Stay Awake Megan Goldin

When Valentina met Matteo in 2019, they both felt as if they’d known each other before. Everybody knows Matteo Giudice is the first son of a billionaire who is probably, but not surely, the head of the Sicilian mafia. Everything he does seems to be for his own pleasure even though there’s a certain darkness to him that seems to follow him everywhere he goes. Burnt-out from a young age due to his generational wealth, being bored is his biggest problem in life. Valentina is the daughter of a successful Russian businessman and has always flown under the radar at school but now seems to be everywhere and nowhere at the same time. There’s something a bout her, as if she has something nobody else possesses, that stirs up Matteo’s interest in the first place. Somewhere along the way of trying to figure each other out they unintentionally fall in love. When buried secrets come out, their lives turn into a deadly game of power, in which love and war have no choice but to co-exist. A slow-burn coming of age mafia romance novel, in which the only thing the protagonists know for sure is that fate doesn't care if you're ready for the love of your life. Part 1 of the Games We Play works.

Amara was born of royal blood, meant for greatness until a lie shattered her life. Orphaned, cursed, and stripped of her wolf, she grew up as a slave in the Silverbow Pack, suffering pain and shame while holding dreams of freedom.Alpha Thorne, the strong boss of the Silverbow Pack, is a wolf who values strength above all else. When he finds Amara is his fated mate, he rejects her without a doubt, calling her unworthy of his side. His choice sets off a chain of events that will uncover secrets, spark rivals, and awaken a forgotten power.Banished and broken, Amara discovers the truth about her heritage: she is the last daughter of the Silver Luna, a wolf goddess meant to join the packs. As she rises from the ashes, reclaiming her strength and unlocking her secret powers, she must face her past and the enemies who threaten to destroy her future.With three dangerous foes closing in an angry rival Alpha, a clever betrayer within, and a rogue witch bent on her destruction Amara must decide: can she trust the Alpha who rejected her?Amidst lies, second chances, and forbidden love, Amara goes on a journey of self-discovery, revenge, and forgiveness. Will she rise as the Silver Luna and recover her fate, or will her enemies succeed in breaking her world apart?

“The Game begins in three days. Ensure they are physically fit for island deployment.”  My heart clutched.  …the Slave Games?  We weren’t brought here to work. We were brought here to die! “That’s why you brought us here?” I seethed. “The Moon Goddess will punish you! She punishes every werewolf who treats human life as worthless!”  Kalev reached out and gripped my chin, forcing me to meet his gaze.  “You’re brave,” he said. “You’re an Empty Shell. You won’t make it far. But I’m curious to see how your bravery serves in the game.” *****My boyfriend and my best friend sold me into slavery. Along with slaves from across the Seven Districts, I was sent to an island to fight and die in a bloodbath staged for the entertainment of the Capital nobility. When my wolf awakened, my wolf told me that my mate was the man who created this game: Kalev Morven.

She was sold as a breeder. He bought her for three hundred coins. Neither expected the mate bond that would destroy them both. 🌺 Isabella never had a wolf. Labeled defective and sold to Alpha Nolan of Silvermoon Pack, she was nothing more than a body to use and discard. But on her eighteenth birthday, when she enters his chambers, the impossible happens—the mate bond ignites between them. Alpha Nolan feels it too. But he's in love with Luna Giselle, his beautiful betrothed. He refuses to accept a wolfless omega as his fated mate. After a night of cruel passion, he rejects Isabella publicly, shattering the bond and her heart. Heartbroken and hunted by Giselle's assassins, Isabella flees into the forest. Rescue comes from Alpha Kieran of Crescent Moon Pack, who discovers her shocking truth: Isabella isn't a werewolf at all. She's a lycan princess, stolen as an infant and lost to her royal family for eighteen years. And the pregnancy growing inside her—Alpha Nolan's child—has awakened her dormant powers and her wolf. A wolf unlike any other: pink-furred, ancient, and powerful beyond measure. Three months later, Alpha Nolan arrives at Crescent Moon for a treaty renewal, still haunted by a bond that refuses to die. When he discovers Isabella alive, pregnant, and revealed as lycan royalty, he realizes his catastrophic mistake. But it's too late. Alpha Kieran has found Isabella's true lycan mate, and Luna Giselle is plotting with vampires to destroy the woman who threatens everything. Caught between the mate who rejected her, the destined mate waiting for her, and a vengeful Luna with deadly secrets, Isabella must embrace her power as the pink wolf and choose her own fate. "You rejected me when I was nothing. Now I'm everything you can't have."

