Guilty Circle

"I'm six weeks pregnant," spoke a woman behind him, caressed her flat abdomen. She looked at him coldly, tried to meet his gaze. "My child needs a father. He needs you, Klaud!" "Abort the baby," he coldly replied and looked deeply into her weary, sullen emerald eyes. He gulped, guilty of everything that had happened that night. "My reputation will be in vain, Dianna. I... I can't bear to lose the company I've built for so many years!" Tears flew into her cheeks as she listened to him. She never thought he was a type of cold-hearted man who was willing to abort his child, his own flesh and blood. Dianna turned her back at him and quickly wiped the tears from her eyes. Her heart shattered into tiny pieces as she walked away from the man who captured her heart since that night. "Forgive me, honey, your daddy is a jerk. We don't need him and he will never see you, never!" She whispered with bitterness in her voice and regretted for sleeping next to Klaud Anderson, an alpha and Dianna's possessive master

Aria Holt knows she's walking into a trap. When Damien Cross offers her a job at his tech empire, she knows exactly why—eight years ago, her father's company killed his sister and destroyed his family. This is revenge. She takes the job anyway. Her family's name is a curse everywhere else, and her father is dying. She'll endure Damien's cruelty if it means survival. But Damien doesn't just want to humiliate her professionally. He wants to break her, piece by piece, until she feels every ounce of pain he's carried for eight years. He'll control her days, invade her thoughts, and prove that he holds all the power. Except his plan begins to unravel. Behind closed doors, the punishment turns into obsession. The cruelty shifts into desperate need. And Aria—quiet, guilty Aria—starts pushing back in ways that shatter his carefully constructed walls. When the truth about the accident finally surfaces, Damien faces an impossible choice: complete his revenge and destroy the woman he's fallen for, or let go of the only thing that's kept him alive for eight years.

Brittany Anderson is a young lady who has done nothing but made her father's company remain in the top three list of companies in the whole of America. The time to make a bigger sacrifice came, and that was to marry Ace Miller, a young CEO in America. What happens when Brittany is arranged to marry him, to make her claim what was rightfully hers? He was once the reason behind her smiles each day, but all of a sudden, became her nightmare. What possibly went wrong? She has agreed to marry him even when they both had a sour past together, but that wasn't enough to get what she wanted. She still needed to make more sacrifices and, this time, something greater than getting married to him. Would she come out successful? Or would she allow her anger ruin all that she has worked for? Would she still let her hatred from the past lead her? Or would she let go of the past and let the present lead? What happens when secrets, lies, betrayals began to reveal itself, leaving everyone guilty, including Brittany? Let's find out......

Mikael Williams, a ruthless mafia who rules in Italy, is forced to marry Claire Thompson to replace his twin brother, who died in a car accident caused by his business rival. Feeling guilty for Michael, Mikael hides Michael’s death from everyone and takes his place. Claire Thompson is the adopted daughter of the William family, who is funded to study at a foreign boarding school. As far as she knew, the Williams family only had one son, Michael William. However, in reality the Williams family has two sons. The first is Mikael Williams, a ruthless mobster who lives in a dark shadow, and the second is Michael Williams, a sweet man with the heart of an angel. When lie after lie is revealed, what will Claire do when she realizes that she is currently pregnant with Mikael’s child? Will Claire be able to forgive Mikael and continue with her marriage? Or did she choose to leave Mikael and everything related to their past? Meanwhile, will Mikael let Claire go a second time? Let her go from his dark life? Or will he defend her in any way he can? Trying to protect her from anything that could put her life in danger?

Nova Harlow’s life ended in betrayal, but fate gives her a second chance...Reborn in her past, she now wields the knowledge and strength to protect herself and exact revenge. Will revenge consume her??, or will forbidden love win? But Yet, destiny has other plans. To survive the threats lurking from her past and present, she is forced into marriage with Myles Rochefort, the ultra-powerful, cold, and impossibly rich CEO who feels inexplicably drawn to her. He doesn’t remember their past-life connection, but his obsession is undeniable. They hate each other… yet their bodies and hearts betray them at every turn. As enemies circle, family secrets unfold, and hidden powers surface, Nova must navigate desire, danger, and destiny. With Alden Maxwell stirring tension and Isla Garnier scheming, passion, betrayal, and erotic tension escalate until the final act where love, legacy, and power collide.

