Twelve Labors Novels & Stories

Luca Devereaux has spent twelve seasons building the perfect image. He is the captain of the Chicago Phantoms, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, and the man every sponsor wants on their poster. He is calm under pressure, professional in every interview, and completely untouchable. The only person in the world who has ever made him feel like he might come apart is Ronan Calloway. Ronan is the captain of the Boston Bruins and the league's leading scorer for two straight seasons. He is quiet, intense, and impossible to read. He does not chase drama, he does not play games, But for three years, he has watched Luca with the kind of focus that goes beyond rivalry. He has counted Luca's habits, studied his tells, and waited for the perfect time.. When a brutal championship game collision ends with a nine-second fight broadcast to millions, the world sees the first crack in Luca's perfect armor. But that is nothing compared to what happens after the final whistle, when Ronan locks a locker room door and they are finally, truly alone. What begins as obsession slowly becomes something neither of them has words for. They meet in empty arenas and dark corridors. They push each other away and pull each other back. The hockey world is watching. Management is watching. And somewhere out there, someone is taking photographs. This is a story about two men who have spent years hiding behind control, competition, and composure. And about what happens when the one person who can see through all of it refuses to look away.

"Sign the contract, or lose everything." I stared at the papers that would seal my fate—a three-year marriage to Julian Blackwood, the ruthless billionaire they call the Ice King. My family didn't ask. They demanded. My father's company was drowning, my stepsister's engagement had exploded, and I was the replacement bride they could sacrifice. Just another transaction. Julian made it clear on our wedding day: "Don't expect affection. Don't expect companionship. Certainly don't expect love." He refused to kiss me at the altar. He gave me a bedroom down the hall and told me to stay out of his way. I was Mrs. Blackwood in name only—a contract, a convenience, a means to an end. I accepted it. I had survived twelve years of abuse in my own home. I could survive three years of indifference in his. But then Nate, Julian's best friend, showed me kindness, and suddenly my cold husband became possessive. When my sister attacked me, he became protective. Now the man who promised me nothing is fighting his own father to keep me. The marriage that was supposed to be fake is becoming terrifyingly real and the secrets about my mother's death are threatening to destroy everything. They said Julian Blackwood destroys everything he touches. What they didn't tell me... is that sometimes destruction is exactly what you need to be reborn. With a pregnancy involved, how was I going to end this three-year marriage peacefully?

After the War of the Gods, Olympus forged a new pact with the last of the Titans. From then on, the mortal realm was ruled by demigods. Those who carried the blood of the gods within them. Once a century, Olympus held the Sacred Marriage. The twelve ruling gods would choose mortal noblewomen as brides. Their goal: to sire heirs with divine cores. The rule was simple: whoever birthed a demigod first would see her husband crowned the next High Councilor of the Gods. In my past life, I married Deimos, the son of Ares, a man renowned for his fierce devotion. Soon after, I gave him a son—a demigod brimming with raw power. A prophecy declared our boy would one day rule Olympus, and Deimos rode that promise to absolute power. Meanwhile, my sister Evadne, blinded by the beauty of the Sun clan, insisted on marrying Lucian, Apollo's playboy heir. But Lucian's philandering left her with more than a broken heart. He gave her a divine blight, a curse that left her barren. She blamed me for it. She hated me with every fiber of her being. On the very night I was crowned Queen of the Gods, she set the holy temple ablaze, burning me and my son alive. Then I opened my eyes. I was back on the day of the Sacred Marriage. Evadne had already broken into the temple and climbed into Deimos's bed. I knew it right then. She had been reborn, too. But she didn't know the truth. The blood of the War God is violent. Deimos wasn't a prize to be won. He was a monster in disguise.

SYNOPSIS KISSED BY THE BILLIONAIRE I CAN'T STAND Elena Brooks spills champagne on billionaire Alexander Knight at his charity gala. Instead of a lawsuit, he summons her to his office and reveals the truth that destroys her world. Her father didn't leave debt behind from bad business decisions. He was deliberately destroyed by Alexander's father James after discovering evidence of massive financial crimes inside Knight Holdings. And his death on the Williamsburg Bridge two years ago wasn't an accident. Alexander was supposed to meet him that night. He arrived twelve minutes too late. Now Alexander needs the hidden files Thomas Brooks left behind before he died. Files locked in a Brooklyn storage unit only Elena can access. In exchange, he offers to clear every dollar of her father's debt and pay her five hundred thousand dollars. Elena agrees. But not just for the money. The moment they shake hands, her apartment is broken into. A photograph of her sleeping sister arrives as a warning. And among her father's scattered papers, Elena finds a photograph of a woman with her father's handwriting on the back. She knows everything. Keep her safe. The woman vanished three months after Thomas was fired. Before disappearing, she sent Alexander one message. Thomas had a daughter. James knows about her too. She's already a target. The message was sent four days before her father died. Elena isn't just the daughter of a man who found the wrong files. She's the loose end James Knight has been watching for two years. And now he knows she's coming for the truth.

