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Emma Caldwell's ordinary life as a librarian in Willow Creek is turned upside down when she receives an enigmatic invitation to the reading of a stranger's will at Haverstone Manor. What begins as an inexplicable summons quickly spirals into a labyrinth of secrets, danger, and intrigue. As Emma delves deeper into the manor's mysteries, she discovers she's not the only one with a stake in its secrets. Fellow guests, each with shadowy motives, vie for a piece of the late Lord Haverstone's enigmatic legacy. Amid ancient symbols, cryptic maps, and peculiar artifacts, Emma uncovers the existence of a machine designed to manipulate time itself. Guided by clues left by the deceased lord, Emma must navigate a gothic maze of shifting alliances, hidden chambers, and eerie warnings. Her companions, including a sardonic teenager and a glamorous but cunning relative of Haverstone, are as unpredictable as the dangers lurking in the shadows. When betrayals come to light and an old foe reveals their true intentions, Emma finds herself the reluctant guardian of a power that could reshape existence—or destroy it. As the stakes rise, she must unravel the truth about Haverstone’s experiments and decide whom she can trust, all while racing to prevent the manor’s secrets from falling into the wrong hands. Blending gothic suspense, unexpected humor, and thrilling twists, "Haverstone's Legacy" is a gripping tale of mystery and courage, where every choice could mean the difference between salvation and catastrophe.

After I am diagnosed with stomach cancer, I ask for some money to buy medicine. I don't want to be in excruciating pain when I die. My three elder brothers rush into the ICU. Andy Lewis—my eldest brother—slaps me hard across my face. He scolds me for ruining his beloved younger sister, Summer Lewis' coming-of-age party. My second brother, Sherman Lewis, calls me a liar. He accuses me of pretending to be sick to swindle money from them. Jimmy Lewis, who is my third brother, calls me useless. He tells me that I deserve to die. My parents, Kenneth Lewis and Autumn Farrow, don't believe that I'm sick. They pin me with looks of contempt and ridicule. "You still haven't stopped that lying habit of yours even though you're all grown up. You even learned how to blackmail us with your death. "If you want to die, do it sooner. It'll spare us from being disgusted when we're forced to look at you day in and day out." I end up dying on the first day of the New Year. Before I breathe my last breath, I send a message to the family group chat. My entire family goes crazy after reading it.

At the age of Twenty two, Sophia Romanov wanted nothing but a complete family. Her mother leaving them for another family at a tender age.. didn't do them any good. But just one night..changed everything. The little family she had began to bring together was torn away by her fucking Master. Her father sold her out! ~••~ 'You're a fucking liar. My father never lets anyone on this floor. No matter who you are, he doesn't let anyone on this fucking floor.' I glared at my phone. Oh how I wanted to strangle his neck and kill him. I could still hear the comment on my pajamas. His fucking deep voice that no one could actually forget. 'Well, I'm not just anyone sweetie. How would you feel if I were to tell you that...your father could give you up with just a word from me." He typed. I glared at the sentence, reading every word with pure distaste. 'Who are you? God? Lucifer? Go rear ducks or shit fucking lullabies, stronzo. You're not even a man such as L'Angelo.' I scoffed, wishing there was a way I'd record it and let him hear it. "Oh, pardon me sweetie..where are manners.' He typed again. 'They call me L'Angelo Morte.' L'Angelo! #The first book of the Fulleta series #Ivy

This is a story of hurt , betrayal and going on a journey to find where you truly belong. ................. Living a life of hell in her birth pack, Serenity leaves after getting sick of being humiliated and tormented for years. When her mate rejects her in front of her pack and his, she finally decides to leave the life of abuse behind. Becoming a Rouge then finding a pack that accepts her, she starts to find herself and learns who she was always meant to be. With the help of new friends and an unexpected person who she never thought would help, she finds out that the life she knew is not true. That the lies of people can change her life forever. But with old enemies and new trying to find her and a fight coming that she needs to help prevent from becoming a supernatural war. Serenity needs to find out who she can and can't trust before it's to late. ****************** TRIGGER WARNING:THERE IS MENTION, TALK AND SCENES OF PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND VERBAL ABUSE. IF YOU HAVE A TRIGGER TO THESE SITUATIONS PLEASE DON'T READ THIS BOOK. THERE IS ALSO COURSE LANGUAGE AND SEXUAL SCENES IN THIS BOOK. This is my first story that I have written. All characters and places are all my intellectual property. While something's may have similarities to real life people or places, this is just coincidence or I have used real places in my story and the rest is my intellectual property. Thank you for reading and supporting my book.

Naomi spent her summer reading books and planning how she will stay invisible so she can finish off her last year of high school drama-free. But all those plans go down the drain when an unexpected Asian family of a widowed mother and her teenage son moves in across the street. Even though Naomi tries to keep her distance from Hero so he doesn't find out about her heart disease, he seems to have taken a liking to her. Naomi's cousin Riley had called dibs on Hero but his interest lies elsewhere so she often blames Naomi for trying to steal Hero. Most of the girls at school fawn over Hero because of his good looks and height which spell problems for Naomi since he keeps hanging around her. The more Naomi tries to stay away from Hero the larger her curiosity grows and even though Hero has secrets of his own to protect from Naomi's prying eyes he can't stop himself from wanting to know more about her. The two try to deny their feelings to try and protect their secrets but jealousy starts to show its face when Josh asks Naomi on a date and Hero hooks up with a random girl at a party in retaliation. Who will break first? And spill their secrets?

