Eight Hundred Grapes Novels & Stories

Synopsis On her twentieth birthday, Seraphine Ashwood did not shift into a weak omega. She shifted into something the werewolf world had not seen in five hundred years. Something so powerful that every Alpha in the clearing dropped to their knees. Including Kael Dravon. The High Alpha of the Seven Packs. The most feared wolf alive. He rejected her anyway. What he never told anyone was that the drink he gave her the night before was never a gift. He poisoned her to keep her weak. To keep her controllable. Instead, it woke up everything she was. He created her power. Then he walked away from it. Now his pack is under attack. His borders are bleeding. And the only thing that can save his world is the willing bond of the woman he publicly rejected. She does not owe him anything. And she knows it.

After the night castle, home to the vampires is attacked by angry humans, Alyssa is forced to flee from her home. Daylight burns her skin, but upon remembering the angel she saved, she makes it to his castle, hoping he will provide her with a roof above her head. It's dangerous living with an angel—falling in love with one will kill you if the feelings aren't mutual; Alyssa is willing to take that risk. She becomes his slave, determined to survive; her work turns into her everything. But what happens when the angel Azrael finds his mate and Alyssa stays alive despite being in love with him? Follow Alyssa as she tries to survive in a world that wants her dead. She is hunted for her species, wanted for her blood—Alyssa's life is anything but easy, and falling in love with an angel is about to make it a hundred times more complicated.

After I started working at the zoo, I was added to a group chat called “A Hundred Ways to Kill a Human.” Every member had an animal as their profile picture. At first, I thought it was some quirky staff group. I even found it kind of cute. That was, until I realized they were discussing how to eat me. Pedro the Parrot: [The new human has beautiful eyes. I can’t wait till Christmas. I want to peck them out right now!] George the Gorilla: [Relax. There’ll be many visitors during Christmas. We’ll have more eyeballs than we can eat! Also, I’m calling dibs on her thigh.] Thor the Tiger: [Nobody’s taking her head, right? That’s mine.] Tucker the Elephant: [I’m a vegetarian, but I can crush her bones to dust.]

"I Lillian Camilla Vincent promise to make your life a living hell for as long as I live," I whispered to him, to anyone we were just husband and wife exchanging quiet talk on the altar, but they didn't know we were making a promise to torment each other's life. " And I promise to return the favor dear wife, in a hundred fold," Forced to marry a boy she once bullied, Lillian is determined to make his life a living hell, only problem is, he's not that boy anymore but now a man and he is Antonio Giovanni Gonzalez. The scrawny boy she tormented has become the powerful Antonio Giovanni Gonzalez. She's soon to discover revenge is a dish best served with a side sizzling of passion. Two Captains, one ship, can this ship sail? Or will their quest for revenge consume them? Find out.

The Empire rules on the wings of dragons. Riders are hand-selected for training from childhood, and Anzi is one of the rare few who wait to hatch theirs this year. Until she discovers the terrible truth that the dragon riders are not partners with their dragons: they're slavers. The dragons are bred in captivity and enslaved from within the egg, and they are nothing but mindless shadows of what their once-noble species used to be. After two hundred years, the surviving dragons in the wild are coming back to rescue their brethren. How they survived the Purge, no one knows, but they are angry and they are coming, in fire and in storm. And as she struggles to come to terms with the realization that the nation she loves so much that she would give her life for it may be nothing more than propaganda and illusion, she discovers something else: The dragons who survived the Purge are shifters, able to hide in human form. And Anzi has met one of them already. Her mate.

"The story of wedding proposals and unexpected rejections from each other influenced by their family members", is the one line narration of Persuasion, a romantic novel by Jane Austen. Frederick Wentworth, a Naval officer proposed to wed Annie, when she was 19 years old. Anne's family members felt that Frederick is not the right match for her as Frederick is poor and does not have a family back round. Influenced by her family members including father, sister and brother-in-law, Anne later decided not to marry Frederick. Russel, acting in place of her mother, breaks the engagement. Eight years later Frederick becomes wealthy and he is now a captain. Anne still unmarried now and meets Frederick who has not forgiven Anne's rejection. Being an eligible bachelor now, he publicly declares he would accept proposal from any one except Anne.

Sara is used to being hated, ever since birth. Being the illegitimate step-daughter of the alpha of her pack, her life was the most mierable. She dreams of escaping the abusive household, however that becomes impossible when she is thrusted into a forced marriage barely eight months away from finding her true mate. But life as a wife of an alpha took an unexpected turn, especially when her husband turns out to be a loving one. Unexpected emotions bloom between them and they find solace in each other, healing each other's shattered pieces and deepest wounds. But just as she starts to believe in the possibility of finding long lasting happiness, fate throws an unexpected reality in her face that might shatter everything she's built. Will Sara choose to follow her heart and choose a love that mended the broken pieces of her life or succumb to what fate has chosen for her?

I gave Dante Valenti eight years of my life. When I got pregnant by accident, he called off our wedding the night before the ceremony. I rushed to the hotel and found the venue I had spent months decorating transformed into a baptism reception for his illegitimate son. Liliana Moretti wore the reception dress I had chosen. The old Don put a gold chain on her baby and acknowledged him as the heir. Dante had already registered his marriage to her. That day, I made three decisions. I terminated the pregnancy. I booked a one-way ticket out of the country. I swore I would never look back. Months later, he showed up at my door on his knees with a ring. I burned my 800-thousand-dollar wedding gown right in front of him. In the end, he tried to atone with his own death.

My boyfriend of eight years didn’t just leave me. He left me for my sister. And then suddenly, they were getting married. I hate being seen as the weakling, the ugly one. So I did what I could. I made an offer to Liam Carter —my Highschool Bully when we met in Tuscany. The last person I ever wanted to owe anything to. We pretend to date for the summer, to make everyone believe I’ve moved on and in return I help with his PR stunt. It was supposed to be fake. No feelings. No strings. Just a deal between enemies with something to prove. But the more we pretend, the more the lines blur—and suddenly, the boy who once made my life miserable might be the only one who truly sees me. And the worst part? I think I’m starting to fall for him.

The day my mafia boss husband, Zann Lima, went bankrupt, a car accident crippled both his legs. He was paralyzed from the waist down. I inherited his astronomical debt, and with it, the responsibility to care for him for the rest of his life. For an entire year, I was beaten by debt collectors until I vomited blood, yet I couldn’t bear to buy painkillers. I collapsed from exhaustion working eight jobs a day, yet I couldn’t bear to take a day off. Every penny I earned went toward keeping Zann alive. I believed this was love’s steadfast devotion, until one night, when I was delivering drinks at a club. I stumbled upon the man who was supposed to be sitting and waiting for me at home in his wheelchair, now clinking glasses with his guests, who all revered him as Don!