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My husband’s childhood friend was trapped in an elevator for half an hour. In his anger, he stuffed me inside a luggage bag and locked me inside. “You’re paying double for all the suffering Grace went through.” My body was forced into a curled-up state. I had a hard time breathing. I cried as I apologized, but all I got was my husband’s cold reproach. “You’re going through the entirety of this punishment. Once you’ve learned your lesson, you’ll behave.” He then locked the luggage bag in the closet. I screamed in despair and struggled to break free. My blood seeped out of the bag and soaked the floor. Five days later, he felt sorry for me and decided to end the punishment. “Let this punishment be a warning for you. This time, I’ll let you go.” Little did he know that my body was already rotting inside the luggage bag.

Rayne SilverFur is a slave suffering at the hands of the ruthless Betas of the MoonWater pack. However, Rayne's life takes an unexpected turn. On the day of Alpha Max's mating to the beautiful Alaska of the GrayLeaf pack, Rayne is sent upstairs with the mating dress and the mating organizers confuse her for Alaska. This massive confusion ends with her walking down the aisle to the Alpha himself, and she is mated to a man she doesn't know, much less loves. This event changes the course of her life forever. She becomes the Luna of a pack that enslaved her, yet her new title means nothing to Max who hates her more than anyone else in the world. Rayne's feelings toward him change, yet he remains as cold as stone. Disappointed, she decides to leave the pack behind and forget everything that tied her to him. While on the road, she is taken hostage by a pack in a remote part of the country and discovers a secret that changes everything and that most importantly, changes the way she feels about Max. When Max finds out she was taken, he does everything in his power to get her back, but when he finds her, things aren't as they seem. Max has a choice. He either takes advantage of the situation and mates with Alaska, whom he has loved his whole life, or he follows his heart and tries to win Rayne back. Their bond is stronger than ever, and for once he understands the pain his rejection caused her. Things get more complicated when another male enters the picture, a male who is determined to have her at all costs. The question is simple: will their bond bring them together or pull them further apart?

Sapphire's trapped in her uncle's pack. He hates her in so many ways. Everyone in the pack does, even her cousin Ivory. So, she gets the jobs no one wants to do while Ivory is the golden child. She's got everything and gets away with everything. While Sapphire must pick up her slack in the packhouse. All the while, suffering the hateful words and actions of the pack. Her emotions are mixed as she reaches adulthood. Sapphire expects being cast from the pack. She plans to leave on her terms. Little does she know Ivory wants to remove her from not just the pack, but the world. Magnus is the Alpha of a pack moving into the area. A pack her uncle doesn't want there, but it's small and can easily be crushed in her uncle's estimation. But Magnus isn't stupid. He's not showing his true numbers. He tried to get a non-aggression pact with Sapphire's uncle. But that fell apart after meeting Ivory and Sapphire. It wasn't repairable after the evidence he saw. What unfolds after that is fated mates, misunderstandings, hateful greed, and a poor unfortunate wolf caught in the middle of some dangerous politics. Read on to see what happens when Magnus kidnaps Sapphire and destiny has its way with them.

In the world of high finance, Melody Von Line is making a name for herself. She’s started working with the legendary Wolf of Bay Street as his associate, no less. There’re a few slight problems, okay, they’re huge. She didn’t know when they called him a wolf. They really meant it. He’s a wolf shifter. That wouldn’t be a problem if she were a human woman. She’s not. Melody is a fox, as in a fox shifter. Foxes are the prey for wolves, and it hasn’t changed. So, she desperately resists her growing attraction to the handsome wolf. But today’s the day he makes his move. Offering her a long weekend with him, no strings attached, anything goes, but they walk away at the end of the weekend and get on with their lives as it never happened.Things like this never go as planned. Malcolm wants to change the rules as the weekend winds down. But now he’s alone in the cottage, without a clue to where Melody has gone. Tuesday morning, he discovers she’s quit her job with no forwarding address. He wants answers. This has put him off his A-game because he wants her back. After a meeting over a year later, he sees her in a crowd. There’s no mistaking that fiery red hair, and she’s pushing a stroller with a child in it. A child who bears his distinctive blue wolf’s eyes. There’s no mistaking them. Now the hunt begins anew. No human could ever raise a shifter pup without their secret existence being revealed. This time he’s hunting two for keeps.

Olivia Cross was born broken, suffering from a birth defect unheard of among her kind. She is left weak and without a scent, a misfit in a pack full of strong wolves. She doesn't belong, she'll never be worthy. And her mates make sure she knows it. Kaden Stone, the future Alpha of Glass Lake pack and Declan Connor, his future Beta, can't scent Olivia as their mate. But she's known they're hers for years. Unable to prove her claim, Olivia watches them with others while she suffers in silence. Until one night, one mistake, changes everything. Forced to finally admit the truth of their bond, Olivia is crushed when they cruelly refuse her claim. Devastated, she leaves the pack, taking one last secret with her. Free of her past, Olivia finds healing and strength, even becoming Beta Female to her brother's pack. But when she's forced to return home, she must face her mates as they learn the truth of their bond and the secret she took with her when she left. With unseen enemies threatening their pack, can Kaden and Declan win back their mate while keeping their people safe? Can the three work together to save their pack and their bond? As the bounds of forgiveness are tested, can the three find happiness in a future that looks nothing like they planned? Or will they all fall victim to their Tryst of Fate? Also check out: An Unwanted Fate- Completed A Tangled Fate: Bound By Her Betas- Completed A Cruel Fate: Her Gamma's Regret- Completed Resisting The Alpha Triplets- Completed The Alpha's Abandoned Luna And The Twin Flames- Completed

