Reluctant Synonyms

Her life had been perfect once—a child on the way, the loving husband she thought she had, and being the Luna of the powerful Northern Range Pack. Then the cruel deception: finding husband and sister together and then the child taken from them. Shattered and banished to the edge of pack territory, Elena waits out a languid death. Fate, though, plays different hands when the infamous Alpha Lykan Blackwood knocks on the door and presents an old blood debt. Learning of the betrayal of Elena's husband James, Lykan takes Elena as payment instead of Elena's treacherous sister—the woman she was pledged to. Pressed into the harsh life of the Black Mountain Pack as their reluctant Luna, Elena is shocked to learn surprising secrets about her past and why she is childless. As dangers to his position multiply and Elena faces demons of the past, they create an uneasy partnership and then something more as their connection takes hold. In a world where loyalty is paid dearly and love more dearly, can traumatized souls heal one another? Or will the promise of treachery destroy their happiness when Elena's former pack returns to take back what they once relinquished?

On the day of her engagement, her boyfriend had run off. She drowned her sorrows unexpectedly, then she made love with her boyfriend's older brother. Two families caught the two people the next morning in bed! "If that's the case, then get married!" The man who had always been cold and calm used a simple sentence that couldn't be simpler than the conclusion of the relationship between the two. Marrying Damian Desmond??? She doesn't dare! From childhood to adulthood, for some reason, the person she feared the most was him. Her world with his was radically different. Who is Damian Desmond? The pillar of the nation, the elite of society, the first family, the first intelligence, the heart is more treacherous than anything else and is desperate, and she is just a child of a second wife, not just a slow mind. A slow, reluctant appearance can only be considered elegant, the family background goes without saying, it is as different as chalk and cheese. So, in everyone's eyes, Fiona Forger, she is "an ugly toad dreaming of eating swans. So this time, basically no one expected that the person who ran off was her...

Mila is a fierce, resilient woman who doesn’t back down from challenges. She fell deeply in love with Alex, only to have her world shattered when he betrayed her with his mistress, Lily. Alex, obsessed with having a son, had divorced Mila after learning she supposedly couldn’t conceive. When Lily became pregnant, she secured her place by Alex’s side, leaving Mila devastated. Yet Mila, with her signature sass, decided to rebuild her life, throwing herself into her career with newfound strength. Just as Mila’s life starts to stabilize, she discovers something shocking: she’s one month pregnant. Reluctant to believe it, she re-tests, only to confirm the news. Soon, Mila learns the original claim of infertility was all part of Lily’s scheme to steal Alex and secure his wealth. Fueled by the betrayal, Mila sets out to reveal Lily’s deceit. But Lily is always one step ahead, twisting each of Mila’s moves to her advantage. Now, Mila faces her greatest challenge: outsmarting Lily and taking back control of her life, her dignity, and her future. Will Mila expose the truth before Lily’s schemes destroy everything?

Filled with action, thrills, sexy love scenes, and gripping drama, Wolf Mountain (book 2 of the dark fantasy romance trilogy) will pull on your emotions while it continues the story where "a Wolf Affair" left off. Love becomes confused when a handsome, magical being is brought in to assist Missy in getting in touch with her inherent magic. As her magic comes forth, so do secrets Kenton and Maryanne would rather stay hidden. New love arrives in the form of a hot and sexy fairy who is reluctant to tell Missy all there is to tell. As a result, her life is changed forever.

When she got a scholarship to study her desired course, Jessica was excited to begin her journey in a country that was far from home. On arrival, she encountered a boy about her age whom she loathed at first sight because of how arrogant he was. She didn't hide her distaste for him whenever he was near, and he noticed that as well. After getting together during a project which Jessica was reluctant to, she realized there was more to him than meet the eyes.

Marriage? Ugh! A kid? Double yuck. Billionaire CEO Kylian Litt needs a wife and fast, as not only is his inheritance is on the line, but he's scared his infuriatingly attractive younger brother, Kieran, will beat him to getting claiming hus inheritance. Yvonne, who's on the brink of bankruptcy needs a lifeline and so, a fake marriage is their perfect solution, until.... It turns out Yvonne has history with Kieran, Kylian's younger brother, who's reluctant to let Yvonne marry his brother. This fake marriage is about to get messy.

