Dan Simmons Novels Novels & Stories

She was never meant to survive their world. Now she’s the only one who can burn it down. Lyra thought she was just a girl with strange dreams and a birthmark that shimmered beneath moonlight. But when a celestial event rips her from Earth and drops her into the brutal halls of the Academy of the Ascendant, she discovers a deadly truth: she’s the lost heir of a realm that erased her bloodline—and she’s carrying the forbidden magic that could unravel it all. The Academy is ruled by power and hierarchy. The weak are crushed. The strong ascend. And the Triad—three elite heirs born of elemental fire, storm, and air—will do anything to break her. Until they realize she’s more powerful than all of them. Mocked. Hunted. Desired. As Lyra unlocks the four elemental affinities no student should possess, she becomes the center of a prophecy that the Council has killed to keep buried. But it’s the fifth element—the forbidden Void—that marks her for something more. Survival means mastering her magic. Love could cost her everything. And rebellion might just start with a kiss. Perfect for fans of Zodiac Academy, Throne of Glass, and The Cruel Prince, Marked by Starlight is the explosive first book in a dark fantasy romance series filled with elemental magic, enemies-to-lovers heat, and a heroine who refuses to bow.

Warning: This story contains strong language, explicit adult content, and mature themes. Reader discretion is advised. I loved Derek Savage for six years, believing he’d be my mate someday. But when one reckless debt threatens his life, it leaves me no choice but to beg his older brother, Reign, for help. Reign’s deal is simple: he’ll pay Derek’s debt. In exchange, I become his. For six months, I belong to the one man I should never want, my future stepbrother, my Alpha, my forbidden craving. And the worst part? Every time he touches me, I stop caring about right and wrong.

She’s been a stripper all her life, flirty, fearless, and always in character. She's never broken the rules, never interacted too long. Never let anyone close, Until he walked in. Gabriella is the star of the biggest club in the city, famous for her curves and her mask that hides half her face. At night, she’s untouchable. By day, she’s invisible, just another underpaid employee at a fashion company. Her worlds never collide… until the one man she hates most, her cold, infuriating boss, ALEX VAUGHN walks into the club and shows her a side of himself no one else has ever seen. That night, the mistake and a kiss she didn’t mean to let happen but only then did she notice the ring on his finger. He can’t forget her and when he bumps into her at work, he recognizes her instantly. What should’ve been an accident becomes a deal. Quit the club, Be his mistress for three months. She didn't want to be a puppet to a married man who was also her karma, but her father's life was on the line, the one lying in the hospital half dead. Three months. That was the agreement. But feelings weren’t supposed to be part of the contract… and Alex has never met a girl as crazy as Ella.

After a one night stand with a man from the exclusive Bar beach in Mauritius, Danielle Lopez has the best time of her life returning back to the inland without having an idea of who she spent the night with. Few months later, Danielle finds out that she’s and that her last one night stand might be the father. She had to get to the hotel she stayed at that day only to end up in a brick wall. 4 years later When she goes for her company’s dinner which is for the inauguration of the new boss, son of the old chairman, she noticed something familiar about the new hot man, Aurther King. Not only the scar on his neck but also the ring around his finger which she had lost four years ago. The new boss is intrigued by the woman in the room and is keen on finding out why she had been avoiding him. Danielle puts two and two together and realises a not so exciting mix, that her new boss is the man she spent the night with four years ago and is the father of their little daughter, Ava.

WARNING: THIS BOOK CONTAINS RAW MATURE CONTENT. I watched him kill three men without breaking a sweat. Now I'm trapped on an island with him. My crime? Walking two blocks alone in New York City. My punishment? Zade Konstantin—a killer with silver eyes who looks at me like I'm both precious and prey. My father's enemies want me. Not dead. Alive. To torture, break, and send back in pieces. I've seen the photographs of what they do to mafia daughters. The images haunt my nightmares. So now I'm hidden away on a Greek island with the most dangerous man I've ever met. He's supposed to protect me. Keep me safe. Maintain professional distance. Except the way he watches me isn't professional. The way his hands shake when he touches me during training? That's not distant. The way he groans my name through the bathroom door when he thinks I can't hear? That's definitely not just a job. I should hate him. He stalked me for weeks. Put a bag over my head. Drugged me. Made every decision about my life without asking. What starts as hate becomes hunger. Forbidden touches in the moonlight. His mouth on my skin. My body surrendering to desires I didn't know I had. He's teaching me that good girls can want dark things. That cages lined with passion are still cages. That falling for your captor might be the most dangerous game of all. Until I realize the man inside me, the man I'm falling for, has been my betrayal from the very beginning. Some men protect you. Some men destroy you. Zade Konstantin does both.

