Cardinal Rules

Half a year after our divorce, my ex-husband became a trending topic online. His current wife, who had just given birth, jumped off a building. When she jumped, she was clutching a printed, 98-page copy of the "Cloves Family Code of Conduct." The reason for her suicide? She couldn’t buy discounted groceries online. A reporter came to interview me and asked, "Excuse me, were you also given the same family rules?"

Roo has a big secret that she keeps not only from all the wolves in Winchester, but from her mate as well. Her mate who also happens to be the Alpha. While Roo is trying to keep her identity and rare abilities a secret, she suspects that the Alpha has one of his own. Can Roo keep the mate bond a secret? Can she continue avoiding the pack she wants nothing to do with? Can she find out the Alpha's secret without falling to her desires?

When Diana sacrificed everything to save the Silver Moon Pack, she never imagined that her mate, Alexander, would spend eight years punishing her for it. After losing their unborn child to a vicious attack from Alexander's lover, Diana begs for freedom from her loveless union. But dark secrets lie beneath the surface—secrets that could shatter both packs. The birth moon approaches, and Diana must decide whether to keep her promise of silence or finally break free from the Alpha who never wanted her. A tale of betrayal, sacrifice, and the thin line between love and hate. At the Silver Moon Pack's annual full moon ceremony, I was viciously shoved to the ground by Alexander's female companion, Selena. Wearing silver-tipped boots, she stepped directly onto my swollen belly. In an instant, bright red blood stained my white ceremonial dress. Alexander glanced at me with a slight frown. "Pregnant but not staying in the den to take care of yourself? Out here challenging pack hierarchy again? Trying to frame Selena, aren't you? The sacred ground is stained with your blood—so unlucky! What a disgrace to a Luna!" After saying this, he turned away without hesitation, wrapping his arm around Selena's waist as they left. Even the urgent howls of the pack healer didn't make him look back at me once. The bitter wolfsbane medicine churned inside my body, and in the end, the pup couldn't be saved. Clutching my now-empty belly, I had just come out of the healer's den when I saw Alexander on the pack's communication crystal, passionately marking Selena with his scent. A sharp pain shot through my abdomen, piercing straight into my heart. Wiping the cold sweat from my forehead, I looked at my mother-in-law standing by the healing bed. "Elder Mardanna, it's been eight moons. The Silver Moon Pack's crisis was resolved long ago. I really want to break the mate bond. Please, let me go..."

Alena Nicole Perez Sandoval is twenty-one years old young girl, heiress of Sandoval family along with her older sister, Avrielle Niana Perez Sandoval. She was just graduated and expected to work at their company and find love. But what happens when her parents announce her marriage with Edmund Christopher Echavez Cardinal, a thirty year old successful and feared businessman known for his coldness and being heartless when it comes to business.

The story of a beta wolf, Cara of the West who enters a contract in order to find a mate. She is given three options and will have to decide which of them will be best for her. She travels to packs in different cardinals to be with her so called mates before the end of the time given. In her travels, she encounters a lone wolf, Taki from an unknown cardinal who, just like her, was entered into a contract. However, his contract carries a weight that is untold. She discovers other deeper secrets on her so called journey and it affects her view on people whom she thought she could trust. Things began falling apart for her and her contract bound mates. Without a clue on what to do she does the unexpected that brings about a big turn of events for the good, the bad and the worse.

For thousands of years now, queens have been ruling our kingdom. When a Queen's reign has come to an end, a successor must be chosen by what we now know as The Rule of Cardinal. Miss Katherina Daventin, a young naive and innocent girl, has been chosen by the Cardinal to rule over the people of Nydisia. In a world where supernatural beings have not been kept a secret, she struggles to prove herself as a human chosen to rule a multitude of diverse creatures. Lucian Williams, one of the strongest beings to walk the earth, and the son of Queen Orizelle, fights alongside Katherine to help her stake her claim to the throne as it is his duty as the General of Nydisia, and slowly love surpasses duty. *This is a slow burn book, it is not going to be rushed as you will see a lot of character development and growth in the plot at a steady pace.* Disclaimer: This cover does not belong to the author.

I was the prime suspect in the notorious murder of my parents-in-law in Cardinal City. The one who arrested me was my wife—Linda Reese, the police chief. While the verdict was still pending, the killer struck again. The new victim was murdered with the same savage cruelty. Linda knelt before me, begging me to tell her the truth. I told her I didn’t know. The victims’ families screamed, demanding that I be carved into pieces. Three months later, Linda found me beside a garbage bin, bringing with her a memory-decoding device. Her hands trembled as she pressed two thin needles into my temples. “I’m sorry, Finn. I know you’re not the killer. I just want this slaughter to end. I don’t want anyone else to die. Let everyone see your memories—let them see what really happened back then.” But when she finished watching my memories, she collapsed to the ground, utterly broken, and fell to her knees.

She was betrayed by the man she trusted. He never believed he would love again. Matapos wasakin ng panloloko ang puso ni Hanna Portugal, pinili niyang itayo muli ang sarili—malayo sa sakit, kahihiyan, at mga alaala ng nakaraan. Ngunit ang kapalaran ay may kakaibang paraan ng pagbabalik sa mga sugat na pilit mong tinakpan. Muling nagtagpo ang kanilang landas ng lalaking hindi niya inaasahang magiging bahagi ng kanyang buhay—Harold Cardinal, ang tiyuhin ng kanyang dating kasintahan. Isang malamig, disiplinado, at makapangyarihang CEO na matagal nang isinara ang pinto ng kanyang puso sa pag-ibig. Sa gitna ng ambisyon, responsibilidad, at mga lihim na hindi dapat nabubunyag, isang ugnayang itinuturing na bawal ang unti-unting nabuo—hindi dahil sa kapusukan, kundi dahil sa pag-unawa, paggalang, at tahimik na pagpili sa isa’t isa. Minsan, ang forever ay dumarating hindi bilang pangarap—kundi bilang pagsubok na handa mong panindigan.

Two students are forced to share off-campus housing due to a housing crisis. Strict house rules are set- no late nights together, no touching, no crossing lines. But shared kitchens, midnight strolls and conversations, and stolen glances make the rules unbearable.

Nominal marriage with some rules: no entangling. Everything is only business. Not being in love. It's only a one-year agreement, so the rules shouldn't be difficult to follow, should they? Except fate still has a way of ruining every best plan...