Shallow Grave Novels & Stories

« Exactement », murmurai-je. « C’est ton fils. Pourquoi me choisir plutôt que lui ? » « Parce que… », murmura-t-il en se rapprochant, la douceur de son t-shirt effleurant mon bras. « J’en ai fini de faire semblant. » « Faire semblant ? » « Hmm », fit-il d’un ton grave, ses lèvres se rapprochant de mon oreille. Sa proximité fit que chaque effluve de la puissante odeur de phéromones qu’il libéra soudain me pénétra. Puis, ses mots me réchauffèrent tout entière lorsqu’il ajouta : « J’en ai fini de faire semblant de ne pas te vouloir. » ##### Trahie par son compagnon. Remplacée par sa jumelle. Liée par un lien d’âme interdit. Choisie par la Déesse de la Lune. Bailey était destinée à être brisée, non couronnée. Jusqu'à ce que le destin en décide autrement et lui confère le pouvoir du loup-garou. Elle devient une reine indésirable et une menace incontrôlable. Sa nouvelle vie est semée d'embûches. Mais le plus dangereux est le lien interdit qui l'unit à l'homme qu'elle n'aurait jamais dû désirer : le père de son compagnon. Entre les vérités enfouies du passé, les passions dévorantes et une tradition qui menace sa chute, Bailey doit apprendre à choisir. Craquera-t-elle sous la pression de ses ennemis… et de ses amants ? Ou triomphera-t-elle et réécrira-t-elle l'histoire ?

J'ai grandi aux côtés de l'alpha Griffith de la meute Avalora, et tout le monde disait que j'étais la femme la plus chanceuse de Merville. Pour moi, Griffith a refusé de conclure le lien sacré avec la compagne destinée que la Déesse de la Lune lui avait choisie. Il a proclamé au monde entier que j'étais son unique amour. Mais après que j'avais fait une fausse couche, j'ai surpris Griffith en train de parler à la guérisseuse : « Trouve une occasion pour droguer Luna, enlève-lui l'utérus, qu'elle ne puisse plus jamais tomber enceinte. » Puis, il a caressé le ventre d'une autre femme en disant : « Donne-lui les meilleurs remèdes pour protéger sa grossesse, je veux qu'elle donne naissance à l'enfant le plus fort et le plus intelligent. » Je connaissais cette femme : c'était Gisèle, la compagne que la Déesse de la Lune avait destinée à Griffith. J'ai entendu Griffith ajouter d'un ton grave à l'attention des autres : « Ne dites rien à Luna, prenez soin de sa santé de toutes vos forces, ou vous en paierez le prix. » Mon cœur était transpercé : je n'aurais jamais cru que l'homme qui m'aimait à la folie puisse me trahir. Plus tard, je suis partie sans dire un mot, leur laissant la voie libre. Et pourtant, il m'a dit qu'il avait perdu la capacité d'aimer.

“Tell me you don’t feel this,” he said softly, his mouth brushing the curve of her ear. Heidi’s breath caught, but her voice stayed steady. “I feel it.” “Then why do you keep fighting me?” “Because I won’t kneel just because my body reacts to you.” His fingers slid from her wrist to her waist, slow and deliberate. “It’s not just your body.” Her pulse jumped when his thumb traced the bare skin where her bracelet used to rest. “Careful, Alpha.” His gaze darkened. “You’re the one who should be careful, Luna.” On her nineteenth birthday, Heidi Artemis stands before her pack prepared for rejection, not desire. Unable to shift and treated like a servant her entire life, she watches her fated mate claim another woman without shedding a single tear. She refuses to beg. Then Kurt Fenris returns from the grave and rips the pack’s future apart. Ruthless and commanding, Kurt takes the Alpha title by force and reduces his enemies to nothing. Heidi is the only one who dares to challenge him, and the tension between them is immediate and electric. When her jade bracelet shatters beneath his grip, their mate bond ignites, fierce and undeniable. He claims her as Luna before the entire pack. Inside the Alpha estate, their connection deepens with every heated argument and every lingering touch. As Heidi cares for his wounded son and confronts those who abused her, ancient magic awakens in her blood. Powerful enemies close in, hunting the divine force stirring inside her. War spreads across territories, vampires rise from the shadows, and a monster plots to claim her heart. They once called her weak. Now the world will learn what happens when a celestial Luna rises.

