The Golden Doves: A Novel

Joel has always hated werewolf society. As one of the lowest ranked werewolves of the Bournville pack, he has learnt to clench his teeth and smile while having to bow to the authority of the higher ranked members of the pack. When Joel takes a job washing pots at the Alpha’s manor house, he has no idea how quickly his life is going to change.Casper, the Alpha’s son has spent the last five years unsuccessfully looking for his mate. When an unlikely friendship forms between Casper and Joel, they both begin to question everything they thought they knew and whether there is more to their friendship than they realise.Emily is the daughter of an Alpha from a rival pack. When the Alphas of the two packs decide to form an alliance, they decide the perfect way to achieve this is through the marriage of their children Emily and Casper.When the time comes, will Casper choose Emily over his possible mate? Or will the decision never be his to make?

After my husband's brother died, he took Miranda, his widowed sister-in-law in. He claimed that he would give me his love—but gave all his money to her. He said that since she had no official status, being with him would make her the subject of gossip, so he took her with him and left me behind in the countryside. Every month, he wrote me three love letters, yet sent all his allowance to her. During the famine, she and her two children sat in a warm little house eating well, while my two children died before I could return from selling my blood. One froze to death, the other starved to death. Later, my husband finally came back, but he didn’t shed a single tear for the children. Instead, he told me he wanted a divorce. "Nathalie, to apply for housing, we need a marriage certificate. It hasn’t been easy for Miranda all these years. I want to give her a home. Don’t worry, even if I marry her, I’ll still divorce her afterward—because you’re the only one I love." In the end, I was devastated and threw myself into the icy river. When I opened my eyes again, I was back on the day my children were about to die. This time, I shook them awake, ready to go reclaim everything that was rightfully mine.

Growing up in a complete and happy family, and inspired by her parents’ love for each other, Trish Salvador promised herself that she would also find a man whom she would build a family and share the rest of her life with. Ngunit dumating si Ivan Salvador sa buhay ni Trish nang hindi inaasahan. Mortal niyang kaaway si Ivan noong highschool hanggang sa mahulog ang loob nila sa isa’t isa. For fear that her parents would separate them, their relationship remains secret until college. Natukso at nadala ng mga kahinaan hanggang sa mangyari ang isang bagay na magpapapago sa buhay nilang dalawa na susubok sa kanilang katatagan. Gaya ng pag-ibig, hindi lahat ay puro maganda. At tulad nga ng sabi nila, normal lamang sa buhay may-asawa ang dumaan sa mga pagsubok at sakit. Ngunit hanggang kailan nga ba ito dapat ipaglaban? At kailan dapat sukuan?

I died at eighteen, three months after rejecting the Lycan heir who thought a mate bond meant I belonged to him. Caden Ashford destroyed my life for saying no. He got my parents fired, spread vicious rumors, and when we fled the territory in desperation, our brakes failed on a mountain road. I died watching my parents bleed out, wondering if he'd sabotaged the car or if fate just hated me that much. Then I woke up at the party where it all started. This time I have a plan. That stranger I kissed to piss off Caden? Turns out he's Matthias Ashford, Caden's father and the most powerful Lycan Alpha in the region. Cold, ruthless, and a notorious playboy who never sleeps with the same woman twice. Perfect. I get a job at his estate as a maid. I seduce the untouchable Alpha. I make myself indispensable. And when Caden realizes his rejected mate is sleeping with his father? That's when the real fun begins. Matthias thinks I'm just a rebellious teenager playing dangerous games. He has no idea I'm the quiet girl everyone underestimates, the one who remembers exactly how the next three months play out, who knows where all the bodies are buried, who will do whatever it takes to rewrite my fate. Caden wants to own me. Matthias wants to possess me. The Lycan Council wants to control me. But I'm done being anyone's victim. I survived death once. This time I'm going to burn down everyone who tried to destroy me. And if I have to become my bully's stepmother to do it? Even better.

"I don't want a weak, pathetic orphan as my mate. I, Killian Blackwood, reject you." Sara Miller was nothing more than an Omega rat to the Crescent Moon Pack. An orphan raised on scraps and bullied by the future Alpha, she thought her eighteenth birthday would finally bring her freedom. Instead, it brought a fated mate bond with her tormentor, a hot night of passion, a public rejection and few weeks later, a pregnancy. Left for dead after a brutal rogue attack, Sara did the only thing she could—she disappeared with a vow to revenge. Six years later, the Omega rat is gone. In her place stands the CEO of the world's most elite security firm and now she has become a woman who is cold, lethal, and powerful. Sara has a new name, a new face, and two secret reasons to keep the past buried: her twin children, both carrying the unmistakable mark of an Alpha. But when a fresh wave of rogue violence threatens to destroy the Crescent Moon Pack, Alpha Killian Blackwood is forced to beg for the help of the mysterious "Ms. Miller." He doesn't recognize the woman he once threw away, but the wolf inside him knows the scent of his mate. As the danger closes in and the heat between them reignites, Sara must play a deadly game. Can she save the pack that once destroyed her without losing her children to the man who never wanted them?

