Steven Universe Joy Ride

My anxiety spiked during our wedding photoshoot. A sharp pain stabbed through my chest. My fiancé, Caius—the Falcone family heir—was helping his adoptive sister, Fiorella, try on my wedding dress. He didn't even spare me a glance. He was on one knee, focused on adjusting the lace on Fiorella’s hem. Before we’d even left the shop, Fiorella posted a selfie in the dress. She was all smiles, my fiancé standing beside her, posed like her groom. Calmly, I pulled out my phone. I sent a message to a painter I keep on retainer. "A royal portrait. The two of them. Old-world style. Use the cheapest materials you can find. I want the frame dripping with fake diamonds. Make it look like trash." I'll have it sent to Fiorella. A wedding present. The note will be simple. "A work of art as priceless as your bond. Best wishes on your wedding."

West Ryder. Also known as the son of Gilbert Ryder, a business tycoon who runs legal and illegal businesses. Numerous people have attempted to dismantle and compete with their company, but nobody has been successful. West is feared by everyone who knows him; his family has many contacts, so he can get out of whatever trouble he gets into. Not until he meets Cheska Herrera, the woman who will change his life. Would he sacrifice everything he has for her? Or let the enemy ruin the plan he has on marrying her.

At the wedding, I immediately recognized that the woman under the veil wasn't Selene, but an impostor. But I still went through with the ceremony as if nothing was wrong. In my previous life, Selene had been forced to return and complete the wedding with me after I exposed the fake bride in front of everyone. That very night, however, her childhood sweetheart was rushed to the ICU with acute alcohol poisoning. When Selene heard the news, she didn't shed a tear. Instead, she cursed him, saying he got what he deserved. … After we married, Selene and I appeared to be a loving couple on the surface. I kept funneling money from my family to save her family business from collapse. But on our first anniversary, my wife—with not even a sliver of warmth in her eyes—tied me to a helicopter with her own hands. "If you hadn't forced me to come back and marry you that day, Chase wouldn't have ended up like that," she snarled. "What right do you have to live so happily? I'll make sure you feel the pain he went through before he died." She threw me from ten thousand yards up, and I hit the ground as nothing more than a broken heap of flesh. So, this time, I pretended to know nothing and went through with the wedding alongside the fake bride. I wanted to see just how Selene would manage to save the crumbling Liraine Co. without the Schreiber family's support.

One girl. Three monsters. A debt signed in blood. I thought the worst thing about returning to the Blackwood estate was facing the step-brothers who hated me. I was wrong. After my father's mysterious death, I've been summoned back to the ancestral manor in the heart of the Bavarian Alps, and this time it’s not as an heir, but as a prisoner. Killian, Malachi, and Rodger are no longer the boys I grew up with. They're Lycan royalty now: cold, lethal, and devastatingly beautiful. Now, they blame my bloodline for the curse that's killing their pack. Killian, the tattooed Alpha with an ice-cold soul, wants me broken, while Malachi, the silent enforcer, wants me silenced, and Rodger, the golden-eyed devil, wants me ruined. They've claimed me as their "Caged Bride"—their plaything, their captive, and their only hope for an heir. Their bloodline is dying, and they need a catalyst. A human girl who can carry an Alpha's mark without burning out. When Killian dragged me to the North Tower and pressed me against the cold stone, I begged. I promised everything. "Anything?" he whispered, his thumb tracing my lip. I told him I'd kill myself before I let them touch me. He kissed me like he'd been waiting a decade for permission to ruin me. Now, as the moon rises and the heat takes hold, the line between revenge and obsession blurs. In this house of wolves and secrets, the brother I hate most might be the only one who can keep me alive. The hunt has begun, and I'm the prize.

Selene, born in the Highlands of the North, has grown up her whole life, unaware of the commitment her parents made for her since her birth and how they have always overprotected her. Now, at eighteen years old, she is brought before King Frederick of Astor, a young, handsome man, but very serious and firm in his royal decisions; and who, from that moment on, will be her betrothed. As the king's virgin bride, she will be presented to the entire kingdom, before marrying the man she has been sold to, but does not love, as her heart belongs to her friend Henry, a handsome and very kind boy, with whom she had a secret friendship, but who never confessed to her that he is the king's cousin. What begins as a loveless marriage slowly transforms into a pure and strong love, but one that Henry's ambition will act against, as he has always wanted to be the king of what he firmly believes is rightfully his and was taken from him in the past.

