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I thought the worst betrayal of my life was waking up in the bed of the man I loved… only for him to throw me out and claim another woman as his bride. Austin had been my best friend for fifteen years. The night we finally crossed the line, I believed it meant something. Instead, he used me to protect the woman he truly wanted. So I made the most reckless lie of my life. In front of my mocking family, I declared I was already engaged to the most powerful and terrifying Alpha in the city—Santos De Luca. The problem? Santos is powerful, ruthless… and the man who hated me the most! Desperate to save my pride, I went to him for help, expecting rejection. Instead, Santos agreed to pretend to be my fiancé. Cold. Arrogant. Dangerous. A man who looks at the world like it’s a game he’s already won. But what begins as a fake engagement quickly turns dangerous as our families, enemies, and jealous rivals begin to circle. The closer I and Santos grow, the more our hatred begins to blur into something neither of them understands. But when our past begins to wake up, we realize loving each other might destroy the entire werewolf world.

Warning!! Warning!! Matured Content here. This book is rated 18+ and there are a lot of sexual Activities, Raw Words and Hot Romance. Read at your own Risk. Meet Dae, a sassy, rude, arrogant and bad-mouthed Billionaire daughter and a successful Millionaire woman in Korea. Watching Zee World movies had made her think every man is romantic but when she realized that all her Korean boyfriends weren't romantic like Abhishek in Twist of Fate. She decided to take a vacation to India where she met Niral Vanhi, a half India and half Mexico. Niral Vanhi is a proud sassy, rude, arrogant and bad-mouthed Billionaire in India who believes everyone is beneath him. Dae became his captive when a bet went wrong. But Niral has a deep secret. "I don't believe in plastic surgery, but in your case, go ahead," Niral said to Dae. "People say that laughter is the best medicine, your face must be curing the world." Dae fired back. Niral's father, a handsome wicked Mafia Lord, wanted Dae at all cost but she was his son Leopard Mate.

Hillary-Williams is a struggling physiotherapist whose life is not so beautiful. After losing her father to cancer, she gave up on the word called forever. But everything changed when she saved Loukas from falling to his death. An act of kindness that leads to her forever Loukas-Whitemore had it all: money, looks, and a large fortune, but he led a miserable life. After surviving a ghastly accident fourteen years ago, Loukas's life has been far from ordinary. The accident left half his body paralyzed, and he considered his condition a curse. One night, he decided to end it all, but he was saved by a girl who wanted him to live. The agreement opens a new chapter in their lives. A secret was revealed, and enemies were created.

For the past seven years, Mia has been in love with her closest friend, Alex. They were like three-in-one coffee that couldn't be separated, but Alex chose to marry, which hurt Mia and made her feel horrible. So her friend Kelly took her to the pub to console her, where she would meet Xavier. Whenever they come into contact with each other, a slew of unforeseen events occur. Mia believes that Xavier is a negative omen in her life. She even removes herself from this man, but fate always finds a way to bring them together again. Will she be able to successfully distance herself from Xavier, or will she be trapped in his clutches for the rest of her life?

Eliza Ward does not fall through time. Time bends toward her. Pulled from the present into Revolutionary America, Eliza becomes trapped in a landscape where history repeats unevenly, battles restart with variations, and memory functions as both anchor and weapon. She is not a chosen heroine, but a constant: a woman whose awareness destabilizes the moment itself. She meets Mercy Hale, a midwife and witch who understands time as a negotiation rather than a force to command. Mercy aids Eliza’s survival while refusing the role of savior, having already learned the cost of standing too close to history’s center. During a looping battle, Eliza saves Thomas Reed, a Continental soldier who does not shift when time does. Thomas is an anchor: steady, observant, unchanged across iterations. Their bond deepens in an almost-normal village where time briefly behaves. Eliza’s intervention triggers time’s response. Rather than immediate destruction, time collects interest. Mercy bargains to spare Eliza and Thomas, sacrificing her own future to stabilize the present. Time extracts payment from Eliza as well, stripping away her voice, the very tool she uses to name and hold moments in place. Silenced and unmoored, Eliza is violently displaced back into the original battle. Unable to anchor the moment, she watches Thomas die in the version of history that was always waiting beneath her defiance. Told in rotating perspectives between Eliza, Thomas, and Mercy, The Hours That Refused to Behave is a lyrical time-travel novel about revolution, restraint, and consequence, asking not whether history can be changed, but who pays when it is.

