"the Road" By Cormac Mccarthy

My father cheated. I cut him out of my life. To get my forgiveness, my father put Lucas Moretti, the Don of New York, in my bed. I fell for Lucas, fast. He knew how to play gentle. Night after night, he’d hold me tight, fuck me like he owned me, and whisper how obsessed he was with me. Six months later, I was pregnant. I was the princess of New York's underworld. My father and Lucas gave me everything. They treated me like I was made of glass. But the day of the baby's blessing at the church? They were a no-show. My father said there was family business to handle. Then I got an anonymous link. A wedding. Live. In the video, my father, Lorenzo, was walking his mistress, Carla—the woman who killed my mother—down the aisle, a happy smile plastered on his face. And the other happy couple? My fiancé, and my father's bastard daughter, Sofia. I could hear Lucas’s voice clearly: "Well, Bella used to bully Sofia. I'm just helping her get the justice she deserves... As for Bella, it's time she was unburdened from a life she isn't built for." "I'll take over the Gallo family shares for her," he continued, "so she and our child can live without a care in the world." My father’s voice followed. "Bella’s too much like her mother—ambitious. That’s not a good thing for a woman." As my world shattered, a text from an unknown number lit up my screen: "Marry me, and the child you're carrying will be the sole heir of the Russo family."

The night before our 17th wedding attempt, my mafia husband, Rafaeal Holloway, looks at me and promises an uninterrupted wedding. He solemnly swears. "Gianna, I promise you. I told Natalia that even if the sky falls, she'll deal with it alone." I am five months pregnant by then. After three years of dating and five months carrying his child, we've never managed to make it down the aisle because he's canceled the past 16 weddings. Every single time, it's for his sworn sister, Natalia Sullivan. The first time, she claims she has a fever. I spend the whole night at the hospital, still in my wedding dress, just to find out she has a mild cold. The second time, she claims her chest hurts. Rafael abandons me mid-wedding and rushes to her side, while she's out laughing over afternoon tea with friends. The third time, she cries for fear of thunder. He bolts mid-vows and leaves me alone in a hall full of staring guests. But everything's different now. Three days ago, a letter arrived from Northern Silenzio. My father, the Don of the Rossetti family, has finally summoned me home. If Rafael walks away for Natalia one more time, I'll leave for good.

After Lunara Vespirin collapses from an overtime shift, she's shocked to find out that she has transmigrated into a beast world novel. It appears that the original villainess' father, a wandering beastkin named Caius Vespirin, has kidnapped five beastmates so that he can forcibly mate them to her. Right now, said beastmates are on the verge of dying after enduring the torment the villainess has unleashed on them. Soon, they will unleash their dark sides, resulting in the villainess, a.k.a Lunara, dying a terrible death. Lunara quickly comes up with a plan overnight, which involves her clinging to Caius for survival, seeing as he's the strongest beastkin ever. At the same time, she plans on dissolving the mate contracts with the beastmates and staying away from them forever. Using the pocket dimension, Lunara soon busies herself in gathering beast crystals, planting crops, and doing her best to survive in this alien world. But the way her beastmates look at her starts to get tinted by complex emotions. Emory Nagar, a snake beastkin, coils his tail around Lunara, his gaze deep and affectionate. "Luna, you can forget about dissolving my mate contract as long as I live and breathe." Galen Tideborn, a gorgeous merman, wraps his arms around Lunara's waist, his voice extremely enticing. "I'll sing for you all the time. Just don't abandon me, okay?" Levi Janvier, a lionfolk, lowers his prideful head before he begins nuzzling Lunara on the cheek. "I will give my life to you as long as you stay by my side, Lunara." Kieran Crimsworth, known for his seductive charms of a fox, murmurs into Lunara's ear, "I'll make you pay back double for what you did to me in the past, Lunara." The cold and aloof crane beastkin, Cyril Swift, looks down at Lunara coolly. "I don't care who you are or where you're from. You're the only mistress that I will ever have." Lunara is perplexed, to say the least. "Huh? I thought you all hate me because of forced mating! Why is it that you're unwilling to dissolve the mate contracts when it's time for us to do so?"

Taken away as a captive in place of farm proceedings, Thalena’s life took a twirling turn as she experienced things she never dreamt of. From being disvirgined brutally to being mated to the twin Alphas. How would she handle the different feelings that would arise?

After a brutal rogue attack leaves her family slaughtered and her pack in ruins, Racheal is forced to flee. Her mother’s final wish sends her to the Blue Moon Pack, where she’s promised protection through marriage to the young Alpha, Ezekiel. At first, it seems like a chance to heal. But within weeks, the dream turns cold. Ezekiel is distant, cruel, and completely entangled with his lover, Lucy a woman whose smile hides something far darker. Cast aside and humiliated, Racheal is left to suffer in silence, a forgotten bride in a pack that was never truly hers. Until the night she uncovers a letter hidden in a forgotten room. It changes everything. The letter is from Lucy and it reveals a devastating truth: she was the one who betrayed Racheal’s pack. She fed information to the rogues. She helped orchestrate the attack. And she’s been manipulating Ezekiel from the beginning, tearing the Blue Moon Pack apart from within. But what none of them know is this: Racheal didn’t come to the Blue Moon Pack empty-handed. She carries the untapped wealth and legacy of her bloodline, and something even more dangerous a power quietly chosen by the Moon itself. They tried to break her. They tried to erase her. But she’s still standing. And now, she’s done hiding. Now she’s coming back with fire in her veins and vengeance in her name.

