Synonym Steady Novels & Stories

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?"

He told me he wouldn't call. I told him he would. I was right. He pushed me away. I pushed back. He put a gun in my nightstand and a penthouse key in my palm and told me he'd burn the whole city down before he let anyone touch me. "You're playing a dangerous game,Gaby." "I've been playing a dangerous game since the night I sat down at your table." He's a killer. I knew that from the start. The silver hair. The steady hands. The way his body moves before his brain has time to catch up. He's possessive. Ruthless. Cold as the blade he used to carry-until he's not. Until his fingers are in my hair and his mouth is on my throat and every rule he's ever made about keeping people out goes up in smoke. "I can't promise you a future." "Then promise me tonight."

For six years, Lumi thought she had everything: a steady relationship with her devoted fiancé, Caius, and the promise of a perfect future. But the night before her engagement party, Lumi walks in on a betrayal she never imagined, Caius in the arms of her own cousin, Wren. With her heart shattered, Lumi decides it’s time to stop being the good girl. She creates a daring “sin list”—ten bold rules to break before the year ends. Rule #1: seduce a stranger. But when that stranger turns out to be none other than Caius’ older brother, the dangerously alluring and untouchable Briggs, Lumi’s game of revenge ignites a fire neither of them can control. As each “sin” on her list pushes them closer, Lumi will have to decide if vengeance is worth the price, because loving him might be the most dangerous sin of all. WARNING: This story contains mature content, including explicit scenes, intense emotional conflict, obsessive behavior, and dark romantic elements. All characters are adults, and the narrative explores complex, sometimes uncomfortable dynamics.

Kim has spent most of her life on the edges—quiet, guarded, invisible. At nineteen, she’s only just beginning to learn what it means to be seen, to want, to belong. Erik was never meant to be more than a safe place, a steady presence in a world that once hurt her too deeply. He’s older, scarred by a past he doesn’t talk about, and painfully aware that loving her might mean holding her back. What begins as comfort turns into something dangerous: a love built in stolen mornings, unsaid fears, and promises neither of them knows how to keep. When Luca enters the picture—warm, easy, and part of the life Kim has never lived—everything Erik fears starts to feel inevitable. A single party. One careless moment. One kiss seen by the wrong eyes. Now Kim is torn between the man she comes home to and the future she’s only just daring to imagine, while Erik must decide whether love means fighting for her… or letting her go.

Trigger warning! This book includes violence and explicit scenes targeting adult audience (18+). Readers discretion is adviced. *** "I'll give you a life filled with so much pleasure that you forget all the pain you ever went through". *** Living her life as an object, hurt and killed by her father and twin sister, Raven over and over again, Haven grows in a world of fear and survival. Trying her best to get by everyday. Until she meets Urian, the lycan king who is not supposed to have a mate. Creating a bond more stronger than anything that has ever existed. Leaving a world she has always known, her world of hell. And leaving her father and Raven to go into a whole new world. One that was meant to be her new hell, one that was meant to be unbearable, she soon realizes that a love she never knew could exist, one so strong and steady, was now with her and Urian has no plans of ever letting her go. He is ready to show her a taste of paradise every time and everywhere.

Raegan Denise Cristobal thought she had found the ideal man, until his love turned abusive, leaving her bruised and broken. Having finally had enough of the pain, she turns to her sister for a lifeline. With her sister's help, Raegan flees the city and finds herself hiding in an unfamiliar, quiet place called Sitio Maligaya. There, far from the terror of her past, she crosses paths with Dominic Traise Rosario. Dominic is everything her ex-boyfriend was not: gentle, steady, and protective. But underneath his calm exterior lies a dark past and a heavy regret that haunts him to this day. As their lives intertwine in the serenity of the countryside, an undeniable bond begins to grow. Dominic becomes her unexpected knight, guarding her fragile peace. But just as Raegan dares to believe in love and healing again, her worst nightmare returns. Her abusive ex-boyfriend tracks her down to Sitio Maligaya, ready to terrorize her once more. With danger looming, will Dominic be able to save his duchess, or will the ghosts of both their pasts destroy their chance at a new beginning?

Trained since childhood to be nothing but a weapon, Esme has lived under her father’s harsh hand. Poison runs in her veins, bruises mark her skin, and every lesson ends with a reminder; kill the king, or her mother dies. Sent into the werewolf palace as a kitchen maid, she waits for her moment, vial and blade hidden beneath her apron. But nothing in her father’s drills prepared her for King Ardon. The first time their eyes lock, something raw and dangerous stirs inside her, a pull she doesn’t understand and cannot control. Each day she spends in his halls, each command spoken in that steady voice, makes her mission harder to carry out. The court whispers. Enemies circle and Lady Selene sharpens her claws, determined to claim the crown by Ardon’s side. And Esme, trapped between loyalty to the man who raised her and the strange fire rising within her, stands on the edge of a truth she’s not ready to face. She was sent to kill the king, but she may be fated to love him.

I had been sold into several marriages by my stepmother, each one meant to chip away at my late father’s debt. Each time, I lost a little more of myself. This time, she betrothed me to Adrian a man she called poor, useless, and beneath me. She claimed he came from a struggling family and wasn’t worth a second glance. Without hesitation, she signed me away permanently, ignoring my tears and desperate pleas. But on our wedding night, everything I thought I knew shattered. Adrian wasn’t weak. He wasn’t ordinary. With a steady gaze and a commanding presence, he revealed a truth that left me breathless he was the hidden CEO of the most powerful business empire in the country. I thought I had been condemned to misery. Instead, I had married a man who could make the world bow at his feet. But power always comes with secrets… and I was about to find out if he was my salvation or my downfall.

At the sweltering precinct of Riverside, Camila Gonzales is already a familiar face, a sharp-tongued high school senior with colored streaks in her hair and a reputation for trouble. She claims she doesn’t care what anyone thinks, least of all the police. Especially not them. Then Officer Asher Flores transfers in. Calm, composed, and impossibly unreadable, Asher sees through her sarcasm in a way no one else ever has. When Camila deliberately takes the blame for a street thief she secretly tried to stop, he realizes her defiance isn’t recklessness, it’s protection. And when he threatens to formally charge her, she laughs, as if detention would be a relief. Camila hates cops. Asher is one. But beneath her hostility is a girl who’s never been listened to, and behind his steady authority is a man who quietly chooses to see the truth. What begins as a clash between a guarded delinquent and a principled officer may become something far more dangerous, an understanding neither of them expected, and neither of them is prepared for.

Eliza Rivers comes back from her vacation trip and accidentally hits someone with her car. Right from the start, Eliza had not been in a good mood, and it only seemed to worsen after the accident. Deciding to take him back to her house to treat him, she realizes she didn’t just hit her car on anyone, she hit the billionaire Kael Blackthorn. She knew him, or she only knew what little the internet knew. Amongst other eligible bachelor, Kael was the most reserved one amongst them. “You don’t have to pay me.” “I am not.” Kael’s voice was steady and calm, a contrast to Eliza shaken ones. “You should leave.” Eliza’s knew she shouldn’t get involved with him, at all. She had just met him a couple of days ago, and he was already making her feel so sort of way. “You feel it too. Don’t you?” “I don’t. I really don’t”