I stared at the photos attached to an email. My Alpha mate, Marcus Hale, was supposed to be negotiating a partnership with another pack. But the photo showed him standing in Firefly Woods, a famous dating spot. Across from him were his long-lost first love and my two children. The four of them looked happy and complete, like a perfect family frozen in time. My heart jolted painfully. At the same moment, I realized that what I had with Marcus was over.

Everyone knew Elio Carbone, Don of the Carbone family, was a cold-hearted womanizer. He had one rule: never sleep with the same woman twice. But for me, he broke it. The first day after our breakup, he stood outside the old Bianchi estate for a day and a night, his entire security detail in tow, just to win me back. The second day, he flew to Sicily and bought the deed to my family's ancestral estate at auction for triple its value, and had it delivered to me. The third day, he tattooed my favorite flower, the lily, over his heart. The tattoo artist said he refused any anesthetic and didn't make a sound. Later, at a banquet for the Five Families, in front of all the other Dons, he sliced his palm and made a blood oath. He swore loyalty only to Eleonora Bianchi for the rest of his life; if he broke his vow, he would pay with his life. After a year of his relentless pursuit, his devotion finally wore me down, and I agreed to take him back. I truly believed him then. That Elio truly loved me. Until one night. He took me to an underground racetrack to broker a deal with an ally. But in the roaring crowd, I saw a girl, trembling and crying, her clothes in tatters. Ava was shoved to the starting line. She was the wager for the death race. One look was all it took for Elio's face to darken. The next second, he dropped his hand from my waist and, without a word, walked toward the track entrance. I stood frozen, watching his back as he disappeared into the driver's seat of a modified sports car. I used to wake up crying, terrified he would lose his life in one of these reckless races. He had smashed his trophies, burned his marker for the illegal track, and sworn to God he would never again enter such a life-or-death gamble. My hand drifted to my stomach, covering the secret I hadn't yet had the chance to share. His blood oath was broken. And so was I.

Who would’ve thought a school field trip could change Calla’s life in an instant? She suddenly wakes up in a world ruled by vampires and just when she thought her life couldn’t get any more crazier than that? She becomes a personal blood bank for the Prince of the vampires himself. - He bares his fangs, ready to dive them into your neck when all of a sudden, he pulls back and sighs. He drags his fingers across his hair, and shakes his head as if he’s waking himself up. “You.” He says. “Drive me crazy.”

My family was the wealthiest in River City, with assets worth trillions. On my eighteenth birthday, my brother, Calvin Chester, gifted me an entire jewelry production line while my parents built a private museum and named it after me. The greatest hardship I’d ever faced? Learning how to spend my inheritance. Then I met Dario Darwin. For him, I cut ties with my family and helped him build his empire from scratch. But when I was three months pregnant, he demanded I drink on behalf of his assistant, Fran Fallon, a woman “slumming it” as an intern while secretly being the heiress to another fortune. “Stop pretending,” he sneered. “You’re not like Fran, raised in pampered luxury. You’re older, so act like it and take care of your juniors!” Then, to the clients leering around the table, “My wife’s just being dramatic. She can hold her liquor. Don’t hold back—pour her another!” Amid their jeers, he left with Fran, abandoning me to a room of drunken men. Years of sacrifice, only to be humiliated. I scheduled an abortion and called him. “We’re done.” Through the phone, Fran’s simpering voice chimed in, “It’s my fault that Clea is upset… I should quit and go home to my family’s billions.” “Ignore her. She’s faking it,” Dario cooed back. On the day Dario signed the divorce papers, my parents and Calvin came to take me home. Our marriage came to an end, but his tragedy was about to begin.

When Anna finally becomes pregnant after three years of waiting, her joy was shattered by a devastating discovery. Her husband has been cheating on her. Worse, he is responsible for her parents death and she's next. Refusing to die as a victim, Anna decides to choose survival over her grief. She played along, planning to fake her death to take revenge. But her plan backfired. What happens when she meets Alexander Crowns, a man more dangerous than the man she left behind? A man who deceived her just to make her his? What happens when enemies lurk in the shadows and secrets, lies and betrayal threaten to trap her in his world, will she survive ?