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Calla Pierce has loved Miles Bennett, Blackridge High’s golden boy hockey captain for as long as she can remember. So when one reckless summer night finally gives her everything she thought she wanted, she mistakes it for the beginning of something real. She is wrong. By the end of summer, he calls it a fling. By morning, he is back with his perfect girlfriend and Calla is left with a secret that could ruin all of them. Then Ryder Monroe returns. The hockey team’s former power forward, the boy suspended after a violent incident that nearly destroyed Miles, the one everyone calls dangerous. No one expected him to be back at school, but here he is and closer to Calla than she ever imagined. Now she is stuck tutoring the one boy her best friend hates most, the one who watches her like he knows her, the one who doesn’t look at her like she is a second choice. Every challenge feels like a thrilling dare, every touch feels intentional, and every rumor about Ryder starts to feel less like truth and more like manipulation. Then suddenly, Miles wants her attention again, and the truth about last year’s incident is more complicated than anyone knows. Caught between the safe love she has chased for years and the dangerous connection she never saw coming, Calla must decide. Is love supposed to protect you, or ruin you in the best possible way?

On Christmas Day, eight months pregnant, I struggled through the kitchen,cooking for my husband and his secretary. When I finally sat down, hoping to taste a piece of turkey I didn’t even get during Thanksgiving, my husband shoved me aside like I was nothing. He slid the turkey in front of his secretary instead. “Alison,you’re already so fat. Stop eating. Let Daisy have it—she deserves to enjoy your cooking.” Daisy，chewing on the turkey I had painstakingly prepared, had the audacity to mock me under the guise of playing truth or dare with my child. “So, what do you think your mom looks like?” “Mommy looks like a fat pig on a farm!” “Her stretch marks? They’re like disgusting worms crawling all over her. Even Santa would run for his life!” Their laughter erupted like daggers piercing me from all sides. Humiliation and rage burned through me as my dignity was stripped bare. I demanded an apology from that vile woman, but my husband—my husband!—turned his cold, cruel face toward me and said, “Get out of here.” Pregnant, exhausted, and humiliated, I stood there in shock. Then I snapped. I grabbed the Christmas cake and turkey and threw them in the trash. I walked out without looking back. This wretched family doesn’t deserve a second of my effort or a single ounce of my love!

Ashanti martin is a twenty seven year old african american. She is independent, single and fiercely competitive at her job as an assistant at one of the most prestigious clothing firms in new York. She dreams of working her way out into the world of fashion and start her own fashion trend some day in the near future. The only problem to her perfectly laid out plan is the CEO of the company who tends to go crazy at times and then fire a bunch of people whenever he feels like it. It goes without saying that ashanti doesn't like the guy one bit, but he is the CEO and it's not like she could ever have any guts to talk back at him for his arrogant and obnoxious behavior. Find out what happens when said arrogant CEO crosses paths with the outspoken ashanti.

I was never supposed to be his bride, I was the mistake he couldn’t erase. Killian hated me for breathing and for simply existing. His eyes burned with anger every time they landed on me. There was so much hate and heat between us, I could barely breathe. Then there was Nolan, his brother. Quiet, but dangerous. He didn’t look at me like I was broken. He looked at me like he wanted to take everything I had—body and soul. I didn’t mean for this to happen. But guilt tastes a lot like desire when you’re starving for something real. And now I’m caught between two brothers…one who wants to hurt me, and one who already has. This isn’t just a love triangle. It’s a war. And I’m the weapon.

I thought getting a new foster brother would be weird. I didn’t expect him to look like he walked off a Netflix show—blue eyes, tattoos, and the personality of a brick wall. My little brother’s obsessed with him. My parents act like he’s made of glass. Me? I think Carmelo’s hiding something. And I plan to find out what.

Brie never believed in mates—especially not in the cold, ruthless Alpha Alex, her power-hungry mate. But fate shows her his true colors in the cruelest way possible. She walks in on him sleeping with one of the palace mais. Betrayed, humiliated, and determined to keep her honor as a warrior, Brie runs. The woods should have swallowed her whole. Instead, they threw her to the rogues. And just when death came close, three Alphas saved her. The Alpha triplets of the Obsidian Fang pack. They were dominant, fierce and strong. Everything she had been warned to fear… yet everything her body ignited for. Now, Brie finds herself breaking every rule she swore to live by. Because in their arms, claiming feels like craving. And craving feels like surrender. And surrender… feels like destiny

Sofia believed that love meant sacrifice. She gave her heart, her body, and even her future to the man she married. But the day she gave birth—bleeding, terrified, begging for help—she realized love was never supposed to hurt like this. Her baby was taken. Her cries were ignored. Her body felt like it was dying, and the only person who was supposed to protect her stood across the room… with another woman in his arms. Her mother-in-law tried to strangle her. Her husband told her to pack up or find her own way home—like she was nothing. But Sofia isn’t done. Not yet. She may be broken. She may be grieving. But she’s still breathing. And now, she has nothing left to lose.

The love that I knew wasn't like the ones written in a book. It wasn't beautiful and magical. It doesn't bring butterflies in my stomach and it doesn't make me feel special. It doesn't feel like home, I do not feel secure. It does not make me feel safe and worthy. The love that I experience doesn't feel like love. I'm not really sure if it is love because it made me doubt, insecure and made me feel unloved. And all I experienced was pain. No it was torture. To see him love someone else when all I could do is to love him and let him love her. Now I don't know if I could ever love someone else, after him.

Tonight, we will claim you as our mate,” “Are y'all crazy? It's one at a time, now get in line boys.” The domineering triplet Lycan princes had never imagined they would meet a woman like Isabella Green, a She-Wolf with many secrets. Women fell at their feet in pathetic, begging heaps but she was nothing like that. This woman who was supposed to be nothing but an unknowing sacrifice to the moon goddess taunted them…tested them making their deeply rooted desires to claim her for themselves would overwhelm every fiber of their being entangling all of them in a web of passionate obsession as they scramble for her affections. Will Isabella be able to open her heart and heal from her past betrayals or will her thirst for revenge consume everything in its wake? “Be careful, I’m like a reckless flame…” “Then burn us.”

"Do you enjoy this? Ignoring me like I don’t exist? Do you have any idea how humiliating this feels, waiting for you like some fool?" After three years of a cold, loveless marriage, Selene Henderson finally gathers the courage to walk away from her distant billionaire husband, Sebastian Kingsley. She's ready to file for divorce... until a tragic accident changes everything. When Sebastian wakes up with no memory of the woman he once pushed away, Selene finds herself trapped in a marriage she was desperate to escape—this time with a man who suddenly looks at her like she's his whole world. But can love born from broken memories survive the truth of their painful past? Or will the secrets she’s been hiding destroy them all over again?