Tomb Of The Sea

As the only daughter of a casino magnate, I have grown up surrounded by danger and betrayal. To keep me safe, my father has raised nine bodyguards from a young age. After I come of age, he asks me to choose one of them as my fiance. Everyone expects me to pick Harry Hunt, the man I have secretly loved for years. But I do not—not after what happened in my previous life. On the day of our engagement, I was kidnapped, and my hands were pierced with poison-tipped spikes. Tortured and desperate, I called Harry for help. His response still haunts me today. "Victoria, stop with these games. Your location shows you're still in the hotel suite. Trying to pull these pity stunts just to keep me to yourself? Pathetic." With another woman laughing in the background, I closed my eyes and gave up. As the iron cage sank beneath the waves and the sea filled my lungs, my life ended. Then, I open my eyes and find myself back on the day my father asked me to make a choice. This time, Harry's name is the first I cross off the list. But why is he crying and begging me to marry him at my engagement banquet with Jeffrey Reed?

Elle s’appelle Isolde Valentyne. Une femme qu’on ne peut posséder. Une femme qu’ils veulent tous posséder. Son regard brûle comme une promesse, sa peau est un secret que seuls les plus téméraires osent effleurer. Raphaël De Veyrac, héritier d’un empire financier, l’a aimée dès qu’il l’a vue. Pour lui, elle est une évidence, un joyau qu’il veut enfermer dans un écrin d’or. Mais Dante Orsini, prince déchu d’une lignée autrefois puissante, n’a que sa rage et son ambition pour la conquérir. Deux hommes, deux mondes, une seule femme qui, malgré elle, déclenche une guerre où l’amour devient poison et obsession. La nuit est un tissage de murmures et de regards volés. Raphaël l’invite à danser. Son étreinte est sûre, possessive. — Tu sais que tu es à moi, Isolde. Elle frissonne. C’est un ordre, un serment. Mais alors qu’elle s’éloigne, une main plus brute, plus affamée, la saisit. Dante. — Viens avec moi. Ce n’est pas une invitation, c’est une bataille. Un Amour en Cendres Ils l’aiment, mais Isolde refuse d’être un trophée. Raphaël lui offre la sécurité, un empire d’or et d’opulence. Dante lui promet le feu, l’interdit, une vie hors des chaînes du pouvoir. Elle les aime tous les deux. Différemment. Tragiquement. Mais le choix ne lui appartient plus. Elle tremble, sent la chaleur de ses lèvres contre les siennes, mais elle sait qu’il ne peut y avoir de fin heureuse. L’amour ou le néant Quand elle ouvre les yeux, du sang s’étale sur le marbre blanc. Un homme est tombé. L’autre se tient debout. Essoufflé. Vivant. Victorieux ? Mais peut-on gagner un cœur qui se meurt ?

« Sors-moi cette ordure. Et que le feu nettoie son passage. » La sentence est tombée de ses lèvres, ces mêmes lèvres qui, quelques heures plus tôt, me juraient un amour éternel. Mon âme sœur. Mon destin. Mon bourreau. En une nuit, il a tout pris : mon innocence, mon titre d'héritière de la meute, ma dignité. Après m'avoir poignardée, il a voulu me réduire en cendres. Fin de l'histoire ? Non. C'est là que la vraie tragédie commence. Ma chute m'a jetée directement dans la gueule du loup. Littéralement. Je suis devenue la propriété du Roi Lycan. On le dit fou. On chuchote qu'il a perdu la raison il y a des lunes. On le craint plus que la peste, plus que la mort elle-même. Il incarne le froid, l'impitoyable, la force brute. Son regard seul promet la souffrance. Et ce monstre prétend que je lui appartiens. Sa bête, cette chose sombre qui habite en lui, m'a choisie. Elle me désire avec une obsession qui glace le sang. Il est décidé à me plier à sa volonté, même si cela doit signifier me briser os par os, briser ce qui reste de mon âme. Maintenant, esclave dans son palais de ténèbres, je dois trouver la force de lui résister. Je suis prise au piège de son jeu pervers, dominée par ses griffes sombres. Mais chaque fois qu'il me regarde, je vois autre chose que de la cruauté dans ses yeux. Je vois une reconnaissance. Une connexion. Et c'est cela, le plus terrifiant : comment lutter contre un homme qui, au plus profond de sa folie, voit en moi bien plus qu'une captive ? Comment nier ce lien primal qui, malgré la haine et la peur, commence doucement, inexorablement, à nous unir ?

I am reborn on the day my wife, Courtney Clarke, embezzles company funds to pay off her childhood best friend, Travis Foster's, gambling debts. This time, I, Nathan Turner, don't sell my patents to help her plug her financial hole. Instead, I swiftly file for divorce with the court and cut ties with her. This is all because in my previous life, I had loved her with everything I had for 50 years. I was at her beck and call. She claimed she longed for a platonic marriage, and so I endured a sexless marriage for decades. All this lasted until the day of the shipwreck, when I gave her the last life vest. Yet, after she was saved, she never told the rescue team that I was still trapped inside the cabin. In my final moments, through a crack in the cabin door, I watched her throw herself into Travis' arms. "Trav, I love you. I only love you. From now on, no one will stand in the way of our love." In that moment, I abandoned all will to live, letting the sea swallow me whole. So this time, after being reborn, I choose to step aside and let her pursue her love.

