Starsector Outer Reaches Novels & Stories

I chase my six-year-old daughter out of the house on a cold winter day. I cut her new clothes to pieces and dirty her dainty little face with mud. Then, I give her all my savings. She looks at me tearfully and reaches out for me, wanting me to hold her. However, I harden my heart and push her away, saying, "Leave! Go to Bowen Group and look for their CEO, Logan Bowen. Show him my death certificate and your DNA test—he'll take you in." She sobs while looking at me. "Don't you want me anymore, Mommy? Let's go look for Daddy together." After a brief silence, I say, "I can't go with you. I lied to him back then to have you." Yes, I'm a liar. I orchestrated everything from meeting Logan, dating him, to ultimately leaving him with his child in my womb. Even the death certificate I've given my daughter is fake. From beginning to end, I've lied to him about everything except our daughter.

Twelve years as the perfect adopted daughter... All was erased the moment the Vaughn family’s real daughter returned. Overnight, Elara Vaughn became a thief in their eyes. Everything she had was suddenly someone else’s. Love turned to hatred, and home turned into a cage. To atone for a life she never stole, Elara was forced into a marriage that destroyed her... Humiliated, broken, and discarded until death finally claimed her. But fate gives her a second chance. Reborn one day before the wedding, Elara woke up with every memory of her past life intact, and a heart that refuses to break again... VENGEANCE! This time, she will pretend to submit. This time, she will control every move. And this time, she reaches out to the one man she rejected in her past life... the only person who once offered her salvation and love... Lucien Hale, the most powerful and ruthless man in the country. As secrets unravel and the Vaughn family’s hypocrisy is exposed, Elara learns that revenge doesn’t only require truth, but it also requires cruelty. They wanted a sacrifice... Instead, they created a monster, who will bring their downfall.

Humanity reaches its untimely demise after the discovery of shifters. The war between those who became wolves and those born raged for three centuries. Jaykob Tyler and his pack know that they can't lead what remains of the world. Not with the way they grew up. Dagmar Tyler has the perfect life. As perfect as it can get when the world is at war with itself. It wasn't always perfect. She'd seen things little girls should never have to see, but her brother and his friends had always looked after her and ensured she always had everything she needed. Coming of age, born Alpha Female comes with complications. The probability of a mate, a wolf spirit, and the responsibility of those who can't fend for themselves. It terrifies her—all of it. The last thing she thought of was finding her mate only to come face to face with Miles and Micca. Her childhood friends and Jayk's enforcers who have been watching over her for years. Keeping her out of trouble and making sure she did everything that was expected of her. The pack has plans for her, plans that offer a happily ever after she never wanted.

Nineteen-year-old Adele McAllister has a secret crush on her twenty-six-year-old stepbrother, Killian Black, who was the silver-furred Beta of a hidden werewolf pack. Killian has spent months hiding a secret and suppressing a forbidden-love attraction for the girl he considers to be his stepsister until the night he rescues her from a predatory stranger at a club. The ice between them doesn't just melt; it incinerates, revealing the secret that Killian is a member of an undercover werewolf pack. To save Adele from being killed or having her memories erased by the pack’s iron-fisted Alpha, Killian initiates a mating bond with his stepsister, dragging her into a supernatural world of secrecy and jealousy. As Adele undergoes a series of grueling, trauma-filled trials to prove her worth to the pack, the sexual tension between the "step-siblings" reaches a breaking point. Defying the Alpha’s direct orders, they give in to a night of raw, unprotected sex that strengthens their bond but paints a target on their backs. With a jealous rival seeking to sever their mate bond and a conspiratorial uncle plotting their demise, Killian and Adele must choose to uphold the laws of the pack or burn it all down for a love that was never meant to be.

Alpha Dominic Crane is in potential trouble. He is about to be challenged by his half-brother, who has just recently taken over their Uncle's pack a week after his death. And although Dom has a dangerous reputation himself, his brother doesn't care and will do anything to collect Dom's territory, even if it means war for both their packs. Afraid that he might be outmatched due to their late uncle's connections, Dom creates a drastic plan.  Natalie West is stuck. As a female werewolf and the daughter of an alpha, one would think she has it all. But she doesn't because she is weak. Or so they all think. When she discovers her father has secured a loveless mating with an Alpha she hates with every fiber of her being, Natalie reaches her last straw. But then an Alpha more ruthless than her fiancé comes blazing into her life with a dangerous proposition that could potentially start a war, but also give her freedom. And Natalie is very tempted to go through with it.  What they both don't know is that things are not as cut-throat as they think. For fate, their wolves, and a very mysterious enemy have other plans for them. 

