Next Summer Gravity Falls 2024 Novels & Stories

"Marianne, it's finally time for you to pay me back what you owe me." the cold man sitting on the sofa said to me. "Please Sir, a little more time is what I ask for, I'll get your money back as soon as possible." I pleaded tearfully. "You don't need to pay money." he smiled and looked at the man standing beside him. The man moved closer and placed a neatly fold brown envelope on my palm. "We have filled in for you, today you'll be going to sign in as Xander's next mistress in Xander's mansion and what you'll have to do there is just simple." the evil man started. I listened attentively even though I was almost shitting on myself. "Do everything you can to make sure Mr Xander Knox falls for you, then break his heart" My heart stopped squeezed immediately he said the word. How was I supposed to make a cold man like Xander Knox fall for me?

My mom, Susan, had a habit of sending me to get her shopping. However, she would always leave out a zero when paying me back what was owed, blaming on her poor eyesight. I never minded. In fact, I would just cover the cost without another word. Then, Summer, my sister, had to throw shade. “Mom sends you money whenever she wants something. You never show us the actual costs, though. I bet you’re making a nice little profit off Mom behind our backs.” Susan smiled and didn’t even bother to defend me, as if confirming Summer’s accusations. My heart sank. Over the years, I had bought her things from major appliances to the smallest groceries, and each time, the payment she sent was short. Susan would just brush the whole thing off by saying, “Oh, my eyes aren’t what they used to be. My bad.” I had poured hundreds of thousands into her expenses, only to end up with a reputation as a thief who cheated her own family. When Susan sent me money for the New Year’s Eve catering, I simply booked food that fit the budget she paid for.

I brought home eighty dollars’ worth of durian. When my sister-in-law, Lily Ward, saw me, she clutched her stomach and screamed from the couch. “Ugh, my stomach! Summer, you know I can’t stand that smell. Are you trying to suffocate my baby?” Before I could even steady myself, my mother, Rosemary Ward, slapped me across the face. It made me see how much my mother favored my younger brother, Jasper Ward. When we were children, she always reminded me that he was younger and told me to give him a pass. I thought things might change after he grew up and got married. Instead, her favoritism only got worse. “Summer, you jinx! Hurry up and sign over your apartment to Jas to make up for this!” Watching Jasper pull out a property transfer agreement, I covered my swollen cheek and smiled. So, this whole act was just to get the apartment I had bought. “Sure.” They were delighted to see me agree readily. However, they failed to consider one thing. I might have willingly given it away, but I wondered if any of them had the nerve to take it.

In the summer of 1990, Rachel Weber spent a week down on the Florida coast, soaking up the sun's rays while she waited for her life to begin. It was there that she met Dean Sherman, a handsome, muscular soldier with crystal blue eyes. The two spent a week together full of champagne kisses that only ended when Operation Desert Storm forced Dean to choose between his duty and his love. He chose duty. Twenty years later, Rachel figured it was just summer love, but she never forgot those eyes. As personal assistant to powerful billionaire Jack Saunders, she never expected Dean to walk into her office after being hired as Jack's personal bodyguard. Even though she had spent the last two decades trying to forget Dean, she found herself falling for him once again. When fate forced both Rachel and Dean to choose yet again between love and duty, Rachel had to decide between the man she had always loved and the family that had become her life. She knew she couldn't have both, but she knew she wouldn't be happy with just one. Would she choose love, or be forever haunted by the memory of those Champagne Kisses?

WARNING‼️: This is no sweet love story. It's a raw, dark. This is obsession, Power, Control, Pain,and the kind of pleasure that ruins you for anyone else. "Ten million for a woman who doesn’t know her worth—until he shows her just how much it costs to please him." Aria was just looking for her sister, Instead, she ended up bound, blindfolded, and sold at a secret black-market auction. But Luciano De Rossi isn’t just a collector of fine things, he's the devil, and Aria is his newest obsession and his collateral for her sister’s debt. She’s a virgin, a fighter, a woman who swears she’ll never beg. He’s a man who loves to hear her scream and for the next ninety days, she belongs to him. Every inch of her. Every breath. Every orgasm. Whether she likes it… or not. But the deeper she falls into Lucian’s dangerous world of secrets and sin, the more her hate turns to need, and the more he burns to break her completely.