Rayna is a 27-year-old dance choreography instructor. She falls in love with one of her celebrity clients who betrays her. Needing a break she books a 3 month stay at a secluded resort. She meets the local Club owner Liam, and the attraction is off the charts. Liam is wealthy and has secrets. Even though his kind aren't allowed to marry humans, he can't fight what he feels. He's all in and to hell with the consequences. One of the local ladies is crazy. The trouble she causes pushes Rayna and Liam closer together. There are major obstacles in the way that they overcome together. The rules they live by, threaten to keep the couples apart. Life finds a way. Rayna's heritage shocks them. Their trip to Germany sheds light on everything. Another enemy emerges who’ll stop at only death to have her. A surprise pregnancy changes everything they knew. The next generation will prove to be very powerful. Rayna questions everything she believes. And when it comes to light, her life and others will never be the same again. Becoming the Blue Moon Luna. Rae is fed up with men. Her bestie talks her into playing a paranormal dating game.. It's real people pretending to be paranormal dates. It's just for fun, just for chatting. The game is fake, it’s not real, no way it can be right? Werewolves don't exist! Follow her story as she learns werewolves do exist. And makes the decision to get turned and become the Blue Moon Luna despite those against her. But wait, they find out she’s a special Luna. She fights off a wolf who wants Jake in a death match. The packs are having low mating rates, and she comes up with a plan to fix that.

Claire's heart is torn between her past and her future. She's caught in a web of love, regret, and uncertainty. Two men, both important to her, wait in the wings. Drake, the love she once knew, and Chase, the quiet presence who's always been there for her. But which path should she choose? Can she find a way to heal and love again without hurting someone she cares about?

“Cursed child. Bad omen. The Alpha’s doomed bride.” That’s what they called me since the night I was born under the blood moon. ****** Desdemona is a cursed child right from birth, her skin marked by the moon itself. In a society where humans despise werewolves, Desdemona carries the cruel fate of being bound to one. Hated. Mocked. Even her own parents look at her with disgust, showering love only on her perfect sister while treating her as nothing but a burden. But curses don’t break easily. And her destiny waits in the shadows — the day she becomes the Alpha’s Cursed Bride. When she is forced to marry Alpha Alaric. Sold out by her own people, betrayed by her family, she must now survive in a pack of wolves where every whisper and glance could mean death. And the prophecy hangs over her, will she live, or will the curse claim her first?

THE CAPO'S DEADLY BRIDE : SHH... I TAME REAL MEN. Delilah Flynn is an orphan living in Ashwood City with her aunt. She has a gorgeous face and that curvy body that no man could resist. She is true beauty! At day, Delilah works as a coffee shop owner, but at night, she is the sexy pole dancer who steals the spotlight. She does not just ignite the desires in men, she tame them and bend them to her will. Suddenly, she is trapped in a web, where she is forced to get married to a dangerous man in the Cosa Nostra's organisation, Marco Donato. Her in-laws believed that she was the perfect, holy, submissive wife for Marco Donato, but no, she is not. She is the one who drags him by his tie, licks his ear lobe, and whispers, "Shh... I tame real men." [Warning: This book contains graphic violence, dark content, explicit scenes, rape (not between ML and FL), explicit language, and mature themes. It may be triggering for some readers due to scenes of violence, coercion, and emotional distress.] Author: @Royalmary23

He found the idea of having a wife distasteful and repulsive, but why does his heart beat faster every time he sees HER? ********** Catherine Jones is a gorgeous and successful journalist, slowly mending her broken heart after a devastating betrayal from her long-term boyfriend and envious stepsister. Her miserable life takes an unexpected turn when she gets a marriage proposal from the most powerful king in the world, who sees her potential. Shawn Ivan Larson, the sinfully handsome billionaire King of Australia, was under immense pressure to find a suitable bride to assist with royal duties. ‘The people need a Queen.’ Unfortunately, his personality was as icy, cold, and ruthless as the Arctic sea, sending chills down the spines of those who dared to cross his path. What’s worse? A past betrayal from his first love made him harbor a deep-seated hatred toward the opposite gender. How can he cope with having a wife?