Novel & Cerita Hook Island Sea Monster

Not long after getting married to my husband, he says he wants to teach me how to scuba dive. My leg cramps when I'm practicing alone in the deep sea. However, my husband, a swimming instructor, chooses to save his unattainable love—she's jumped into the sea to commit suicide. I don't ask him for help. Instead, I allow myself to slowly sink. In my past life, I stopped my husband from leaving. He saved me with gnashed teeth and allowed his first love, Millie Quirke, to drown. By the time he went to save her, she'd already disappeared in the water. He comforted me and told me it was okay, that he was glad he'd saved me. However, one night, he brought me back to the seaside. Just as I let my guard down, he grabbed my neck and plunged my face into the water. Then, he dragged me out before I could suffocate. "You were just cramping—it would've passed! But Millie got dragged away by the current because of you! You can remain in the ocean with her!" When I open my eyes again, I'm back to the day I was scuba diving.

While presiding over a transnational meeting, I received a distressing call from my daughter's kindergarten teacher. "Mrs. Payton, a kid drew a massive clown on Anna's face during nap time! No matter how much I try to wash it off, it won't come off!" I immediately rushed to the kindergarten. My daughter, Anna Payton, was sobbing at the door. Her usually fair and tender face was now red and swollen. The clown drawing on it was particularly eye-catching. The new teacher was so panicked that she was crying herself, her voice trembling. "The parent of the other child is in the office. They said they're willing to compensate any amount, but... But there's no way you can make their son apologize." My anger surged as I kicked open the office door. However, I instantly froze in place. In the office, my husband, Arlo Payton, who was supposed to be in Swizor for a year of intensive studies, was holding up the bully. The next second, the little boy in his arms pointed at Anna and laughed. "Look, Dad. Clownface is here!"

Handsome, moody, and reclusive, billionaire Alpha werewolf Dane Wiltshire is confined to Vukasin, a secluded but pleasant internment island for werewolves where humans are allowed to visit for only three weeks a month (the fourth week is that of the full moon, when werewolves run rampant and no human is safe). The proud Dane meets his match during a chance encounter with the stubborn and willful middle-class human, Adara Huntington. She’s attracted to his handsome looks but put off by his Alpha arrogance. Nevertheless, she embarks on a love affair with him. But it ends when he breaks the heart of her sweet and beloved sister, Fawna, by dissuading his best friend Edin from marrying her, suggesting the sisters are social-climbing gold diggers. Things worsen when one of the island’s enforcement officers, the boyfriend of Adara’s other sister Emmalina, tells Adara how Dane stole the woman of his dreams, later causing her death. All of this is enough to make Adara despise Dane and avoid him at every opportunity. And yet she cannot overcome her attraction to his powerful Alpha personality and stunning good looks. Just as Adara and her sisters must leave the island for the week of the full moon, a dangerous turn of events gives Dane the chance to redeem himself in Adara’s eyes . . . but will he succeed?

DAILY UPDATE — I don't love you. — I muttered. He set his wine aside and stood up, slowly closing the distance between us, and with his fingertips he touched my chin, his gaze wandering to my mouth and then lingering on my eyes. — I don't love you either, princess, and I don't intend to. He said those words with complete coldness and walked away sitting down again and it infuriated me. — Why fight a tournament for my hand then? All this because I'm a princess? — I asked like a shot. — You are a Lancaster princess and I need a worthy heir. — I wish my uterus was dry as the desert sands, Commander. He glared at me and I saw a flash of anger in his black eyes, but at the same instant he hid it and put his cynical smile in place. — So in that case we would have to try many times, dear, until your uterus becomes less dry. I would try for the rest of my life even. — He countered maliciously. In a tournament by the hand of Princess Helena Lancaster her destiny to cross with John Chase, a fearsome commander and warrior, with a peculiar personality. He was everything she detested, possessive, audacious, authoritarian, and dominant in the extreme, and he was the who had the best chance of winning the tournament for her hand. But John Chase was much more than a commander of Corvo Island, he was hiding a dark secret that would change her life forever. An island full of mysterious men, with their own secrets and conflicts, and she would be their lady, soon Helena would discover that a great danger lurks on the island, could she trust her husband to protect her?

Alessio De Luca has always known his fate….to marry, to lead, to obey. As the heir to one of the most powerful mafia families, his life is not his own. So when his father arranges his marriage to Isabella Montoya, the daughter of a ruthless cartel leader, he doesn’t resist. A deal is a deal. Until he meets her brother. Rafael Montoya is a man carved from shadows and blood. Feared by his enemies, obeyed without question, he is the devil in disguise. Ruthless, untouchable, and completely indifferent until Alessio walks into his world and shatters his carefully built walls. One stolen night. A dangerous mistake. A fire that refuses to die. Now, their families are on the brink of war, and Alessio and Rafael are trapped between duty and a desire that could destroy them both. Because in their world, love is the most dangerous gamble of all. And once you make a deal with the devil, there’s no turning back.

