Riddle Doors Novels & Stories

Every decade, Valen Academy opens five seats to human outsiders. Nobody questions why. Nobody asks what happens to the ones who never come home. Zara Voss has spent three years engineering her acceptance into the most secretive werewolf academy in the country. She's not here for the education. She's not here to survive the social hierarchy. She's here because her sister Lena was one of the five ten years ago and never came back. What she doesn't expect is Caius Vane. The Alpha heir is controlled, precise, and carrying a truth so heavy it has bent the shape of him. He notices Zara the way you notice a lit match in a dark room with equal parts fascination and dread. She doesn't perform for him. She doesn't adjust herself around his authority. And she is getting dangerously close to the one secret that could unravel everything his bloodline was built to protect. The closer she gets to the truth, the closer she gets to him. And in Valen Academy, both things will cost her. Some doors are sealed for a reason. Zara Voss was never very good at leaving them closed.

Aria Sinclair has always known her father's world has a dark side. She just never expected to become part of it. When Richard Sinclair's debt to the most feared family in the city comes due, there is only one currency left that will satisfy it. His daughter. Promised to Dante Vitale — charming, ruthless, and utterly untouchable — in an arrangement that leaves Aria no choice and no way out. Dante doesn't want a wife. He wants what the marriage represents. Power. Leverage. Control. But Aria Sinclair refuses to be controlled. And the one thing Dante Vitale has never known how to handle is something he cannot have. As their worlds collide behind closed doors, what begins as a cold arrangement begins to crack at the edges. Dante is used to taking what he wants. Aria is used to fighting for what she believes in. And somewhere between the danger and the defiance, between the secrets and the silence, something neither of them planned begins to take hold. But Dante's world is built on blood and betrayal. And love, in the Vitale family, has always come at a price. Some deals change everything. Some men are impossible to resist. And some women refuse to break — no matter how hard the world tries.

Ayanna Laurent thought her wedding was the start of her new life, her forever. But as soon as the church doors opened, everything fell apart. In front of hundreds of rich guests, her fiancé Evan Hartwell picked someone else. Ayanna was left heartbroken and embarrassed right at the altar, where they were supposed to get married. Ayanna turned her back on the betrayal, walked away from her future that was now ruined, and then met Gabriel Vance. Gabriel Vance is a cold, tough, and very powerful billionaire. He really shouldn't have anything to do with a heartbroken woman like Ayanna, but he keeps drawing her into his exclusive world. But the bad part wasn't over yet. Evan felt deep regret and didn't want to let Ayanna go. He kept coming back, torn between his new wife and the woman he really wanted by his side. Now Ayanna is stuck between her ex-fiancé, who shamed and hurt her, and the powerful billionaire who's acting like she belongs to him, even though he never asked. Both powerful men won't back down. Who is she really supposed to be with?

Some think I'm cursed. Others think I'm unlucky. But I know what I am. My name is Leora, and I am the Redwood Pack's Alpha's daughter. Well, until my mother died. My father remarried late, so the Pack moved on to new hands. My new stepmother, Amarie, is a spawn of Satan. She gives me to the new Alpha's household as a maidservant as a price for not exiling my father. I become an outcast, abused and punished every single day. On my eighteenth birthday, I find out that I'm mated to the new Alpha's son, Caleb. Enraged, he rejects me, throwing me into the dungeons. In pains, I remain there for days. Then one fateful night, my luck changes. The Lycan King is visiting the Pack to find a mate. Which happens to be me. I'm alone, crying that night, when a towering golden-eyed man charges in and rips the dungeon doors off their hinges. I gasp when he cups my chin, and whispers softly. "Stop crying, mate. I'm here now. And I'll make sure no one ever brings you to tears ever again!" I thought my problems were over then. But it was only the beginning.

She was born to serve. He was destined to rule. Marliene Ashthorn has spent her life as a servant in her own family, kept hidden and deliberately broken. When she's forced to marry the indifferent Alpha of Moorgrave Pack, she expects another cage, and another master to obey. But when the exiled brother of the Alpha — Rune Corvin returns after ten years, to reclaim the throne stolen from him, everything shatters. Rune is power incarnate, elemental, ruthless, and absolutely certain of what he wants. And what he wants is Marliene. Not just because of revenge or fate, but because she's the only one who's ever stood against him and won. What neither of them expected is that Marliene carries powers of her own. As her abilities awaken and her magic intertwines with his, the line between survival and surrender blurs. The pull between them is undeniable, primal, dangerous. But Rune's return has awakened something darker. Behind closed doors, a conspiracy unravels. Secrets buried for lifetimes resurface. And an enemy that has waited centuries for revenge is finally ready to strike, willing to burn everything to keep Rune and Marliene apart. In a battle between destiny and choice, between the past and the future they could build together, Marliene must decide if everything is worth the power and freedom she had tasted. Because reclaiming a throne is one thing.

