Palm Beach State Library Novels & Stories

Rowan Nightshade slapped me in front of his friends, his guards, and the girl he had been protecting for months. The room went dead silent. Then someone whispered, “She deserved it.” For nine years, I had loved Rowan like he was my fate. I endured his coldness, his broken promises, and every time he left me standing alone because another girl needed him more. I kept telling myself it would get better. Rowan was my promised mate. Sooner or later, he would choose me first. But when his palm landed across my face, something inside me finally broke. Rowan thought I would cry, apologize, and forgive him like I always did. Instead, I walked out of the hall, deleted every way to contact him, and told both our packs the promised-mate agreement was over before sunrise. No one believed I would really leave. Until Rowan came to my dorm that night, his eyes red and his voice shaking. “Why, Serena? Just because of one slap?” I looked at the boy I had loved since childhood. Then I smiled. “Yes,” I said. “Because of that slap.”

  "There is no escape for you. I have waited a long time for you,mate. I will not let you go this time." I gasped and placed my palm over my heart, doubling over. I felt it. Strong and unbreakable, a cord that connected our bodies, minds and souls to each other's. It reached out, connecting me to him, over time, over space, over realms. I felt his power fuse with mine and cuddle around my ice, making me warm. Fire to my ice. Ice to his fire. I didn't need to see him to know it was him. My dragon growled again with mixed emotions coursing through her. I joined in with a snarl and lifted my head, anger of a woman and beast merging into something cataclysmic.      I thrummed my fingers in the air and I raised my head. Our eyes met and I resisted the urge to double over at the sensation in my chest. With Fae vision, he looked even more gorgeous than any being should be. So sensual. So dark. So powerful. My mate. I searched his turquoise depths for answers, hoping I was wrong, but they said it all. He was my mate. And he'd hurt me. I'll kill him.

I was the top bounty thief in the organization. The best they had. After turning in my final score, I announced on the spot that I was done for good. Then, I stood in my studio, blending paint. A single photograph was pinned to the wall before me. Black Viper filled the doorway, the light behind him casting his face in shadow. "What's it like," he asked quietly, "pretending to be an artist?" He stepped further inside. "Does paint smell better than blood?" I placed the palette knife down and wiped my hands slowly. "I'm done. I walked away." "Old Fox didn't approve of it." "That's not my concern." Black Viper crossed the room and tapped the old photograph on the wall. "Are you certain?" I did not want to look. I told myself not to. However, my gaze shifted anyway. A young boy stared back from the photo. "The blind kid?" I had spent ten years searching for him. "Where is he?" I moved toward the wall, reaching to rip the picture down. "One last job," Black Viper said, pressing his palm against the photo. My hand stopped in midair. "What's the target?" "The final lot at next month's auction that the Gilbert Group will be holding. "It's called Mermaid's Tear."

A woman who has achieved success on her own who was in love with a man who was humble and kind. They built their empire together and went from rags to riches. After being married for 7 years and being in a relationship for 10 years, she unexpectedly catches him with her sister who she had been doting on and loved since she was born. She was betrayed by the people she loved the most. Her sister was married to a man who owned the whole of the state at his finger-tips and was known to be the most powerful man in New York city. He was betrayed by the person who owned his world. This is a story of betrayal, heartache, love and redemption. This is a story of four people who thought they had a perfect life but have been living a lie for years. This is a story of broken hearts and revenge.

It was a perilous time when the fittest survived. Alphas were usurped and Packs were overthrown by the powerful. Vera was thrown into a conspiracy when her father, the beta of the Shifters Pack, was accused of treason. Her parents were killed and she was labelled a traitor's daughter. Everyone turned their backs against her. Her mate, the Alpha heir, rejected her and she was banished from the pack. Resolute to prove her parents' innocence, she escaped from her killers only to fall into the hands of a ruthless Alpha, Alpha Joash. She soon realized that he was her second chance mate but he was oblivious to it. In her state, she couldn't voice it out. Still at his mercy, she realized that all that she had believed were lies. She needed to save herself, prove herself and unknot her twisted fate.

Maisie was tortured and mistreated by her own family her entire life. She has decided that she's not someone anyone could love or even want. She's weak and pathetic looking, and most of all she considers herself unlovable. Her life was literally a living hell and all her hopes of ever leaving her pack were lost. She had accepted her fate to be kept away from happiness and serve her family for her unforeseeable future or until her untimely death. But when she met a ruthless Alpha in a state of being bound and harassed by a man following her mother's orders, she's more afraid than ever. He claims her as his mate but he's everything she fears, dark, evil, and ruthless.

Alpha Damien is a Ruthless Hybrid, he happens to be the most powerful and famous wolf leader in the state and everyone was scared of him. His vampire abilities were sealed by the moon goddess because of the damage he would create. one day, he bumped into a mysterious lady who unlocked his blood lust and he decided to make her his Luna in order to unlock his other abilities. Rejected by her mate, Elena decided to live her life without a mate. But, life took an unexpected twist after Alpha Damien chose her as his mate and her life changed, she found herself in a web of lies, pains and mystery. It worsened after she found out that her mate whom she loves with all her heart was just using her.

Ruby wakes up from a coma and finds herself drowning in overwhelming medical bills with no way to pay them. Alexander Knight, one of the youngest billionaires and business moguls in the state, saw this as an opportunity, and decided to foot the bill in exchange for her hands in marriage. With no support from her foster parents, Ruby reluctantly agrees, entering the marriage only for financial aid. However, Alexander wasn't quite the saint that he was believed to be, as there's more to him than meets the eye. He had never loved her and only aimed to access her locked trust fund in a bid to become richer. As their relationship evolves, Ruby finds herself unexpectedly drawn to Alexander, and she finds herself falling for him until the truth comes to light and threatens to tear them apart. Will their bond withstand the truth, or was their relationship built on a shaky foundation from the start?

Exiled,mateless,heart broken and cursed by a witch,Alexander Blackwood begun his new life as a mafia boss killing and ruining his enemies who try to come in his way while mourning for his lost love. He took an oath to keep his heart locked for any woman since his beloved f found her mate in his cousin.But one night in a drunken state,he broke the promise and later on he found out. The human girl is pregnant with his twins! Whereas,the poor girl Felicity Brown found her life messed up when she discovered her pregnancy as an aftermath of a one night stand with a man,she can never forget a name- The mafia boss Alexander Blackwood who is competent unware of the dark side of her personality.

Tara Hayes, a young and ambitious woman, attends a party with her best friend on the night she submits her final project. Little did she know, it was a setup orchestrated by her best friend, Emily Brown, to frame her as a cheater. Emily drugs her drink and hires someone to sleep with her. But Landon Malcolm, a billionaire, who found himself in an intoxicated state after his friends spiked his drink in an attempt to arrange a one-night stand, ends up in her room. Unable to control himself, Landon's impulsive actions lead him to force Tara into his bed, where they spend a passionate and steamy night together. What will happen when Tara re-enters Landon's life as his newly appointed personal assistant and he finds out they have a child from the one night stand?