Court Of Shadows

Azelea had it all. Grace, intelligence, a loyal pack, and a husband who was adored as Alpha. But perfection shatters the day she uncovers Alpha Noah’s long-hidden affair. Betrayed and broken, Azelea tries to play the perfect Luna, waiting for an apology that never comes. When Noah’s arrogance turns to cruelty, she makes a bold move: expose him for who he truly is. Just as the pack begins to tremble under tension, the feared and revered Alpha King, Kyren Aerling, arrives. He sees through the cracks in Azelea’s façade—and something deeper stirs between them. When Kyren offers her protection, and a place at his side, Azelea takes the leap. But the King’s court is far from safe. Jealous rivals, power-hungry men, and a shadow from Kyren’s own past threaten everything Azelea begins to rebuild. With enemies circling and old wounds festering, Azelea must decide: will she fight for her new life, or will the past consume her once and for all?

She slices her palm and binds herself to the one man the kingdom wants erased. Lydia Virelle doesn’t beg when her family trades her to the royal pack. She takes the blade, seals the marriage, and claims Logan Draven the forbidden Alpha prince locked away like a living weapon. The bond that answers is wrong. Not fate. Not mating. Forbidden. It drags his power into her veins his rage, his control, his darkness and for the first time, Logan breaks. Now the king declares him a threat. The court calls for her execution. And Lydia uncovers the truth behind the betrayal She wasn’t sent to survive Logan. She was sent to control him. Or kill him. As war builds and a force older than the throne rises to claim him, Lydia stops being a sacrifice. She uses the bond. Pushes it. Risks everything. Because if Logan loses control, the kingdom burns. And if she completes her purpose She will shatter the only man who chose her. Will she claim the Devil… or become the weapon that ends him?

Trained since childhood to be nothing but a weapon, Esme has lived under her father’s harsh hand. Poison runs in her veins, bruises mark her skin, and every lesson ends with a reminder; kill the king, or her mother dies. Sent into the werewolf palace as a kitchen maid, she waits for her moment, vial and blade hidden beneath her apron. But nothing in her father’s drills prepared her for King Ardon. The first time their eyes lock, something raw and dangerous stirs inside her, a pull she doesn’t understand and cannot control. Each day she spends in his halls, each command spoken in that steady voice, makes her mission harder to carry out. The court whispers. Enemies circle and Lady Selene sharpens her claws, determined to claim the crown by Ardon’s side. And Esme, trapped between loyalty to the man who raised her and the strange fire rising within her, stands on the edge of a truth she’s not ready to face. She was sent to kill the king, but she may be fated to love him.

Riven Black was Oceandale’s basketball god. On the court he was untouchable, a star basketball celebrity, billionaire CEO, media golden boy, and every girl’s dream man …. Underground he was something much darker… Alpha of the Valora pack, sworn to secrecy by laws written in blood. Samantha Anderson knew nothing about his world. A quiet hotel attendant at Royale Lodge, who spent most of her time clearing sheets of people she was never going to recognize. When Riven lodged into Royale, under an alias, she didn’t recognize him. She only knew that he was tall and dark and exuded an aura impossible to resist. Riven was surprised… Unsettled that she didn’t recognize him.But their paths didn’t end there. That same night, she goes to an underground bar party her friend had invited her to. Drunk on cheap liquor, she was dared to take a masked stranger home. She did, not that the stranger she spent the night with was Riven Black. And he was tearing Oceandale apart looking for her.

“She’s the coach’s daughter. He’s the captain. Together, they’re breaking every rule.” Ava Reynolds has one rule—never let her life be defined by basketball. As the coach’s daughter, she’s spent years dodging whispers and expectations, determined to make her mark through journalism. But when her editor forces her to cover the university’s star team, Ava finds herself colliding with Ethan Cole—cocky, brilliant on the court, and infuriatingly impossible to ignore. Ethan lives for basketball. It’s his ticket out, his shot at protecting the only family he has left—his younger brother. The last thing he needs is a sharp-tongued reporter questioning his every move, especially when she sees more than he wants anyone to. What starts as a battle of words spirals into undeniable chemistry, leaving Ava torn between loyalty to her father and the pull of a boy who breaks every rule she set for herself. But when a secret threatens to ruin them both…will crossing the line cost them everything?