The Pentarchy famiglie forbid their heirs from marrying commoners. But Matteo Adorni loves me so deeply that he plays revolver roulette against his father just to be with me. Even as blood soaks through his shirt, he still holds me and smiles softly. He says, "Don't be afraid, Rosella. Only death can separate us." But later, he secretly sleeps with Giorgia Vitalis behind my back. When I discover this, he explains guiltily, "The price for the famiglia allowing us to stay together is for Giorgia to give birth to my heir. Please wait for me, okay?" After that, he sleeps with Giorgia 33 times, and they have a daughter. However, the heir must be a boy. So, he sleeps with Giorgia another 99 times. This time, when Giorgia becomes pregnant again, she tearfully accuses me of poisoning her unborn child. Matteo points a gun at me. "Why are you trying to kill Giorgia? Why are you trying to kill my child?" I am chained inside the Adornis' dungeon. All I can do is beg day after day. Finally, the dungeon doors open once again... This time, I will not wait for him anymore.

My husband, Dominic Moore, insists on having his first love, Irene Cobb, at our wedding ceremony. Just when it's time for the bride to enter the hall, he suddenly asks for the ceremony to be paused for three minutes. Then, he gets off stage and pulls Irene, dressed in a white gown, out of the crowd. Right in front of all the guests, he takes her by the hand and walks her down the aisle, saying, "I promised Irene I'd walk her down the aisle someday." The tearful Irene throws herself into Dominic's arms before saying to my in-laws, "Mom, Dad. Although I won't get to be your daughter-in-law, I still want to address you as Mom and Dad just once." She turns back to Dominic and kisses him passionately. The guests exclaim in shock and whisper among themselves, eager to revel in my humiliation. However, I simply open the doors with a smile. I take off my veil and place it on Irene's head. "Why do you say you won't get to be their daughter-in-law? Since you like this cheating scumbag so much, I'll give him to you."

One lie got her the job. One secret could get her killed. Fresh out of prison, and one misstep away from being dragged back behind bars, Mercedes Connor is desperate. No one wants to hire an ex-con, no matter how qualified she is. But her best friend has a dangerous idea: ditch the Connor name, go by her mother's; Mercedes Alexander, and cheat the system just enough to survive. Re-inventing herself, she was able to get a job as the live-in nanny at the prestigious Ford Estate. But the Ford's are not just your regular wealthy family. They're powerful. And they're hiding something. ***************** Bradley Ford is cold, commanding, and dangerously irresistible. The world sees him as a tech billionaire, but behind closed doors, he's something else entirely: An Alpha werewolf, with a pack in chaos, and enemies everywhere. With threats closing in, the last thing he needs is a human nanny living under his roof. But his children chose her–and they never warm up to strangers. And for reasons he can't explain, so does his wolf. Two lives. One house full of secrets. And a forbidden attraction that could unravel both of their worlds.

“To escape a monster, she ran straight into the arms of a devil.” Lila Vance was a debt payment. Wrapped in fifty thousand dollars of French lace, she was minutes away from marrying Marcus Thorne—a man who whispered that she was nothing more than his "property." But Lila refused to be broken. With a ripped dress and a heart full of terror, she bolts from the altar and into the private elevator of the Grand Imperial Hotel. When the doors open, she finds herself in the lion’s den: the penthouse of Adrian Sterling, her fiancé’s most lethal rival. Adrian is a man carved from shadows and sin, a billionaire "Shark" who destroys legacies for sport. When Marcus comes to claim his prize, Adrian offers Lila a choice: go back to the man who will break you, or sign a one-year marriage contract with the man who will own you. As the line between their fake vows and real desire begins to blur, Lila must face a terrifying truth: Adrian Sterling didn't save her out of mercy. He saved her because she is the final piece in a game of revenge he’s been playing for years. In a game of power, who will be the first to break?

Sofia Russo dashed into the elevator, running late for work. But as soon as the doors closed, she found herself face-to-face with the notorious mafia don, Luca Greco. Her heart raced as he pulled her closer, his smoldering gaze sending shivers down her spine. Suddenly, he whispered in her ear, "Two minutes before the elevator stops. Enough time for a quickie." Sofia was taken aback, disgusted by his brazen proposition. She tried to push him away, but he was too powerful. “Disgusting” she blurted. "Sofia Russo," the words rolled off the tongue of the infamous mafia don, Luca Greco, as he pulled her closer, his smoldering gaze locked onto hers. "Ex-husband Tony Moretti. Has a seven-year-old daughter, Isabella." Sofia's heart raced as she realized this man knew more about her than she'd ever imagined. "Give me a chance, sweetheart," Luca demanded, his voice silky smooth. "Let me take care of you and your princess." Sofia was lost in the intensity of his gaze, but she knew better than to fall for a man like him. She'd been burned before and had no intention of repeating the same mistake.