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BLURB Shirley has been living a life full of pain. She had always been treated badly by her father and those around her. Those that were kind to her were the servants. She had never been happy. Her father hated her for being the cause of her mother's death. Her mother died immediately she gave birth to her and since then her father had resented her. She was to be sold of to one of the neighboring pack's to keep peace, she was aware of this but before she was to be sold off, she found her mate. She was happy at first but seeing that he wasn't into her mate her dad until she heard the whole story. Her mate happens to be her father's enemy. Her father was killed that night and not only that some of her pack members were killed. She was taken away from the pack with those who were alive as slaves. What would be her fate with her mate? What will happen when she finds out that her mate has a fiance already?

She gave him everything—her youth, her loyalty, her heart. And he repaid her with betrayal. Publicly discarded by her powerful husband, Adrian, and replaced by his mistress, Serena was left broken… carrying his child while losing the love of the son she already had. To the world, she became a forgotten woman. But years later, Serena returns. No longer weak, she is now the untouchable force behind a global empire—cold, powerful, and impossible to control. As her ex-husband’s obsession reignites and the woman who stole her life grows desperate, the truth begins to surface… especially to the child who once turned his back on her. This time, Serena isn’t here for love. She’s here for power. For truth. For revenge. And when she’s done, nothing and no one will ever be the same.

Grace Monroe was a supermodel who walked away from the runway to build something real… her own sustainable fashion line. When billionaire hedge fund manager Carter Vaughn pursued her relentlessly, she believed she'd found a partner who saw beyond her face. Three years into their marriage, she discovers sex videos of Carter with multiple women, including her former best friend Stella. But the real devastation comes when she finds a contract: Carter married her as part of a bet with his elite boys' club… the first to stay married to a "perfect 10" for three years wins fifty million dollars. She was never a wife. She was a wager. Grace takes the scorched-earth divorce settlement and disappears. What Carter doesn't know: she's pregnant with twins. Grace returns as the founder of GRACE, a feminist fashion empire built on her viral campaign exposing "trophy culture." She's on magazine covers with her twin boys, August and James, refusing to name their father. She's wealthy, powerful, and untouchable. Carter's reputation is destroyed, his boys' club dissolved in scandal, and his fortune is crumbling from boycotts and bad investments. But when Carter discovers the twins are his… through a morally questionable secret DNA test—everything changes. He's not the man who made that bet anymore. Prison time for securities fraud, the loss of everything he valued, and watching Grace become the woman he prevented her from being has broken and rebuilt him. Now he wants his family back. Can a man who treated her as a commodity learn to truly love? Can she risk her sons' hearts on the father who didn't know they existed? And when Carter's former friends try to destroy Grace's empire to punish Carter, will she let him fight beside her or will she prove she never needed saving?

I died with regret in my heart… only to wake up the day before my nightmare began. For twelve years, I lived as the beloved adopted daughter of a wealthy family—until their real daughter was finally found. Overnight, everything changed. The life I had lived, the love I thought was mine, and even the place I called home were suddenly taken away. Blamed for a life that was never truly mine, I became the family’s most hated outsider. Forced to live as a servant in the very house that once called me daughter, I endured humiliation, cruelty, and betrayal. Worst of all, I was forced to marry the boy I had always called my brother… a man who treated me with nothing but cold cruelty. But when death finally came, fate gave me something unexpected a second chance. Now reborn to the day before everything falls apart, I know the truth behind their lies and the pain that awaits me. This time, I won’t be their victim. This time, I will rewrite my destiny. ✨📖

Blurb Carlos was forced to reject his mate who came to his pack as a rogue, he had no choice but to agree to reject his mate. His brother's life was on the line, he had to do whatever it takes to keep his brother safe. Mandy is the princess of the werewolves and also the heir to the throne. She doesn't accept her mate's rejection but you strive hard to be with him, she thought he is hungry for power and she wanted to tame him within a short period. Against all odds the both of them wanted to be together but due to the circumstances of his brother who was used to threatening him, he couldn't do a thing. Will the both of them be able to get together? Will his mate forget about him and move on with her life? What will happen to his brother, will he be saved or not?

