Hannibal Rising

In college, Elara Hayes was invisible, a quiet wallflower, mocked and overlooked. One drunken night, she made the mistake of sleeping with the golden boy, Leonard Shaw. By morning, he denied it, mocked her, and turned the entire campus against her. She left, broken and disgraced. Years later, Elara is no longer the girl he humiliated. She's now the face behind a rising fashion empire, cloaked in elegance, success, and unshakable poise. When fate brings Leonard back into her life at a prestigious award ceremony, he doesn't recognize the woman he once destroyed. But she remembers everything. And this time, she’s not here to be ignored, she’s here to rewrite the story. On her terms.

"Mr Maynard.... The fast rising USA actress is " Olivia Dalton " , Your ex - wife and she swear not to feature in the same movie as you. " He laughs and said nothing else afterwards, because he was sure that when she hears of him, she'd go on her knees and beg for his love as she had always begged. "Ms. Dalton? The contract is ready and the interest this time is 30℅, meaning you are 160 million richer, The offer was made directly by Mr Maynard. " She smiles and removed her sun glasses. "Throw the contract in the trash can and have my current contract with the company terminated, Inform Mr Maynard that I'm Olivia Dalton, not Olivia Maynard."

Zylia Nightshade has always been the pack’s shame — the omega everyone mocked, ignored, and unwanted. But when the Moon Goddess reveals her fated mate to be Killian Silverclaw, the ruthless Alpha of Howlborne Pack, her world shatters. Their bond was meant to be destiny… until a prophecy declared her as the one who would bring his downfall. Terrified of the unknown, Killian rejects her under the Blood Moon and casts her into exile. Alone and broken, Zylia learns to survive among rogues — and discovers a rare gift tied to the Moon Goddess herself. Now, with darkness rising and old powers awakening, she must decide: Will she let the prophecy define her fate… or will she rise and rewrite it?

Lydia Woods had always been invisible at the Mountain Pack academy, the Omega no one noticed and the girl no one expected to matter. She learned to stay quiet, to survive, and to endure the world ignoring her. Then something changed. Suddenly, eyes were on her, whispers followed her every step, and the girl who had always been overlooked realized she was no longer invisible. She refused to beg, she refused to break, and she refused to let anyone decide her worth. Something inside her had awakened, a power no one could predict and no one could control. The Omega they dismissed was no longer silent. The girl they cast aside was rising, and everything the packs thought they knew about her was about to change.

Athijha Esmeray Alonso is a rising model who married her best friend for two main reasons. For her personal liking and to save her sister. It may be perfect for her sister but not for her. Ashton Exiquel Saavedra, her husband, is too cruel for her own good. But she chose to stay. She chose to stay because no one wants her back in her home. She chose to stay because of her intense feelings for him. Fate sure is playful. Betrayal after betrayal. Pain after pain. She committed suicide but the heavens did not allow her to leave the world. She woke up in a hospital without memories. She suffered from amnesia. Then they met again.

When heiress Celeste Montaire is forced into a marriage of convenience to save her family’s collapsing empire, she vows to keep her heart untouched. But her groom, Arrow De La Vega – cold, brilliant, and bound by duty – comes with his own chains. Their union is a merger, not a marriage, sealed by a ruthless contract where falling in love means losing everything. Thrown into a world of staged affection and rising tension, Celeste and Arrow struggle to keep their walls intact. But one forbidden kiss threatens to break every rule they swore to follow. When a scandal erupts accusing Arrow of cheating, Celeste’s world shatters—until she learns Arrow is willing to risk his entire empire to protect her.

It’s end of October 1985 and the crumbling river town of Dubois, Iowa is shocked by the gruesome murder of one of the pillars of the community. Detective David Carlson has no motive, no evidence, and only one lead: the macabre local legend of “Boris Orlof,” a late night horror movie host who burned to death during a stage performance at the drive-in on Halloween night twenty years ago and the teenage loner obsessed with keeping his memory alive. The body count is rising and the darkness that hangs over the town grows by the hour. Time is running out as Carlson desperately chases shadows into a nightmare world of living horrors. On Halloween the drive-in re-opens at midnight for a show no one will ever forget. ©️ Crystal Lake Publishing

Five years ago, I was the rising star of the nation’s top chemistry research lab, but on the eve of publishing the results of my study, my husband’s crush, Grace, killed me. She made several people violate me and cut my face up. Then, she injected sulfuric acid into my stomach, crushed my teeth and bones, and discarded my body without anyone’s knowledge. At that time, I was three months pregnant. But she told everyone that I stole the project’s research results and fled to another country. Jim, my husband, personally wrote a report to the government to label me as a globally wanted criminal. Five years later, a livestreamer who did nighttime explorations found my dried-up corpse in the basement of an abandoned warehouse.

Elara thought being chosen as Luna would be an honor. Instead, it became her cage. Trapped in a cruel marriage to Damon, the alpha who marked her by force. Elara is a prisoner in her own pack, silenced and controlled. But destiny has other plans, and they come in the form of Kael, the fated mate she was torn from, the one whose love still haunts her dreams. When Elara discovers a power buried deep within her bloodline and a rebellion rising in the shadows, she must choose: obey the mate who broke her, or defy tradition and reclaim her fate. A war brews between loyalty and destiny, passion and pain. And when the blood moon rises, not everyone will survive. One Luna. Two mates. And a fire that could burn the whole pack to ash.

Some people find fortune… while some people find a dying criminal on a random Tuesday. "Is this the part where you kill me?" she asks. “Don’t worry, sweetheart.” He traced her jaw with the blade of the knife. “I’m still mulling it over.” Clover lives a very unlucky life. Getting fired job after job, it’s hard to make ends meet. And as if fate is playing with her, she saves an unconscious man who ends up to be the most dangerous person in town: Phoenix Volkov, the rising don of the underground world. Bad luck got her helping the wrong stranger—worse luck got her accidentally kidnapping a mafia boss. Just like that, their lives became entangled in a mess of bullets and danger.