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My Sister’s Mafia Husband Begged When I Finally Left
After my sister's death, I signed a five-year contract marriage with her mafia husband, Horton Falcone.
I became the stepmother to my five-year-old nephew, Luca.
On my birthday, I wore my late sister's diamond cross necklace, not realizing what it was.
At the family dinner, Luca walked up to me with a glass of red wine and threw the wine in my face.
The red wine dripped down my cheeks, its sharp scent stinging my eyes and staining my white dress.
He tilted his head back to look up at me, his eyes as cold and cruel as his father's.
"Don't think you can replace my mom just because you married into the Falcone family," he said with a malicious grin. "You're the reason she's dead."
"I wish you were the one who died. Then I could smash your gravestone instead of celebrating this stupid birthday."
"I swear, when I grow up, the first thing I'll do is dump you in the Hudson River myself!"
The memory stung as sharply as the wine, and all I could taste was despair.
I stared at the child I had spent five years raising as my own, a sharp pain pulsing in my chest.
I had thought I could devote myself to the Falcone family, that I could win him over with my love.
But now, I was just so tired of it all.
It was a family with no love, a child who saw me as his mortal enemy.
I stopped deluding myself. It was time to let go.
But after I left, that arrogant father and son came crawling back to me like whipped dogs, begging for my forgiveness.
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After He Chose His Plaything, I Severed the Bond
Without Kaelen's knowledge, I had his little plaything sent out of North America.
That same night, he cast a blood-vine curse on my parents, banishing them to the wilds—a wasteland prowled by rogues. He was going to trade my parents' lives for the whereabouts of his plaything.
Kaelen pushed a communication crystal in front of me. Inside it, my parents were ensnared by blood-red vines, the thorns digging deep into their flesh. Drops of dark crimson blood fell, one by one, onto the barren earth.
A countdown timer pulsed in stark red digits on their chests.
23:59:59
23:59:58
He sat across from me, a black suit tailored to perfection molded to his lean, powerful frame. His long fingers tapped a light, steady rhythm on the solid wood table, as if he were waiting for a trivial business deal to close.
"Estelle, you have twenty-four hours." His voice was low and calm, laced with a venomous tenderness. "Tell me, where did you send Cassandra?"
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When I Was Left for Dead by My Alpha Mate
During a battle between packs, both my adopted sister Chloe and I were injured.
A Rogue tore me apart, leaving me a mangled heap of flesh and blood. My wolf was already fading from my spirit.
But my Alpha mate, Damon, ran straight to Chloe.
She had nothing more than a scratch on her face.
He refused to use his Alpha power to save me, blaming me for the entire disaster.
"Elena, if you hadn't slowed us down, none of this would have happened! How could Chloe have gotten hurt?"
"You're not worth wasting the pack's resources on."
In the end, I was left for dead in the forest, unclaimed and forgotten.
And when the truth came out that I had died to save him?
That cold-blooded Alpha who rejected me so viciously went insane.
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My Pups’ Blood for His Lover
On the seventh anniversary of the day I mated with Alpha Rowan, I discovered I was pregnant again.
I rushed to tell him the good news, only to find him and my adopted sister, Isolde, locked in the heat of passion in his car, deep within the Forbidden Forest.
"In another month, we will have no more use for Willow."
"I used the blood of her first three unborn pups to heal you, and now you carry my child. This is a true blessing from the Moon Goddess."
Hearing that familiar voice, I bit my lip so hard it bled just to keep myself from screaming.
My three children were not lost to natural miscarriage. They were murdered, sacrificed by their own father for another woman.
Even when my birth parents, the pack's Head Elder and his mate, brought me back home at twelve, I knew they did not love me. But I never imagined that in our seven years as mates, Rowan had never loved me either.
He had even killed the one person in this world who ever truly loved me.
With nothing left to lose, I used my Elder bloodline as leverage and sought out Rowan's greatest rival.
The man on the other end of the line sounded intrigued. "I can help you. But when this is over, I want you as my Luna."
I swore I would make them pay in blood. Without hesitation, I replied, "Deal."
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Tears of a Mortal, Regret of a God
On Mount Olympus, one law is ironclad: a god must never fall in love with a mortal.
But Aresios, the God of War and heir to the King of the Gods, bound his very soul to mine.
For me, he endured ninety-nine bolts of divine lightning and knelt before the Olympian altar for three days and three nights.
Ichor soaked his armor, yet he smiled and kissed my lips. "Elara, don't be afraid. I want only you."
The gods finally relented, on one condition: he had to leave behind a pure-blooded divine heir.
After that, the words I heard most from Aresios were, "Just wait a little longer."
The first time, it was to wait while he bedded another goddess.
He and Cassia, the Goddess of Fate, lay together for thirty nights, until his golden ichor quickened in her womb.
The second time, he told me to wait. Their first child was a girl, unable to inherit his divine mantle. The gods demanded a son.
So he lay with Cassia for another ninety-nine nights, until she once again conceived a divine child.
Just when I thought the ordeal was over, their newborn daughter was struck by Hydra's venom.
The entire divine realm was convinced I had done it.
As I was thrown into a cold bronze cage by the river Cocytus, Aresios stood outside the door, his eyes crimson.
"You know what Hydra's venom does to an infant god. Why would you harm our daughter?"
That one word. Our daughter.
I was too numb to feel the pain.
When the bronze cage door opened again, I unclenched my blood-drenched fists.
This time, I would not wait.
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He Bought His Assistant a House, so I Left Him
On my birthday, my mafia husband, Alessandro, didn't come home to celebrate with me.
He sent a bodyguard with a bouquet of wilting roses and a text message: [Picked these myself from the garden. Happy birthday, love.]
