Hard Knocks Novels & Stories

|ON HIATUS & UNDERGOING A REWRITE| The new king of the underworld has been crowned and now he has come to collect the debt owed to his family by will or by blood. When Luca Moretti goes to collect an old debt from an orphanage housemaster, he expects to be paid in full. However, instead of cash, the housemaster offers him a young orphan girl as exchange. At first, Luca is incensed about the request but then he lays eyes on her and something stirs within him. Her purity and innocent wild beauty enchants him. Reluctantly, he agrees to take her. Their relationship, though strained at first, takes a blossoming turn and Luca realizes that she brings light into his dark world. But their relationship is not without challenges. An unexpected revelation throws Eliana into the wild darkness of the underworld and almost knocks Luca off his feet. A war threatens to break them apart and Luca is left with a conflicting choice; to choose between protecting his family or a love that could cost him everything and destroy all he holds close to his heart.

BLURB: She was supposed to be a mistake. Now, she's his wife… his greatest sin. A drunken night at a Valentine's party leads to a one-night stand between Damian, the son of a billionaire, and Selena, the daughter of the family chef. Waking up in bed with her is the beginning of his nightmare. When Damian's father catches them in a compromising position, a lie is told to save the situation, but it drags them into a Arrange marriage. Trapped in a loveless marriage, Selena is forced to be with a man who mocks and taunts her—yet can't resist her. With enemies lurking in the shadows, Selena must fight for the love she shares with Damian. Just as their love story blooms, a past neither of them saw coming knocks on the door, threatening to destroy everything. Damian wasn't supposed to be her husband. He was the one man she should never… love. Will Selena and Damian fight for what they love, or will they watch everything they've built wither because of one secret? Find out in TASTE OF SIN

Mable Thorne is on her third life, and she’s done playing the victim. In Life One, she was betrayed. In Life Two, she was murdered. In Life Three, she’s coming for blood.She’s dating the pack’s most dangerous disaster—pro-hockey star Darin Salvator—to burn her ex’s reputation to the ground. Darin Salvator is on his fifth life, and he’s done playing the hero. He’s watched every version of his mate die across timelines he can’t escape. He’s numb, he’s scandalous, and he’s accepted that they are a doomed bloodline. Then Mable knocks on his door with a fake-dating contract and a scent that screams of a future he thought fate had stolen. But there’s a ghost between them—a memory of a child lost in a past life, and a lie that says Darin was the one who killed it. On the ice, they are a PR stunt. In the shadows, they are a war. And this time, fate is not just trying to kill them—it’s trying to erase them.

Three years ago, Serena Blackwood was the Capital's most notorious villainess. Accused of drowning the Prime Beta's daughter, she was exiled to The Silent Abbey, a hellhole meant to break rebellious wolves. Everyone thought she would return broken, stripped of her pride. They were wrong. Serena returns not as a sinner, but as a Queen. Riding a rare Jade-Eye stallion and draped in Moon-Silk, she is more beautiful, more lethal, and more arrogant than ever. Her ex-fiancé, Alpha Patrick, rejects her for a "gentle" white lotus? Serena laughs and throws the mating token back in his face. The nobles want to humiliate her? She knocks out a Prince's fangs in the middle of the street. "I am not here to repent," Serena whispers, her golden eyes glowing with a predatory light. "I am here to rule." But she has a secret. The Alpha King doesn't just tolerate her wildness—he spoils her rotten. And as the Shadow Council moves in the dark, Serena reveals her true form: a Silver Wolf of legend, the only one capable of saving—or destroying—the Kingdom.

Freya loved the wrong Alpha for eight years. She gave him her body, her loyalty, her soul—and in return, he kissed her with someone else's name. When she finally walked away, she believed she'd found peace—and love—in Silvano, the Alpha who saved her. But years later, on her birthday, silence greeted her again. “Bella,” she whispered to her daughter, “did you forget Mommy’s birthday?” “Not now, Mommy. I'm making a gift for Aunt Aurora. Daddy helped.” The name landed like a wound reopening. Freya once survived being ‘the other woman’. Now, fate flipped the roles—and the silence, late-night absences, and missed calls feel all too familiar. As betrayal knocks again, she must choose: bury herself in heartbreak once more—or rise, not for love, but for herself. When even your mate forgets your worth, how many times must you walk away before you stop coming back? This time—maybe for the last time—she won’t look back.

STRANGER WITH MEMORIES MYLENE Eve Cruz is a one who fantasize Little ring band, she likes there music and especially Jonathan the drummer. Her first kiss, first love and everything She met them in the mall 'cause they had a mall tour and everything change because of that. She met Jonathan and known him well, additional that it's her classmates. JONATHAN Adriene is well known as a drummer in their band. He's a cold type guy who loves only music, nothing all. But everything change when he met the girl named Mylene Eve the girl with bubbly, joyful and noisy personality. At first he thought that he likes her being a noisy ang bubbly but not until she realize that he loves her more than anyone. BUT everything changed because of his mom decision, she don't like her and will never be because she think she doesn't have a good future with her. His Mother arranged his marriage him to their business partner. Many years later they saw each other. With sadness in their eyes... Because it's too late... way too late.

"You sure wanna taste me?" He laughed. That was the first time, he had smiled. "Wow, you are laughing now.." "Only you make me" My heart raced again, beating my eardrums in its intensity, "Ugh, how do you make me like this?" He came closer, pushing my back to the wall. We were inches apart, our bodies almost sticking to each other and his breath on my lips. "You make me so numb, that I fail to say what I always wanted to" I held my breath. His breathing accelerated, "Only you, Anna. Only you" And the space closed with a kiss.

He visits every year and brings a bit of sunshine with him. She's loved him since she understood what love was, but why is it that Daniel only looks at her now? Being a young single mother, Valeria just doesn't have time to waste while he's making up his mind.

Naomi Venice was a daughter of one of Florence's noble family, Venice. As someone who loves books, she would often go to libraries. While strolling, she passed by an alleyway where she saw a library. She went there with her personal maid, Lillian, to browse for some books when something strange happened. It was gone in an instant and they got home completely fine. Late at night, something strange happened and when Naomi woke up, she found herself in an unknown world and occupying an unknown body. Defenseless and no fighting capabilities to protect herself, she was almost driven to her wits end. Will she be able to survive in an unknown world despite her circumstances?

HER : I had to leave, i had my reasons. Leaving changed me. I had to forget my past, to adapt with my present, to face the future. I suddenly came back, but the problem is...I am different now. HIM : She left, without any reason, she didn't even say goodbye. Losing her changed me. I couldn't forget my past, my present stopped, i can't face the future. She suddenly came back, but the problem is...I am different now. We saw them fight, laugh, shout, cry. We saw them fall in love, we saw them get married and start on with their lives. But one man from her past -suddenly comes back- knocks on her door, enters her life and everything after goes downhill. Secret reveals, dreams get shattered, hearts get crashed, old wounds open again, and new scars start to show. They split apart, they hate , they change. And right now; they're not dead, yet still not alive. And the question stays; Will they ever get their love back, or will it just be the death of them both?