Thorns Beneath The Veil Novels & Stories

Olivia becomes the Luna of the Alpha who hates her. Alpha Luca Blackwood doesn’t forgive betrayal, he punishes it. Married for power, bound by blood, Olivia is dragged into a brutal pack where mercy doesn’t exist. But secrets lie beneath the rejection. And when the truth finally surfaces, the Alpha who broke her may be the only one willing to burn the world to protect her.

I had one night left before my father handed me to Anton Reves, a man who collects women and territory with equal cruelty. So I ran with four hundred dollars, a fake name, and no plan beyond survival. I ended up in a town that belongs to Lucien Varga, ruthless, controlled, and more dangerous than the man hunting me. Lucien dragged me behind his walls and told me I wasn’t leaving. He calls it protection. I call it another cage. But unlike every man who has tried to own me, he sees the steel beneath my fear and the fury beneath my silence. Now Anton is coming with money, men, and blood on his hands. The town is about to become a battlefield, and I’m trapped between the monster I escaped and the king who refuses to let me go. Somewhere between midnight strategies, stolen glances, and war at the gates, I stopped planning my escape. I started fighting for the first place that has ever felt like mine. #DarkRomance, #Mafiaromance, #BikerKing, #possessiveHero, #Forcedproximity, #RunawayBride, #EnemiestoLovers, #Strongheroine, #Suspense #Romance, #SlowBurn, #TouchHerandDie

Eidolon Avenue: Where the secretly guilty go to die. One building. Five floors. Five doors per floor. Twenty-five nightmares feeding the hunger lurking between the bricks and waiting beneath the boards. The sequel to Eidolon Avenue: The First Feast (“a great read...powerful and jarring” - Cemetery Dance) returns to the voracious Eidolon as it savors The Second Feast. A narcoleptic man in apartment 2A battles a vengeful past determined to rob him of everything as he runs from the barbaric disaster of a delusional love. A woman in 2B, reinventing herself to please a callous boyfriend, discovers the horrors that wait in the shadows of her self-renovation. The man in 2C, a teacher at the nearby Catholic girl’s school, collapses beneath the brutal consequences of his lecherous desires. An older woman in 2D, after decades dedicated to the church, is cornered at last by the grisly carnage beating at the hollow center of her faith. And a college student in 2E, hungry to escape an ignored life of invisible anonymity, finds herself captured between the pages of a ravenous book. All thrown into their own private hell as every cruel choice, every drop of spilled blood, every silent, complicit moment of cowardice is remembered, resurrected and relived to feed the ancient evil that lives on Eidolon Avenue. ©️ Crystal Lake Publishing

Hate You Until I Don’t Ave Carter swore she’d never speak to Blake Monroe again—not after he humiliated her and destroyed their friendship. But when they’re forced to partner for a school competition, old sparks ignite beneath the bitterness. Enemies, ex-best friends… and maybe something more. In a school full of whispers and second chances, can hate turn into something worth risking again?

On a bunk bed that's installed in the back of the truck, my husband, Dylan Gallagher, kisses me passionately while groping me incessantly. "Honey, I'm definitely taking you with me to work all the time." I can only squirm awkwardly beneath him. "B-Be gentle with me, geez…" Then, I look in the direction of the top bunk, where a certain someone is spying on us from behind the bed…

Maica Delmundo is a well-known model—beautiful, sexy, intelligent, and admired by many. It seems like she has it all. But beneath her fame lies a hidden secret, one that could ruin the career she has worked so hard to protect. What is the secret she’s keeping? Is she ready to let go of her success? Or will she hold onto it, even if it means losing the man she loves?

Pamela, a devout choirgirl and college student, hides a secret craving for submission beneath her innocent facade. When she meets Richard Carter, her stern history professor with a commanding presence, she falls into a whirlwind of forbidden pleasure—rough hands, whispered commands, and punishments that leave her trembling. But Richard has his own secrets, drawing Pamela into a world of whispered secrets, rough pleasure and violence.

Sold by her father to a ruthless Alpha, wolfless Zara Quinn becomes a pawn in a war of vengeance. But beneath her quiet defiance lies a power long buried and a bond Hunter Reed refuses to accept. When fate declares her his mate, he rejects her. Yet in blood, betrayal, and battle, Zara will rise again, but this time she's not here to beg for love, but to command it, even if it means breaking destiny itself.

Raven: Her past is troubling, dark and twisted. She keeps everyone on the outside, and buries her dark past beneath the surface. Emmit, Grayson, Ashton: Her new stepbrothers. Each facing their own darknesses, together push Raven to speak about the past, and vow to protect those around her. This book is dark; it has a stalker/murder vibe, reverse harem, mafia, and s*x and alcohol used as a vice. Not for the faint hearted.

As Jastrelle's golden girl, I draw lots to pick my groom, and fate finally hands me Felix Ledger, the childhood sweetheart I've wanted forever. During the impromptu wedding, a funeral convoy belonging to a scion of a rich family in Jastrelle passes right outside. I hate the omen. Felix laughs, pulls me into his arms, and places the veil over my head himself. "I'll take it as a good omen. With you, I'm covered from first breath to last," he says. His adoptive sister, Winnie Ledger, hears him, bursts into tears, and bolts outside. The funeral convoy runs her down, and she dies. Felix barely reacts. Three years later, Dad is framed, driven into bankruptcy, and falls gravely ill. He dies, and I lose everything. At the funeral, Felix sends everyone off, shoves me into the open grave, and buries me alive. He spits, "You rigged everything to get me. You left Winnie ruined. She bolted outside, and that funeral convoy ran her down. For three years, remorse has eaten me alive. I want you torn apart! "With your last protector gone, I can finally make you suffer a hundredfold the pain Winnie felt and ease my hatred!" When I open my eyes, I'm back at the groom-selection ceremony. Dad smiles as he hands me the lots. I shake my head, look out the window, and point at the funeral convoy passing outside. "I'm not choosing anyone. I'll marry that dead man!"