Failed State

I saw a post while scrolling through my social media. [Adult male merman for sale. Hard to tame. Letting go for cheap.] I commented, [I'll take him.] The seller asked for ten thousand dollars and promised doorstep delivery. When I opened the package, the merman was nowhere near 160 pounds. He barely weighed over a hundred. His skin was sallow, his ribs visible beneath it, and his tail fin was rotting at the edges. I messaged the seller, [I want a refund.] The message failed to go through.

Zoa McClure is a 16-year-old girl. She comes from a family of 7. An average teenager, with a normal life. She lives in New York with her parents who are attorneys. Her life of normalcy is threatened when she gets kidnapped.... To the rest of the world, she's in a coma with very slim chances of survival. In Zoa's POV, she's in a nation called Charlaedon. Nobody can fathom how she ended up in the middle of the nation's cross-fire. Zoa only remembers bits and pieces of the day's events. The incident resulting in her coma seems to have been forgotten. The war in Charlaedron leaves everyone in a state of disarray. It's up to Zoa and her new friends to fix things.

“You’re my mate, Claudia… and even though I’m your stepbrother, nothing will stop me from claiming you. No curse, no Alpha and no law can deny what burns between us. The more you fight me, the harder I’ll make you surrender because you were always meant to be mine.” *** Claudia Kendal had always been branded the cursed child of the Silvercrest Pack. When her parents died in a car crash, she was the only survivor, untouched without a single scar. To the pack, that was no miracle, but proof of misfortune. On Claudia’s eighteenth birthday, her worst fears came true. She failed to shift, failed to find her mate, and became mocked as the wolfless wolf. Despised and ridiculed, Claudia’s only wish was for the Moon Goddess to grant her someone to love her… someone to finally call her own. But fate was cruel. When her mate was revealed, he rejected her, discarded her, and humiliated her before everyone. That same night, Claudia was hunted and nearly raped by the wolves who despised her… until salvation came from the last person she ever expected. Claudia’s rescuer. Her protector. Her forbidden second-chance mate turned out to be her stepbrother. But can Claudia embrace the dark, dangerous love of her Alpha stepbrother… or will the cursed that haunts her bloodline tear them apart?

Bianca's world turns upside down after her stepmother, Elizabeth attempts to kill her and she wakes up to realize she has lost all her memories. As fate would have it she ends up meeting Damian Rivers, the manager of the Windcracker group of companies. She relies on him in her amnesiac state and they end up falling in love with each other after several incidents. Bianca uncovers the truth about her stepmother's atrocities and tries her utmost best to take back everything that belongs to her and make her pay. But as nothing goes for nothing, at what cost will Bianca bring her enemies to justice?

I love you so much till my eyes and heart don't want to open up to my circumstances. The state where you are the only one and I am one of you. I don’t care even if your common sense tells me to leave you. I still endure, with my character that has less trust in you. Whether my suspicion in excessive or you who really don’t put me first, you choose to leave, keep your heart away from me, throw away your feelings that you used to convey to me, then you act like we were never there before.

Florence Gomez-Hilton has been married to Lucas Hilton for almost three years. Their marriage has been smooth, except for one thing: she can’t give him a child. On their third wedding anniversary, Florence believes Lucas is planning a surprise for her. Instead, she is shocked when Lucas announces he wants a divorce. The real bombshell comes when she discovers that her best friend is pregnant with her husband’s child. In a devastated and heartbroken state, Florence is approached by a mysterious, cold-hearted billionaire, Alexander Sterling, who offers to help her get revenge on her husband and former best friend if she agrees to marry him.

"You are nothing but a slave! And you are not worthy to be my future Luna!" *** As a member of a commoner family in the werewolf community, Arielle dreamed of studying in the most prestigious school for elites. However, given her family's poor status, her dreams are just wishful thinking. As misfortune started messing up with her life, she was given a hard blow on her mental state when her parents were murdered and she was sold as a slave to the wealthiest pack in the entire Werewolf Empire, the Golden Crest Pack. As if her suffering isn't enough, she unexpectedly meets her mate, Robin Golden, the future Alpha of the pack, who is unhappy meeting her and hides the fact that they are mates!

"What the f*ck!" sigaw ni Terrence. Terrence Jude Alvarez. He is a young multi-billionaire, a businessman, and, at the same time, a mafia boss.  Kinakatakutan dahil sa paraan nito kung paano ito pumatay. He is powerful in the underground, the world where the mafia belongs. He sells anything and everything, and no one can stop him. Even his enemy. "Please, don't!" umiiyak na pagmamakaawa ni Ayiesha. Meet Ayiesha Claire Montebon. She is the daughter of a billionaire and the wife of Terrece Jude Alvarez. But the accident happened. She had amnesia. And Terrence is in a state of coma. Magtatagpo kaya sila? O tulayan nang mamamaalam si Terrence kay Ayiesha?

Heartbroken, Anne Kal ventures to a bar to drink away her sorrows, something she haven't done before. Unknown to her, in her drunken state, she spends the night in the arms of Billionaire businessman, Hudson Black. However, Hudson Black suffers a terrible Insomnia that has defied all forms of treatment but on the night he spent with Anne, he slept for the first time in a long time. But Anne disappeared from Hudson after that night. Determined to keep this human sleeping pill, Hudson swore to find her and make her sign a contract. What will become of a blooming relationship between the sick and the Heartbroken? How will their relationship survive the challenges of the wealthy society?

Set up and accused of the murder of the Alpha of Gray Mist pack, Sabrina is locked up and bullied by her own lover, the son of the Alpha. With failed intentions of executing her, which he was incapable of, he offers her as a peace offering to the rampaging dark lord. What happens when Charde realizes that the person he had just used as a peace offering was his mate and carried a baby in her womb? Can he fight the dark lord who had already taken custody of Sabrina? Even so, will she be willing to return to a bully who made her life miserable?