Cedric McKinley is an alpha werewolf who has long interacted with humans. But he has a problem because his powers are unpredictable. Cedric often transforms subconsciously; he needs to discover Luna, the source of his powers, and he must have children soon because he will also be declared the next alpha king. Cedric had little problem finding a candidate for a Luna, but he needed a woman who had excellent genetics for his future offspring. Sarah Denali, his distant cousin and childhood friend, is a candidate for another werewolf, but he is still hesitant since family concerns prohibit them from being together. Cedric meets Selena, an orphaned woman with a broken heart, by chance. When Cedric is waiting for human candidate Luna, Selena walks in and rapes him. Selena does this while inebriated because she wants to revenge on Daniel, her cheating lover. Cedric is drawn to Selena and enjoys everything she does. He discovers Selena's origins, who is a descendant of elves granted a gift directly from the Moon Goddess. Selena just realized that the man she slept with was not Daniel. Selena apologizes for her mistake, and now she is trapped by her silliness. Selena and Cedric can't stay away from each other. Cedric is so overprotective that Selena has unwittingly turned into Luna. Selena doesn't know it because she feels imprisoned by a strong and passionate man. Selena finally discovers who Cedric is when the trouble with the Denali Clan begins and the vampire army forms. As chaos ensues, Selena falls in love with Cedric, making him strengthen his alpha powers to become the next king.

River Davis was a confident girl with shy tendencies, who wanted to enjoy her last summer before going to college at Princeton in the fall. Jace Durand a young artist on the rise from London, at the age of 19, didn’t know what hit him when he saw the most beautiful woman he’d ever seen. Love and happiness is all they knew for three long months, until a plane crash and 4 years apart changed everything.

Kate Hayes was never meant to stand at the altar. But in a single moment, her life is turned completely upside down. One minute she is struggling to keep her life together, trying to survive in a world that has never been kind to her. The next, she finds herself standing in a wedding hall filled with powerful people, whispers spreading through the crowd as every pair of eyes suddenly turns toward her. And before she can even understand what is happening, she becomes Mrs. Aiden Wolf. Aiden Wolf is not a man anyone dares to challenge. Cold, powerful, and dangerously unpredictable, he is the billionaire whose name alone is enough to silence a room. The world sees him as untouchable—a man who always gets what he wants. And now, for reasons Kate cannot understand, he wants her. Their marriage is supposed to be simple. Just an arrangement between two strangers forced into the same life. No emotions. No questions. No unnecessary complications. At least, that is what Kate tells herself. But living under the same roof as Aiden Wolf is nothing like she imagined. Behind the walls of his luxurious mansion lies a world filled with secrets, tension, and a man whose true intentions remain impossible to read. One moment he treats her like nothing more than a stranger tied to him by circumstance. The next, he watches her with an intensity that makes her heart race for reasons she cannot explain. The deeper Kate falls into Aiden’s dangerous world of wealth and power, the more she begins to realize something unsettling. Because the closer she gets to the truth, the more one terrifying question refuses to leave her mind. If this marriage was never meant to happen… Then why did Aiden Wolf choose her?

"I would protect you against every odd," he stated in the midst of an uphill battle. He gazed at me lovingly, like if he wasn't about to die. Summer Hudson's life had been as brilliant as the stars until he met Blaze, a werewolf hunting for a Luna and to become the alpha of his tribe. Will their love be enough to restore the balance of power between humans and werewolves? But what if his entire pack was plotting against her? What would he willing to give up for her?

Margaret vowed to be with her husband until death parted them. However, her aspirations to win his affection crumbled when he impassively dropped a bomb one summer afternoon. He wanted a divorce. This convinced her that their marriage was futureless. She was ready to move on. With her brother's mischievous behavior and determination to put her ex-husband in place, he announced that she was single and ready to mingle. The reason for divorce? "Ex-husband was a narcissist and couldn't keep his thing in his pants."