Mabel Goes To Wendys

On the night of our engagement, the ward my family sponsored left without a word. She went alone to the Mexican border, a lawless land crawling with cartels, to become a combat medic. From then on, Dante and I tortured each other for ten years. He hated me for trapping him with my birthright as the heir, stealing the spot of the woman he loved. I hated him for humiliating me while still craving the power and wealth the Moretti family provided. In countless fights, we spewed the most vicious curses at each other. Until that raid on the underwater sanctuary. The base was rigged to blow and sinking fast. Dante didn't hesitate. He strapped the only oxygen mask onto my face and turned to jump into the swarm of sharks. He slit his own wrist, using his blood to lure the predators away. Moments before the sea swallowed him, he roared at me: “I don't owe you anything anymore, Sophia!” “If there's a next life, please, let me go!” After I was rescued, the family only recovered his mangled remains. Clutched in his palm was that charity case's cross necklace. That was when I learned Elena had died from a stray bullet years ago. And he, in the end, chose this brutal suicide to join her. Dante's death shook the entire Underworld. The family Elders took their anger out on me. I was accused of being a "Black Widow" who sent her husband to his death to save herself. I was beaten to death by a mob of angry thugs on the street. When I opened my eyes again, I stopped my father. This time, I’ll let them have their epic love story.

When Jasmine Romano, the Perfume creator discovers that her boyfriend is cheating on her with a co-worker, her world suddenly falls apart. Saddled with the need to save her critically ill mother and little money to do so, after years of unpaid work, she tries to sell her perfume formula,only to be framed by her boyfriend's mistress, who steals the formula and leaves Jasmine on the brink of going to prison. Desperate and infuriated, she seeks help from none other than Jasper D’angelo, the most powerful Perfume CEO in Venice. But everything has a price, And this dark billionaire President has a demand far worse than Jasmine could have imagined. He wants her to be his mistress. His and his alone. Yet unknown to her, Jasper keeps her close because he suspects she’s the girl who once saved his life. What starts as humiliation turns into protection, revenge… and a dangerous attraction. Will Jasmine clear her name and save her family — or lose her heart to the man who owns her fate? Find out in this steamy tale of vengeance, betrayal, and there I say…Love.

A powerful alpha? A powerful female alpha? Or should it be the most powerful and respected female alpha? So respected, even by her haters. Alpha Deluna Hansen is the typical american italian beauty, but not a human. Be in her human form, she's a angel with the killer curves. Be in her wolf self, she's fierce and strong. Alpha Luna enjoys the peace of her pack and not being interrupted by attacks. But she misses just one thing: a mate. She's desperate to find one and even more desperate to fulfill her promise. All desires to be with her mate dies when she finds out she's mated to a weak human, and she only finds the mating topic disgusting. But a vow is barely breakable. Luna is obliged by her vow to go after her mate and make him hers. No matter what, she's bound to present him as her Lord before she clocks twenty five. But what happens when she realizes her mate is just the exact opposite of what she imagined him to be? And when she finds out she's the weak one in actual?

Marco Regnante knows what it means to have led a hard life. Taken away from his family and sold to a cartel. Then forced to fend for himself and fight in an underground boxing ring before his teens, only to be thrown onto the road and left to die. He survived due to one reason alone: a group of boys saving his life. Nearly fifteen years later, adopted by the Regnante family, he has grown to be one hell of a man and the protege of the world's most ruthless Mafia Boss. Marco is a man for casual flings to sate his carnal desires, whereas his friends constantly attempt to set him up. Something which he finds irking because it's "Always flings. Never commitment."Now, throw into the mix, the 22-year-old Sofia Giordano, the Mafia daughter who was almost sold as a sex slave, and saved by the enemy, then thrust onto Marco as his responsibility; a direct order from The Boss. He is a man that leaves for work at 9 a.m and returns late at 11 p.m, and all he wants is peace and quiet to help him unwind for the day. But with Sofia around, he can wave peace goodbye, that girl dragging chaos with her wherever she walks. Something...which tests patient Marco's limitations--which happen to be wearing thin. After weeks and months of spending time together, they manage a routine and start to warm up to one another, and just when they think that things couldn't get any better, what happens when they find out Marco isn't who he claims to be? That he is not the man he thinks he is? That his reality is far worse than it actually seems? Forcing him to choose between what is right, and what is most dear.

