Prelude To Chaos

After my husband's brother died, he took Miranda, his widowed sister-in-law in. He claimed that he would give me his love—but gave all his money to her. He said that since she had no official status, being with him would make her the subject of gossip, so he took her with him and left me behind in the countryside. Every month, he wrote me three love letters, yet sent all his allowance to her. During the famine, she and her two children sat in a warm little house eating well, while my two children died before I could return from selling my blood. One froze to death, the other starved to death. Later, my husband finally came back, but he didn’t shed a single tear for the children. Instead, he told me he wanted a divorce. "Nathalie, to apply for housing, we need a marriage certificate. It hasn’t been easy for Miranda all these years. I want to give her a home. Don’t worry, even if I marry her, I’ll still divorce her afterward—because you’re the only one I love." In the end, I was devastated and threw myself into the icy river. When I opened my eyes again, I was back on the day my children were about to die. This time, I shook them awake, ready to go reclaim everything that was rightfully mine.

She was betrayed by the man she loved. He offered her a marriage of convenience. But some lies are harder to maintain than others Zendaya Morrison lost everything the night of the accident—her ability to walk, her position as heir to a billion-dollar empire, and three years of her life devoted to a man who only wanted her money. When she finally overhears her fiancé plotting to leave her for her best friend, she makes a choice: reclaim what's hers. But taking back her position as CEO comes with an impossible condition—she needs a husband. Enter Malachi Hayes: her brother's best friend, the man she's spent years avoiding, and the only person who knows the truth about the night that changed everything between them. His solution? A fake engagement that will fool the board and secure her position. The rules are simple: three months of pretending, a wedding for show, one year of marriage, then a clean divorce. But when her brother moves the wedding to five days away, and Malachi's carefully controlled distance starts to crack, Zendaya realizes the hardest part isn't convincing the world they're in love. It's pretending they're not. A fake engagement. A forced marriage. And a secret that could destroy them both.

From a young age, Rayne Lawson dedicated herself to preparing for the sacred Luna duties, as she was prophesied from birth that she'll lead the Pack to greatness. At last, her long-awaited 18th birthday arrived, the day she would shift for the first time in front of the entire pack and begin her journey as their Luna. However, instead of shifting into a majestic Luna wolf, Rayne's wolf was shockingly half the size of an average wolf. The Pack's hopes were dashed, and even her destined mate, Alpha Reynold Hayes, couldn't hide his disdain. Three years later, Rayne has worked tirelessly to earn the Pack member's admiration and prove to them that her small wolf doesn't define her abilities as a great Luna, as she brought great prosperity to the Pack. To the outside world, her life seemed like a fairytale: she was Luna, married to the Alpha, and the pack was thriving. But behind closed doors, Rayne's life was a nightmare. Her husband Reynolds was unfaithful, cheating on her with an omega mistress and forcing Rayne to watch as he flaunted his infidelity. He tortured her emotionally and physically, making her existence a living hell. A new Lycan King who was rumored to be ruthless and merciless had emerged. He invited all werewolf Alpha's to come form new treaty deals, disregarding the previous deals made with past Lycan Kings. Rayne's world was turned upside down when she discovered that the new Lycan King was her mate! And felt an undeniable force drawing her to him. Torn between the life she thought she was destined for and the unexpected path of her heart's calling. Rayne must navigate the dangerous world of forbidden love, dark secrets, and treacherous alliances. The future of her heart and her Pack hangs in the balance.

Born to an Alpha hungry for power, presumed powerless Sasha has lived a life void of compassion and love but filled with loneliness and insults all because she wasn’t a boy. Looking to solidify his position of power, her father believed she was good for one thing, so he offers her hand in marriage to the most ruthless Alpha in the northern region, Turk. Unwilling to suffer at the hands of yet another power hungry man, Sasha runs away only to end up captured, believed to be human, and sold as a slave. The only thing…she’s sold to the same Alpha she ran away to avoid. Struck by her beauty and defiance, Turk decides he wants to make her his little Luna, except for one thing….on the day he introduces Sasha as his Luna she realizes his brother and Beta is her mate... The True Alpha of the Tumbale Pack, Bello was never interested in power. His focus has always been on being the best artist he could be and ensuring his pack prospered in other ways. Mateless and uninterested in taking a chosen mate, Bello happily concedes the Alpha position to his older brother, Turk, and accepts the position of Beta, after the untimely death of their father. After returning from a trip on pack business, Bello encounters the most glorious scent, one that could only come from a mate, at a pack dinner he’s forced to attend. The problem, the scent is coming from the human his brother has just introduced as his Luna. What happens when Bello meets Sasha? Will Bello fight for Sasha? Will Sasha accept him as her mate? Will Turk let her go? What is a human doing among wolves?