WARNING: Some chapters contained hot scene/bed scene. Please be mindful that 17 below is not suitable for reading those. Read at your own risk. One-night-stand changes everything. Dahil sa kalasingan nina Rosalie at Jervis, hindi sinasadya ng kanilang katawan na makipag-laro sa isang lugar. It was a big mistake. There are best friends. But after that, they agreed that they could touch each other. However, Rosalie loves his second boy’s best friend ever since she was eight and Harvick was eleven. She couldn’t find her way kung paano siya mapansin ni Harvick. Not until Jervis confesses that he loves Rosalie. Rosalie refuses and rejects him because Rosalie loves Harvick ever since they were kids. Ngunit isang malaking pagsisisi para kay Rosalie na i-reject ang kanyang unang naging kaibigan sapagkat palagi itong tumatakbo sa kanyang isipan. Hindi niya maintindihan ang kanyang nararamdaman at naguguluhan siya sa kanyang dalawang kaibigan. Not until tragic happened, hindi lubos maisip ni Rosalie ang kanyang nalaman. Sino kaya ang kanyang pipiliin sa dalawa? Si Jervis ba na parating nandiyan para sa kanya? O ang kanyang pinapangarap na lalaki simula pa n’ong mga batang paslit pa sila?

Danger, that's what he is. But I can’t stop wanting him. I want him to tie me up and use me however he wants. I want him to groan my name while he's inside me. ***** Faith is a preacher’s daughter who hasn’t known a man. On her wedding day, she looks forward to losing her virginity to the boy her father had personally hand-picked for her. But just when she's about to say I do, Ace—the city’s most dangerous man crashes the wedding. He steals her and takes her to his mansion. Faith couldn't hate him more than she already does. But for some reason, her body wants him. He keeps her in his bedroom and makes her his slave. When she attempts to contact her husband, she realizes that Matthew isn't even looking for her. In fact, he's pleased that she's out of his way. Realizing that she's all alone, Faith submits to Ace. With his help, she gets revenge on all those who caused her pain. But what happens when she falls in love with him and gets caught in the crossfire between him and his enemies? CONTENT WARNING (18+) This is a romance book, as such, it contains explicit sex scenes and other hardcore content. Happy reading!

Abigail is a human, whom dreamt about having a fairy tale life, she didn’t want a man in her life, she hated men, she didn’t want to be the type that was tie down by a man, neither did she believe in love. All she wanted was a child, she wanted to be a single mother. Damian is a werewolf, a species he was force to become, after his encounter with a mysterious werewolf, he was ruthless but loving, every full moon he was forced to turn into a wolf, not having control of what he do or people he kills. All he wanted was to live a human life and fall in love. They were two different species, a human and a werewolf. Abigail went to a bar in search of a man to have a one night stand with, she wanted a man to get her pregnant, so she could be the single mother she always wanted to be. As faith could have it, she bumped into Damian, and both of them had a one nightstand, unknown to her, that the person she had a one night stand with wasn’t a human, but a werewolf. When she found out she was pregnant, she took a flight and left the country. What will happen when she finds out that the child growing in her womb isn’t human? What will happen when faith brings two of them (Abigail and Damian) back together? Find out by reading….

When desperate times call for desperate choices, 23-year-old Izora Draven does the unthinkable: she signs a legal agreement without reading it, All she wanted was a job to help pay for her mother’s life-saving surgery. What she got instead… was a husband. she doesn’t know that her uncle Benedict Eryx accidentally handed her a marriage contract… Not just any husband Kaiser Eirian, the cold, calculating mafia boss with a reputation that makes grown men tremble. And thanks to a cruel twist of paperwork and power, she’s now legally bound to him. Izora’s world shatters overnight. Thrust into a world of dark luxury, secrets, and deadly alliances, she’s forced to navigate a life she never chose with a man she doesn’t trust, in a marriage she never intended. But as Kaiser makes it clear that this marriage isn’t just legal it’s binding Izora learns there are no easy escapes from his world. And maybe… no safe way out of his arms, either. While she fights to reclaim her freedom, forces around her tighten their grip. Kaiser’s ex-fiancée wants her gone. Benedict hides more than guilt. And as tensions rise, Izora begins to unravel a dangerous truth: nothing in this marriage was an accident. In a war of power, pride, and passion, Izora must decide will she become the pawn everyone expects her to be, or the queen no one saw coming?

*Book 4* Isolde's life was full of love and joy. She was set to be High Priestess of the makkari, but everything changed in a single night when she lost everything at the hands of someone she thought she could trust. For centuries she has been on the run, helping the supernatural community under the cloak of anonymity while she works to clear her name and save the very people after her, from destruction. Enemies are closing in, but an unexpected complication befalls her when she realises she's been fated to someone who wants her species exterminated. After all, an evil chance seldom comes alone. A Queen Among Darkness is the fourth book in the Queen Among series. Each story is set up in the previous book, so reading the books in order is recommended. Here are the books in the series: A Queen Among Alphas - Book 1 Bite-Size Luna - A Queen Among Alphas Prequel A Queen Among Snakes - Book 2 Runaway Empress - A Queen Among Snakes Prequel A Queen Among Blood - Book 3 Whole Again - A Queen Among Alpha's spin-off A Queen Among Darkness - Book 4 Dark Invocation - A Queen Among Darkness spin-off A Queen Among Tides - Book 5 Valor, Virtue, and Verve - A Queen Among Tides Prequel Spin-off A Queen Among Gods - Book 6 A Queen Among Tempests - Book 7