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Emily Cortez, heiress of the powerful Cortez Pack, has always believed she could balance duty and desire—until her betrothed, Ricardo Marino, rejects her publicly with no explanation. Humiliated and vulnerable, she turns to her childhood friend, Rudy, and proposes a contract relationship to reclaim control of her life. But the world she thought she knew is full of lies. A man claiming to be Ralph Othon appears, offering stability and influence, while secrets about loyalty, power, and identity threaten to destroy everything. Emily must navigate mafia politics, pack rivalries, and deception while deciding who she can trust—and who she is willing to risk her heart for.

Zyra had always been an outcast, despised by everyone in her pack for her parents' sacrifice. Her dear ones had died while saving a stranger who was wolfless and mateless, leaving Zyra alone and isolated. Despite her kindness and helpful nature, she was constantly bullied and enslaved by her packmates, living in a constant state of fear and isolation. One day, the moon goddess finally gave her a mate. But he despised her and rejected her, despite coveting her beauty. Anguished and heartbroken, Zyra kicked the hell out of him and had a one-night stand with a stranger, resulting in an unexpected pregnancy. But even with her pregnancy, her mate still had his eyes on her, causing Zyra to fear for her life and the safety of her unborn children. When the Lycan King came to claim her as his mate, she saw it as a chance to escape her current situation. Bullied, enslaved, and alone, Zyra fled in the middle of the night and raised her babies in secrecy. But the truth behind her parents' death was far from what she had been told. As Zyra delved deeper into the mystery, she discovered a shocking conspiracy that involved the very people she trusted the most. As she began to uncover the truth, she realized that the Lycan King may be the only one she could trust, despite fearing him at first. But with her mate and her pack still on the hunt for her, Zyra knew that she needed to keep her true identity a secret, even from the man she could come to love and trust the most.

Eira Thornwind has spent four years hiding the most dangerous secret in the shifter world—her wolf, Veyla, awakened at fourteen, two years earlier than any shifter in recorded history. Ancient, powerful, and carrying memories that don’t belong to this age, Veyla marks Eira as a prize any alpha would wage war to claim. Only her parents and a pair of trusted elders know the truth, and they intend to keep it that way. Now, with Eira’s eighteenth birthday approaching—the age when shifters can finally sense their fated mate—the annual Summit of the High Packs arrives on Crescent Fang land. Politics, competition, and centuries-old grudges simmer beneath the surface. Among the visiting delegations is Kalen Draven, the newly risen Alpha of the Ironshade Pack. Ruthless. Respected. Scarred by a past that forged him into a weapon. He expects manipulation, strategy, and power plays. He does not expect the Alpha’s daughter to strike him like a bolt of silver fire. Eira wants nothing to do with him. She doesn’t trust the cold Alpha with predator’s eyes, and she certainly doesn’t trust the way her ancient wolf stirs whenever he enters a room. Their packs are enemies. Their futures are already tangled with responsibility. But fate has its own design. Something old stirs beneath their feet. And a bond forged in silver flames may be the only thing that can save—or destroy—the shifter world. A slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers shifter romance filled with prophecy, danger, forbidden power, and a connection neither of them is ready for.

Celeste Vane was twenty-four when Diana Hale dismantled her family’s company with a legal maneuver so precise it left no trace of wrongdoing — only ruin. Four years later, Celeste returns. She walks into Hale Group as a junior financial analyst, unseen and underestimated. But she has already spent years quietly acquiring fragments of the very system that destroyed her family. Every step inside the company brings her closer to reclaiming what was taken. And closer to Marcus Hale. Marcus is nothing like what she expected. Controlled, perceptive, and infuriatingly fair, he is the one man who sees the real structure of her mind — and the one person she cannot afford to be seen by for too long. Celeste is not there to survive Hale Group. She is there to dismantle it from within. But the longer she stays, the more the lines blur. Marcus begins to trust her. And against every rule she has lived by, she begins to trust him back. Then there is Diana Hale — watching Celeste’s rise with quiet precision, as though she has been expecting her return all along. As buried financial truths surface and old alliances fracture, Celeste faces a choice she never designed for: the revenge she built her entire life around, or the man who makes her question whether the woman she became in pursuit of it is someone worth keeping. When Diana finally moves, Celeste will have to decide what reclamation actually means — because what she built in the wreckage may be worth more than anything taken from her.

