Where Shadows Lie

This is a standalone book from one of the stories in the book "The Wild Adventures". Nicole Parker is a girl who can be said to have everything. Money, beauty, and brains. She is the only child of the most successful business tycoon in the capital. But despite having almost everything, she lacks in the most intimate relationship comfort and stability. A reason why she became rebellious toward her parents. She wanted to get their attention by doing things that would require their responses. She started bullying people around her. But what happens when a bully gets bullied? Would love be enough to change her? Find out in Nicole and Mike's colorful and steamy love story. "The Queen of Bullies"

A gasp escaped past her lips when she felt his tongue licking her skin where her neck meets her shoulder. Her heart drummed in her ears. Her chin quivering and her body trembling. A jolt of electrifying jolts ran down her body as his lips gave soft feathery kisses on her neck. She was a nervous mush in his arms. "Sweet," He rasped in his deep baritone voice. She stiffened, even more, when his nose caressed her jawline and he inhaled her scent. She was squished against his hard muscular chest and all she could feel and inhale was him. His big veiny hands, his muscular steel-like arms around her waist, and his sinful lips. "Your scent...mhmm... so f*cking addicting," a growl reverberated from his chest. "S...stop," She stuttered. "Shss..." The rough pad of his thumb caressed her lips.

Lily Thornstun, a 24 year writer who escaped from a toxic and abusive relationship to a Werewolf Community where she meets Jayce Ryder, the 29 year Werewolf King and her new roommate. While taking therapy to bounce back from her traumatic experience from her previous relationship, a bond begins to form between them as the Mate bond soul links the pair. Between the fear of her past coming back to hunt her and the overwhelming heat building up between them, Lily and Jayce face off against the obstacles that puts their love to the test in order to achieve their happy ending.

Scott Chapman's company went bankrupt because his childhood sweetheart, Eula Saunder, had stolen confidential information from it. Despite having millions in assets, I married him without hesitation. After we got married, I not only devoted myself to caring for him after he was severely injured in a car accident, but also struggled alone to hold up the crumbling Chapman family. When he recovered, he swore that I was the one person he would never let down. But when Eula returned to the country, he had me hung to the ceiling for three days just because she asked for it. I was pregnant, thirsty, and starving. I begged him to save our baby, but he turned a deaf ear. Instead, he hugged and kissed Eula right in front of me. "If you hadn't taken advantage of me when I was at my lowest and forced me to marry you, I would've married Eula by now. "You framed her back then and had her sent abroad. Now that she's back, you need to pay for what you did!" Heartbroken, I went to see my brother, Ken. I knelt before him and said, "I lost. I misjudged him. Ken, I want to leave this place."

Je suis piégée, piégée dans un lien de compagnon que je déteste. Est-ce que je vais un jour m’échapper de son emprise ? « Moi, Théodore Bodin, Alpha de la Meute du Désert d’Ambre, je te rejette, Kaia Leconte, comme ma Luna. » Je me souviens de ses paroles cruelles et tranchantes comme si c’était hier. Notre lien de compagnon est inexistant. C’est un mensonge, il existe mais Théodore ne se permet pas de s’approcher de moi... ou d’être seul dans une pièce avec moi. C’est comme si je le dégoûtais. Il m’a réduit à néant. Seulement une ombre et je le déteste pour ça. Je ne peux pas continuer à vivre comme ça, à attendre... Je suis Kaia Leconte, la Luna légitime de la Meute du Désert d’Ambre. Pourtant, mon compagnon, l’Alpha Théodore, refuse de me laisser régner à ses côtés. Je me sens trompée par le lien de compagnon, que mon propre compagnon ne veut pas. Des années que j’essaie de le faire m’aimer... de me voir... mais comment le pourrais-je ? Quand il en a une autre... Je ne peux pas rester, ce n’est plus sûr pour moi ni pour mon enfant à naître. Un enfant créé par la force. Je dois partir... m’enfuir et retrouver mon père. Il est la seule bouée de sauvetage dont je dispose. Cependant, il a été vu récemment dans la meute ennemie, la Meute du Fantôme Noir. Une meute notoire avec un Alpha froid et intrigant, qui n’apprécie pas les étrangers. On dit que ceux qui entrent dans la meute ne sont jamais revus. Mais je n’ai pas le choix... je dois entrer dans la meute ennemie pour me débarrasser de mon lien de compagnon. Seulement, je me retrouve avec un autre. Un autre qui me condamne à la même tromperie du lien de compagnon.

Meet Maezhei Dayone. An aspiring actress who is truly unlucky given the circumstances of her life. But everything’s fall into place when she met Zake Deguzs. Meet Zake Deguzs. The current head of the Deguzs family, one of the wealthiest and most influential families around. He exudes tremendous pressure that has everyone shaking, except for his family. He is usually emotionless and expressionless, like an ice sculpture. He is also depicted as a very scary person, and no one wants to go on his bad side. He avoids girls but everything changed when she met Maezhei Dayone. "Marry me." Maezhei froze for a second, then she began coughing heavily, almost choking herself to death at her own saliva. 'Did I heard it right? Did he just ask me to marry him?!' she asked herself in horror. "What... what did you just say?" she finally opens her mouth and asked. She had saved the white tiger, his pet, so now his owner wanted to repay her with his body?! At this very moment, Maezhei simply could not believe the reality after her. If this was another person that would have been fine. If it was someone just a bit handsome, then it could be considered a lucky romantic encounter. But this person was Zake Deguzs... Zake Deguzs!!! When it came to looks, she was not bad, but Zake Deguzs?! Even the most gorgeous woman in the World can't compare to him!

Prem is a Tourism Management student in Ateneo de Iligan who faces problems in her family but not until she found herself sick which also leads in meeting Isia an Architecture student.

PART 1: ANA AND AMBROSE Analyn is a human in a world full of werewolves. Her family is one of the last remaining holdouts to their violent takeover, but all she wants to do is live in peace away from the fierce beasts. But her father has other plans. Using her as a pawn in the name of peace, he arranges for her to marry the notorious future Alpha of the Lightbridge Shadows, only the strongest pack in North America. Despite his young age, Ambrose has built the reputation of a ruthless and ferocious wolf who showed no mercy. He doesn't want anything to do with Ana because he finds humans weak and useless. But his father had other plans for Ambrose's future as the Alpha. Now she has to pretend to be the perfect happily wedded wife on the outside while she's married to Ambrose, who hated her on sight. But Analyn isn't one to just meekly follow the rules, and she's determined to push all of his buttons. PART 2 and 3: Bonus stories.

It took one lie for Adelina Delgado to convince the world that she remembers nothing about him; Jonathan McCurby, the fiancé she had before she slipped into a coma that left her in a minimal state of consciousness for three years. Love turned into anger, frustration and eventually, hate. It was what she told herself to feel whenever she saw him. But, unlucky her. Her mouth could deny all it wanted, but her body would always give her away. Her resolve cracked. Heat surged through her body. The tension was immense. Her imaginations ran wild. The familiar scent left her insensible. She was slowly melting away, sandwiched between the wall and his hard frame, and he hadn’t even touched her. Yet.

Clocking 18, Suzie had just one thing in mind, to take revenge on everyone who has bullied her, including her father and the quadruplet brothers, one of them which she has given her entire heart only for him to shatter it. But hours before her shift, the goddess played a trick on her, mating her to the same brothers she desperately wanted to play with their lives. What would become of Suzie’s revenge especially now that the four brothers want to be with her? Even with their lives in danger, all they want is for their mate, whom they have tortured all this years to love and forgive them. Would this be possible for Suzie? Or would she turn a blind eye and watch their lives turn miserable? Find out.