Dead Rising

Pierre Delacroix was once the powerful CEO of the Delacroix empire. But when a rather brutal attack left him with one blind eye and a weak heart, he is forced into an arranged marriage with Kate Beaumont to protect his family's reputation. Kate Beaumont who is a rising fashion designer however hides a secret from Pierre who does not know that Kate is the woman from one of his many one night stand that he has spent time trying to find. As Pierre faces several enemies who are determined to destroy him, Kate works in secret to keep him alive while betrayals, hidden truths and other deadly conspiracies also come to light. Now will Pierre and Kate face their unintentional pasts. And can their love survive the coming chaos?

Tessa was the fallen Alpha heiress, deaf but still bound to protect her late father’s legacy. Evander was the rising young Alpha, the perfect presidential candidate. A marriage contract tied them together, but with one condition: once Evander found his true fated mate, their contracted marriage would be over. Five years later, when Evander finally promised that he would attend the last mating ceremony and give up finding his fated mate, Tessa got pregnant. Tessa believed it’s all meant to be, but Evander returned with another woman, claiming that she was his fated mate... Now Tessa must decide: reveal her pregnancy and risk losing everything, or walk away to protect the future growing inside her.

When heiress Celeste Montaire is forced into a marriage of convenience to save her family’s collapsing empire, she vows to keep her heart untouched. But her groom, Arrow De La Vega – cold, brilliant, and bound by duty – comes with his own chains. Their union is a merger, not a marriage, sealed by a ruthless contract where falling in love means losing everything. Thrown into a world of staged affection and rising tension, Celeste and Arrow struggle to keep their walls intact. But one forbidden kiss threatens to break every rule they swore to follow. When a scandal erupts accusing Arrow of cheating, Celeste’s world shatters—until she learns Arrow is willing to risk his entire empire to protect her.

It’s end of October 1985 and the crumbling river town of Dubois, Iowa is shocked by the gruesome murder of one of the pillars of the community. Detective David Carlson has no motive, no evidence, and only one lead: the macabre local legend of “Boris Orlof,” a late night horror movie host who burned to death during a stage performance at the drive-in on Halloween night twenty years ago and the teenage loner obsessed with keeping his memory alive. The body count is rising and the darkness that hangs over the town grows by the hour. Time is running out as Carlson desperately chases shadows into a nightmare world of living horrors. On Halloween the drive-in re-opens at midnight for a show no one will ever forget. ©️ Crystal Lake Publishing

Athijha Esmeray Alonso is a rising model who married her best friend for two main reasons. For her personal liking and to save her sister. It may be perfect for her sister but not for her. Ashton Exiquel Saavedra, her husband, is too cruel for her own good. But she chose to stay. She chose to stay because no one wants her back in her home. She chose to stay because of her intense feelings for him. Fate sure is playful. Betrayal after betrayal. Pain after pain. She committed suicide but the heavens did not allow her to leave the world. She woke up in a hospital without memories. She suffered from amnesia. Then they met again.

She is a normal girl, at least she thinks so. She meets him no wait a huge dog which is in fact a wolf. but he is a werewolf and he is droid dead gorgeous and did I mention he is her mate and she is the only survivor of an extinct species.

They threw her off a bridge. The husband that she was willing to burn the world for was the same person who thought it wise to murder her. With Arya dead, Edgar frolicked with his mistress in public, assured that he had succeeded in life. But when his dead wife showed up at his wedding a year after he killed her, he knew his good days were over. With faked amnesia, Arya was ready to turn their lives upside down. She tormented them from the shadows, acted all innocent in their presence. She was no longer the naïve woman who let people take advantage of her. She was back, stronger. But there was Lucien, a former fiancé who would walk through fire for her. He wanted to be her revenge tool. He wanted to claim her and never lose her like he did in the past.

I had a massive fight with my husband, Gary Mitchell, while I was six months pregnant. He kicked me out of the house. With nowhere to go and no money, I ducked into a convenience store just to get some warmth. I was staring at the steam rising from the hot food display when the cashier walked over. "Excuse me, Miss. We have one last bottle of amnesia water left. Would you be interested in it?" I froze, then let out a bitter laugh. "I don't have any money." She said, "You don't need to use money. You can exchange it for something from your body." Instinctively, I raised my hand and touched my swollen belly. "How about this?"

Some people find fortune… while some people find a dying criminal on a random Tuesday. "Is this the part where you kill me?" she asks. “Don’t worry, sweetheart.” He traced her jaw with the blade of the knife. “I’m still mulling it over.” Clover lives a very unlucky life. Getting fired job after job, it’s hard to make ends meet. And as if fate is playing with her, she saves an unconscious man who ends up to be the most dangerous person in town: Phoenix Volkov, the rising don of the underground world. Bad luck got her helping the wrong stranger—worse luck got her accidentally kidnapping a mafia boss. Just like that, their lives became entangled in a mess of bullets and danger.

Elara thought being chosen as Luna would be an honor. Instead, it became her cage. Trapped in a cruel marriage to Damon, the alpha who marked her by force. Elara is a prisoner in her own pack, silenced and controlled. But destiny has other plans, and they come in the form of Kael, the fated mate she was torn from, the one whose love still haunts her dreams. When Elara discovers a power buried deep within her bloodline and a rebellion rising in the shadows, she must choose: obey the mate who broke her, or defy tradition and reclaim her fate. A war brews between loyalty and destiny, passion and pain. And when the blood moon rises, not everyone will survive. One Luna. Two mates. And a fire that could burn the whole pack to ash.