In the glittering coastal city of Lumine Bay, where wealth hides corruption and power is protected by shadows, Elara Moretti appears to have the perfect life as the wife of billionaire Damon Moretti. But behind the luxury, her marriage is cold, controlled, and full of locked rooms she has never been allowed to enter. Her world fractures the night she returns from a charity gala to find a threat note waiting in her car: “Your husband built an empire of enemies. You’ll be the first to fall.” By morning, Damon had vanished. His phone is off, his safe has been opened, and the mansion’s security system shuts down in a mysterious lockdown. The Moretti estate, an ultra-modern fortress, becomes a cage. Then a stranger enters through the darkness. Kai Valez, a disciplined, unreadable operative, arrives claiming to have Damon’s clearance and strict orders to protect her. Elara doesn’t trust him… but the attacks closing in leave her no choice. As danger intensifies, she uncovers alarming secrets hidden within Damon’s world: classified files, coded messages, surveillance footage of herself, and a mission tied directly to her past. The deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes, Damon didn’t disappear. He planned everything. Now Elara must navigate a web of lies involving her husband, his powerful family, and the man suddenly risking his life for her. Loyalties blur. Enemies multiply. And the line between protector and threat becomes terrifyingly thin. Just when Elara finds the strength to fight back, she receives a final message: A video. Damon is alive. Staring straight into the camera. “Elara… don’t trust the man beside you.” And the mission truly begins.

Claimed as the Wrong Bride: Tripicity Book One Octavia Maddox is a grey zone artist living rough in Tripicity, selling her work to survive. When mob boss Bastien Leclair arranges a contract marriage with Olivia Maddox to secure a political alliance against his rival Corporal, Olivia refuses and doesn't show up. A gallery mix-up, possibly deliberate, puts Occy in the wrong room at the right moment. She signs a contract she doesn't fully understand in exchange for a number that covers the warehouse she's been saving for. Bastien comes to collect. What follows is a chase through the grey zone, a count system of punishments for running, a fever that lands her in hospital, and a slow negotiation of trust between two people who don't trust easily. He moves her to the Alderton, his building, his world, and builds her a studio with north-facing light. She migrates to his bed without deciding to. They fall into something neither of them names. Meanwhile Corporal, operating as Mrs. Santoro, has been watching Occy through a hacked security feed and commissions a painting from her. The three-way power structure of the city tightens around Occy without her knowing it. The Meridian overstep begins destabilising the grey zone she built her life in. Bastien's attempt to secure her position legally through a Maddox family adoption explodes when he tells her without asking her first. She walks out. He sits in the room she left. Coming: the grey zone war, the Maddox meeting with Occy, Corporal's escalation, the truth about who engineered the signing, and whether Occy chooses to stay. Not because she has to, but because she wants to.

Forced into a Slavery life by virtue of the weak pack she found herself in. On her 18th birthday,Drea decides seek for solution. Her pack ,the Vintage pack is the weakest. Drea goes on a fool hardy mission all by herself to steal the moon beam from the Agamemnon, with the believe that they get their powers from the moon beam. She is captured alongside betas from the Mahogany pack. She gets into a tuff with a guard, and ends up in the custody of the Alpha, Ramirez. When he sees her pack tattoo on her, he gets curious and interrogates her, but her failure to come clean with him leads to a tussle between them. Alpha Ramirez is caught in a dilemma. For the first time, he feels unwitting to hurt someone. There is just something about Drea’s innonence. There is sexual tension between the both of them, and several sizzling scenes. They soon fall I’m love with each other, but are unwitting to tell themselves. When it is discovered that Drea has a super power giving her by the moon, the power to join twenty people in a telepathic conversation, and her pack learns that she is still alive, they offer to sell her to the Alpha, not knowing that she is already in his custody. Alpha Ramirez seeing that she has no one in the entire world to protect her, since even her pack chose to sell her, he vows to protect her even with his last breath, however, she knows nothing of this and sees him as the ruthless Alpha that promised to destroy her. Alpha Ramirez must now make Drea trust him fully and completely – even though he still doesn’t trust her, and still believes she is working against him.

Allen just wants to feel love, but as an Omega, she never feels true love. Her parents basically hate her, and all the other Alphas just want her for a one-night stand. Because according to society, Omegas are not worth becoming anyone's mate; they are only good in bed. So what happens when she meets a pure-blood Alpha? Sebestian, a name that makes everyone scared, usually doesn't trust anyone because of his past, and he also has a limited number of friends. But what happens when he meets the most beautiful and innocent omega? Will he take a risk again and protect his omega at any cost?  

I never expected that I married a man everyone thought was worthless, only to discover that he was a hidden billionaire all along. Hadrianna believed her husband, Desmond, was just an ordinary man, content with a simple life. But when a shocking revelation exposes his secret fortune and immense power, her life takes a dramatic turn. Now surrounded by wealth and mystery, Hadrianna must navigate a world she never imagined. Can she trust Desmond, the man she thought she knew, or will the truth about his hidden identity unravel their love? Dive into the thrilling tale of Her Hidden Billionaire Husband—where love, secrets, and deception collide!

“If you are at the bottom, I won't mind sinking. “ Jules Carson, a depressed washed up jock, thought he had given up on the whole concept of life, love, and trust, after a summer of regrets and heartache. All he wants to do is graduate and leave town along with all its memories. But then he meets abstruse and mysterious Venus Chambers. The girl he can't quite wrap his head around and the breath of life he's been searching for. She's the smartest, rudest and angriest person he's ever met but despite all the warnings, he can't withstand the irresistible pull of her deep waters.