I had been in a secret relationship with my mafia boyfriend, Dante Castellano, for seven years. No public contact. No photos together. No proof I had ever stood by his side. He told me, "Once I'm powerful enough that no one dares touch you, I'll make it official." I believed him. The day before our seventh anniversary, I found a ten-carat diamond ring in his suit jacket. I cried with joy, thinking seven years of hiding were finally over. The next morning, I wore my most expensive dress and sprayed on the only perfume he had ever given me. I practiced my smile in the mirror, the one I would give when he proposed. Then, my phone lit up with a breaking news alert. [Breaking News: Seven-Year Love Story Reaches Perfect Ending—Romance Blogger Alessia Romano Accepts Boyfriend's 100th Proposal!] In the photo, the influencer with eight million followers stood on her tiptoes, kissing a man. His hand rested on the back of her neck. On that hand was a scar I would never mistake. It was the scar Dante got when he took a knife for me.

“Are you here to pimp yourself just like your mother? Your mother took away my father and now you're aiming for his son?” Icy words whispered that felt like needles prickling in my own skin. The thought gave a frightful shudder. This man, powerful enough to throw me to the pit hole filled with sharks, hates my very existence ever since my mother and I stepped into their lives. ====================== Nina Caulfield has sworn not to meet Luca de Milano again. After all, her mother is the mistress who caused the divorce of his parents. When she reaches eighteen, her mother announces her wedding which will be held in Spain next year. Now that she's busy preparing for the wedding, Nina has no choice but to live with Luca until she graduates. Luca de Milano, Merger and Acquisition CEO of Milano Inc., is forced to be a guardian of the reminder of his broken view of a perfect family. A hapless girl with no redeeming qualities and her future stepbrother striving for perfection. Now, what happens when two polar opposites get stuck together under the same roof for a year? ===== SLOW BURN ROMANCE WITH HEA , R18+ later on======

Princess Evelyn was born powerless in a kingdom where magic meant everything. Mocked as weak and unworthy, she spent her life as the shame of the royal family. But when a deadly war threatens the kingdom, her father, King Thorne, sacrifices her to save his throne by marrying her off to the cursed king, a ruthless ruler feared across the seven kingdoms. The cursed king is said to have slaughtered all twenty of his brides on the night of their wedding, and Evelyn is sent to become the twenty-first victim. Terrified and waiting for death, Evelyn watches as the king enters their chamber. The air turns cold, his beast raging beneath his skin… until her scent reaches him. Suddenly, the monster within him becomes silent. He steps closer, grabs her by the neck, and lifts her trembling face to his. His dark eyes lock onto hers as he whispers against her ear: “You are the only thing that can calm my beast… and that is exactly why you must never love me.” But in a kingdom filled with curses, secrets, and forbidden desires, Evelyn soon realizes the most dangerous thing isn’t the king’s beast, it’s the way her heart begins to crave him.

Evy was a simple-minded girl. If there's work she's there. Evy is a known workaholic. She works day and night, dedicating each of her waking hours to her jobs and making sure that she reaches the deadline. On the day of her birthday, her body gave up and she died alone from exhaustion. Upon receiving the chance of a new life, she was reincarnated as the daughter of the Duke of Polvaros and acquired the prose of living a comfortable life ahead of her. Only she doesn't want that. She wants to work. Even if it's being a maid, a hired killer, or an adventurer. She will do it. The only thing wrong with Evy is that she has no concept of reincarnation or being isekaid. In her head, she was kidnapped to a faraway land… stranded in a place far away from Japan. So she has to learn things as she goes with as little knowledge as anyone else. Having no sense of ever knowing that she was living in fantasy nor knowing the destruction that lies ahead in the future. Evy will do her best to live the life she wanted and surprise a couple of people on the way. Unbeknownst to her, all her actions will make a ripple. Whether they be for the better or worse.... Evy has no clue.

"He owns you. Whatever he tells you to do, you do". One year. No future. A past that won't go away. Lennox "Nox" Demetri broke his own rule by making a deal. It may not have been directly with the devil, but that doesn't mean Satan himself isn't watching. Was it fate that brought Charli into his life and his bed? What will happen when rules are broken and secrets are revealed? "New rules...my rules." Alex "Charli" Collins found pleasure with Nox like she'd never known. That was before she knew his last name. Now that Infidelity is involved and the rules have changed, what will result when real life and fantasy collide? Is it really cheating if you're doing it to yourself? From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Aleatha Romig comes a sexy, new dominant hero who knows what he wants and a strong-willed heroine who has plans of her own. With classic Aleatha Romig twists, turns, deceptions, and devotions, the depth of this new, epic dark romance reaches new levels and will have readers swooning one minute and screaming the next. Have you been Aleatha'd?