Romans & histoires Collateral Damage

I got back from a six month work trip and found my pet hamster dead. I couldn't just bury it. I wanted to preserve it, keep it whole. But when I carefully opened it up, I went still. Its lungs were pitch black. That kind of damage couldn't happen fast. It meant months of breathing toxic smoke. But my husband and I never smoked. So who'd been living in my house while I was gone?

Elara was ready to spend her life beside Darius, her mate, her Alpha, her home. But on their wedding night, he lost control — and she lost everything. Branded a traitor, cast out by the man she loved, Elara learned to live with a broken bond. Years later, fate brings them face to face again. Darius doesn’t remember her, but his wolf does. Now the truth is coming to light, and both must decide if love can survive the damage a curse began.

Broken souls don't heal; they just learn to hide their scars better.Anna Moreni has always been collateral damage. At the age of 4, she witnessed her parents’ deaths and was taken hostage by a warring mafia house. At the age of 12, the house was attacked, and yet another family won her as the trophy, and now she’s a bargaining chip at twenty-two.Kane Russell clawed his way to the top of the Outfit, only to have it all ripped away by a woman’s betrayal. Now he's offered a chance at redemption—and revenge—through an arranged marriage with a rival family's daughter.

Isabella is a young lady who is forced to sign a contract deal which sells her without possible revocation to the deadliest mafia Lord. Luca. Her parents, having no other option, use her as the last collateral to pay up whatever they owed Luca. After she arrives at Luca's Villa, he tries to make her comfortable but still drops warnings for her. Isabella is anything but comfortable. She is determined to get away from there as fast as possible. Isabella, without the knowledge of Luca, plans an escape. Ready to leave.

Carina Swan is a self-taught painter with a lively personality, but all changes when she meets the man she believes can alter her life for the better, but she is mistaken. This man will be the one capable of inducing nightmares in her. However, she uncovers a past that can serve as a warning to her mind not to fall in love with this guy. In the past, she lost her memories and suffered brain damage, and this guy she despises is actually her husband. However, how can this happen? Read the novel what happen next!

One alpha who was successfully made in a lab becomes a key tool in the creation of a perfect killer, and one innocent girl whose sister got brutally murdered caught up in all the drama and turned into a werewolf. Fate bound them together as an alpha and his Luna, and together they worked to exact revenge on the scientist whose research caused a lot of damage to them. But secrets threatened to tear them apart, will they come together regardless and stop the creation of this evil will their love story still continue as fate may have it? or will they fail and be caught up in the aftermath of this creation.

Matilda Monroe is stubborn and wild just like her dead abusive father. what she didn't know was her father had given their home as collateral for gambling money. Ruthless, bloodthirsty CEO Gideon Vale never lets go of a debt. but Matilda's fire ignites a fire inside of him. so he offers her a deal she has no choice but to accept; stay with him, be where he wants her, when he wants her, how he wants her, or lose everything. Matilda must decide whether she can play his game without losing herself, or surrender to the man who could either destroy her, or set her soul on fire.

"You are not pulling any punches." Vicky said as she wore the shirt before asking truth or dare."Dare." Randy answered."I dare you to kiss me." She said. "And I don't mean a brotherly kiss. I mean a passionate, fuck me right now type of Kiss, right here and now."....Vicky fell on love with her step brother, Randy and decided to do anything it would take to have him for herself. She dosen't care the damage it may cause. She was determined to have him to the extent she got pregnant for him so he wouldn't have any choice.

Rejected by her fated mate, Alpha Nox, for reasons tied to a supposed Omega curse, Tamsin leaves the Lunaris Pack with Nox’s best friend, Lior—only to be used and betrayed again. Behind the scenes, Nox’s manipulative mother spins lies to keep her grip on power, while Zara, the Beta's daughter, serves as her weapon. When the truth surfaces, Tamsin returns stronger, unwilling to forgive easily. Nox must face the damage his choices caused and fight for the one he turned away. But redemption won't come easy—especially when the very people closest to him are plotting his downfall.

She grew up believing love always came with a price. Bruises you hide. Apologies you swallow. A body the world teaches you to apologize for. When her boyfriend’s gambling debt finally catches up with him, the men he owes don’t come for his kneecaps. They come for her. Taken as collateral by a feared crime boss, she prepares for the worst—only to find herself in the hands of a man who never planned to hurt her at all. As secrets unravel and danger closes in, she’s forced to confront a truth she’s never allowed herself to believe: maybe love was never supposed to cost her everything. And maybe the most dangerous man she’s ever met is the one who sees her as priceless.