Prince Kurat, the youngest of the four princes , is coming of age . As a gift from the six wolf packs in the kingdom he is presented with a female from each pack . The young prince has no interest in spoilt females , until Nari . Nari is as far from spoilt as you can get , having spent her whole life in the orphanage . Prince Kurat , has no idea why but the defiant Nari has caught his eye . As of tradition the Prince must court all six females . The other five females treat this as a competition that Nari knows nothing about . Life can be a challenge when you have a huge target on your back , being seen as the weak link the other females decide to try to get rid of Nari . The Princes has no idea his special treatment of Nari , has put her in danger . When Nari disappears , Prince Kurat refuses to believe she ran away . With five females trying to win his affections and his mind other things will he let Nari go or will he follow his heart and fight to find who his heart desires .

She ran from a monster, only to be caught by the shadow of something far worse. Hated. Hunted. Branded a murderer. Raziela is a rogue omega and a single mother, guarding a child whose secret could ignite empires. On the run for a crime she didn’t commit, she hides her scent, her power, and her past. But when she’s captured and auctioned like property, she lands in the hands of the most feared creature alive: the Lycan King. Dakor is ancient, merciless, and hollowed by grief. His heart died with his mate three centuries ago. Now he rules through fear and bloodshed and desires nothing… until her. Raziela should fear him… she does. But the longer she survives the cruelty of his court, the more the lines between prey and predator blur. Beneath the King’s darkness lies a deadly desire. And if she lets it consume her, she risks more than her soul, she risks the one thing she’s sworn to protect.

In a time where fated mates have become a rarity, two brothers from Silver Shadows Pack are being sought mates. One the Alpha, and the other his younger brother. Neither one happy about the arrangement, but it is an arrangement forced upon them by their family and pack elders. While two sisters from Alpine Shadows Pack have been designated as two of the potential she-wolves who could be perfect brides for these strong wolves. Lena is dreading the very idea of leaving the safe haven of her home pack, while her sister, Cora is not willing to have her future mapped out for her and plans to flee. With their arrival at Silver Shadows and Cora having fled, Lena is soon ordered that her marriage to the Alpha will occur, and disappointment takes over her at the realization the handsome Alpha is not quite all he appeared to be at the wedding ceremony. With a life of uncertainty ahead, being a mere puppet to the man she was forced to marry, Lena is unsure what her future holds, until the devastatingly handsome Alpha’s brother returns to pack, taking more than a keen interest in his brother’s new wife… But is the new life Lena has been pushed into all it first seemed?

“You're perfect,” Daniel whispered, his large hands moving urgently over my body, one settling on my waist and the other moving up towards the gentle swell of my breast. “Right here, right now, in this moment, in this garden, you're perfect.” **** In order to secure a lucrative contract, Daniel Sutherland needed a wife for a year. A wife he could court in public, and share a bed with at night. But who could he find to fulfill this special position? When a grave illness almost took the life of her step mom and when her fiance ended things with her after betraying her, Jessica Adams was ready to grasp at any straw to salvage what's left of her esteem as a woman and more importantly to save her stepmom's life. And when Daniel asked her to marry him for a year, it suited her to accept. She had no feelings for Daniel or he for her- or so she thought, until Crystal Rodriguez came back into his life. And by then, it was too late.

“We’re equals, remember? And you’re the king.” He pulled her onto his lap, his right hand gripping her thigh. Their faces were so close, Violet could see the flecks of gold lingering in his irises. “To me, you’re king, Violet Bellerose.” *** Violet Bellerose lives in a jealous, elven world where everyone from royals to bounty hunters are after her unique ability to amplify magic to incredible heights. When she saves the Storm King from an assassin, Violet earns a post at his side as bodyguard, unaware they have begun to unravel each other’s secrets. Forgotten lovers, turbulent powers, and a political marriage push and pull at king and bodyguard. Their bond must strengthen to withstand court rivalries and the enemies at their borders. With only each other to lean on, they face the Blood King together and labor through every obstacle to make it to their coronation. The Elf King and His Bodyguard is created by Hayden Marlowe, an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.