Goblet Of Shadows Ao3

Elena Jones, a recessive omega, has spent the past twenty years living in the shadows, avoiding trouble and hiding her true identity. Life was finally beginning to fall into place—she’d found the love of her life and was planning her dream wedding. But everything shatters the night she saves a stranger during a rainy night. By morning, she's summoned to the Pack Leader’s Manor… and her carefully built world begins to crumble. The infamous and ruthless Alpha, Mikhail Sokolov, isn't just the man she had saved the last night but also the Pack Leader and her second mate. And worse, he’s obsessed. Elena will do anything to escape the grip of the dangerous Alpha, but Mikhail will stop at nothing to claim her—not even if it means burning down the world or destroying her in the process. Because if he can’t have her alive, he’ll take her dead.

Danni’s world shatters the day her father dies. Her mother has become a hollow shell of who she once was, and Danni is left to pick up the pieces alone. Every day feels like a battle just to breathe, to move, to find something resembling normal. Then her ex shows up — stirring old wounds and turning her already broken life into chaos. As if that weren’t enough, the people she trusted most begin acting... strange. Secrets twist around her like shadows, and nothing feels real anymore. And that’s when he appears — the mysterious stranger who keeps showing up just in time to save her. There’s something familiar about him, something that tugs at her soul. But the more she dreams of the haunting white wolf that stalks her nights, the more she wonders if her mind is unraveling… or if something far darker is calling to her.

She lost everything—but she's about to take it all back.   Betrayed by her husband and stepsister, Juliette Winchester watched her world crumble. Her thriving company—a legacy inherited from her mother—was stolen, her children were ripped away, and the life she'd built was reduced to ashes. Left with nothing but her will to survive, she disappears into the shadows, vowing to return stronger.    She fulfills that vow five years later when she emerges as a woman transformed—powerful, confident, and ready to reclaim what’s hers.    But what she doesn't expect along the way is an unexpected ally in the form of a rich investment mogul who has always had feelings for her.   When he reignites feelings she thought were long buried, Juliette must choose between the vengeance she craves and the future she deserves.    This is her reckoning—and no one will stand in her way. 

Hazel Pierce has always lived in the shadows, nerdy, invisible, and secretly crushing on the one guy she should never have fallen for– her stepbrother, Trey Rivers. When her secret is nearly exposed on campus, her enemy and the hockey team’s resident bad boy, Jaxon Carter comes to her rescue but not without a prize. He makes her an offer to fake date him to kill the gossip in exchange to improve his grades. He’s cocky, reckless, and dangerously charming. And worst of all he knows how to make her heart race What starts as a simple deal quickly spirals out of control. They promised no feelings, but what happens when their truth is bigger than the rules? When Hazel’s true identity is revealed. She must decide if loving him is worth the risk as she reclaims her true voice and identity.

He was supposed to be my salvation. Instead, he rejected me. Cael has lived his whole life in the shadows, an omega without a wolf, without worth, without hope. At his second mating ceremony, the one chance the Moon Goddess promised him, he’s humiliated and abandoned all over again. Broken. Forgotten. Until the Alpha King finds him. Thorne, fierce and burdened with prophecy, has been waiting for a sign that his fading kingdom still has a future. When he stumbles across Cael, something ancient stirs, the prophecy awakens, binding them in ways neither of them expected. But power this dangerous always comes with a price. The Hollowborn are hunting, packs whisper rebellion, and fate demands more of Cael than anyone believes he can give. He was supposed to be the weakest omega alive. Now he might be the only one who can save them all.

“Smile for the cameras, Miss Sterling. You are mine now.” ~~~ Camila Sterling is a liar. She has to be, if she wants to infiltrate Lucien Hayes’ territory. He is the ruthless CEO who ruined her life with a night that chained her to a twisted man who calls himself her savior. Going undercover as an employee of Hayes Corp was step one. She was to blend in, bide her time and wait for her moment… but she ruins it. Thanks to her impulsiveness and a half-baked plan, she sparks a scandal that lands her in the spotlight as Lucien's girlfriend. However, Lucien flips the script. He claims her as his lover, and suddenly, Camila isn’t hiding in the shadows—she’s trapped at the center of a fake romance with the devil himself. And the closer she gets, the harder it is to tell who’s playing who. How do you destroy a devil you are starting to crave?

Janine’s plan was simple: just one night. One night to earn enough money to ease the crushing weight of her mother’s medical bills and secure her brother’s future. She had no intention of staying. This job—this world—was a desperate detour, not a new path.But the moment she stepped into that room and locked eyes with the man sitting like royalty in the shadows, everything shifted.He wasn’t just any client.He was Theo Lucas Guevara III, the man she had only seen from afar—on TV screens, in headlines, in the hushed gossip of women who dreamed beyond their means. Powerful, untouchable, and dangerously magnetic.She thought he would take what he wanted and leave.But to her surprise, the billionaire didn’t just want one night.He wanted her.And he was willing to pay any price to keep her.

​Amelia Hayes has 30 days to save her niece. ​A judge’s ruling demands the 35-year-old heiress present a stable family unit to win custody of her niece, or the child returns to her abusive father. With time running out, Amelia rushes to secure the only perfect solution: her own bodyguard. ​Her solution? Adrian Cole. ​He’s 25—loyal, quiet, and financially desperate. For a staggering sum, he agrees to a two-year contract with one unbreakable rule: No love, no intimacy, strictly business. ​But when their fake wedding night turns into a real assassination attempt, Amelia realizes her calculated bargain has made them targets. Now, fighting a vengeful ex-friend and a killer lurking in the shadows, Amelia and Adrian must fake their way through a deadly war. ​The contract was just a lie. But the way he risks his life to protect his 'wife' might just be the terrifying truth.

This is the fourth book to the Bloodstone series. It can be read as a standalone, but it will have cross-over characters from the series. The dark realm is heavily guarded for a reason. Nothing good lurks beyond the border. Nothing good ever happens in a world full of darkness and evil intentions. But sometimes, you have to tempt fate to save your soul. Nesrin should know by now that tempting fate only leads to sorrow, poor decisions, and potentially deadly situations. But sometimes, the need to save someone else from their own fate clouds your judgement. What will Nesrin do when she goes too far down the rabbit hole? What will happen when she is on the brink of death, and the only thing that can save her is losing a piece of her own soul too? The clock is ticking, and the creatures lurking in the shadows can't help themselves when the chance to taste royal blood is on the line.

It is a time when all supernatural beings are believed to be extinct. After the Raven war between supernatural creatures and humans - wherein humans won the war - what was left of the supernatural community went into deep hiding, using any means necessary to blend into the shadows - which was why when Nate decided to save a soft human girl in danger, he didn't bargain for the shit storm that was about to hit him and his pack brothers. When trouble comes knocking at Nate Bane and his pack of four, they didn't know their little underground world was about to be upended by the girl Nate saved, who is also the only daughter of General Reid - the most powerful supernatural hunter in the state - and has fate would have it, Nate's Mate. Follow the Bane pack as they try to survive a world set against them while fighting for their fate, their mates, and a place in the world again.