Courting Stage

He was never going to have anything to do with wretched mortals, he was a god. Humans were pathetic. Axel reminded himself all through his 1,000 years on earth. He stuck with his decision until he was faced with a threat that unlocked a possessive side he never thought he had. ---------------- Orphaned at the age of seven, Ariel grows up lonely and seeks deep connections and companionship. Unfortunately, she seeks it from the wrong people. Ariel met Bianca in highschool. Ariel had a nice voice and stage fright, while Bianca had the confidence she lacked, and admired the splendor that comes with being a celebrity. Desperate to please her friend, Ariel becomes Bianca's ghost singer. This decision leads her to a tragic end, she falls into the hands of a god waiting for a mortal to devour.

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."

When Isabella Carter thought her life had hit rock bottom, she found herself in the hands of Leonard Blackwood, a ruthless billionaire who doesn’t believe in coincidences. She was just a poor girl struggling to survive, but he saw more than that. He saw a challenge… and a desire he wasn’t willing to deny. By saving her on a rainy night, he wasn’t doing her a favor, he was setting the stage for a dangerous game. A game with no escape and no refusals. “I don’t help people for free, Isabella…” His words were both a promise and a threat. Now, she is trapped in his dark world, a world of wealth, lust, and deadly obsession. Will she be just another pawn in his hands, or will she manage to break free before he consumes her completely?

Maya runs away from home, escaping an arranged marriage to an unfamiliar city-Chicago. Attacked and robbed of everything, she's left with nothing-no money, no safety, no hope. When a strip club poster catches her eye, Maya makes a decision: one night on stage could earn her enough for a room, maybe even a way to survive. Instead, she meets Roman Volkov. Cold, ruthless, and untouchable, Roman is the Mafia boss who owns the city's underworld. He makes her an offer: one night with him, and she'll have more money than she knows what to do with. It should be simple. Just a deal. Just one night in Chicago with a man she'll never see again. But when the sun rises, Maya learns the truth: No one spends just one night with Roman Volkov.

Zackillio Farvo Laprici doesn't want to be that—he wasn't supposed to be in dim lit stage, dancing while body trembling in lights. But being financially unstable put him there, to become a stripper. The fact, he never touched or even liked a woman before. While Capris Hestia Alcario was never been a type of girl who wants hook ups. But one night with her her friends, a reckless bet has been made that change everything. The dare is to seduce a man who she will first see in the bar and pay him to sleep with her. For two innocents,one night wasn't supposed to mean anything but desire and lust doesn't always end in the dark.Later on,she found herself craving the same man with green eye looked at her like she was his first sin and his only salvation.

Senator Phoenix McIntyre is a respectable politician. Everyone thought that he's a perfect man with a crystal-clear reputation. But behind that perfection lies a dirty secret: he has his own personal whore who fulfills all his sexual fantasies. What can he do? Ever since he saw Brianna Wilson or Eve dancing seductively on stage, his whole body burned with intense desire, the kind of desire he never felt before. She haunted him in his dreams, and he would always wake up with a massive hard-on. That's when he decided to have her. Damn his reputation, he had to taste that sweet pussy. What will happen if his ultimate secret is exposed? What would happen to him if the whole world happened to take a glimpse of how nasty and dirty he is in bed?

Sandra thought that she had the perfect life; she was inarguably one of the most sought-after models in the country and married to the nation's heartthrob, Lucas Hudson, CEO of Hudson's enterprises. Then a string of events led her to an exclusive hotel room where her husband, whom she had loved without restraint for the past 3 years, was in bed with another woman. He claims to be innocent, and he is unaware that Sandra had been drugged and assaulted, but the stage had already been set by someone who had desired her for years and now finally had a chance to penetrate her life. But when she thinks that all is over with Lucas and that chapter of her life, she finds out that she's pregnant with triplets, 5 years go by and fate brings him to her city entangling their paths once again, Will they be able to find each other once more, or is their love doomed to fail?

Loreiz was moving on from the man she really liked. Pero habang nasa stage siya ng moving on, may balitang dumating. Bigla ay ikakasal na siya sa lalaking binabalak niyang kalimutan. She grabbed that chance to make him finally hers, kinalimutan na niya ang pag-mu-move on. Now, she will do anything for him to love her. Pero habang magkasama sila sa iisang bahay, he was suddenly full of surprises. Maraming katangian at sikreto ang lalaki na nalaman niya. One was Maxeruz being territorial. He didn't like anyone else to touch his property. At kapag may nagbalak na gawin iyon, siguradong dadanak ang dugo. That's when Loreiz realized that she was married to a no ordinary man, but to a mafia. Her heart was in danger, as well as her life.

She was once his boss, but she became his slave. Amara Dalton didn't know that the man she mistook for an auctioned sex slave was the cold and dangerous heir of their rival company. Until two years later, their fate twisted and she was now standing on the auction block... being sold to her billionaire slave. *** Amara Dalton thought she controlled everything until she mistook a quiet, dangerously handsome man for a slave at an auction. She bought him without hesitation, never bothering to learn his real name—Neagan Aldridge. He was never for sale. He is the billionaire heir of a rival empire, a man powerful enough to destroy worlds... including hers. Now her family has fallen, and she’s standing on the very auction stage she once ruled. But this time, she’s the one being sold and claimed by the man she once thought she owned.

BLURB “What … What are you?” Noah asked, voice cracked, eyes wide as the cold breeze grazed his skin. Before him was Liam, in his werewolf form, frozen in place. ******* Liam Rayne has loved his best friend for years, unfortunately, his best friend — Noah Carter, isn't gay, hates rich people and can never know Liam's biggest secret. Liam isn't just a college student, he is the future Alpha of one of the most powerful werewolf packs in Canada and Noah is his mate. So Liam does the only thing he can do —stay close to Noah, stay quiet and pretend friendship is enough but when a theatre role forces them to play lovers on stage, control eludes him because the more Noah stares at him like a lover, the more his wolf claws to the surface.