Where The Crawdads Sing Delia Owens Novels & Stories

After losing his girlfriend-Lizzy, Asher Blenda became the worst boy in the school. All the women he dates are just for fun and when get bored he dumped them away, no pity, no mercy, just cold stare on his eyes. As cold as an iceberg and also don't believe in love. His love has been lost since Lizzy left him. The heartbreaker with all the bad reputation he has. But when he kissed Cerise, Asher had lost his mind. Cerise's kiss felt different, like feeling Lizzy's soul in Cerise's figure. Asher couldn't forget the kiss. Until he finds out who Cerise is! ________________ The story of Asher's parents in SWEET MISTAKES

After a steamy night with a stranger when her best friend drugged her, Melissa's life is totally changed. She losses her both parent and all their properties when her father's company is declared bankrupt. Falls into depression almost losing her life but the news of her pregnancy gives her a reason to live. Forced to drop out of college, she moves to the province with her aunt who as well had lost her husband and son. Trying to make a living as a hotel housekeeper, Melissa meets her son's father four years later who manipulates her into moving back to the city then coerced her into marriage with a promise of finding the person behind her parent death and company bankruptcy. Hungry for revenge against the people she believes ruined her life, she agrees to marry Mark Johnson, her one stand. Using his money and the Johnson's powerful name, she is determined to see the people behind her father's company bankruptcy crumble before her. Focused solely on getting justice and protecting her son, she has no room for love. But is her heart completely dead? How long can she resist Mark's charm when he is so determined to make her his legal wife in all sense of the word.

Half an hour ago, my destined mate finally proposed to me, and we will hold a grand mating ceremony in half a month. The moment I’d been waiting for ten years had finally come. But right at this monment. My Alpha was holding another woman, his fingers tracing her skin. His voice was soft, almost worshipful. “I regret everything. If you want me back, I will break the mate bond with her.” He had no idea I was watching from outside the window—he was so wrapped up in that woman, he didn’t even catch my scent. Right then, it hit me: our mate bond, our ten years together, flash throug in my head. I sent a mindlink to my mother and told her I was going to cut down the mate-bond with Mike. Then I would go back to the Deep Blue pack to run my own. Mike would never know that our mating ceremony would be the day I leave.

Tessa was the fallen Alpha heiress, deaf but still bound to protect her late father’s legacy. Evander was the rising young Alpha, the perfect presidential candidate. A marriage contract tied them together, but with one condition: once Evander found his true fated mate, their contracted marriage would be over. Five years later, when Evander finally promised that he would attend the last mating ceremony and give up finding his fated mate, Tessa got pregnant. Tessa believed it’s all meant to be, but Evander returned with another woman, claiming that she was his fated mate... Now Tessa must decide: reveal her pregnancy and risk losing everything, or walk away to protect the future growing inside her.

Amelia married her mate and Alpha of the feared black-moon pack, Drake. After having a hard childhood without identity and as a rogue, she was sure Drake was the best thing that could have happened to her. He was the love of her life. She did anything for him. Helped his pack to rise to the stand it has. She couldn't believe her luck as someone as broken as her, to have a mate like him. That was until he killed her. The ultimate betrayal. Alpha of the blood-moon pack, Jax, finally found a way to get to his true soul mate and get her out of the grasp of his arche enemy Drake. He does literally anything and everything to get her back. The path is crossed, with fear, hate, hunger for revenge, many secrets, passion, and love. True love? Will Amelia find her redemption after being reborn? Can she live with the consequences if she made different choices? She could lose everything she ever wanted. But she could also win more than even imagineable.

Serenity is the only daughter of the Alpha. She is loved by her pack, her father and all those around her, except for her mother. Abused from childhood, Ren isolates herself from others to try to hide the abuse at her mother's hands. On her 17th birthday, as she is about to receive her wolf, the abuse takes on a new level. Family secrets begin to unravel, and Ren finds out the real reason her mother abused her. With the awakening of her wolf, she is told she has no designated mate... that the Goddess cannot choose who to pair her with within a year's time. No one is worthy of her. Who will rise to be the wolf Ren deserves? What will happen once her mother's abuse becomes clear to everyone in her pack? Will her wolf's awakening change how her family treat her? Ren is a strong Alpha, and will rise to become more than anyone expects... can she do it alone in such a sexist world of male Alpha's and their old ways of thinking.

I was reborn. Right back to the day I adopted Peter. The wind cut sharp, baby cries slicing through the cold. That's when it hit me—this was the day Stuart Pete, my oh-so-loving husband, dumped his illegitimate child right in my path after work. He knew me too well. The second I picked the kid up, he'd spin it into an adoption, making the boy ours. Last time, I fell for it. This time? I walked away without a second thought. Later, I heard the kid got pneumonia from being left out in the freezing cold—fever so bad, it wrecked him for life. I laughed until my stomach hurt. What I didn't see coming? Peter was reborn too—about to experience the life he was meant to have.

As the only daughter of the Whitehaven Pack's Alpha, I had the right to choose my mate from among the heirs of our allied packs. Everyone expected me to choose Kieran Dante—after all, I’d spent years making a fool of myself chasing after him at every pack gathering. But instead, I chose Damon Thorne, the one they called cursed and weak. In my previous life, I did choose Kieran, and on the night of our bonding ceremony, I found him mating with my best friend Sera in the ceremonial preparation room. When my father found out and banished Sera from the pack, Kieran blamed me for ruining his happiness. He brought back a hundred she-wolves who looked exactly like her and forced me to watch as he bedded them one after another. The constant agony of the bond tore me apart from the inside, and when I finally grew too weak to endure it anymore, Kieran accused me of faking illness for attention. On the night I was dying, I crawled to his door begging for help, and he stepped over my body to go sleep with another woman. I died alone on the cold hallway floor while my mate laughed in the next room. When I opened my eyes again, I found myself back before it all happened — with a second chance to change everything. This time, I decided to let Kieran and Sera have each other. What I didn't expect was that Kieran had also been reborn, and when he saw me choose Damon over him, he completely lost control.

“I thought you wanted to sleep, my Queen,” Lorcan whispered. “I changed my mind,” Niamh kissed Lorcan again, deeply, hungrily. “Besides, you owe me a wedding night.” “I stand reminded,” Lorcan bowed his head. Looking up, he grasped Niamh around the waist and turned to lay her beneath him, kissing her passionately. *** Niamh had dutifully fulfilled her obligation to marry King Lorcan of the Elven Realms, only to watch her new husband ride off to battle the very next day. But he was lost in battle, and she was left to face her new role as Queen among haters, admirers, and potential suitors… and a traitor. Despite the challenges she formed new alliances, treaties, and friends, and, once the King was found, they built an unshakable love while facing turmoil. Once free to leave, what choice will she make? Will the love they formed be strong enough to endure more than time? Rising Storm in the Elven Realms is created by Heather Dilts-Baiano, an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.

Five years into my marriage to Dante Moretti, the Don of the Chicago Outfit, the entire underworld knew he loved me more than life itself. He’d had a violin—for me—tattooed right next to his family crest, a symbol of loyalty that could never be erased. Until I got the photo from his mistress. A cocktail waitress, sprawled naked in his arms, her skin marred by the dark bruises of rough sex. She had scrawled her name right next to the violin he’d gotten for me. And my husband had let her. "Dante says only being inside me makes him feel like a man anymore. You can’t even get him hard anymore, can you, sweet Alessia? Maybe it’s time to step aside." I didn't reply. I just made a single call. “I need a new identity. And a plane ticket out.”