“Spread your legs for me, little one. I want to see if you taste as perfect as you look.” “I’m yours. Mark me, ruin me… just don’t leave me.” *** Safira was a glitch in the bloodline—a wolfless mistake born into a world of predators. After being rejected by her mate, she decided to live for herself for just one night. One night at a bar. One dare to kiss a stranger. One night of worship that left her body shattered and her soul branded by a man with the most gorgeous, winter-blue eyes who called her Mate. But the sun rose, and the stranger vanished. Twelve months later, Safira is forced into a spectacular nightmare. Her stepmother has finally snagged the ultimate prize: marriage to the Alpha King, the cold-blooded "Devil's Son" who executes with a single glance. Safira is prepared to hide in the shadows of the castle, but when she finally meets the Alpha King, her heart shatters. The man who spread her legs and devoured her like a hungry beast is the same man about to marry her stepmother. He is the Alpha King. He is her new stepfather. But when duty mixes with a dark obsession, the lines between family and pleasure bleed. In a castle built on secrets and betrayal, Safira must decide: will she play the role of the dutiful daughter, or will she burn the kingdom down to reclaim the King who ruined her and called her his? *** “Forget that night, Safira. You are my daughter now.” She leaned in, resting her head on his chest while her hand drifted down to the hard, demanding bulge in his pants. “Then why is your heart racing, Daddy?” The Obsessed Series Book One: Daddy’s Obsession Book Two: Alpha’s Obsession

One year. That’s all I have to survive. I went from dancing naked in the neon-soaked stage of the Velvet Eclipse club to the cold, marble halls of the Hart empire with nothing but a promise I made to a dying man. I thought Richard Hart was my savior, but his final gift turned out to be a death sentence: live in a penthouse with his four sons—the most powerful, dangerous, and devastatingly handsome men in the city—for twelve months, or lose everything. The catch? They hate me. They see me as a charity case, a gold-digger. There’s Lucien, the Ice King who wants to crush me under his corporate heel. Damon, the inked-up mafia boss, who plays with guns and my sanity. Kai, the tech genius whose stormy blue eyes track my every mistake like a virus. And Theo, the golden boy whose charming smile hides a heart of pure stone. They’ve made it clear: they don’t want a roommate. They want to break me until I beg to leave. But they don’t know where I come from. They don't know what I've survived, Jace, my ex boyfriend who is currently hunting me from the shadows, ready to drag me back to the life I barely escaped. I’m trapped between four sharks who want to devour me and a monster who wants to own me. But as the walls of the penthouse start closing in, the hatred is starting to feel a lot like hunger. The lines are blurring, and I’m beginning to realize that the only thing more dangerous than the Hart brothers hating me... is them wanting me. I was sent here to tame them. But in this den of lions, I might be the one who ends up devoured.

Two months before the public ceremony Marco had sworn would finally recognise me as his wife, he announced his engagement online, to no one in particular, but everyone assumed it was to me. And so they congratulated me. After seven years at his side, after I had stabilised the Fontana family, crushed three internal revolts, and secured enough elders' votes to make him the next Don, everyone, including myself, took it for granted that I would be the woman standing beside him. Until I paused outside a private room and heard his friends laughing. "Marco, your Donna selection list is insane. Twelve women, one ring, and you grade them every month?" A whistle. "Right now it's down to Elena and that little nightclub girl you keep in the penthouse, isn't it?" "What if you don't marry Elena after all this?" another man asked. "She gave you seven years. She might lose her mind." Marco's lazy laugh cut through the smoke. "Whoever performs best becomes my wife. Fair rule." The room erupted. "Come on, you're obviously favouring your mistress. Elena can't win if you keep giving that girl perfect scores." His voice turned playful, almost amused. "I gave Elena the chance. If she still loses, she can only blame herself." I stood frozen, the blood draining from my heart. After a long silence, I pulled out my phone and called my father. "Dad, I agree to come home." "I'll accept the marriage alliance arranged by the Commission."

