Jokes Are Half Meant

I am the white wolf princess of the Coyote Pack. By the Moon Goddess’s decree, Barry was meant to be my fated mate. But during the peace negotiations, he gave me away—to Bayport’s crippled warrior, Colin—as a “hostage bride.” Barry smiled carelessly, his voice cruelly tender. “Emily, let me complete the bond with Evelyn first. This is just a deal. You are still my true Luna.” My nails bit into my palms, pain hollowing out my chest. Evelyn was nothing but a low-blood she-wolf he had rescued from the border. Yet for her, he used a truce marriage alliance to force me into surrender. Later, when I sought him out, I found him tending Evelyn’s wounds, wrapping her with gentle hands. He looked up, his tone light as if it cost him nothing. “If you let Evelyn be my mate alongside you, and divide half of your inheritance for her, I will withdraw the marriage alliance order.” I took off the bone pendant he once risked his life to give me and held it out to him. But he let it slip from his hand, shattering it against the floor. “If you don’t want it,” he said coldly, “then throw it away.” On the eve of the wedding alliance, Evelyn fell to her knees before the pack, sobbing as she accused me of hiding the Alpha’s Contract Stone—to help Colin breach our borders. The crowd erupted in whispers. Barry admitted it was he who had gifted me the stone, yet still turned on me, demanding: “If I ask for it back, will you return it?” At that moment, I finally let every hope die.

Gabriella was born a half blood to parents only too dissapointed and disgusted to have her as a child. They sought for any possible means to be rid of her because they considered her useless. She is eventually mated to their Alpha, Marcel . Gabriella hopes that following the union, her life will be better now and she will finally get the acceptance and love she has always craved, but she was infact a mere tool and sacrifice for Marcel. On the day of their wedding, Marcel's pack (The Dark Moon Pack) is raided and burnt to the ground, while Gabriella is captured and taken away to Cordena, the home of the most powerful Alpha in the North, Tyler. Tyler is on a mission to find his mate and kill his rival, Shaiza in order to ensure the prophecy of his death and end of his pack isn't fulfilled. Marcel works for Shaiza and his pack is one of the undercovers for Shaiza's evil deeds. After Tyler kills Marcel, he makes Gabriella his captive and swears to make her suffer. Tyler and Gabriella started off as sworn enemies filled with hate for each other, Gabriella because she believed Tyler had taken her away from her only home and Tyler because she was once the mate of his rival. However during the continuous search for his mate, Tyler discovers that Marcel was so eager to marry Gabriella because then he would be able to sacrifice her under a full moon and gain some of his powers. But then he would only be able to grow powerful if he sacrifices Tyler's mate........ Tyler finds his object of hate and disgust is to be protected at all cost because she is his mate and the key to the prophecy that's meant to destroy him.

Olivia Statler hates Logan Hayes. It's not the fact that he's an executive of a rival travel company, or the fact that he's trying to buy her company, or even the fact that he won't leave her alone. Two years ago, the two of them seemed to have something that was amazing and real, but Logan's ego got in the way. When a new resort offers her an all-expense-paid trip to woo new clients, she figures that a working vacation is just what she needs. As the youngest CEO in the travel business, she's honored and flattered. However, she isn't the only executive that the resort invited. When Olivia sees the broad shoulders and blonde hair of Logan Hayes, her heart races. Half of it is raw sexual attraction, half of it is anger at what he did to her. Logan is determined to reignite their past spark, but Olivia does everything possible to avoid him. However, a hurricane strikes and traps them on the island, making it impossible to ignore the changed man in front of her. Only a storm as powerful as their passion will show them love or hate. Can romance survive the storm – or will their hurricane kisses be swept away forever?

Namih Chan is a detective. She does not believe in the ghost that will return to earth to demand justice. But since Namih Chan lived in her rented house, her perspective changed. Almost every night, she dreams of a bloody woman. She was begging for justice. It doesn't hold her back anymore. Until she decided to reopen the woman's case when she found out that someone had died in the house she was renting, few years ago. She struggled to trace the woman's origin until she met the family. She was asking for cooperation from the family, but they refused. Until she meets the eldest brother who is also a detective. Joojen Lee, a half blooded korean who used to live in the country. She worked with him. Along with her search for justice is the monthly case of murder of a half filipino women in their city. The woman died the same way as Joana was killed. She concluded that the killer of the woman in their city and Joana's killer had something to do with it. Will they succeed in achieving the justice that Joana demands, in exchange for her silence? Are they ready to find out who is the person behind the murders?