« Se pourrait-il que tu ne saches vraiment pas… que tu ne voies pas… à quel point tu es incroyablement, absolument magnifique ? » Sara se remua, mal à l’aise. « Pourrions-nous revenir à la discussion sur les couleurs de ton salon… ? » « Voyons voir. » Simon choisit d’ignorer son changement de sujet et la regarda d’un air pensif. « Tes cheveux sont couleur nuit – noirs avec des reflets bleutés – et tes yeux… oh mon Dieu ! Je pourrais parler de tes yeux toute la nuit ! Ils ont une couleur si belle. Tellement… » « Simon… » « Je pourrais m’y noyer avec bonheur », poursuivit-il sans ménagement. « Et ta peau est aussi pâle et parfaite que l’albâtre. » « Et ta bouche ! » Sa voix se fit plus grave et plus rauque. « Veux-tu que je te dise ce que j'ai imaginé que ces lèvres douces, sensuelles et boudeuses me faisaient ces deux derniers jours ? » __________ Après sa relation désastreuse qui s'est terminée par une fausse couche terrible, Sara McCall a décidé de se tenir à l'écart de toute relation… Jusqu'à ce que Simon Hamilton réapparaisse, et il est exactement le genre d'homme qu'elle devrait éviter. Mais lorsque Simon engage Sara pour décorer son penthouse, c'est une opportunité trop alléchante pour la refuser… et une opportunité qui fait voler en éclats la résolution de Sara de rester à jamais loin de sa chambre !

In my previous life, I fell in love with Dante Ravenna, the Don of the Ravenna family who also happened to be my uncle without any blood relations. As soon as I found out that Dante was drugged with aphrodisiacs, I didn't hesitate to become his antidote. One month later, I found out that I was pregnant with his baby. Because of that, the old Don pressured Dante into marrying me. On the day of our marriage, Dante's first love, Serafina Calvetti, had flown overseas out of heartbreak, only to get kidnapped by one of the Ravennas' rival families. They ended up killing her in cold blood. Before Serafina died, she had called Dante 199 times for help. But Dante never picked up any of them because of how busy he was with the wedding preparations. When the damage was done, Dante just stared at the 199 missed calls without saying anything. In fact, my life after marriage was even better and happier than before. I thought Dante had already let go of Serafina's death. What I didn't expect was that he'd lock me up in the basement on the day I was supposed to give birth. I ended up suffering from heavy bleeding. With one foot in the grave, I begged Dante to take me to the hospital. Yet, he just stood by and watched as my unborn baby and I died in front of him. Before I breathed my last, I heard his cold and ruthless voice. "I would've married Serafina a long time ago if it wasn't for you using every trick in the book just to sleep with me and get pregnant with my baby!" When I open my eyes again, I've returned to the day Dante gets drugged. In this life, I refuse to serve as Dante's antidote. Instead, I call Serafina on the phone.

EZREN: Kiss or kill. Those were always the two options left.. until the past walks back into my life in the form of blue eyes, ginger curls, and a tattoo he swears I should remember. Knox Graye. A diagnosed psychopath. Says he was my brother’s boyfriend. That I left him to die and that I hold the only truth to his death. He is everywhere. Digging up my lies. Ruining what’s left of my life. Call me ‘Cherry’ like it means something. I swear I hate it. I hate him. I don’t know if he wants closure, revenge, or just someone to break. Either way, I’m his target and his third option. KNOX: Everyone thinks I’ve got a loose screw in the head but they're wrong. I lost the whole damn toolbox, buried six feet under with the only person I ever loved. I've spent six years grieving. Dying in pieces while he rots away in a grave but now? Now someone else walk around in his bones, smiling with his lips like he fuckin’ owns it. Like I wouldn’t recognize my own goddamn Cherry. Except now he calls himself Ezren. Cute. He thinks he has been hiding behind top grades and golden-boy charm, but I built his whole damn maze. And now that he's close? I’m done with subtlety. I want chaos in his veins, his secrets peeled off like skin. I want to crawl into the part of his head where he still hears his brother’s laugh and whisper: “You were always mine." He doesn’t know it yet, but I’m going to dismantle him. Brick by fucking brick. And when he finally breaks, I’ll be there to offer him a choice. “Kiss or kill, Cherry?”

Lena Moretti was raised to be obedient. Her family's decades-old blood debt to the Crane dynasty means she's always been a transaction waiting to happen. On the eve of her arranged wedding to Julian Crane, the golden heir of the most powerful family in the country, he reveals his true nature in a brutal act of violence that shatters every illusion she had about her future. She tries to flee. Instead she collides with Ezra Crane, Julian's younger brother, the disowned black sheep who built a shadow empire from nothing and has returned with one purpose: to annihilate his family from the inside. Ezra offers her a devil's bargain. Marry him instead. He'll shield her from Julian. He'll hand her the tools to destroy the people who sold her like property. In return, she plays his devoted wife while he wages a secret war against the Crane dynasty. What starts as a cold alliance of mutual destruction becomes something neither of them can control. His obsession with her isn't strategic. It's visceral, possessive, all-consuming. And her feelings for the man the world calls a monster aren't part of any deal she agreed to. But they're both hiding things. Lena carries information that could accelerate Ezra's revenge. Ezra knew about the blood debt before he ever touched her and married her partly to weaponize it. When these secrets detonate, the fallout is catastrophic. Lena disappears, pregnant with his child, and uncovers a twenty-year-old secret her mother took to the grave, a truth that reframes the entire war between the Moretti and Crane families. She returns not as anyone's wife, weapon, or pawn. She returns as the woman who holds the only truth that matters. And every powerful person in both dynasties will kneel before she's done.

