Laurie King Novels

Trained since childhood to be nothing but a weapon, Esme has lived under her father’s harsh hand. Poison runs in her veins, bruises mark her skin, and every lesson ends with a reminder; kill the king, or her mother dies. Sent into the werewolf palace as a kitchen maid, she waits for her moment, vial and blade hidden beneath her apron. But nothing in her father’s drills prepared her for King Ardon. The first time their eyes lock, something raw and dangerous stirs inside her, a pull she doesn’t understand and cannot control. Each day she spends in his halls, each command spoken in that steady voice, makes her mission harder to carry out. The court whispers. Enemies circle and Lady Selene sharpens her claws, determined to claim the crown by Ardon’s side. And Esme, trapped between loyalty to the man who raised her and the strange fire rising within her, stands on the edge of a truth she’s not ready to face. She was sent to kill the king, but she may be fated to love him.

My father died, leaving me a shattered empire and a death sentence. To save my family, I offered myself to the one man powerful enough to protect us. Luca Marino. The Mafia king everyone fears. Our marriage is a contract, not a love story. Power for him. Protection for me. But Luca doesn’t play fair. He kisses like a threat and touches like a promise. And every time I think I’ve figured him out, he ruins me all over again. I'm playing a dangerous game. And I’m falling for the most dangerous man alive.

Travis Huxley, known as the "Deadly Man", is a twenty-year-old devilishly handsome mafia king. He is a strikingly attractive, aggressive, and fearless leader. He has the looks, the money, and every girl swooning over him. His life has only one goal: to avenge his family's ruin and the death of his lovely woman. Harper Varlice is a twenty-year-old war freak bitch. She lives with a wealthy family as a black sheep daughter because of her bad attitude. Who would have thought that she was a well-known Assassin? No one knows about her true identity and she had long forgotten being an Assassin to finally forget her dark past. When Harper finds out that her parents want her to marry a man she didn't know, she plans to run away from them to escape and live a peaceful life like what she wanted in the first place. To make sure that they could no longer find her, she thought of pretending to be a man. Two people with the darkness inside. They never believed in happy endings, because they've been told that it doesn't exist in people like them. What will happen when Harper with a history of being an Assassin gets involved with the leader of the biggest mafia king? Is it possible for them to feel love for each other or will they end up killing each other?

Marsai was the only werewolf that can’t shift. After the death of her parents, she is taken to the pack house as a servant where she is tortured and used as a punching bag. During the annual Omega auction in her pack, she is being auctioned off to a group of Alphas. She didn’t expect Alpha Asher, the evil and sick lycan king who is said to have a harem, to bid the highest and buy her. When Alpha Asher finds out she is his mate, will be be able to resist the mate bond even though she didn’t have a wolf, or will he reject her like he did to his past mates? Read to find out.

He came into her life on a one-night stand, forever changing her fate. Kara was an ordinary girl, ostracized from the rest of society just because she was an Omega. The Northern Capital Pack was a cruel place for such. She was mistreated until a night of despair when she got entangled with the most powerful and cold-hearted Lycan king ever known, ruling over the Western Bridge Pack. She thought it was supposed to be a one-time thing, and so she left the following morning. However, the Lycan King of the Western Bridge Pack isn't the type to walk away from. When he found and captured her, she was already pregnant for him, which she hid, but for how long? Now, her destiny must change. She thought it was all about being the Lycan king's Luna, as she was his mate, but there's more mystery: the truth about the Lycan king's cold heart and the future of her own life when new dangers arrive, threatening her babies.

“There is no loophole for a contract signed with blood!” She announced and even with the darkness in her eyes, I knew that I had let her go once, but I wasn't ever going to let her leave my side, even if my blood is involved. Laura thought that she had met the love of her life and finally got married to him, abandoning her pack and all of her responsibilities but her world suddenly swirl around when her husband met his mate and she was tossed around as a side piece. Not able to endure the pain and suffering from him any longer, Laura had to take a bold decision and it did not matter to her even if it involved a contract made by blood.

Samara Jones had no idea that the supernatural world existed...that is until the day she was kidnapped on her way home from work one day and auctioned away at a Black Markey Auction. Things become worse when she is bought by none other than the Vampire King himself and is made to be his human slave. Will Samara find a way to get back to her human life before? Or will the lust she feels for the steamy Vampire King of old seduce her enough to stay in a world she knows nothing about?

She was the only thing he desired, his redemption and key to the throne. Buying a weak member of a pack was the least of his plan but to save his legacy, he was going to cage her forever but what happens when she's not weak?

The greatest of thieves of all times, the Phoenix, was impossible to track, let alone be seen by anyone but this time she stole something that was going to cost her life. She stole the Kings heart. And there is only one punishment for betraying the Apha King, Death. She wasn't supposed to be at the royal ball. She wasn't supposed to meet the Werewolf King. And she wasn't supposed to spend a night with him, pretending to be someone who she was not. His mate, Emerald. .But she did, and now she had to face the consequences. In a Kingdom where playing with knives was forbidden, she dared to play with the Kings heart. And now he is not going to stop... till he has destroyed her and made her pay for her betrayal. “ I will avenge each and every second of your life, you pretended to be my mate...you filthy rogue.Every second of it, till you will beg me for your death."-Zachary... "I will survive each and every act of torture you bestow upon me my Alpha King."" Each and every one of it, till your heart gets tired of hating me to finally forgive me."-Eirene

The world used to be at Katniss Valenciaga's feet. She was a princess, an Alpha King's daughter. Beauty, intelligence, wealth, power, and a gorgeous mate, she had it all. Although she was born without a wolf and there were people who secretly hated her for it, she didn't care as long as she was loved by the people who mattered to her. But Katniss' world had turned upside down on the day of her wedding. Her father was betrayed by his subordinates and was accused of treason. Their entire clan had to face the punishment. Her father sacrificed his life to help her escape while her mother and brothers were caught and will soon be executed. Her groom, friends, and the people she trusted all turned their backs on her. Out of desperation, Katniss went to the forbidden tower where the strongest hybrid Blade Marshall lived. He was imprisoned there by the Mages for his devious acts. Others even referred to him as the 'Devil King'. They said there was no one more manipulative and more vicious than him. Only a desperate person would seek for a devil. And Katniss was that person. As devious as they say Blade was, he was her only salvation. She came to the tower and freed him. She sold her blood, body, and soul to him in exchange of her family's safety and of the revenge she was planning. With Blade's help, Katniss was on the verge of succeeding when she suddenly encountered the biggest hindrance that could change the rules of the game completely: she had fallen in love with the devil. With her heart now on the line, could she still emerge victorious?