Ella, a college girl who has recently turned eighteen, has been marooned on an island full of wildlife where werewolves are predominant. Her own friends have betrayed her. Sophia, a rich billionaire's daughter had taken her revenge by abandoning her on the island during the college trip because Jade chose Ella over her. When she is chased by a cobra and lion, a wolf saves her. She is awestruck to see how the wolf shifts into her human form as dawn commences. The werewolf is Mrs. Rolex, Lara’s mother. Ella resembles Lara, and so she mistakes her for her daughter. Alpha Gabriel, the strongest Alpha on the island, asks Ella to lead the army troupe towards the east to fight Alpha Amelia because he too mistakes her for Lara. The battle with Alpha Amelia seems challenging for her, and she fails to take her wolf form in the third round of the battle, thereby getting caught by Alpha Gabriel, who realizes that she is a human as he checks her neck and finds no mark over that. He had marked Lara on her neck, as she was his mate. Alpha Gabriel, who feels that the witch has sent her in Lara’s disguise to mislead him, sends her to prison. Lara is administered aconite by the witch, and so she becomes unconscious. Alpha Gabriel has to take Ella’s help, and he asks her to pretend to be his Luna in front of the Alpha King. During the process, do they start liking each other? Why does she herself approach the witch for getting the scorpion venom to treat Lara even by risking her own life? Discover by reading till the end why she feels connected to the Moon Goddess, Lara, and Mrs. Rolex.

“I, Chika Whitmore, take this Alpha to be my strength and my vengeance.” The words were a death warrant, not a vow. In the high-stakes world of the werewolf syndicates, loyalty is a myth and blood is the only currency. When Chika Whitmore is brutally abandoned at the altar by the Blackwell heir, he doesn’t just lose a husband—he loses his standing in the underworld. Cast out by his own bloodline and left to the mercy of the city’s predators, Chika does the unthinkable. He walks into the territory of the most feared man in the modern mafia: Lucien Afolayan. Lucien is a King in exile, a dominant Alpha whose legs were shattered by a rival’s silver-trap. The world thinks he’s a broken dog, but behind the reinforced steel of his throne, the beast is hungry. He needs a consort to secure his claim to the Obsidian Crown Plaza; Chika needs a monster to burn down the people who broke him. It was supposed to be a cold-blooded merger. No feelings, no touch, just a tactical alliance to survive the Blackwell Pack’s impending war. But in the dark corners of the Afolayan estate, the scent of the moon doesn’t lie. Between the click of loaded pistols and the roar of shifting wolves, a lethal attraction begins to take root. Chika came for protection, but he might have just tied his soul to a man who won’t stop until the entire city bows—or burns. In this game of power, the only thing more dangerous than an enemy’s silver is a mate’s betrayal.

“Now tell me who you belong to?” Rael rasped, their breaths mingling together. He was her sister's fiancé, yet here he was, fucking her like he owned her. The feeling of being on the bed of the man her sister plans on marrying next month brought a sense of accomplishment to her being. “I'm yours, Rael. Fuck! I'm yours!” she almost screamed with another hard jab of his waist. “Wrong answer.” he muttered, pulling out of her just as she had almost reached her peak. … Blood seeped out of her chest just moments before she saw the other side of her stepsister. The sister who she trust most had not only sold her out to be raped by men from the black market, but had also had her murdered her. Her boyfriend, whom she thought loved her the most, had also been cheating on her all along. Feeling betrayed, tears rolled down the corners of her eyes as she bled, yet there was nothing she could do. She died. But fate gives her a second chance, letting her go back in time a month before her sister's wedding. She will make everyone who hurt her pay. And the first step is stealing her sister's Fiancé, Rael Morgan–A billionaire known for being the coldest man in Country M. To own him and to watch her sister break, just like how she had broken. But never would she have expected things to turn out the way it did. He now owned her, refusing to let go. What starts as her own plot spirals into something darker. He possesses her. He makes her his woman.

When her beloved father is arrested on the eve of her wedding day, poor Valentina Russo's perfect world falls apart. Her savior? The man who walked away ten years ago without even saying goodbye. — The Russos and the Ricci family weren't always enemies. For as long as Valentina could remember, they lived next to each other, in peace and harmony. Valentina had always had a crush on dark, brooding, Nicholas Ricci. But when Nicholas is cast away for being a spoilt brat as well as a bastard son, Valentina is distraught that he didn't even think it worthy enough to tell her goodbye. Now, it's ten years past, and Nicholas is no longer the young, mischievous boy he once was. Back to exact revenge on both the Russo and Ricci family, especially his violent, cunning half-brother Cielo, he's shocked to discover that Valentina is engaged. And to none other than Cielo, his half-brother. He's always saved Valentina from Cielo when they were little. And he wouldn't mind doing it again. Only this time? He'll make her his. Permanently.

"“Do you know how to get to the rose garden?” “No, you can’t go there. A monster lives there.” Shaw Hollander is desperate. Broke, unemployed, and determined to help his ailing mother, he falls on the good graces of a wealthy benefactor who is willing to give Shaw a job at his mansion in order to pay off his mother’s debts. Suddenly finding himself surrounded by lavish riches, he has no idea what his duties truly entail until he’s sent to the rose garden and meets the tragically mutilated Isobel. This Beauty and the Beast story holds true to the core of the fable while shaking off the element of fantasy and dragging it into present-day reality. Shaw and Isobel are ready to let you climb into their four-wheel-drive pickup and take a ride with them into their version of happily ever after, but only if you first dare to gaze upon the monster among the roses."