Everyone thinks I've lost my mind when I marry Bryan Sable. That's because I'm the daughter of the richest family in town, while he's just the owner of a small company. Everyone says he's only marrying me for my money. They don't know that he's willing to risk his life just to be with me. He also spent years pursuing me. On the day of the wedding, apart from the wedding ring, I also give him 99 free passes, saying, "If you ever upset me, you can use one of the free passes to cancel it out. But once you've used up all 99 of them, this marriage ends." Bryan swears he will never even use a single one of the free passes. But not long after we get married, he gets involved with his secretary, Roxy Upton. From that moment onward, the free passes get used up in rapid succession. He uses one when he misses my birthday party because of her. He uses another when I find a hickey left on his neck by someone other than me. It gets to a point where even our butler can't help but remind Bryan, "Mr. Sable, I think Mrs. Sable is upset right now. Are you sure you want to leave now to go to Ms. Upton?" But Bryan doesn't think much of it. "If she's upset, let her be upset. What's the worst that can happen? I'll just use one of the free passes. I've only used about 50 of them. I've got plenty of chances left." He has no clue that he only has three free passes left. And by now, I no longer kick up a fuss. I'm simply waiting for the day he uses up the final chance. I'm going to watch him dig his own grave, losing me as well as everything I've given him.

"You think you can play with my feelings, kitty?!" I could feel the intensity of his voice. I stepped back, feeling the wall behind me. "Who said I am playing with your feel~" I was cut off by his strong fist that landed beside my head, making me gasp in horror. "You, sitting on the lap of that bastard! Dakota Weasly, you just dug your boy toy's grave!" his voice boomed like thunder, deafening my ears. "He's not my boy toy, Martin. He's my boyfriend, and I like h~" Again, I was cut off, but not by his fist this time. His kiss ravished my mouth like I was his last meal. Before I could say something, my hands, like they had minds on their own, were slowly wrapping around his head. My tongue slid inside of his mouth while a moan escaped from me, making him deepen our kiss. When we stopped, we both gasped for air. "Do you like him?" he asked, his eyes fixed on mine. "Martin, I..." I suddenly lost my tongue. "I'll count till three. You must answer well, or I'll tell Luke to shoot him now!" "What?!" I asked, shocked. "Martin, what did you do to him?" I pleaded with my eyes, which became watery, but he just sneered. "Worried, huh?!" as he was about to call someone, I grabbed the phone and shouted... . Dakota Weasly was an easy-going, independent fashion designer from New York. She was strong-headed, who never stopped till she got what she wanted. This charming young lady accidentally bumped into the notorious mafia leader, Martin Marcini. The leader of Scared-faced Gang, one of the scariest mafia in Italy. . What could happen when an easy-go-lucky young lady played the heart of the scariest, gorgeous young man in the state?

After a vicious family power struggle, I fled to a small border town in the south. I took on a new identity and found work in a flower shop. Everyone believed I was dead. Then one day, someone from the family came to the shop to order flowers for the birthday party for Roman Jackson, the head of the Jackson family. The person who arrived was my former Underboss. She stared at me in shock and demanded to know why I had not returned to the Jackson family if I was still alive. She told me that Roman had kept watch over my grave for two years and that he had attempted suicide three times in the cemetery, each time stopped by someone else. Roman was my ex-husband. He had an adopted sister, Liliana. Fifteen years ago, her parents were gunned down while covering Roman's father's escape from a rival family. After that, Liliana became Roman's most cherished sister. She tampered with my armored car. The brakes failed, and the vehicle plunged off a cliff. I broke three ribs. Roman mobilized every resource the family had and pulled me back from the brink of death. She bribed my bodyguard and laced my red wine with a neurotoxin. I lay unconscious in the villa for three days and nights. Roman sealed off the entire city, hunted down everyone involved, and made them pay in blood. She tried to kill me, and he saved me. This absurd cycle went on for three years. Until the last time. She detonated a bomb at an arms deal I was overseeing, burning seventy percent of my body. As I was lifted onto the ambulance stretcher, I clutched Roman's suit and, with the last of my strength, begged him. "Kill her, Roman. She sabotaged the deal. Those are the family rules." He crouched down, his fingers brushing my bloodstained face. His voice was calm, almost cruel. "Liliana didn't mean to. Let it go. For the sake of what her parents sacrificed for the family." In that moment, my heart to him died completely.