Ceremony

Jamie Westbrook had been waiting all her life to have her Shifter Ceremony and finally experience what it's like to run free. However, in a single moment, everything goes wrong leaving her life irrevocably changed. Now, forced to leave her pack for a new one, she's not exactly happy to be there. Even worse, she can't allow herself to be when there's suddenly danger at every corner. The dark truth she's discovered needs to come to light, but how is she going to make that happen when her new pack isn't just going to take her word for it? Well, Jamie's always been stubborn, and she refuses to let these people get away with it. Toying Alpha is created by Mari Hockett, an eGlobal Creative Publishing Signed Author.

For five years, I quietly supported my boyfriend, helping him rise from a lawyer's assistant to a partner at a top-tier law firm. At the annual awards ceremony, I was thrilled, ready to celebrate publicly and surprise him. But then, he walked on stage with a female coworker, their behavior cozy and intimate. "Cade owes his success to my brilliant strategies behind the scenes," Caitlyn boasted. Cade smiled, echoing her words, "Absolutely, without Caitlyn, I wouldn't be where I am today." The audience erupted in applause, congratulating them. I stood at the back of the crowd, frozen. Leaving the venue, I called my assistant. "Cut off all networking support for Cade Gilliam. End all cooperation. That shady case he took on? Stop smoothing things over. Let him face the consequences."

It was known that every year the cursed Lycans chose a woman as their omega and gave her a chance to become their Queen. When Nora attended the selection ceremony disguised as her best friend, she didn't expect to get chosen. But now, she was one of the omegas who were picked and she had no choice but to keep her identity a secret and not give in to the Alpha King who was out to steal the last drop of her sanity with his hot looks and dangerous threats... Will she be able to protect her secret and her life or will she lose it all to the King who is irresistible for her? ~~~~~ Wolfverse Series Book 1: Omega for the Alpha (Standalone) Book 2: Forbidden for the Alpha King (Standalone) Book 3: Mated to the Enemy Alpha King (Standalone) Book 4: Changing Fate for the Alpha King (Standalone)

Juliet Sutton has always been hopelessly devoted. But the day her first love is diagnosed with cancer, she hands me a pill that can make someone forget. She says, "Matthew, Wilson doesn't have much time left. Give me three days. Let me give him the wedding he always dreamed of. "I won't break your heart. This pill only causes temporary memory loss. Once the ceremony is over, you take the antidote, fall in love with me again, and then we'll remarry." Seeing the resolve in her eyes, I take the pill and swallow it without hesitation. What Juliet doesn't know is that I'm the one who developed the pill. There is no antidote. In three days, I'll forget her completely.

All her life, Daciana’s life had been dictated. Born to fulfill a prophecy foretold by the moon goddess herself, Daciana had to fight for everything and work her way up. But Daciana, the chosen one, was deemed useless as a human with no wolf. Framed for her father's death and the death of many others on the night of the mating ceremony, Daciana was left to die. But the moon goddess was not done with her yet. Rescued by the Lycan King, Freki, Daciana was given another chance to live not as a rogue, but within a pack. What happens when she survives the hardships? Will she choose to revenge and reclaim her rightful place as the Alpha's daughter and not a traitor banished from the pack? Or will she live quietly like someone who doesn't exist just like her enemies had wanted?

She is broken but sweet. He is cold but possessive. And a deal bought them together. All her life, Daisy has been trained and groomed to please a man, to be the perfect and obedient wife. Lorenzo DeLuca, the cold Mafia Boss, lost his fiancee ten years ago and has no time for love. But tradition demands he marry before his thirtieth birthday. When Daisy's father sells her to Lorenzo in exchange for an alliance. Lorenzo makes it clear to her: know your place and don't expect anything more. But their engagement ceremony lures a stranger—a maniac—who claims Daisy as his own and in a planned confrontation, he kidnaps her. What happens when the Mafia boss has to buy his wife for the second time? Scroll through to find out.

On the night of the Moonbinding Ceremony, where alphas across the land come to claim their mates, Selene attends only to witness her childhood love, Kaith, betroth another she-wolf. Heartbroken, she sneaks away—only to be hunted down and claimed by the one wolf no one dared defy… Draven Nightbane—the cursed Alpha King of the Nightbane Pack, feared for his monstrous form, one that never fully shifts into a wolf. Marked as a half-beast, his entire life has been a battle against his own bloodthirsty instincts. He wakes up from his cursed slumber only to pick scent of his mate and rushes off to mark her. Claim her and own her. “You belong to me now, little wolf.” “Alpha King Draven Nightbane has marked you as his.”

On the day of our engagement, my Alpha mate Kane mistakenly thought that my mom had seduced his dad and almost killed his mom. He canceled our ceremony and forced me, who was eight months pregnant, to jump into the silver pit. Kane hated me for three years, and threatened me with my child to be the most humble slave in his pack, watching him and other women make love. "Aria, you destroyed my family! I will never let you go in this life!" Finally, I accepted my fate and stopped resisting, letting the guards throw me into the silver pit. However, when Kane found out that those things had nothing to do with me, he went completely crazy looking at the pool of blood in the silver pit.

She was the Alpha’s rejected mate, cursed to die—until fate bound her to his sworn enemy beneath the Blood Moon… He was supposed to be my forever. Alpha Dorian Hale — ruthless, untouchable, the one every she-wolf desired. But on the night of the Moon Ceremony, before the entire pack, he looked into my eyes… and rejected me. Humiliated. Shattered. Branded unworthy. That should have been the end of me. But fate doesn’t bend so easily. My bloodline carries a secret even the Moon Goddess cannot deny—one that makes me the key to every pack’s survival… or destruction. Now I stand between two Alphas: The mate who scorned me. And the rival who would set the world ablaze just to claim me. He rejected me. But destiny never will.

On her wedding day, she made the most daring decision. Instead of exchanging rings with her supposed groom, she made a live proposal to the city's richest man - Miguel Winslow, rejecting her groom - Daniel. It was a game of recklessness but if it meant escaping her cold family, and her groom whose true identity she has just found out, she doesn't mind not being careful. She is an heiress but has never been treated as one. Many know her as a crying doll and people would never have thought she could be an orchestrator of surprising plans to come. Surrounded with lies, will she ever drown in them as she tries to tame her rightful path? And will the man that never honors invitations but ended up in her ceremony somehow accept her sudden request? _At what expense?