~ ALISTAIR ~ I hate him. There’s no point in admiring what you can’t be. I hate his sharp tongue, his smug smirk, the way he looks at me like he already knows how this ends. I don’t like men. Calvin Rutledge is a problem. A problem I can’t ignore. A problem that’s in my face, under my skin, unraveling me one smirk at a time. But the worst part? I want him. And he knows it. Now, every glance burns, every touch lingers, and every fight makes me crave the one thing I swore I’d never want—him. A man. A know-it-all who plays by his own rules. I was never supposed to want him. And yet, here I am… falling. __ ~ CALVIN ~ I know his type. Rich. Arrogant. A cocky football star who thinks the world revolves around him. Alistair Morano is all that—and more. My sworn enemy. My reluctant project partner. My ‘boss’. He thinks I’m just another nerd he can push around. Cute. But here’s the thing—he’s the one being played. By the time he realizes I’m the one pulling the strings, it’ll be too late. Because he’ll be mine. Mine to tease. Mine to break. Mine to ruin. And when he finally falls? I’ll be right there, waiting to catch him, just to break him all over again.

Fear  Noun 1. a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid. Synonyms: foreboding, apprehension, consternation, dismay, dread, terror, fright, panic, horror, trepidation, qualm. Until that night, Kinsley never knew true fear, never felt terror. She could taste the fear on her tongue, salty with a hint of copper, her throat felt constricted. She wanted to scream but the terror was too thick in her throat, coating it to the point of near suffocation. She was prey and he was the hunter who never failed. Verendus was powerful, a ruthless and cruel Boss, he did not fail and he did not quit. Kinsley Anderson was a woman he coveted, and he would stop at nothing to claim her. He had the means and the manpower to pursue her to the ends of the earth and he would do it, claiming her once and for all.

On the day of the Lunar Convergence, Jasper Draven, son of the Alpha of the Pacific Moonrise pack, gets rejected by his mate, Seraphina Darkwater. Gwen Blackthorn of the Pacific Moonrise pack is rejected by Jasper's best friend, Reginald Nightshade, the son of the Alpha of the Golden Gate Guardians. Gwen and Jasper are both taunted for being mateless and rejected. Jasper's ego is hurt. He comes up with an idea where he meets Gwen, the girl he bullies and dislikes, to forge a fake mate bond. He tells her they only have to pretend to be real mates until the next Lunar Convergence when they might be able to find their second chance mate. Reluctant at first, Gwen agrees. The secret is Gwen has always had a crush on Jasper even though he treats her badly. Trouble brews when Reginald decides to reclaim Gwen but she refuses to go back to him. Reginald fights to have her back but Jasper is not willing to let her go. Reginald soon discovers the secret about Jasper and Gwen's mate bond being fake and he threatens to expose them if Jasper does not give her up. Despite Jasper's initial dislike for Gwen, they push to stand by each other in times of danger and fight to stick together. Now will Jasper be willing to let Reginald have Gwen back to avoid the harsh punishment for faking a mate bond? Or will he hold onto Gwen as he is now head over heels in love with her? Find out in this interesting book! This is a Love Story Like No Other You've Seen or Read!!!

"Silvia Ironwolf, for your crime of murder, you will be forever banished from the Packs," Omega Rovit intoned. Another humiliation. To have my fate read out to me by the lowliest member of the Ironwolf Pack while all the others turned their backs. Rovit was loving it. He had worshipped Jedan. He leaned forward, his face close to mine, his spit landing on my face, "And if you ever return to the Wildlands," he finished, "You will be torn limb from limb, your remains fed to the vultures." If my hands had not been bound by the leather mitts, shackled together with silver, I would have ripped his sneering face from his skull and fed that to the vultures. My nails scraped against the soft leather interior of the mitts. My iron nails. The pack guardsmen blunted many tools before giving up on removing the iron from my fingertips. The iron was part of me now. They said that Jedan was barely recognizable when they found him. They said that the iron was a curse that had been bred out of the pack centuries ago. They said that it was my curse that killed Jedan, future Alpha of Firewolf. It was Jedan's inability to understand 'No' that killed him. Now I will be punished. Banished forever from my pack, from the Wildlands. From my love, Vuko. The brother of the man I have slain. * Four years later and the Wildlands packs face a grave threat to their existence. Vuko, the reluctant Alpha of Firewolf, believes they need Silvia if they have any chance of survival. *He* needs Silvia. Will Vuko find Silvia? Will Silvia forgive the packs for the injustice done to her? Is she truly cursed? Are Vuko and Silvia destined for each other?