“Look at the mirror, and tell me to whom you belong, Violette.” Noah cupped me in between my thighs harshly, making my breath haywire. “Answer me!” His tone dropped even low, followed by his dangerous growl. “Y..you,” I answered in a strangled whisper and gasped when he slipped two fingers inside me in a swift motion. “Again. To whom you belong, my dear?” He asked again, pumping his fingers in and out on my wet and slickly sex. “You, Noah.” “Good. Remember that before you let someone lay their hand on you. Now, open your legs wider for me.” *** Violette Daley never knew that her life would turn upside down after her brave attempt to escape to the Lycan's land. She only planned to stay for a day or two and then slip away to the human's land. But her plan was ruined after accidentally freeing a dangerous Lycan— Noah, in the cave. What started as a mere promise between the beast and her for her safety suddenly took a twisted turn. Now, she was to follow him, and worse, he claimed her as his mate. Before she knew it. Violette was already trapped in the sea of beasts, and Noah was the only one she could depend on to survive.

She married him to end a family feud. He never loved her or so she thought. Jane endured a cold, empty marriage to billionaire Logan Anderson, holding onto the hope that one day he might feel something real. But the moment she discovered she was pregnant, she also caught him cheating. Heartbroken, she asked for a divorce without telling him about the babies growing inside her. That same night, she was kidnapped, tortured, and thrown into the sea, left for dead. The men claimed Logan sent them. And Jane believed it. Six years later, she’s back. Not as a broken wife, but as a powerful woman with six brilliant children and a single mission: revenge. She’ll make Logan pay. She’ll break his empire. And she’ll do it with a smile. But what happens when the lies begin to crack? What happens when she discovers the truth That Logan had fallen for her long before she left And that someone close, someone trusted, orchestrated it all? Now Jane’s daughter is sick and the only bone marrow match is Logan. What if he wasn’t the enemy after all? And what if the only man who can save her child is the one she swore to destroy?

Kai Tanaka is Seattle’s best rescue swimmer, the man they send into black water when the storm decides to take a life. He’s built for cold, built for chaos, built to bring people back. Until one rescue goes wrong. A body disappears. The footage goes missing. And Kai becomes the quiet scapegoat the Coast Guard can sacrifice to keep the institution clean. Suspended and watched, he’s barely holding on when Luca Reyes drags his name into the light. Luca is a true-crime podcaster chasing the truth behind that same night, because his younger brother was on the boat that never came home. Luca thinks Kai is hiding something. Kai thinks Luca is feeding off tragedy. Their first meeting is sharp and ugly. Then Luca is nearly killed for asking the right questions. Kai pulls him from the wreckage and realizes this isn’t internet noise. Someone is laundering bodies through the sea, and they’re using Kai as the fall guy. The only way to keep Luca alive is to disappear with him to an off-grid cabin on the San Juan Islands, where the wind never stops and secrets sound louder. Forced proximity turns into hunger. Suspicion turns into heat. And the closer they get to the truth, the more they realize the storm isn’t the worst thing chasing them.

One night before our engagement, Darren Finch insisted on throwing a singles party aboard a cruise ship. He made it clear I wasn't invited. But in the middle of the night, I got a call saying he'd fallen overboard. Panic overtook me. Feverish and disoriented, I stumbled to the deck and dove into the sea without a second thought. The night waters were icy, sapping the strength from my limbs. As I was pulled back onto the deck, shivering and soaked, I heard laughter ring out from the crowd. Carrie Specter, Darren's childhood sweetheart, stood above me. She gave a soft, lilting laugh. "Seeing how far you're willing to go for Darren... I can finally hand him over to you without worry." At that, Darren wrapped an arm smugly around her waist. "Carrie, you really do know me best." "I told you," she beamed, "Paula would pass your test." I let out a cold laugh, slipped the engagement ring from my finger, and flung it at his face. "No, thanks. I wish you two eternal bliss. Just don't ever drag me into your drama again."

Durante mis cinco años de matrimonio con Dante Moretti, el Don de la mafia de Gold Ville, todo el mundo sabía que me amaba más que a su vida. Él tenía tatuado un violín (por mí) junto al escudo de su familia, un símbolo de lealtad que nunca podría ser borrado. Hasta que recibí la foto de su amante. Una camarera de cócteles, tumbada desnuda en sus brazos, con la piel marcada por los moretones oscuros del sexo violento. Ella había garabateado su propio nombre justo al lado del violín que él llevaba por mí. Y mi esposo se lo había permitido. «Dante dice que solo estando dentro de mí se siente como un hombre. Tú ya ni siquiera puedes excitarlo, ¿verdad, querida Alessia? Quizás sea hora de que te hagas a un lado». No respondí. Solo hice una llamada. —Necesito una nueva identidad. Y un billete de avión.

Ariana se esfuerza al máximo por cumplir sus obligaciones como hija de un alfa. Pero su vida se desequilibra cuando conoce a su misteriosa pareja. Él es fuerte. Es feroz. Y, de hecho, puede que sea su enemigo. Ahora se siente dividida entre el deber y el amor… ***** "Por favor, no te vayas", susurré mientras empezaba a besar su cuello una vez más. Me acarició la cabeza, pero empezó a decir las razones por las que sabía que estaba mal. "No podemos hacerlo, Tritón", me dijo. "Nos está matando y está destruyendo a nuestras familias. Imagina cómo reaccionaría la manada si nos descubrieran aquí. ¿Si descubrieran que estás en el bosque conmigo, besándonos y acariciándonos? Por mucho que te quiera y por más que seamos pareja, también somos enemigos, Tritón". "¡No!", dije, con mi cara aún enterrada en su cuello."¡No me importa lo que piensen! ¡No me importa lo que pueda pasar! Todo lo que quiero eres tú". «Mi enemigo, mi pareja», es una obra de Emma Levy, autora de eGlobal Creative Publishing.