The Last Shadow

In the ruthless underworld of Los Angeles, an ancient feud between the Moretti and Volkov mafia families has simmered for decades. After a fragile truce is established, Alessia Moretti, a headstrong university student, believes she can escape the criminal life that has defined her family. But when her reckless brother, Lucas, accumulates a five-million-dollar debt with the infamous Nikolai Volkov, everything changes. To settle the debt, Nikolai demands Alessia’s hand in marriage. Forced into a union with the enemy, Alessia finds herself trapped in a dangerous game of power, deception, and forbidden desire. Nikolai has harbored an obsession for her since childhood, and now that she is his, he refuses to let her go. As secrets unravel and long-buried betrayals come to light, Alessia must decide where her loyalties lie. Will she fight for the family that raised her, or will she surrender to the man who has vowed to claim her as his own?

On the night before our wedding, my fiancee, Elara Wynn, gave her first time to her first love, Drew Mercer. I left my engagement ring behind and walked away. Before I went, I posted a message on their social feed: "Hope you two get back together soon. I’m clearing the way for you." The very next second, my fiancee called. "Cassian Rowe, I just didn’t want to leave regrets in my life. Can you stop being so old-fashioned?" I answered, annoyed, that she was no longer my fiancee and had nothing to do with me. That was when she panicked.

"Loving you is unhealthy, I know it is" Loving a man with all my heart even if I already know his intention to me wasn't true. All his actions and gestures were just a part of their bet, in short... I'm just a bet. But I still loved him despite all of those red, just this once I want to follow my heart even if I know that it will also ruin me in the end. Just for once I want to know how to love and what it feels to be loved, even if it's just an act. I, Arela Charlie Maurier am willing to take a risk just to know what love feels like, I know I'm awful, but I'm desperate because this is my first and last chance. Love will always be the most painful risk that I'll be willing to take.

As her ears started ringing, the lump in her throat growing, the words he spoke faded into the background. Her eyes welled up, and her breath hitched, she had heard him right? “Earth to Rebecca, hello?!” He replied to her in an annoyed tone. She took a deep breath, “After 20 yrs you really don’t want a life with me” she managed to speak slightly above a whisper. She had been his rock, put his needs first, never said no to his frivolous spending, and had loved him enough for the both of them; yet in the small bedroom in their city apartment he stood with divorce papers in hand. She hadn’t been naive about the rough patch that they were navigating, but they had always worked past because Rebecca had always put her husband 1st. “Rebecca I don’t love you and no level of your love is going to undo these divorce papers. I can’t even stand to be in this room with you, but I want to be on a united front when we tell the kids.”

Valerie Ravenwood has led an inferior life for the past 4 years, being a useless hybrid — wolfless and a namesake mage. Desperate to prove her worth as a mage, she runs away from home after being denied to join the Medeis Challenge, an annual competition held exclusively for mages, and judged by dragons. She follows her elder sister, who has been chosen to take part but loses her way and stumbles, literally, into the territory of the last Dragon King, Clyde Basilisk. Clyde Basilisk has sworn off finding his mate after he witnessed his brother's destruction— physical, mental and emotional, and the betrayal he himself faced when the woman he loved deserted him as well after their lives took an ugly turn. However, when the youngest daughter of the Alpha King steps into his territory, he clambers with his emotions as his heart and mind rage into an internal war. [Book 3 in Mage's Mate series, can be read as a stand-alone or as a part of the series]

Because I saved my husband during a car accident, I lost my eyesight. He wept, promising to treat me well for the rest of our lives to repay my sacrifice. I cooperated with the treatment wholeheartedly, hoping for a full recovery. But on the day I finally regained my sight, I stumbled upon something that shattered my world. In our marital home, his first love lay beneath him, her flushed face betraying the passion of the moment. Their bodies intertwined, and the air around them thick with stifled moans—a vivid tableau of infidelity. "She's just a blind woman. Why haven't you divorced her yet?" the woman murmured impatiently, her voice laced with disdain as she moved against him. My husband, immersed in pleasure, still mumbled an excuse. "My love, just a little longer. Soon, we'll be together openly…" I turned and left without a word, pretending I had seen nothing. As I walked away, I remembered the witch's sacrificial ritual in the misty forest—only a few days away. My husband's betrayal cut deep, carving wounds I couldn't ignore. I made up my mind to return to the forest, to embrace my identity as a witch once more, and to sever all ties with him. Yet, after I disappeared, word reached me that he was searching for me everywhere like a madman. Rumor had it he had completely lost his mind.

