laces by tempi lark

My name is Rayna Giancarlo and I’m many things. I’m an abused daughter, the school ridicule, the abused fiancée, the vengeful daughter, the bitter niece, the runaway wife. But not for much longer. I won’t always be a victim. Soon I’ll rise up from the flames like a Phoenix and then I’ll burn everyone who had ever wronged me to ashes.

Betrayal. Murder. A heart-wrenching escape to New York City. Eloise's decision to leave her hometown of Blue Creek leads her to find a passionate love with charming heir Stanley Bradshaw. But a shocking revelation forces her back to her small town, where buried secrets threaten everything she's built. As she unravels the truth about her best friend's death, Eloise must choose: embrace the love she's found or confront a powerful family who may not accept her past. Can Eloise find love and justice, or will the sins of her past destroy her future?

Rafael DeLuca is a man forged in blood and betrayal. Once the rightful heir to a powerful mafia empire, he lost everything when his family was slaughtered in an act of treachery. For years, he rebuilt his power from the shadows, rising as the most feared mafia strategist in the underworld. Now, the time for vengeance has come, and his enemy’s greatest weakness is within his grasp—Sophia Romano. Sophia has spent her life in a gilded cage, unaware of the sins that stain her last name. Sheltered and untouched by the violent world her father commands, she believes she is destined for an ordinary life. But when she is kidnapped by a man as dangerous as he is captivating, her world shatters. Rafael is her captor, her tormentor, and her only protector in a world far darker than she ever imagined. What begins as a calculated act of revenge soon turns into something Rafael never anticipated—obsession. Sophia’s innocence should make her easy to break, yet her quiet defiance ignites something primal within him. He tells himself she is only a pawn, a means to an end, but with every glance, every forbidden touch, she threatens to unravel his carefully crafted plans. As hidden truths come to light and past betrayals resurface, Rafael is forced to make an impossible choice: will he sacrifice the one woman who has become his greatest weakness, or will he forsake his vengeance for a love that could destroy them both? In a world where love is as deadly as betrayal, Rafael and Sophia will have to decide—will their obsession ruin them, or will it be the only thing that saves them?

Vincenzo doesn't forgive. He doesn't forget. And he never, ever loses. When you spill Mancini blood, payment comes due—with interest. Stacy Salvatore should have been an easy target. The daughter of the man who slaughtered his mother and tried to burn his family empire to ash. His perfect revenge, gift-wrapped and delivered to his doorstep. He had it all planned out: take everything from her, break her spirit, and kill her. What he didn't plan for was her backbone of steel and eyes that burn with the same ruthless determination as his own. She's no cowering captive. She's a storm wrapped in human skin, fighting him with every breath, challenging the code he's lived by since childhood. With each clash between them, the lines blur. Enemy. Obsession. Addiction. Her defiance becomes the only thing that makes him feel alive, and the vengeance he's chased for years might just start tasting like ash in his mouth. But blood debt must be paid. In full.

Iris Patricia Denvier didnt realize that her life was changed when she walked up to a gigantic engagement party of two tycoon heirs in this country, Alexander Roman Browning and Jullianne Ruthfold. But that night, she met the handsome stranger–Alexander Roman Browning, and her fate was intertwined and overlapped between the turmoil of this powerful family's feud. Can Iris untangle herself amidst the high tension between those two families when Alexander himself does not want to let Iris go?

Karina Magnolia found herself pregnant with a child from a foreign man whom she met only to fulfill her prestige due to her ignorance of the world of sex. Little did she know, the child she's carrying is from an Alpha Werewolf who also disguises as a human and holds a position as her superior at work. Upon finding out that Karina is carrying his child, Viggo Conri immediately tries his best to approach Karina. Especially since Viggo is trying to revive the Werewolf Kingdom that has been destroyed for hundreds of years. Will Viggo succeed in making Karina be by his side and revive the Werewolf Kingdom that has fallen for hundreds of years?

Wolfless, with her Alpha father on his death bed, Emily found herself betrayed by her ex-boyfriend and her Stepmother. But then Emily has a one-night stand with a stranger, she finds out he is a powerful werewolf who wants Emily for his mate...and revenge on someone they both have scores to settle with.

“Go down on your knees and show me you can be a good little student for me.” My heart rate and my breathing became labored. “N-now?” I stuttered. “Class is about to start.” Damon smirked, uncaring that we could get caught. “I guess you’d have to be fast then.” Dahlia Carrington cuts off her parents and runs away from home and she has to survive somehow and pay for her education herself. When she isn’t granted a student loan because of her rich background, she has to resort to other means to get herself through school, which lands her in a complicated relationship with her professor. Damon Valentino knows any kind of sexual relationship with his twenty year old student is immoral, but he can’t help himself, not after having a taste of her. BOOK TWO IN THE VALENTINO SERIES CAN BE READ AS A STANDALONE AND DOES NOT CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR THE FIRST BOOK

Elizabeth Ashley is a normal 25 years old woman, she works as an operational employee at the biggest retail company in California. She has one big enemy and he is one of her bosses, who also stole her first kiss on new year's eve. Logan Bruggman is a single dad and works as a high managerial employee of one of the biggest retail companies in California, his expertise is anything related to the computer. He met Beth, almost every month when the woman followed the monthly training at the headquarters, he fell for her. Yet... The lady is playing hard to get...so it is only normal, as a man like him to get anything he wants. He decided to blackmailed her, to make Beth his wife. ### NB. It will be updated daily!!

Troubled and distressed that her parents wanted her to marry someone she doesn't even know, Dalmi caught herself swimming on the sea of liquors. She thought of one thing: To breach her parents' order by following her peers' prank: Get impregnated by the perilous, snobbish man of her fallen daydreams, Casimir Thompson. It was insane. He couldn't even lay his eyes on her and it was beyond impossible. But Casimir was the only man she wanted. She swore to herself that she'd rather get impregnated with someone she desired rather than a stranger. Will she be able to ran away from her ill-fated marriage? Will this prank be successful or will it gone wrong?