Scarlet blood trickled from my thigh as I clutched Arvin Owen's hand. "My belly... It hurts so much..." He shook off my hand indifferently. "Come on, I know it's chicken blood you are using. Debby just suffered abuse from her husband and is now in the hospital without anyone to care for her. Don't be so spoiled!" But what flowed from me was not chicken blood. It was my life slipping away.

As the college entrance exams approached, I paid the top student in our class to tutor me. But the day she came over, she brought along her childhood sweetheart and insisted that he join our study sessions. I declined her request politely, and she did not press the matter further. The boy left my house in defeat and was struck by a car, suffering injuries so severe that they left him crippled. He could no longer continue his education and was forced to drop out, taking on grueling manual labor to survive. The girl continued tutoring me nonetheless. We both gained admission to the same university, grew close over time, fell in love, got married, and started a family. But on the night of our wedding anniversary, Sharon slipped poison into my soup and watched impassively as I began to convulse and vomit blood, the crimson stain spreading slowly across the floor. "This is what you owe Harry," she said with cold venom. "Taste what it's like to lose all hope." It turned out that she had harbored resentment toward me for all those years. When I opened my eyes again, I was back to the day she first came to my house with her friend.

Everyone knows that I've been pursuing Ciara Hudson for several years now. For her sake, I reject a marriage alliance with the Langstons and invest ten billion dollars into saving the Hudsons from the brink of collapse. But on the night before our wedding, while attempting to appease her adopted brother, Carl Hudson, Ciara allows him to take her to bed, right in our marital home. After their steamy, sordid night together, Carl emerges from the bedroom dressed in my bathrobe, showing off the bite marks on his chest. Ciara simply brushes it off with a smile, saying that Carl was merely throwing a tantrum and that I shouldn't take it to heart. She even uses the marriage to threaten me, demanding that I give Carl a house and some of my company's shares to ensure he never wants for anything in life. She even says she'll make sure my family's lineage ends with me, all for Carl's sake. The disgruntled Carl runs off with my car and even crashes into me on purpose. Even as I slump on the ground, covered in injuries, Ciara runs straight to Carl, who has nothing more than a few scratches, without sparing me so much as a glance. As I lie on the hospital bed, my head finally clears. It occurs to me that my sacrifices have moved no one but myself, and how pointless it'll be to persist in them. I call up Serena Langston, my business rival, and tell her I'll go through with the proposed marriage alliance between our families. Since Ciara has betrayed me, I don't want her anymore.

LUCIA: I'm thrown into a world of chaos when I hear that my family is part of the Italian mafia. No, scratch that - my family is the Italian mafia - and as tradition states, I'll be getting married to the bratva head. My world is in shambles when I see how cold and ruthless my husband is. Despite how handsome and attractive he is, I give myself one assignment; stay as far away from him as possible. But as neither my body nor my heart gets the message, I have to think of a way to conceal my emotions from him. IVAN: My life's purpose has always been to take over from my father as the head of the bratva. That's practically what I was born for; to kill and destroy. But for that to happen, I must get married, which isn't a problem since an arranged marriage to the Italian mafia princess has long been formed for us. What becomes a problem is the strange feelings that begin to steer within me the moment I'm married to my wife. Now I have another purpose added to the list; kill, destroy and love.

Lyra, an orphan, sold to the most ruthless Alpha king of the werewolf kingdom. She gets used to his humiliation and aggressiveness, but soon she finds out they are fated to be mates. Lyra swore within herself to stand with her mate, no matter what happened. She was taught to embrace hell with her fated mate if she's meant to, so that's what she's doing, but what happens when he doesn't even know she is his mate? Soon enough, she realizes the Alpha King might never change and she can't endure anymore, so she leaves, but the Alpha King goes an extra length to get her back. Will he find her? Will she accept him? What happens when her second chance fated mate, whom the Moon goddess blessed her with, is the curse caster on her first mate?

Si Mia ay lumaki sa isang pamilyang walang pagmamahal at puro kalupitan ang natanggap. Para sa kanila, isa lang siyang pabigat. Kaya nang ipagkasundo siyang ipakasal sa pinaka kinatatakutan na lalaki sa bayan—isang makapangyarihang tao na kilala sa kanyang pagiging malupit—hindi na siya nagreklamo. Matagal na niyang alam na darating ang araw na ito, at wala siyang inaasahang masayang kinabukasan. Ngunit pagdating niya sa tahanan ng kanyang mapapangasawa, natuklasan niyang mali ang lahat ng narinig niyang tsismis. Sa halip na isang halimaw na walang awa, nakilala niya ang isang lalaking bagamat seryoso, ay may kakayahang magpakita ng kabutihan. Unti-unti, naguguluhan siya sa hindi pamilyar na mundo ng pagmamahal at pag-aaruga. Ngunit para kay Mia, na lumaki sa takot at hindi kailanman nakaranas ng tunay na pagmamahal, kaya ba niyang matutong buksan ang kanyang puso? O mananatili siyang bihag ng kanyang madilim na nakaraan at tanggihan ang pag-ibig na nasa harapan na niya?