He rejected her. She disappeared. Now, she is coming back with her son... and the power to govern. When the humble omega Aria Winters discovers that her destiny companion is the ruthless Alpha Kale Blackthorn, not only is she rejected, but she is humiliated in front of the entire ShadowClaw pack as she questions the wisdom of the Moon Goddess. Broken and exiled, Aria runs away only to discover that she is pregnant with his child. Three years later, she returns transformed. Childbirth awakened her dormant line of royal blood, making her the last living heiress of the Alpha Royal Line. But Lyric, the false moon, poisoned the pack with black magic, and supernatural enemies threaten everything. When Aria stands up to claim her birthright, Kale’s leadership collapses without her true mate. This time, she doesn’t need to be saved. She is the one who has the power to save everyone.

Amaris has spent years trapped in the iron fist of Alpha Kieran, her so-called mate who treated her as a slave. He used her body for labor while starving her soul. After a reckless one-night stand with a stranger, everything changes for Amaris. Because the stranger is no ordinary man, he is Lycan King Ryker, powerful, devastatingly gorgeous, and absolutely blown with desire the moment he realizes what she is to him. His true mate, his Luna, and he will burn kingdoms to the ground before he lets another man's mark on her skin go unanswered. But Kieran is not ready to release what he once discarded. Now that another dominant male has awakened the goddess sleeping inside Amaris, now that she glows with confidence, sensuality, and a power she never knew she had, suddenly, Kieran wants her back. Desperately, obsessively, and dangerously. Ryker is determined to show her exactly what it means to be truly claimed, body, soul, and every breathless inch in between.

On the night of her eighteenth birthday, Elara Nightshade finally finds her mate the powerful and feared Alpha of the Bloodfang Pack. It should have been the happiest night of her life. Instead, he rejects her. Publicly. Cruelly. Declaring her too weak to be his Luna, Alpha Kael casts her aside before the entire pack, shattering her heart and severing their bond. Banished to the forbidden forest, Elara is left to die. But under the light of the full moon, as her blood stains the earth, something ancient awakens inside her. Her wolf isn’t weak. It isn’t ordinary. It is something rare. Something feared. Something that hasn’t been seen for generations. A Blood Moon Beast. Now the girl who was rejected is changing , growing stronger, darker, and far more dangerous than anyone imagined. And when Alpha Kael begins to feel the mate bond again stronger, deeper, and burning with power , he realizes his mistake. But it’s too late. Because Elara has already been claimed. Not by a pack. Not by an Alpha. But by the beast within her. And this time… She won’t be the one begging.

She was never supposed to save him. He was never supposed to betray her. When Isabella Morgan weds Alpha Klaus Lockhart, she dreams of melting the ice in his heart, and of building a family beneath Silvermoon Pack’s sacred moon. She gives him everything. Her loyalty. Her body. Her life. She even takes a scar meant to kill him, but nothing prepares her for the night her world shatters. She finds him tangled with Alice Morningstar, seductress witch, and the destroyer. And her son… Her precious boy… Runs past her, into another woman’s arms. “Mom,” he calls someone else but doesn't acknowledge her presence. Her mate does not deny it. He does not stop him, he does not choose her. He never did. Betrayed and erased, Isabella uncovers a nightmare buried beneath her marriage…. Cursed bloodlines, stolen moon-blessed children, and a truth that destroys everything she believed. Now, as Silvermoon trembles under treachery and dark magic, a stranger steps from the shadows. Tyler Redmond. Dangerous, devoted, and even willing to burn the world for her. “You deserved worship,” he tells her softly. “Not abandonment.” But the man who broke her begins to look at her differently. Too late. With regret, with hunger, with something terrifyingly close to love. Because the Luna he discarded is gone, and the woman rising from her ashes… Is no longer his. In a world of obsession, betrayal, and ancient power. Love is not salvation. Love is war. And this time, Isabella will decide who kneels.

Ember Frost, a wolf-less girl, was taken in by the Moonshine Pack after being abandoned in the woods. When Owen, the future Alpha, discovers they are mates on his twentieth birthday, Ember's world should have been set. But Owen doesn't see a mate in her, he sees weakness. Rejected in the most humiliating way, Ember's heart is crushed. In a desperate moment, she leaps off a cliff, thinking it will be the end. But fate has other plans. Instead of death,Ember's fall uncovers a shocking truth: she is the long-lost daughter of the Lycan King, heir to the Lycan’s Pride. Now, Ember is not the weak, rejected girl she once was. She's a princess. She's the heir to a mighty throne. And when Owen discovers her true identity, he wants her back—but Ember is in love with someone else. Qwen won't stop until he reclaims her. But Ember will do whatever it takes to protect her pack and the life she's chosen, even if it means facing the man who once shattered her world.