Failed State

Who wants to become a replacement in someone else wedding day? Anthony Enriquez has a long history of failed relationships until it was concluded with a marriage but all of a sudden, the bride ran away with another man at the very last minute. Gretchen Kennedy is a modern-day Cinderella who was forced to escape from humiliation of her nasty step sisters and harassment from her step-father. Trying to seek safety and refuge, she went as far as Mexico. The two brokenhearted people yet single at the moment accidentally met in Mexico. Anton and Gretchen never imagined themselves being forced to marry a total stranger as a replacement bride and groom for that once in a lifetime special occasion any man and woman could ever dream of. The two imperfect people were matched by fate to make them believe that love at first sight and marriage can really happen. However, after consuming the first hundred days together, they made a serious decision to face the giant in their own lives. How will Anton and Gretchen forget the memory of their perfect replacement marriage? Will they accept the challenge of a real married life or remain single forever?

To test his loyalty, my stepsister, Wendy Lidell, drugged my childhood friend. Then, she shoved me into his room. Unable to watch Connor Gordon suffer, I willingly helped him through the night. In a fit of pique, Wendy ran off and married a cruel mafia don. I got pregnant, and Connor was forced to marry me. At that point, he started to despise me. During the ten long years of marriage, he treated me and our son coldly. But during a flood overseas, he sacrificed his life to get me and our son back on solid land. I failed to keep my grip on him. As he sank into the depths, he looked at me and said, “If we could redo everything, make sure you don’t help me that night.” Those words stung me greatly, and I fainted right away. When I next opened my eyes, I found that I had gone back in time. I had traveled back to the night when Wendy had drugged Connor and locked me in his room.

“C-Claus, please. I cannot-no more,” My shivering voice failed to stop him and he fastened his pace. “The night is young, little mouse. I’m gonna wreck you and every thought you have of escaping,” he was still holding a grudge against me for trying to run away. “I gave you a choice, be my slave or wife, and here you chose the former. Tell me, Hazel, what am I ought to do if my wife is squirming in the arms of another male, batting her lashes at him, and pressing this,” he smacked across my bare bottom hard and I winced shutting my eyes. “This body of a temptress against him,” I didn’t know my actions would fuel him like this. He was being overly unreasonable. He released inside me enormous times, and still, his length was hard and angry, ready to demolish my weeping core. Our mixed fluids seeped through me to paint my inner thighs but this barbarian refuse to stop.

“I have failed you as a mate and as your leader, Anna.” He cried out in pain, his wolf restlessly wailing, reaching the surface, and running back once realizing that nothing had changed. “But this worthless husband of yours swear by this day to avenge your death in the most brutal way possible. And after that, I’ll come meet you wherever you may be.” ~ After brutally losing his mate in a planned rogue attack, Hunter, the Alpha, and controller of one of the most powerful Packs in all of the East and West becomes the terror he promised the corpse of his late mate to be. Things keep going as planned and he is very close to attaining the werewolf king position that would enable him wipe out everyone that contributed to his mate’s death, when by the engineering of the Moon Goddess, he meets orphaned and abused Annable who is surprisingly the exact replica of his late mate, the worse fact is that she is in love with someone else. Now, his well-calculated plan is suddenly bundled with uncertainty, jealousy, a love triangle, and the desire to live and love.

After surviving a botched assassination attempt, Elena DeLuca resurfaces with a new identity and a thirst for revenge against those who betrayed her. Once a trusted ally of the Moretti family, she now seeks to expose the traitors within. Helios Valenti, the enforcer who failed to protect her, is forced to work with Elena to uncover the plot. As their past resurfaces, tension builds between them, blurring the line between hate and desire. Elena’s return also uncovers long-buried secrets, revealing a hidden assassin network led by Sophia Ivanova and linking Nico Moretti to the plot against her. In the midst of her revenge, Elena reunites with her best friend, Isabella, who never believed Elena was dead. Their reunion complicates things further, as Isabella becomes torn between loyalty to her friend and the Morettis. As Elena and Helios fight to expose the traitor, their bond deepens, but the threat of a larger conspiracy looms. Will Elena’s quest for vengeance destroy her humanity, or will she and Helios survive the growing darkness? Teaser for Book 3: With a deadly assassin network closing in, Elena and Helios face a war that will test their loyalty and trust.

