Hunting Ground

"Brielle, will you marry me?" With one knee to the ground, he asked the question that would change her life forever. Running away from her obsessed boyfriend, Brielle starts a new job at the Stones firm but when the CEO of the company asks her to marry him in front of top billionaires in the country, she says yes to avoid embarrassment. Brielle isn't ready for what is coming for her as their marriage turns into a battleground with new findings from her that change how her new husband sees her. Will she overcome this and what role will her poor parents play in all of these?

"Have you ever loved me, even once?" I hummed when I herd that. Ridiculous. The tall man falling in a pool of blomanod. The scarlet stained his still perfectly delicate face. I never expected a proud Mafia King of all the underground, in the last few minutes of his life, would humbly say this insane words to me -- One who dreams of sending him to hell every day and night; one who could only become his eternal enemy. "No," I didn't spare even a glance to the man on the ground, replied ruthlessly and clearly in hatred, "Never."

Selena and Xander became mates not long ago, but Xander suddenly became cold-blooded and heartless. When the mate bond between her and Xander was broken, she reached the end of her life. Yet she got nothing but even more fierce retaliation from Xander. It turned out that he was with her only to avenge his parents in the first place. Disheartened, Selena chose to end her life. "Whatever my father owed you, I'll pay it back!" The always proud Xander knelt on the ground with red-rimmed eyes, frantically begging her to come back over and over again...

#Book 1 in Alpha Series ≛ He was powerful He was terrifying He was huge He had the whole world under his feet, within his grasp but to him she was his world, she meant everything. He was feared by all but it only mattered that she was scared of him. He was worshipped by billions yet he worshipped the very ground she walked on. His calloused hands were capable of ripping people apart yet they only held her with tenderness and possessiveness. His claws ripped out throats yet they only extended towards her to play with her curls.

Zoey Mitchell only wanted a quiet hike after college graduation. Instead, a hurricane ripped her out of her world and dropped her into Nytherra—a realm of magic, danger, and creatures that shouldn’t exist. The first thing she saw? A pack of wolves hunting her. The second? A massive black wolf with glowing blue eyes calling her mate. Alexander Veylor, Wolf King of Nytherra, is ruthless, brooding, and bound to a political alliance with a fae princess. He cannot afford the weakness of a human mate. But the bond between them burns hotter with every stolen glance, every forbidden touch, every dirty word growled in the dark. Yet in a world that despises humans, love is a liability—and betrayal waits at every turn.

Miles Landry is trying to put violence behind him when he takes up work as a private detective focused on humdrum adultery cases. But when a Tibetan monk hires him to find a missing person, things get weird fast. Charged with tracking down the reincarnation of a man possessed by a demonic guardian from the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Miles is plunged into a world of fortune-tellers, gangsters, and tantric rituals. The year is 1991 and a series of grisly murders has rocked New York City in the run up to a visit from the Dalai Lama. The police attribute the killings to Chinatown gang warfare. Miles–skeptical of the supernatural–is inclined to agree. But what if the monster he's hunting is more than a myth? ©️ Crystal Lake Publishing

Synopsis For as long as she can remember, Noah Leister has lived in hiding. Forced to disguise herself as a boy to escape the enemies hunting her. She doesn’t know why. Unknown to her, she is the prophesied Moon Guardian, a being of immense power, and the mate of the strongest Alpha in werewolf history. Alpha Ares Luther is feared, ruthless, and cursed with loneliness for his father’s sins. When a prophecy reveals that his mate is hidden among humans, Ares infiltrates Siege University as a lecturer to find her. But nothing prepares him for Noah, the infuriating, sharp-tongued boy who unsettles him like no one ever has. The attraction is maddening, impossible, his mate is supposed to be a woman. Yet, the more he tries to stay away, the stronger the pull becomes. As rogue attacks threaten the university, Noah’s carefully constructed world shatters when she witnesses a brutal werewolf battle and shifts for the first time, revealing her true identity as a werewolf and the Moon Guardian. And she has no idea what she has just unleashed in him. For the first time, Ares’ loneliness fades. He has found her. But before they could claim their happiness, fate sharpens its claws. Betrayal slithers into their midst, hidden behind the face of a friend. Nathan, Noah’s trusted companion, a divine-power Hunter . He has been hunting for the moon guardian, unaware she's been under his nose. And now, he allied with Ares’ ruthless uncle, William. William has spent years plotting Ares’ downfall, and Noah is the perfect weapon. With her power awakening and enemies closing, Ares and Noah must fight not only for their love but for their very survival. Will their enemies succeed in tearing them apart, or will fate take another turn?

The night was stormy and the sky was without stars as the cloud weeps heavily, the rain poured down in endless torrents as the rogues tore through the pack killing every living and moving thing they could find, lightning flashes across the sky and the thunder roars louder than ever. I stood in the midst of all the destruction too shocked to move a limb, a dirty looking brown rogue noticed me and darted in my direction but my mom's white wolf ran into his side causing him to fall to the ground before digging her teeth into his neck and then proceeded to shake her head until the brown Wolf's neck snap with a sickening pop, she let go and was making her way to me when a rogue jumped on her back and tore a huge chunk of flesh of her neck she yelped in pain and fell to the ground before shifting back into her human form as her body became too weak to keep her in wolf form. The wolf took another at her draining her of all life while I stood rooted to a spot with tears out of my eyes. A painful howl sounded not too far away and my eyes darted to the black wolf it came from, my father's wolf Whimpered at the loss of his soul mate. The rogue leader took the chance and lunged at his throat killing him. And so in one night my parents to a pack of rogues and it's all because I was too weak to do anything to save them.

Angels only existed in stories. Ahsoka never believed in myths and legends until she learns she is one and is saved by the next Alpha of the Winter's Moon Pack. The Dark Coven will not stop hunting her until they have her back in their grasp. Ahsoka struggles to figure out who she is, accept the existence of the Shadow World and come to terms that the man who had raised her and abused her, is not her father. The further Ahsoka digs into her the past the more secrets that are revealed. With the help of her mate, Ahsoka will learn what love truly is but will she let her fear of the man she called father stop her from completing her destiny?

When I was finally able to snap out of my fear, I diverted my gaze to my father's head on the ground as my anger began to burn deeper within me. As tears slid down my cheeks, I raised up my head to meet Castro's gaze. His sword was still aimed at my neck unflinchingly. My gaze moved between Jasmine, my cousin and him one more time before I questioned. "What do you think you are doing, Castro?" "What does it look like, Katherine?" "A coup?" Castro smirked. "You're right!" "But why?"