to let go. Neither does the man who broke her. Now Nia must choose: return to the life that destroyed her, or step into a dangerous second chance that might rebuild her—or ruin her completely.

"Suzanna, tell me the truth. Am I built better than Luis?" I had gotten up in the middle of the night for a glass of water and accidentally caught a glimpse of my husband's coworker, Hank, with his girlfriend. They were tangled up together, without a care in the world about who might see them. I should have walked away. However, my legs did not seem to work anymore. Hank saw me. The next day, he blocked my path outside the bathroom. "Suzanna," he said, his voice low and amused, "you didn't believe me. Maybe I should prove it." Before I could react, he was already pulling down his pants.

Reaching adulthood, Pax then ends up in Chicago being an unregistered and unknown chemist living in a place resembling a garage; not planning to change anything of his lifestyle, until he met someone who was able to help him with an unknown chemical substance made only in his knowledge. In cause of his mental incapacity at several points of his living, the said project resulted in a disaster, causing some of its built evaporated elements open to other people without their awareness of the possibility of obtaining them. With that supposed substance running around within the air, it then goes in the way of people who are proved worthy of them to be obtained. Scattered along the country, they find their way to each other, desperate to learn control with what they have possibly acquired.