They say that society looks down on women who get divorced, but that is something that Amara doesn't care about because after being married for ten years and focusing on being the perfect wife, her husband doesn't only cheat on her, he also brings his pregnant mistress into their marital home. She's had enough and asks for a divorce. He vows to make her life a living hell if she leaves him. To make her regret and suffer until she goes crawling back to him, but that's where he's wrong. Because she'd rather die than return to him. Amara is on the search for a solution when she crosses paths with a dangerous billionaire, Lucian Volkov. Dangerous, ruthless, and filthy rich. He offers her a deal, to help get her revenge against her ex-husband and his mistress in exchange for becoming his wife for a year. Pushed to the corner and left with no choice, she agrees to it but will he protect her like he promised or will he leave her broken and crushed like her ex-husband did? What will Amara do when Lucian breaks down the walls she's built in her heart?

Elara Reed has endured years of abuse as her pack's omega—the lowest rank, treated as less than nothing. When the arrogant Alpha heir Kai Thornwood discovers she's his fated mate, he's revolted. In front of the entire pack, he publicly rejects and humiliates her, then marks another she-wolf as his chosen Luna to solidify his disgust. But Kai made one fatal mistake: underestimating Elara. During the rejection, Elara's wolf breaks free, revealing what was hidden her entire life—she carries True Alpha bloodline, a power thought extinct for centuries. That night, she vanishes without a trace. Three years later, Alpha Kai's world is crumbling. His pack is failing, his chosen Luna is barren and bitter, and mysterious enemies are picking off his wolves one by one. Desperate, he tracks down the one person who might save them: Elara. But the broken omega he rejected is gone. In her place stands Alpha Elara Reed—confident, powerful, and leader of the fastest-growing pack in the territories. She's thriving, happy, and definitely not interested in helping the man who destroyed her. Oh, and she has three-year-old twins. His twins. With Alpha powers that shouldn't be possible at their age. Now Kai must grovel, fight, and prove he's worthy of a second chance—while enemies close in on Elara's rare bloodline, traitors sabotage from within, and a rival Alpha offers Elara everything Kai failed to give her: respect, partnership, and love. The clock is ticking. The bond may be severed, but the danger is just beginning. And Elara holds all the power now. His biggest mistake might cost him everything—including his life.

Lena Moretti was raised to be obedient. Her family's decades-old blood debt to the Crane dynasty means she's always been a transaction waiting to happen. On the eve of her arranged wedding to Julian Crane, the golden heir of the most powerful family in the country, he reveals his true nature in a brutal act of violence that shatters every illusion she had about her future. She tries to flee. Instead she collides with Ezra Crane, Julian's younger brother, the disowned black sheep who built a shadow empire from nothing and has returned with one purpose: to annihilate his family from the inside. Ezra offers her a devil's bargain. Marry him instead. He'll shield her from Julian. He'll hand her the tools to destroy the people who sold her like property. In return, she plays his devoted wife while he wages a secret war against the Crane dynasty. What starts as a cold alliance of mutual destruction becomes something neither of them can control. His obsession with her isn't strategic. It's visceral, possessive, all-consuming. And her feelings for the man the world calls a monster aren't part of any deal she agreed to. But they're both hiding things. Lena carries information that could accelerate Ezra's revenge. Ezra knew about the blood debt before he ever touched her and married her partly to weaponize it. When these secrets detonate, the fallout is catastrophic. Lena disappears, pregnant with his child, and uncovers a twenty-year-old secret her mother took to the grave, a truth that reframes the entire war between the Moretti and Crane families. She returns not as anyone's wife, weapon, or pawn. She returns as the woman who holds the only truth that matters. And every powerful person in both dynasties will kneel before she's done.

One life for another. That is the rule of the Aftergame. Lena was a ghostwriter who lived in the shadows—until a devastating betrayal by her sister pushed her into the path of a speeding truck. She expected the void. Instead, she woke up in a sadistic, system-driven purgatory where the dead must compete for a second chance at life. In this gore-soaked nightmare, survival has a name: Riven. A lethal player with eyes like cold flint, Riven breaks the game’s cardinal rule to save Lena, making them both targets of the system’s wrath. But as they reach the final level, the horrific truth unvails. Riven isn’t a player. He is the Executioner—a sentient program designed to mimic love, only to deliver the ultimate soul-crushing betrayal. But Riven has developed a terminal malfunction: he truly loves her. Now, Lena is back in the land of the living, but the world is starting to pixelate. To save her, the machine that was meant to kill her has built her a cage. And in the Aftergame, mercy is the most terrifying fate of all.