My heart raced wildly as he leaned in, his warm breath brushing my ear. "The next time I see you kiss anyone else..." he whispered, his voice dark and lethal, " I'll make sure these pretty lips of yours are stitched shut." He wasn't supposed to care. I wasn't supposed to matter. But one kiss was all it took to turn control into obsession. I'm bound to him by a dangerous deal, living on the edge of fear and desire, never quite sure where the line is, or if it ever existed at all. Mr. Hanson is cold, powerful, and terrifyingly possessive. He thrives on control, and he hates how I slip through his fingers no matter how tightly he grips me. Every touch feels like a warning. Every breath between us feels like a threat. As fear, power, and longing blur into something I no longer recognize, I'm forced to decide how far I'm willing to go to survive a man who doesn't just want my obedience. He wants my silence. My loyalty. My heart. Because with him, love isn't gentle. It's a weapon.

Pearl Hayes was never meant to be the bride. When her sister runs away on her wedding day, Pearl is forced to take her place to save her struggling family. With her father drowning in debt and her younger brother in desperate need of medical treatment, she has no choice but to marry billionaire heir Dominic Ashford—a man she's never met. What Pearl doesn't know is that Dominic has his own reasons for getting married. Their union is nothing more than a six-month contract designed to protect his inheritance and solve her family's financial problems. After that, they'll walk away from each other forever. But living with Dominic proves far more complicated than Pearl expected. Beneath his cold, controlling exterior is a man she can't quite understand, while her fearless personality constantly challenges the walls he's built around himself. As they navigate public appearances, jealous rivals, family pressures, and the growing attraction neither of them can ignore, the lines between obligation and love begin to blur. What started as a convenient arrangement soon becomes something much more dangerous: a marriage neither of them wants to end. A captivating billionaire romance filled with witty banter, family drama, forced proximity, and a love story between the wrong bride and the only man she was never supposed to fall for.

With the excuse of wanting to move on, Ivan Kurt was forced to get married to an unknown woman. She was pretty, her voice was as sweet as the voice of an angel, she had a nice body, but was that enough to get married to someone? Though he had a strong feeling that he wasn't making the right choice, he went on to do this. After all, some day, he may end up liking the stranger. Wait, why would a lady randomly accept Ivan's proposal? Yes, he was rich. But, instead of creating an eternal bond like marriage, why did she not decide to be his mistress? By the way, even if he ended up loving her, did that make him know her well enough? Her name was Rae Tyrone. But the government said she didn't exist. Was she a witch, or a woman from another world? Who was the real person behind those beautiful brown eyes? Where did she come from? What did she want from him? To Ivan, the question remains, "Who is my wife?" Read to know more!

" You're not her and you will never be her, where is she and what have you done to her" Erada and Olivia are identical twins who were separated at birth, one grew up as an heiress to one of the four main families in Green city while the other became the leader of the most notorious group of mercenaries, Daera, her name brings fear into everyone's heart, cold and merciless, she will kill everyone who stands in her way. When Daera decides to seek revenge, she is determined not to spare anyone, even her identical twin sister. In her quest for revenge, she meets Draco Steele, the CEO of Glam jewelries, the most formidable billionaire in Green city and Olivia's first love, Erada's aim was to use Draco just to exact her revenge but she slowly starts too fall for this dark dangerous billionaire. What happens when the two sisters gets stuck in a messy love affair ***

It was supposed to be one night, a night of harmless fun between two adults who would most likely never see each other. Imagine the surprise when Aurelia finds out she's pregnant and that too by her soon-to-be father in-law. But that isn't even the worst part, she craves his touch, she finds herself constantly getting off to the thoughts of him just few months to her marriage to his son. But what's more shocking is that he feels the same way, a marriage built on a façade, a relationship which seems to be going downhill and a forbidden love affair which bears the secret of pregnancy, a recipe for disaster which is set on a path of doom....or is it?