“I reject you, Aurora, daughter of Lord Cornelius felta. Accept it or die!!”, his cold voice echoed. ************** In the world of Pine City, where strength and power determine one's worth, Aurora at the king's ball failed to transform into her wolf. As a result, she was rejected and called a forsaken by her once-sweetheart, Alpha Lucent, and was sent to the remote village of Greenfalls to live in shame. Aurora is caught in a vicious struggle between three rival Alpha local packs. Her life spirals into chaos when Vincent Donvan, the feared Alpha of a mysterious pack, stakes his claim on her. Vincent, together with Aurora, uncovered dangerous secrets that threatened not only their lives but the very existence of their world. Aurora, believed to be wolfless, holds a power no one could have imagined, one that makes her the key to an ancient prophecy. She is caught in a crossroad between the dark charms of mysterious alpha, the dark plans of Lucent, her former mate, and the fate of the pine city on the brink of destruction. Will she rise to claim her power? or will she be consumed by the forces seeking to control her?

After a tragic accident killed her father and made her mother unconscious, Anna was thinking about how to raise money for her mother's treatment when she met Lewis Cole, an intelligent billionaire who needs a wife to secure his inheritance before his thirty-second birthday. Anna seems to be a perfect candidate, but she was not interested in Lewis because she has a crush on Lewis’s brother, Stefan. Desperate, Anna takes Lewis’s one-year contract marriage offer. She soon finds out that living with a traumatized man is not easy, especially when his presence awakens feelings she never knew she had. Lewis shows her affection in public but is cold in private. He tries to keep their relationship professional, but the woman he once kissed in a drunken state turns out to be more than a convenient bride. Their budding relationship was ruined when Annabelle was discovered pregnant... and Lewis is not the one responsible. An anonymous envelope of unexpected truths and plots of manipulation and betrayal comes to further shake the foundation of their trust. Can a marriage built on contract survive the truth, or will their pasts destroy their chance at a real future? Will they find love after marriage or separate and become strangers?

"...there will be no other men, I'm a very possessive stalker..." he breathed his words heavily while biting my ear. "Luka...please..." I moaned my words and thrust my hips as his fingers pleased me, taking me higher with each stroke. "Say it...say that you will be mine..." My mind was clouded by lust, but somehow I knew that I was already his. that I wanted no one else since he kissed me. "...yours, I will be yours, I am yours..." my hand caressed his hair and he was back to kissing my lips. ***** Olga, you're his daughter,you're the heiress,you're coming back to him. That was the nail to my coffin. That was my fate. That was my doom. Luka,she's the boss's daughter,she's way above your league,she's never going to fall for you. That was the ugly truth. That was the reality. That was the fact. She's a player He's a nerd How will the two struggle? How will their love flourish? How will their relationship grow? Olga: I'm not sure with the title though... I'm perfectly nice and loving. Luka: Why do you need to state the V thing author? As if being a geek is not enough?

Being rejected by one organisation to another was Melanie Watson, she graduated from the state university three years ago but couldn't secure a job because of her poor diploma. She didn't stop job hunting because of the loan she's going to refund in few weeks time. She borrowed some money from a fiercely casino to sponsor her education and she's to refund the money in three folds. A few weeks to the allotted time, Melanie was offered a babysitting job. She hasn't meet with the baby she's going to babysit before she requested for a year's advance payment. How will she cope when she gets to the mansion and realise that the boy she's going to babysit is not just a boy, but Archie Gordon, a thirteen years old boy who resents his father with passion? Melanie found herself stuck between the father and son discomfort that she was going to face for the next year. How will she cope when she found herself falling in love with Alfred Gordon and she's to choose between the broken son who wants her attention and the father who wants nothing but her love?

"she's my Luna" Roseline watched her mate in tears address her sister as his Luna instead of her because he thought she had betrayed him on purpose, but in reality, she had been drugged by her sister and ended up in a stranger's arm the night before her wedding, and the mastermind behind the incident was none other than her step sister, who was jealous that she was getting married to an Alpha instead of her. Roseline did everything she could to persuade her friend that her sister was responsible for the betrayal, but her friend had already been brainwashed by her sister's words and wanted nothing to do with her anymore. Roseline was heartbroken and devastated by her sister's betrayal and her mate's rejection, and she thought she had lost everything, but fate had other plans for her when the man she slept with in her drugged state, which caused her mate to reject her, offered her a marriage proposal in exchange for helping her get back with her mate. The offer was tempting, Roseline wanted nothing more than to be with her mate again, but can she trust him, and what does he want in return for this marriage proposal?