The Lottery By Shirley Jackson Summary

When secrets hide in the shadows, love becomes the light that dares to expose them. Amber, a brilliant aspiring lawyer, and Miguel, a captivating student with a guarded past, find themselves entangled in a web of desire and truth. As their hearts collide, so do the risks—because this love could heal their wounds… or tear them apart. Step into a world of emotion, risk, and redemption. Amber and Miguel’s story will leave you breathless.

To pay for her brother's medical bills, Elizabeth Hubbard became tycoon Ronald Marquez's paid booty call. After collecting enough money, she left, trying to bury the shameful past. Two years later, however, he showed up at the hotel where she worked as a manager. She was forced to be his personal butler, catering to his every need. Again and again, he lent a hand when she needed help the most. Before she knew it, she was captivated by his charm.

Tania Hale is the last Luna from the Blue Moon Pack. At the age of 17, her kingdom, Porthove gets attacked by a strong rival pack known as The Demilune Pack. She watched her parents get killed and burnt while some of her people are taken as slaves, including herself to the Kingdom of Crescida to be ruled by the Demilune Pack under the leadership of their tyrant King, Alpha Avalon. She endures 7 more years of pain, agony and slavery and on the day that marks the anniversary of her parents death, she is to be married to King Avalon's aggressive son, Lexi. Tania escapes from Lexi, finding her way into the woods with the werewolves of Demilune Pack chasing after her. She gets saved by Talon Ashford who she later discovers to be an Alpha who had gone rogue from Crescida. Talon seems to hold many secrets which Tania is determined to discover. But as time progresses, the flame of love fans between them and one by one, Talon's hidden secrets unfolds, taking a toll on their love life and Tania's quest to save her people from slavery. Will she choose to choose to save her people, forfeiting her relationship with Talon or will she choose to remain with him?

R18 Helen Zachary’s life had always been tranquil and quiet, until one fateful windy evening. She was on her way to her boyfriend’s place to surprise him for his birthday when an unexpected event occurred. She found a young man covered in blood on the road. Helen wanted to help him, so she stepped out of her car and approached him, only to discover that it was a trap. He had pretended to be lifeless so as to make her feel pity for him. Helen was battered by the young man that night, and his companion raped her. Anger was the theme of the day, and she pledged to exact vengeance on the young man, known as Steven Alfredo, a Mafia boss. Steven had just escaped from prison, and he takes delight in seeing others suffer, but after meeting Helen for numerous times, he resolved to be a different person. ‘However, what happens when Helen confuses Steven’s twin brother for Steven? And if his twin falls for her, will she reciprocate the feelings and abandon her plans to exact revenge on Steven?’ ‘And what happens if Steven also falls for her? Who would Helen choose? Steven, his brother or her boyfriend?’

Olivia’s POV The moment Armando left, the dam broke. I sobbed into the silence, my chest heaving with the weight of everything I’d pushed down for so long. I wanted to hold him tight. To kiss him and to tell him how much I loved him and how much I wanted his protection but I just couldn’t because I didn’t trust anyone else and because I never wanted anything to do with love after James. I hated myself for pushing him away. But more than that, I hated that I felt anything for him at all. I sat there, drowning in the storm of my own heart, knowing that love was a battlefield I might never cross again, and yet, for the first time, I wished I had the courage to try. Armando’s POV Back in my study, I poured myself a glass of whiskey, my hand trembling as I lit a cigarette. The tears came slowly at first, hot and unfamiliar against my skin. I hadn’t cried since I was ten years old. But tonight, I wept. For her. For me. For everything we could never be.

Ariana Carl was a lowly omega of the stardust pack, losing her parent at a young age she was left to live all alone and become a maid in the castle. Living all her life all she wanted was to find her mate and live a happy life but fate has something different installed for her. Knox Delvoc; the Ruthless alpha of the stardust pack he rejected the lowly Omega he gets as a maid but chooses to keep her with him when he finds out she had a second chance mate, his beta he becomes possessive and treats her inhumanely. ~~~~~ "Where are you coming from? You are drenched in water and have a stinky smell." Ariana shivered where she stood by herself "I went outside to get some apples your majesty, you instructed me to get them." Throw those away and get your filthy body washed, get out of my sight!"

"You ungrateful bitch! You should be grateful that someone like me would even consider getting married to scum like you. Yet here you are acting like you matter! In fact I'm calling off this marriage, and I'll make sure that no man will ever marry you!" He glared at me, expecting me to fall to my knees and plead for mercy, but all I did was smile before pushing him off me. "You two can go to hell and burn!" *** Olivia finds herself on the road after she catches her fiance cheating on her with her sister. She is devastated, but in the midst of her turmoil, she runs into a mysterious man who takes her away to his mansion. There, Olivia learns the truth about the mysterious man who had saved her. He was the infamous Alpha Damian, the cursed Alpha. Faced with this truth, Olivia must make a choice, whether to leave and risk getting her life ruined by her former fiance, or stay with the cursed man she had fallen for.

Janani Trivedi has something that is very very precious to Armaan Verma. So when Armaan storms into her life to reclaim what's his, Janani lets the forbidding businessman believe the worst of her. Though Janani Trivedi seems gentler that Armaan has known of, he's resolved to make her pay.  Let's see what happens when Janani's secret is out!!  Or how the formidable businessman works it out PS : Inspired from the multiple mills and boon I have read so far.

On her eighteenth birthday, Luna expected a fated mate; instead, she received a death sentence. Publicly rejected by Alpha Kael of the Silvercrest Pack, the "useless Omega" is left for dead in the snow. But Luna doesn't die. She vanishes, carrying a secret that could rewrite werewolf history: her blood runs silver, marking her as the lost heir to the Alpha King. Five years later, the Omega is dead, and a Goddess has risen. Luna returns as a world-renowned biochemist and billionaire CEO of Blackwood Industries, backed by the most terrifying man in the supernatural underworld: Dante Blackwood, a rogue billionaire who treats her like a queen and kills like a monster. When a lethal virus strikes Silvercrest, the pack is forced to beg for Luna's help. Kael is haunted by the ghost of the girl he threw away, but the woman who returns doesn't want his apologies—she wants his empire. As the mate bond claws at Kael’s sanity, Luna must choose between the destiny that broke her and the "Monster" who put her back together. In a world of teeth and title, the Omega won’t just survive; she will reign.

A misunderstanding that leads to hatred, between a king and his queen, who once loved each other immensely. In other to save her people from brutal killing and torture, Queen Zara agrees to be the wife of their enemy...the enemy who took away their home and made them slaves. She is forced to denounce her husband. To deny every proof of ever loving him. Carl is hurt by his wife's claims, and he felt betrayed. The love he once felt for her was turned into poison and hatred... He sorts for revenge, not only from his old enemy but his new enemy...Zara. Book 1: Married to the arrogant king Book 2: Hated by the ruthless king