Giada's Holiday Handbook Novels & Stories

"Why do I have to be so lucky?" The stranger smirked, moving closer to Eve. Eve bit her bottom lip, breathing hard as she heard his deep and unmistakably sexy voice for the first time. He was not doing anything to her yet, but the mere sound of his voice and his brown eyes slowly traveling down to her body made her burn with desire. Suddenly, she realized she should have done something during those years of being alone because, at this point, she was like a walking volcano at its highest alert level, ready to erupt. "I..." She forgot her name, even her purpose of being there. Maybe that was because she had forgotten herself and put others first, thinking it would mean a happy life. She was a single mother and hoarded problems like they were collections. Her problems grew faster than her children. When the stranger crushed her mouth with his soft lips, she kissed him back. Eve thought of becoming selfish, wishing him to fill that emptiness in her life, even for a while. She was already unhappy. What else could go wrong?

Walking into that bar in that fateful night, Tris had no idea it will alter the course of her life forever. Four is a man with secrets and a painful past. Will he be able to get over his demons and come clean about what happened ten years ago.

Cassidy was a left-behind rogue who lived as the packs personal attendant to the Alpha, she was never to expose the real reasons why she allowed the Alpha to bully her, but after years of his abuse to her, she came to find out she was mated to the Alpha, he had no reason to want her and rejected her. Carter has always been the cute guy in his pack, but his only torment was the Luna of his pack. She never allowed him to do anything he wanted, and anything he did, she destroyed. After years of torment and abuse, he discovers she is his mate. Laughing at her big party, she announces her rejection to everyone, making Carter the laughingstock of the pack. One night both packs get attacked. In an emergency Alpha reunion, Carter meets his fated mate, Cassidy. But will they live happily ever after? Or will their first mates give them hell to the point of rejection?

Lillian Stewart is a twenty-four years old who has always wanted a simple life. After being dumped by her boyfriend of two years and a baby on the way, her life makes a drastic turn. Vincenzo Romano was her boyfriend who never showed her his dark side, but what she didn't know was their relationship was based on lies and secrets. Was the love he had for her a lie too? What happens when he makes an appearance in her life again and she finds out a life changing secret, will she be able to raise her child in a life of chaos? A life she had never wanted. Will vincenzo give her a choice? A mysterious man pledged to make her his at all costs, promising to eliminate anyone that stands in his way. In the midst of war and chaos, will they ignore the sparks and attraction they feel towards each other?

What if you discovered your sexy-as-sin college professor was also a panther shifter? Catalina Vargas wasn't looking forward to asking interim Professor Malcolm Wright for an extension on her anthropology paper after it magically disappeared. She expects a stern denial, which is his usual way of dealing with her. But what she doesn't expect is to see a panther in his office or to watch it become a very naked Professor Wright before her eyes…  Professor Malcolm Wright has long denied the call in his blood telling him to mate. But something changes the moment the beautiful and sassy Catalina saunters into his classroom. Now, protecting her from his demons is a priority. If only his panther would listen...  

I was head over heels for Jace Johnston for ten long years, but to him, I was just plain crackers: "Lacking flavor, but folks still nibble on them." Meanwhile, he was getting cozy with another girl behind my back. After a decade of playing childhood sweethearts, I realized it led nowhere. I was done being his side dish. So, I decided to marry someone else. Then, Jace knocked on my door in the middle of the night. "Rea..." "Mr. Johnston, can I help you?" I asked. Just then, a deep voice boomed from my bedroom, "Honey, where did you put my underwear?" Jace stumbled and practically coughed blood right there. Next thing I knew, he was venting on social media, posting: [Some people leave a hole that never fills. Love isn't promised forever, so hold her close and cherish every heartbeat while you can.]

Synestra was a normal girl until a meeting with the bad boy lead singer of her favorite band throws her into a world she never could have imagined. Now the fate of the world is in her hands. Will she choose the side of good or evil? What will it mean for her love life?

When Eleanorah Cortessi marries the cold-hearted billionaire Mafia Lord Vincent Vincenzo to save her father from his wrath, she doesn't expect to fall in love with the man who'd always consider her a his pet. An unexpected turn of events brings them closer, but can a forced marriage based on deceit survive, added to the fact that it was a contract meant to last a year.

Faith has a dysfunctional family of four brothers and three sisters. And as if the number of her family members wasn't already a problem, faith had to born the youngest. Faith was dubbed as the 'beauty' of her pack because of her good looks, but in her own family she was treated as if she were a curse. Her efforts meant nothing, her cried at night were unheard and her wish to be loved unheard. But what her family didn't hear, was heard by the goddess herself. Who gifted her with a mate that was not only powerful but also very much capable of giving her that one thing that she longed for all her life : Love.

Brought together by fate and a boy, Lucian and Halo battle the struggles of their everyday lives, and the bond between them that comes at a time most inopportune.