A moment later, his right-hand woman, Chloe, posted an Instagram story.
It was a fifty-thousand-dollar custom flower box, filled with black roses, their petals embedded with crushed diamonds.
The caption read: [My Capo says, "If you love me, you show me devotion that never dies."]
I didn't storm the casino to confront him. I just packed my bags and prepared to leave the city.
The first day I was gone, word got back to me that Alessandro couldn't care less. He blew a ring of cigar smoke and said, "The world out there is dangerous. She'll be back in a few days, begging me to take her back."
The first month I was gone, Alessandro tracked me down with an international call. "I'll buy you a villa in the Heights. Just come back, okay?"
But a villa was never what I wanted.
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Reborn: I Married the Alpha King
On the night of our mating ceremony, my Alpha, Damian, and I were ambushed by a rival pack.
When I opened my eyes again, I was back in the past, before we had marked each other.
In my previous life, we were true mates, chosen by the moon goddess, and had been together for seven years.
I sacrificed everything to help him become the most powerful Alpha, yet he refused to even give me a pup.
Only later did I learn that Damian's heart had always belonged to another—Aria, a she-wolf from a powerful bloodline.
Reborn, I decided to let him chase his ambition.
I severed our mate bond with my own hands and chose a completely different path.
Seven years later, he became the most powerful Alpha in the alliance. At the annual summit, he and his beloved Aria announced their mating.
When he saw me standing alone, he sneered.
"Selene, I know you're still in love with me. You've loved me across two lifetimes. I'm the most exceptional Alpha you'll ever know."
"But you need to stop destroying yourself over me."
I ignored him, pulling my son into my arms.
Damian's eyes flared crimson, his wolf's control slipping.
"You told me you would only ever bear my pups!"
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The Broken Signet Ring
On the night of the Benedetto family's Harvest Festival, my Mafia husband, Salvatore, told me to bring our son, Giuseppe, to the family gathering.
He said his madre had finally accepted us into the Benedetto bloodline.
I was trembling with excitement in our little cottage as I dressed Giuseppe in his finest little suit.
He had carved a single wooden rose by hand, a project he'd saved for over five years.
He said he would present it to his grandmother at the celebration, a plea for her to accept our place in the family.
But the moment we stepped into the stone manor, I saw Carmela.
Salvatore had her pinned against an oak barrel in a deep, searing kiss.
In the moonlight, her hand was undoing his tie.
In front of everyone, Salvatore smiled and gently pushed her away. He walked toward the family members gathered in a semicircle and raised a crystal glass.
"Tonight, in addition to celebrating the harvest, I have an important announcement."
"I would like to introduce you all to the woman I have married in the eyes of God and the Church."
"Miss Carmela Torrino."
Before I could even process his words, Giuseppe tore his hand from mine and rushed forward.
"Papa, what are you saying?"
"Isn't my mother your wife?"
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After She Blocked Me Ninety-Nine Times, My Wolf Is Dying
The ninety-ninth time my mate, Valeria, the pack's Alpha Female, blocked our mind-link, I dragged myself, ravaged by Soul-Decay, into the Hall of Covenants.
The cold marble steps bit at my bare feet, each one sending a lancing pain through my chest.
In the final stages of Soul-Decay, I'd lost my healing abilities. Even the simple act of walking was agony.
"I'm here to request a severance of my mate bond."
The covenant official took in my pale, gaunt frame, his gaze softening with pity.
"Sir," he asked quietly, "don't you have a pack to support you?"
I've been invisible to my parents ever since my father brought home my adoptive brother, Silas, when I was ten.
And while Valeria was my mate, it was in name only. We had never held a public marking ceremony.
She rarely brought me to pack gatherings. Most of the pack wouldn't even recognize me.
I wiped away the blood welling at the corner of my mouth.
"That doesn't matter anymore," I told the official.
"A dying wolf needs no pack."
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Three Days to Ash
When my Prince shattered our Eternal Blood Vow for the ninety-ninth time, I dragged my drained, broken body to the Tribunal of Vows.
"I am here to request the dissolution of my Eternal Blood Vow with the Prince of the Kindred."
Ten minutes later, Damien stormed in with Isabella in tow.
The Prince of the Kindred strode toward me, his hand shooting out to clamp around my neck before he slammed me against a cold marble pillar.
"You'd go so far as to dissolve our vow just because you're jealous of Isabella's promotion? Has the bloodlust driven you completely insane?"
My mother Eleanor's voice echoed icily through our bond. "Forging lab results to play the victim, all for his attention. You've always been so deceitful."
Tears of blood welled in Isabella's eyes as she tugged on Damien's arm. "I'm so sorry, Seraphina. I never should have accepted this position. Please, stop putting yourself—and the Prince—through this!"
I wiped away the tears of blood seeping from my eyes and faced the tribunal official once more.
"I no longer have the protection of a clan. So that I may turn to ash in three days, please help me complete the dissolution ceremony."
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Frequently Asked Questions
Shirley Rousseau Murphy's cat mystery series is her biggest claim to fame, hands down. Most people who know her name are thinking of those Joe Grey books. 'Cat on the Edge' kicked it all off, and the whole series about a feline detective who can talk to his human pals just has this cozy yet weirdly intense charm. It's a massive, long-running set of novels that basically define her career.
If you're looking for her most popular standalone, 'The Catswold Portal' gets mentioned a lot, too. It blends fantasy with cats in a way that predates a lot of modern stuff. Honestly, outside of the Joe Grey world, her earlier fantasy novels like 'The Dragonbards' have a dedicated but smaller following. For sheer popularity and volume, it's the cat sleuth books every time.
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