Serpent Breathing

I got back from a six month work trip and found my pet hamster dead. I couldn't just bury it. I wanted to preserve it, keep it whole. But when I carefully opened it up, I went still. Its lungs were pitch black. That kind of damage couldn't happen fast. It meant months of breathing toxic smoke. But my husband and I never smoked. So who'd been living in my house while I was gone?

Valeria Rhen is a weak omega, who is forced to hide in Dominion Academy–an elite school for alphas, under a disguise to escape a forced marriage. The academy is a battlefield where only the strongest survive. But survival becomes impossible, when her roommate is the school’s golden boy, the arrogant Cassian Virex. With her betrothed on the hunt and Cassian breathing down her neck, how does a weak omega survive in a place like Dominion Academy when the boy she is stuck in the same room with turns out to be her mate?

Lana only wanted a quiet place to sing. She never knew her voice would draw the attention of a powerful man who does not let go of anything he wants. Now she is trapped inside his mansion, surrounded by secrets she cannot see and a danger she can feel breathing beside her. Every room hides a truth. Every step pulls her closer to him. She should fear him. So why does her heart refuse to listen?

Blurb A secret baby. A billionaire ex. A Love she swore she would never touch again. Annie's life was already in ruins—shattered by betrayal, rebuilt by pain, held together by sheer will. But just when she finally starts breathing again, the past she buried began to rise. Because someone dangerously close… someone she should have walked away from… is about to step right back into her path. And this time, the storm he brings might be the one she can't survive.

Keller has turned eighteen and is eager to meet his mate. He is ready to leave his lascivious ways to commit a lifetime love with his destined one but unfortunately, all the tales of meeting-your-mate-is-a-wonderful- thing he has heard from his family shredded his fantasy. His mate denied him for reasons that were unbeknown to him. But he wasn't having it. He refused to be denied and was determined to claim her for himself, no matter what it takes. With his ex-girlfriend breathing down his neck and a psycho human added to the mix, he's in for a chase of a lifetime.

My younger sister, Rosalie White, and I are twin mermaids, born with the divine gift of bearing sacred beasts. On the day we come of age, Father presents us with all the unmarried princes of the beast clans. Rosalie picks Charles Summer, the powerful prince of the zilant clan, in hopes of birthing a sacred beast and claiming the beast throne. However, her five babies are all dark, frail half-zilants of the lowest rank. I, with my weak and sickly body, join with Jasper Warren of the serpent clan, the most despised of them all. I end up succeeding in giving birth to a sacred beast hatchling. On the day of the coronation, Rosalie refuses to accept it. She strangles my hatchling and rips out my beast core. Then, she throws our bodies into the beast furnace, destroying us completely. … After my reincarnation, I see Rosalie pointing at Jasper and says, "I only want him." I know that she has also been reincarnated. I chuckle coldly. I'd like to see if she can bear a sacred beast in this lifetime.

That night, I got off work early and brought home some late-night snacks. When I opened the door, I saw a pair of high heels carelessly tossed in the entryway and Gregory’s blazer thrown over the couch. His heavy breathing and the woman’s moans could be heard through the gap between the door and its frame. I was all too familiar with this sight. This time, I did not storm out like I used to. Instead, I sat quietly at the dining table and finished my cold pizza.

After a tragic accident stole both his sight and the woman he loved, Caius Hale Vellaro learned to survive through sound alone. Music became silent, and his mansion became a prison of echoes and memory. When Krixaine Syrish Aifeo arrives as a quiet maid, she never suspects that her soft humming carries the same voice that once guided him through the dark. To her, it is only a habit. To him, it is grief breathing again… and miracle awakening. Will her voice save his frozen heart— or will they both fall for the comfort they never meant to find?

After they pulled me out of the surf, my fiancé, Milo Schneider, looked wrecked—eyes red, breathing all over the place. On impulse, I decided to mess with him. "I think I lost my memory. Where am I?" I kept my face blank. He froze for a second, then shoved his brother, Sean Schneider, toward me. "Sean, take your fiancée to the hospital—now." Yeah. That smile on my face? Gone. Sean pulled me into his arms. "Abigail, I'm your fiancé. Did you forget?"

"It took me twenty three long years to finally find her again I will never let her go"... Lindsey James never had an easy start to life, from her mother's long list of medical bills to her evil stepmother breathing down her back. One day she learns about how one of the most eligible bachelors in the country is going to lodge at a hotel her friend works at and devises a plan to blackmail him for money, a sum of one million dollars! Will she succeed or could she have bitten more than she can chew?...