เรื่องราวความวุ่นวายและเรื่องชวนปวดหัวกำลังเริ่มต้นขึ้นหลังจากที่คนสองคนกลายร่างจากคนปกติเป็นคนขี้เมา… เรื่องราวของความปวดหัวของหญิงสาวที่ปิดกั้นเรื่องความรักกลับมาถูกผู้ชายที่อายุน้อยกว่าเธอหลายปีทำให้เธอต้องเสียใจเพราะเขาคนนั้นดันรู้และจับความรู้สึกลึกๆของเธอได้.. ความน่ารัก ความกวน และความจริงใจของเขาทำให้เธอเริ่มลังเลขึ้นมา.. เธอควรจะทำอย่างไร… เธอจะไปต่อหรือพอแค่นี้.. ถ้าเธอเลือกที่จะเปิดใจให้เขา.. เธอจะเสียใจและเจ็บปวดกับความรักอีกรึเปล่า.. สัญญาได้ไหม สัญญาว่าจะไม่ทำให้เธอเสียใจอีก สัญญาได้ไหมว่าจะไม่ทำให้เธอต้องเจ็บปวดจากคำว่ารักอีกครั้ง…. เธอไม่ต้องการแล้วเธอไม่อยากเสียใจเพราะความรักอีกแล้ว… ขอแค่เธอคนนั้นเปิดใจให้เขาสักนิด.. แค่นิเดียวเท่านั้นเขาจะเป็นคนดูแลและรักษาความรู้สึกที่เธอปิดกั้นและปกปิดมันเอาไว้ด้วยรอยยิ้มที่สดใส.. แต่ภายในกลับไม่เป็นแบบนั้น.. ขอแค่เธอลองเปิดใจให้เขาคนนี้ได้เข้าไปดูแลหัวใจและจิตใจที่บอบช้ำ.. เขาสัญญาว่าเขาจะทำทุกอย่างให้เธอคนนี้กลับมายิ้มอย่างสดใส..รอยยิ้มที่มันออกมาจากความสุขที่แท้จริงไม่ใช่รอยยิ้มทางการค้า..

She was taught to track down monsters and not become one of them. Selene Virell is one of the feared vampire hunters until a job goes terribly wrong and she ends up wounded at the feet of the very creature she wanted to kill. But by finishing her off the old vampire Cassian Vale does something that changes everything she thought she knew, he saves her by making her one of the undead. Now that she is part of the world she used to hunt Selene is stuck between two groups that want her dead. The hunters want to get rid of her, the vampires want to destroy her and the man who changed her will not tell her why he saved her life. As she gets hungrier and her powers start to grow in ways that should not be possible Selene finds out a truth she is not a mistake, she is something and that's something bad; she is like a line that divides two worlds that're at war. She is pulled into a bond with Cassian that is full of tension, desire and mistrust and she has to decide what she is willing to become. Because stopping the war may mean she loses everything… …and becoming what she was born to be might mean the end of the world

Lumaking ulila si Mikaela Castro, noon pa man ay pinangarap na niyang magkaroon ng isang malaki at masayang pamilya. Ang pangarap niya ay unti-unti nang matutupad ng maikasal siya sa batang congressman na galing sa angkan ng mga politiko na si Blaine Montreal. Si Blaine ang kaniyang first boyfriend ang kaniyang una sa lahat. Mahal na mahal niya ito at mataas ang respeto niya rito. Mahal na mahal din siya ni Blaine at gagawin nito ang lahat para maibigay lamang ang makapagpapaligaya sa kaniya. Ngunit, hindi niya inaasahan na ang labis na pagmamahal pala nito sa kaniya ay magdudulot ng isang malaking kasinungalingan. Lingid kay Mikaela si Blaine ay walang kakayahang magka-anak. Ngunit, paanong nabuntis siya ng kaniyang asawa kung isa pala itong baog?

He owns her body. She owns his secret. Only one can break first. From children to lovers. From lovers to people separated by hierarchies and bound by oaths. Daya and Night rule as Alpha and Shadow of the most feared pack in all of Eyriena. But beneath the throne lies a dangerous obsession neither of them can fully escape. "Let me go, Night," I met his gaze, forcing my voice to remain calm despite the urgency rising within me. His hand cradled my cheek with deceptive gentleness, but his grip around my waist was like iron — unmovable. The raw power of a hybrid radiated from him. “No.” His voice was low and commanding. “I’ll say when you can leave. And right now, I need you here.” His lips trailed heat down my neck, my pulse betraying me. His hands slid expertly down, finding the buttons of my shirt. His fingers worked skillfully, undoing them one after another, revealing my bra — barely holding in my full, straining breasts. “Mine," he murmured possessively, eyes locked on the soft mounds rising beneath... As ancient secrets unravel and a deadly curse tightens its hold, Daya must choose either to betray the only man she's ever loved — or lose herself completely to his dark side. In this world, love demands blood.