She shouldn't have existed. But out of love, her Aunt Lily stashed Maridelle to the human community where she lives like a human. But one unfortunate night turned everything she knows about her own identity upside down. She fled the authority and took shelter under the care of the mateless Alpha Lachlan Caruso. They both felt the spark of the mate bond, but will he be able to love her when he witnesses her true identity being uncovered by unfortunate events? Will Alpha Lachlan be able to accept her as his hybrid luna? Will he choose to protect her?

Prime is the most dangerous lycan in the history of the supernatural and he has found his match. Taiti is running from her psychopathic father, who has wanted her dead since the moment she was born. Taiti runs into the arms of Cassian Cole, the wolven heir who might even be Prime reincarnated himself. Cassian fights what he is, pushing down the beast so deep that it is forced to sleep. You can not tame a primal spirit, which is the impossible task that Taiti must face. She needs him to protect her from her father but most of all she needs him to protect her from herself. The mind is a dangerous place. Will love prevail and save us all? Or will the tyrant Prime, first Lycan rise again? BOOK ONE IN THE PRIME TRILOGY

Aurora Hayes, a fifteen-year-old orphan, lives in the of Silver Creek, North Carolina. Raised by her adoptive parents, attending Pine Ridge High School, believing she’s just an ordinary girl. Everything begins to change when Rowan Rivers, a mysterious new student, transfers to Pine Ridge after his previous school burns down. Almost immediately, Rowan senses a connection to Aurora and realizes she’s his mate. The only problem? Aurora is human. To stay close to her, Rowan joins the school’s football team. Zander Blake, the brooding quarterback of there football team, has always made Aurora’s life difficult. But as her sixteenth birthday approaches, his teasing takes a turn. On the day she turns sixteen, Zander is stunned to discover that Aurora is also his mate. With both boys wanting her attention and harboring tension between themselves Aurora is caught in the middle, completely unaware of the supernatural forces surrounding her. That is, until a rogue werewolf attacks the school shatters her perception of reality. Aurora learns that werewolves exist and that she has an unpredictable connection to their world. Yet, despite Rowan and Zander’s certainty about the bond with her, Aurora feels nothing in return. Confused and overwhelmed, she begins to question everything. Her identity unravels when it’s revealed that the magical bracelet she’s worn since birth was enchanted to suppress her true nature. As the spell begins to fade, Aurora starts to uncover secrets about her identity, including the reason she was sent away. Now, with her world turned upside down, Aurora must come to terms with who she is. Torn between two rival mates Rowan, the gentle protector, and Zander, the reformed bully with a complicated heart Aurora must forge her own path and embrace the destiny she never saw coming.

There's so much one can endure before they finally break. That's what happened to Kiara. Accused of causing Vivian to lose the future heir of Stone Howl pack, her father bears the brunt. Alpha Hunter, Her mate, kills him before her very own eyes. Her best friend is murdered brutally and the crime pinned on her. Thrown to the dungeons and tortured, her wolf deserts her. When she is freed and banished, she attempts to take her life only to wake up on a rival pack. What's more unexpected is finding out that she has a second chance mate, Alpha Darius. To him, she is a spy he should be wary of despite his growing feelings. To Kiara, he is another heartless bastard she should stay away from. But when the Silverlight pack is endangered, only she can save them. Secrets are revealed.She is not an ordinary wolf, she is the last descendant of the Royal White Wolf and possesses a power that can burn to ashes or build. Will Kiara believe in a matebond again? A conspiracy is brooding and she must fight for her new family.

I had created a monster. I had unleashed a devil to the world and I would do anything to drag him back to hell with me. If I must burn, then he would burn with me. Six years. Six years I had been by his side as his wife, his political strategist. Helping him. Loving him. But, when I needed him the most, he betrayed me. Now, I was back. Traumatised. Hurt, but…stronger. Stronger because I wasn't alone, stronger bevause he failed and I survived. I would strip him of everything I had spent six years building for him and then smash his face to the mud and remind him it was where he had always belonged. But then again, Zayne Castellan–the man who had saved me, the man who had bought my loyalty while I laid fractured by betrayal. Merciless, cruel…calm. Loyalty in exchange for my survival. I had fallen for him but even he …was worse than the devil I wanted to burn….

As the only pureblood vampire of her generation, Esper was expected to choose a husband by the end of her 21st winter. It was something that she had been looking forward to since she had come of age. Some of the most sought after bachelors have traveled from around the globe just to compete for her hand. But she never expected to capture the attention of two suitors. Her heart is torn between the quiet but romantic Seraph Solar, the heir of the prestigious Imperial Guard, and the ever brooding Maxim Huiyan, the CFO of one of the oldest vampire enterprises: Xiafeng Legacies. How would she choose between them? And would the one she rejects give her away willingly to the other?