Blurb: ️ Warning: This book contains explicit scenes, strong language, mature content, sexual kinks and dark themes that may not be suitable for some readers. Read at your own risk. Trevor Matai had already made himself an enemy of half the school just by being the smartest person in the class. So when he won the student body presidency, they just found newer and louder reasons to come for him. What he was not prepared for was jerking awake from a nightmare in the middle of class, calling out Sean Pierre's name in front of everyone, and having a very visible and undeniable ‘boner’ to go along with it. Does that mean he got ‘bricked up' for Sean. That was quite unbelievable because Sean Pierre, who is a star quarterback and the school's golden boy, happens to be the most aggressively straight guy Trevor had ever been forced to share oxygen with. So, Sean was the absolute last person his subconscious should have chosen. And now the whole school knew. What followed was supposed to be punishment as a result of the two clashing over school activity funds. Instead, something neither of them planned for started building because the closer Sean kept him, the harder it became to pretend that none of it meant anything. But Sean was the star quarterback and there were rules that came with that title. And wanting Trevor wasn't something the world around them was going to quietly allow. Two boys with two different dreams that couldn't both survive this situation, which seemed like a rivalry that had already drawn blood and a romantic feeling between them that refused to take note of that. Society had already written the rules, but they were about to break those rules and rewrite them.

Alpha Damian is a ruthless and merciless leader. He rules with an iron fist. Forgiveness is not his concept. He has waited for his mate for three decades, but when he has met her, he has been disappointed. On a journey to another land, he caught the scent of his mate, but was confused between Princess Alpha and a common servant. He prayed to the Moon Goddess that Princess Alpha was his mate, but was disappointed to find that it was a servant with a curse. He wanted to make his life a living hell, believing that such a servant was not meant for him. When he took her and brought her back to his group, she spent most of her days locked in her room doing the few tasks he gave her. In addition, Alpha accepted a consummated marriage to Princess Alpha to cover up the shame of being mated to a servant cursed with ugliness. This broke the heart of Nadlyn, who believed that Alpha Damian would one day love her. Alpha Damian, on the other hand, has great feelings of desire and love for Nadlyn, but he is stubborn and willing to do anything to fight her because he cannot see the ugly half of Nadlyn's face. Nadlyn eventually befriends Damian's Alpha Mother, who turns out to be a kind-hearted woman, unlike her son. Damian's Alpha Mother loved Nadlyn more than Rachel, the Alpha Princess Damian was going to marry. Nadlyn's life is made even more miserable when Rachel deliberately gets her into trouble and burdens her with humiliating tasks. She feels betrayed when her mate chooses to watch while another woman makes her life a living hell. One day, when Damian learns who Nadlyn really is: Will he love her?

On the tenth day of my postpartum recovery, my husband, Deputy Commander Harvey Wyatt, uploads a photo of me breastfeeding my newborn in a disheveled state to the department's group chat. Obviously, that photo was taken without my knowledge. "See? After having a kid, she's as loose as a sack. It makes me sick just looking at her. I much prefer my side piece, who's nice and tight." A few female colleagues send sweating emojis to the group. The majority of the chat, however, consists of the male colleagues' perverse silence. While I continue to burp my baby with one hand, my tears land on the screen. In order to give birth to this baby, my pelvic bone was sawn in half, which causes me so much pain that I can't even walk properly. But all I get in return is my own husband body-shaming me in front of hundreds of people. I don't bother arguing with Harvey at all. Half an hour later, I drag my broken body all the way to the commander's office with a divorce agreement as well as the chat history over the past ten days, which has been printed out, in my hands.

When Damien and Guinevere find out, they're each other's fated mate; they're determined to find a way to break their mate bond. After all, the pack Alpha can't be mated to the Pack Traitor's daughter, even if the Moon Goddess has blessed their pairing. There's only one problem, the mating bond pull is hard to resist, and Damien and Guinevere have already completed half of the bonding process.

***This is the sequel to Once Upon An Alpha; please read it first.*** Once Upon a Luna continues to follow Rose, Orion, their friends, and their pack a year and a half after the Fallen Moon battle. Now that Hodges, Kroll, and Greta are dead, it's time for the Black Moon pack to move forward. Has Rose figured out her other gift? Where will her gifts lead her this time? What will Rose's premonitions show her next?

Isabella is an eighteen-year-old girl who will start college in California. But the only condition her parents set for her to be able to go is to work and pay for her studies by her own means. Although Isabella has a half scholarship, she will desperately look for a job, until she finds the incredible mansion of Harry Lee, a young millionaire who is married. Isa will be Harry's maid, but between living together a dangerous attraction will grow between them.