One reckless night, one forbidden bond, and one secret child. Liora, the disgraced daughter of a rogue Alpha, thought she buried her past when she fled a brutal rejection and woke in the arms of a stranger. Five years later, her desperate attempt to save her failing pack drags her into the glittering empire of Jasper Kent—the powerful CEO who unknowingly fathered her son. He’s human… or so he believes. Cold, commanding, and dangerously magnetic, Jasper draws her in even as jealousy and enemies circle around them. But as Liora’s lies unravel, her ex-mate resurfaces, and Jasper’s hidden wolf awakens, fate demands a price: love, blood, or destiny itself. Now, caught between two worlds and a man she can’t escape, Liora must decide if the truth will destroy them or finally set her free

William Graham and Jasmine Spencer had been at odds since they were kids. But that year, fate played a trick on them—out of all the eligible matches in their circle, only the two of them were left. William swore he would rather die than marry Jasmine. That piqued her interest. She said, "Great. Then I guess I'm definitely marrying you. Go ahead and drop dead." On their wedding day, William humiliated her by releasing dozens of chickens at the ceremony. With a flat look, Jasmine picked one up and called it "Darling". Just like that, William lost all interest in the joke. He looked at the woman who insisted on marrying him and sneered. "You'll regret this." Three years into the marriage, Jasmine caught William cheating for the ninety-ninth time. It was only then that she finally understood— So this was the kind of regret William had meant.

Everyone in our circle knew I had always been obsessed with Daniel Rothman. I followed whatever he did—went to school, learnt eight different languages, studied finance. After all, the Rothmans and Fosters were destined to merge through marriage—our intertwined business empires depended on it. However, on our wedding day, Daniel flew overseas to rescue his crush in distress. Our childhood bond, once the envy of everyone, became the biggest joke of all. There I was, wearing a wedding dress worth millions, standing alone as I completed the grand ceremony by myself. The headlines were everywhere. For the first time, my name came before his in the news. How foolish. Men were a dime a dozen. But there was only one well-established business empire. I did not just want his body. I wanted his money, too.

Eidolon Avenue: Where the secretly guilty go to die. One building. Five floors. Five doors per floor. Twenty-five nightmares feeding the hunger lurking between the bricks and waiting beneath the boards. The sequel to Eidolon Avenue: The First Feast (“a great read...powerful and jarring” - Cemetery Dance) returns to the voracious Eidolon as it savors The Second Feast. A narcoleptic man in apartment 2A battles a vengeful past determined to rob him of everything as he runs from the barbaric disaster of a delusional love. A woman in 2B, reinventing herself to please a callous boyfriend, discovers the horrors that wait in the shadows of her self-renovation. The man in 2C, a teacher at the nearby Catholic girl’s school, collapses beneath the brutal consequences of his lecherous desires. An older woman in 2D, after decades dedicated to the church, is cornered at last by the grisly carnage beating at the hollow center of her faith. And a college student in 2E, hungry to escape an ignored life of invisible anonymity, finds herself captured between the pages of a ravenous book. All thrown into their own private hell as every cruel choice, every drop of spilled blood, every silent, complicit moment of cowardice is remembered, resurrected and relived to feed the ancient evil that lives on Eidolon Avenue. ©️ Crystal Lake Publishing

Bella, the doomed mate of Blood Stone Pack's Alpha Cole, had it all she ever desired before betrayal destroyed her life. Betrayed of a sin she wasn't guilty of, Cole gave in to the deceitful words of his childhood sweetheart and best friend, Georgina. With Cole's faith broken, Cole spurned Bella and cast her out of the pack, leaving her shattered and defenseless. Coerced into fleeing for her life, Bella finds shelter in the Beck kingdom, away from the heartbreak and perils of her past. There, she meets an unexpected turn of fate, her second chance mate, Alpha King Rick Beck. His strength and kindness provide Bella with security and acceptance she believed she had lost forever. But just when Bella is recovering, Cole finds out the truth and returns, determined to win her back and make things right. Caught between the mate who shattered her heart and the powerful Alpha King who offers her a new life, Bella is presented with an impossible decision. Will Bella muster the courage to take her second chance at love with Rick, or will she let Cole back in her life, risking getting hurt again? #Betrayal #Second chance