[WARNING: HEAVY MATURE CONTENT!] ---- Emmeline thinks her life is finally falling into place the day she marries Richard, a wealthy man admired in high society. But behind the charming facade he shows the world lies a volatile, controlling monster who takes twisted pleasure in demeaning her. The emotional abuse starts with cutting remarks and cruel insults but quickly escalates into something far more damaging. Richard grows physically abusive whenever Emmeline dares to defy him or fails to meet his impossibly high standards. She knows she deserves better, but his manipulation and threats keep her trapped. Determined to conceal his violent behavior, Richard moves them to an upscale neighborhood far from their old neighbors who have already seen too much. There, Emmeline crosses paths with the most dangerous and feared man in the country—a meeting that changes her life forever.

After five years trapped in a loveless marriage, Cecily believed that finally carrying a child would give her life meaning and perhaps soften a husband who had never learned how to love her. But when tragedy steals her unborn child before it ever draws its first breath, the fragile world she clung to collapses completely. Left with nothing but grief and quiet betrayal, Cecily makes the boldest decision of her life: she walks away from her marriage, her home, and the identity she sacrificed everything to protect. Yet leaving is never simple when she has spent years living under the shadow of one name. Without the title of being Linus Shaw’s first wife, who is Cecily? Will she truly build a life that belongs only to herself?

Luna was born to the royal Ashford bloodline of the Southern Lunar Kingdom and raised to be the perfect heir. She was obedient, gracious, and untouched by scandal. But a wrong choice bound her to the wrong man: Alpha Damon Treuman, a ruthless power-seeker whose charm hid an ambition as cold as his heart. When Luna uncovers the depth of his deceit, her defiance costs her everything. She is betrayed, hunted, and left for dead. However, she finds protection under the elusive and feared stranger whose empire bridges both the human and supernatural worlds, a man she’s drawn to like moth to flame. But his price is her surrender. Luna swore she'd never submit to another man's control. Yet this stranger's dominance ignites something primal and terrifying. A pull she can’t resist. A hunger that mirrors her rage. The more she fights it, the deeper she falls. His touch awakens the wolf Damon tried to kill. His darkness calls to hers. And in his arms, Luna realized that the line between salvation and damnation is sharply thin. But vengeance demands sacrifice. And for Luna Ashford, love and retribution might be forged on the same blade.

When a turbulence strikes an airplane that's tens of thousands of miles above ground, the pilot, Kevin Glover, uses the opportunity to confess his love for the co-pilot, Serena Burke. Both of them come clean about their feelings for each other, not knowing that Kevin's wife, Henley Johnstone is on the plane as well. The brimming affection in Kevin's tone hurts her ears. "Serena, I'll marry you." At the same time, Henley's son, Isaac Glover, who sits in the row in front of her, pipes up in a disgusted tone, "My mom isn't worthy of remaining as my mom. I want Serena to be my mom instead." Henley feels crushed and defeated. Sorrow overwhelms her senses as well. Once the plane overcomes the crisis and lands on the tarmac, she calls her assistant, Edith Pratt. "I want to sign up as the test subject of the death-faking pill. I don't want my husband and son anymore." Henley sets the date of her death on her wedding anniversary. Once all preparations are done, she takes the death-faking pill. When she wakes up, she'll embrace her new life. Some time later, when Kevin finds out about Henley's death, he wails like a madman.

[WARNING: MATURE CONTENT] Being the third party in a relationship cuts deeper than any blade ever could. I watch him glorify her, obsess over her, pour every ounce of his devotion into someone who will never be his wife. The bitter irony tastes like poison on my tongue. I deserve that consuming passion, that unwavering dedication. After all, I'm the one who wears his ring, bears his name, shares his bed. Yet when he looks at me, there's nothing. Just cold, empty indifference. "You are nobody to me." His words echo through my memory like a death knell. "It's impossible for me to care about you. The only person I want isn't here because of you." The marriage was nothing more than a business transaction. I realized this truth far too late.