She gave up, she gave in. She forgot that she was on an airplane that was now accelerating for take-off. She was far more interested in her own personal take-off – one that Hunter was controlling with hard, deep thrusts inside her as his thumb gently stroked her clit. She opened her mouth against his throat, her breath coming out in pants now. As she approached climax, Sully gripped her chin between his fingers, forced her face up to his. Her release was muffled against his mouth and he swallowed her gasps and tiny whimpers; when she relaxed and sighed, he held her close, absorbing the aftershocks into his own body. Cordelia floated next to him, dizzy and breathless. **** Twelve years ago, Hunter Sullivan lost everything that mattered. Since then, his life has been built on distance, discipline, and emotional lockdown. Love was a luxury he failed to protect, and one he doesn’t deserve again. Or so he believes. Until Cordelia Patton walks into his life and dismantles his defenses with a single smile. Cordelia is already carrying too much: a sick child, a demanding job, and a future balanced on a knife’s edge. Her toughest assignment comes when she and Hunter are sent undercover as a married couple to take down a child-kidnapping ring. Pretending to be close to a man who refuses to want her may be the hardest role she’s ever played. Cut off from backup and relying only on each other, lines blur and emotions ignite. But when the case explodes and a criminal escapes, the danger turns personal... and Hunter is forced to face his greatest fear: losing the woman he never meant to love.

A signed contract. A $22 million debt. A beautiful prison built of gold, secrets, and raw obsession.** When Vivian Montgomery’s father plunders his own empire and vanishes, he leaves his daughter to face the executioner. Enter Dominic Vance—Manhattan’s most ruthless venture capitalist, known in the corporate world as "The Executioner." He doesn’t want a payment plan. He wants liquidation. And the only asset left to seize is Vivian herself. Backed into a corner with her family's legacy on the verge of being erased, Vivian is forced to sign a devastating, high-stakes contract. For twelve months, she must play the part of Dominic’s adoring, devoted fiancée to secure a multi-billion-dollar corporate merger. In public, she wears his flawless diamonds and smiles for the paparazzi. But behind closed doors, the rules change. Behind closed doors, she belongs to him completely. As Vivian is pulled into Dominic’s dark, suffocating world, the friction between a forced arrangement and a dangerous, addictive passion begins to boil over. Dominic is fiercely, violently possessive—destroying anyone who dares to look at her, driven by a dark obsession that runs far deeper than a mere business transaction. But a luxury cage is still a cage. Just as the high-friction 18+ heat between them reaches a breathless breaking point, a cryptic note delivered at a high-society gala shatters the illusion: *Your father didn't run. Dominic Vance is lying to you.* Trapped between a burning desire for the man who owns her and a terrifying secret tied to a hidden file in his private safe, Vivian must decide how far she will go to uncover the truth—and whether she can survive the absolute surrender of unlocking the golden cage.

Title: Reborn: The Mafia King's Wife Betrayed by the people she trusted most, Elena Hart dies alone with nothing but hatred and regret. Once the brilliant heiress of the Hart family, she watched her parents murdered, her inheritance stolen, and her life manipulated by a secret criminal organization that controlled the world from the shadows. But fate gives her an impossible second chance. She awakens twelve years in the past, before the tragedy that destroyed everything. Armed with memories of her previous life, Elena vows to rewrite destiny. This time, she will save her parents, expose every traitor, and destroy the organization known as Genesis before it can consume countless innocent lives. Her carefully laid plans unexpectedly cross paths with Adrian Blackwell—the cold, feared, and powerful Mafia King whose name alone strikes fear into the underworld. Though the world sees him as ruthless and untouchable, Elena discovers the loyal, protective man hidden beneath his icy exterior. What begins as a calculated alliance slowly turns into an unbreakable bond, and together they challenge enemies powerful enough to shake nations. As conspiracies unravel and dangerous secrets from the past come to light, Elena realizes that revenge alone cannot heal old wounds. With Adrian by her side, she must choose between hatred and hope while protecting the family she nearly lost once before. Filled with romance, revenge, mystery, action, powerful family bonds, and emotional redemption, Reborn: The Mafia King's Wife is the story of a woman who refused to accept fate, a king who found his queen, and two souls who proved that even after the darkest betrayal, love can create a future worth fighting for.