The clawless luna, that's what they called her. Vione Celestie Munest had reached a point where she no longer hoped for destiny. Living without a clear origin and claws was painful enough for her. She didn't want to add to her suffering by being humiliated by her Alpha, Usher Thorne. So when Usher decided to sever their bond, Vione's only words were. “I, Vione Celestie Munest, accept your rejection as luna and mate, Alpha Usher Thorne.”

*Book 2* Mei Liu learned suffering from an early age. After experiencing great loss, she spent years enduring abuse at the hands of a sadistic pack of wolves, while hiding her identity. All until the day she was saved by her fated soulmate arriving at her doorstep. Mei was finally free, loved and accepted, with her happily ever after on the horizon. But an unknown enemy has been searching for her and once he finds her he has no intentions of letting her go. Dark secrets will be revealed, and she will be pushed beyond her limits. Can she rise up and fight back and become the strong woman she was destined to be? Or will it all be too much for her to handle? A Queen Among Snakes is the second book in the Queen Among series. Each story is set up in the previous book, so reading the books in order is recommended. Here are the books in the series: A Queen Among Alphas - Book 1 Bite-Size Luna - A Queen Among Alphas Prequel A Queen Among Snakes - Book 2 Runaway Empress - A Queen Among Snakes Prequel A Queen Among Blood - Book 3 Whole Again - A Queen Among Alpha's spin-off A Queen Among Darkness - Book 4 Dark Invocation - A Queen Among Darkness spin-off A Queen Among Tides - Book 5 Valor, Virtue, and Verve - A Queen Among Tides Prequel Spin-off A Queen Among Gods - Book 6 A Queen Among Tempests - Book 7

This is book 1 in the Royal Wolf Of Zidiah series. This book can be read as part of the series or as a standalone. Lillian Dalgaard, or Lilly to her friends, is the future Queen of Zidiah, a strong, powerful, rare wolf shifter and part vampire. With capabilities like no other, only a strong Alpha wolf will do as Lilly's mate. However, the mate she gains is not one she wants. Bastian is a powerful Alpha in his own right and runs his pack with an iron fist. He has no tolerance for rogues and even less for Lillian Dalgaard. When Bastain's men kidnap Lilly, locking her in Greenrock packs cells, they have no clue what they've set in motion. Realising that Lilly is his mate, Bastian rejects her on the spot, not realising he just rejected the future Queen and Omerian wolf that all men wish was theirs, leaving her to die. When the realisation hits, Bastian knows his only choice is to accept Lilly, or it could mean the end of both of them. Lilly, however, has other ideas. She will not accept Bastian, no matter what it costs. Lilly will fight for what's right, and Bastian Ashworth has no business believing that he can write the wrongs of the past between them. Will Bastain be able to show Lillian how wrong he was? Or will her mighty wolf tear him to shreds before the eyes of his pack? There are four books in the series - Alpha Verses Omerian book 1 The Romerian Alpha's Mate, book 2 - both available now. **I sincerely apologise for any confusion with this book and the second. I hope you will continue to read book 2 **

As the newly coronated Alpha of the Shadow Pack, Xavier Hale has a lot of responsibilities, but his upmost priority is to find the woman he had had a one-night stand with. To his greatest horror, he eventually finds her, but as the member of the traitorous Omega Clan that had murdered his father, leaving him to feel only hatred for her. He would keep her alive and by his side as his personal slave to ensure she spends the rest of her miserable life suffering endless torment at his hands. Layla Clayton never had one moment of peace while growing up, being the only girl in the midst of five older stepbrothers and the legendary Cinderella's stepmother. She only ever got to smile genuinely with the handsome stranger that had taken her innocence, and hopes desperately to meet him again, only to discover that she is his greatest enemy. With him, she suffers ten times the pain she had ever felt and grows to despise him, invoking misfortune upon him. He would refuse to succumb to the attraction he feels towards her, and she would rather die than to accept him as her mate, but can their intense dislike for each other get in the way of the Moon Goddess' plans?

When paranormal romance writer Theia discovers that everything she has written is true and the supernatural world is real her life is changed forever. And the very handsome Alpha werewolf Dominic, that is the subject of her latest book, is real and she is his fated mate. And they both know that Dominic couldn't possibly have a human as his Luna, especially not one as weak as Theia, who is also suffering from a debilitating illness. But Dominic's resolve to leave Theia alone is tested when Theia's very gift of foresight proves to be a curse, as others seek to use her power for their own gain and puts Theia in mortal danger as she becomes hunted. Will love and fate be enough for the couple? Or will the gift that brought them together be the one that keeps them apart? And will the same gift protect Theia from the danger that awaits her? Or can she use it to save herself and the people she loves?