Venom: Lethal Protector

Lila’s world fell apart the moment she discovered her husband’s betrayal. But her heart began to heal the night she met Kyler King. With his devastating charm, piercing eyes, and an air of mystery, Kyler is everything her husband never was. He’s kind, protective, and impossibly wealthy—a man who seems to step right out of a dream. When Lila stumbles into his life, Kyler is determined to show her the love and care she’s always deserved. But breaking free from her cruel husband, Taylor, won’t be easy. Taylor’s obsession with Lila turns dangerous, forcing Kyler to fight not just for her heart, but for her life. As secrets unravel and danger closes in, Kyler becomes Lila’s unwavering protector and her chance at true happiness. Read more…

"Don't do it," he yelled. "Elara! Stop!" I wanted to, so I gave in to it... gladly letting the darkness take me with it. ****** She was wolfless, powerless, and marked as an outcast. He was born ruthless, powerful — an Alpha feared not just in the packs, but in the underworld where blood and power rule. When Elara discovers her fated mate is the man who destroyed her pack and crushed her world, her life begins to fall apart again. He should be her protector… but to him, she is nothing but a liability he cannot afford. But fate is merciless. They tried to fight it but their bond burns too fiercely to be ignored. Will Elara risk her heart and safety for the mate who ruined her life, or fight to reclaim her freedom before his darkness consumes her?

…from his responsibilities as a father, hiding out from his pregnant girlfriend, and working as a groundskeeper in a rural graveyard. He’s running from a lifetime of guilt and bad decisions, but principally he’s running from the murderous entities that have possessed the very ground at his feet. Jim has no idea what these entities are, but they’ve done unspeakable things to everyone in the graveyard and now they’re hunting him down. There is nowhere Jim can hide, nowhere he can walk and nowhere he can run that isn’t under the lethal power of the things in the ground. If he stands any chance of survival he must uncover the link between his murderous tormentors, three mysterious graves and an ancient heresy that stretches back to the beginning of time. ©️ Crystal Lake Publishing

All her life, Freya has been told what to do. Sold by her stepfather without her knowledge to the Alpha King, Nicholas Kurt, is the start of a change in her destiny. She is to bear him a son, but what she doesn't expect is that the cold-hearted, barbaric, lethal Alpha King is her mate. After consummation, she realizes that she is nothing but a sex toy to him. In agony over his rejection, she runs away with her unborn child. Now, the Alpha King swears to find her back and proclaim his love to her while she has to find out her origin. Her wolf wasn't an ordinary wolf but one who is destined to fight a darkness soon to capture the whole world. Her love and her will is the beginning of a dangerous path.

His name is known and resonates in every corner of the world, he is respected as feared by many. Max Ivanov in an intelligent, dangerous and very lethal man. No one has ever contradicted him, no one has ever challenged him, much less despised him, or that was before he met Kiara Lester. Kiara, a young, curious and brave girl, who fends for herself and is incapable of being dominated by anyone. From the first moment Max laid eyes on Kiara, he knew he had to have her, knew he would do anything to find her and make her his. Max didn't know what he was up against, much less knew Kiara's true intentions. Everything about her screamed DANGER. But danger had always been his favorite dish

Mary was sold by her father to the ruthless Silas Vance. But on their wedding night, before he could claim her, Silas collapsed into a cold, silent coma. Mary thinks she’s escaped a nightmare, until Julian Vance arrives. He is the estranged heir, a man fueled by shadows and a bitter hatred for his father. To Julian, Mary is a gold-digging "stepmother" who seduced an old man for a crown of blood money. He vows to break her, turning the Vance estate into her gilded prison. But in the dark corners of the mansion, his loathing turns into a lethal, forbidden obsession. Every touch is an act of war; every look is a sin. He wants to ruin her—but more than that, he wants to possess the only thing his father couldn't. And God help them both, he’s going to take what belongs to his father.

One of them wants her dead; the other wants her alive. Whichever it is, the end is pretty certain to the woman who dies a pauper and is reborn as a powerful bride. Damnation. In flames of passion. ~~~ Quinn Parker meets an unfortunate end when she crosses paths with the terror of her city, mafia kingpin, hybrid charmer, Luciano Draven, and dangerous sparks fly between them. But after a deadly deal with his twice as charming twin, Adrien Draven, in the supernatural realm between life and death, a second chance is given to her. At a lethal, deadly cost that could upend her life again. What happens when she's caught in a web of lust, intense, crippling passion and betrayals between two brothers sworn to enmity and hatred? Does she take the path of life or death? Ready yourselves, hell is comin’.

I gave my full support when my father decided to set aside $2.1 billion in trust funds for his three illegitimate kids. Things had been very different in my previous life. At the time, the company urgently needed capital for a new project, and I had convinced my father to postpone setting up the trusts. I never imagined the three of them would take it as an attempt to seize the family fortune for myself. Furious, they went street racing to vent their anger. The result was a fatal crash. The car was destroyed, and none of them survived. Under my leadership, the company continued to grow at an astonishing pace and eventually secured a place on the Fortune Global 500 list. Yet on the very day I received the title of Young Entrepreneur of the Year, my father got me drunk and ordered my limbs broken. As I lay there screaming in agony, I demanded to know why he was doing this to me. His reply was filled with venom as he crushed my fingers one after another. "If you hadn't been so greedy for the inheritance, Ethan and the others wouldn't have gone out to clear their heads. They never would have died in that crash." In the end, my father beat me to death. When my critically ill mother learned the truth, the shock took her life as well. When I opened my eyes again, I was back on the very day my father decided to establish the trust.

One city. One moon. Three ways to lose your heart—and your life. Maya is caught in the crosshairs of a supernatural underworld she never asked to join. Her heart is tied to a man who represents everything she should fear. He’s her best friend’s father, watching her with a hunger that isn't just paternal. He’s her stepbrother, making the house they share feel like a cage. He’s her sister’s mate, bound by blood to another but tethered to Maya by desire. He is a wolf. He is a predator. And he has chosen her. As the full moon approaches, the secrets of the city begin to bleed out. Maya must choose between the safety of the world she knows and the intoxicating, lethal heat of the pack. The streets are calling. Will she run from the howl, or will she join the hunt?

A revenge that cost her body. Elira Vale was left with nothing but a thirst for blood. To get it, she made a deal with the devil himself. Arthur Blackthorne is fifty years of pure, lethal temptation, a billionaire who demands a high price for his protection: a contract marriage and an heir he thinks he can never have. Caught in a web of “His Dark Sin”, she realizes that every forbidden touch comes with a price she wasn't prepared to pay. But as the secrets of her past begin to bleed into her present, the truth is more dangerous than the lie. She's about to find out that the man holding her hand might be the one she should fear the most. Warning: This story contains dark, steamy romance and explicit content intended for audiences 18+, may contain bdsm and straight intimacy.