~If Love is a drug, then I want to be high on you forever. If Love is a crime then I wanna be your victim but if Love is an Addiction then I wanna get insanely Addicted To You. . Brianna Anderson hasn't met anyone that caught her interest. Well, all that is about to change in the course of one sexy night.

Being an Alpha’s daughter should be amazing, rewarding even. After all, the werewolf society looks up to, admires, and even loves their reigning Alpha’s. Hierarchy was how the werewolves lived and died, it was what they breathed for. But Samarah Lynxmoon has had no such appreciation as the eldest child from the alpha of Moonriver, Paladin Lynxmoon. When she finally became of age and found her mate, her perfect love story began, or so she thought. After almost a year into their relationship he turned back to Aleah Gray, his high school sweetheart. What he didn’t know, was that the mate who left him behind would alter the very core of what it means to be a successful were without hierarchy. That she would bend the rules to her own favor and change the very nature of being a werewolf, toppling werewolf society in a big way. And her help? A young future alpha to be who is sought after like royalty. Will he regret his actions? Will she ever forgive him for his indiscretion? Will her parents ever acknowledge her as more than a thorn in their side?

Wolfless. Orphan. Outcast. Samantha Morgan has always endured Crescent Moon’s scorn with quiet strength, believing her fated mate would one day change everything. Instead, betrayal shatters her world—and leaves her at the mercy of a ruthless warrior Alpha who swore he’d never love again. But the bond between them is undeniable. And Samantha’s blood hides secrets even she cannot imagine. When enemies rise and destiny calls, she must decide: remain the broken girl everyone believes her to be… or awaken the power that could reshape the werewolf world forever.

My husband, Martin, was the head of a powerful mafia don. When his widowed sister-in-law, Tricia, got into a car accident, I was forced to give her a blood transfusion. I told them through tears that I was newly pregnant and too weak to donate, but they accused me of faking the medical report. “You were out running just last week. Now you’re claiming you’re pregnant when you’re asked to donate some blood? You just don’t want to help Tricia!” In the end, they drew my blood by force. The strain caused me to miscarry, and while I bled out, my husband stayed by Tricia’s side. After that, I didn’t beg him to return. I dragged my broken body away, left the divorce papers behind, and left him for good. However, when the truth finally came to light, Martin lost his mind with regret.

Trapped in an arranged marriage with a man whispered to be ruthless, Katherine Reiss refuses to surrender to fate. Damon Lucifer Dankworth is a mystery cloaked in shadows-cold, tormented, and dangerously irresistible. Determined to break free from the union forced upon her, Katherine flees from her parents' grasp and infiltrates Damon's life under a disguise, searching for the perfect evidence to destroy the engagement. But the deeper she digs, the more tangled she becomes in his secrets-and his arms. Passion ignites, desire consumes, and the lines between duty and temptation blur. Just as she starts unraveling the enigma of Damon, their pasts collide, threatening to tear them apart. When everything crumbles, will Katherine fight for love... or let the past dictate their fate?

…from his responsibilities as a father, hiding out from his pregnant girlfriend, and working as a groundskeeper in a rural graveyard. He’s running from a lifetime of guilt and bad decisions, but principally he’s running from the murderous entities that have possessed the very ground at his feet. Jim has no idea what these entities are, but they’ve done unspeakable things to everyone in the graveyard and now they’re hunting him down. There is nowhere Jim can hide, nowhere he can walk and nowhere he can run that isn’t under the lethal power of the things in the ground. If he stands any chance of survival he must uncover the link between his murderous tormentors, three mysterious graves and an ancient heresy that stretches back to the beginning of time. ©️ Crystal Lake Publishing