Zero Days Ruth Ware Novels & Stories

I'm the most overlooked Omega in the pack, yet I somehow end up as Alpha Blake Cartman's fated mate. Because of my low status, he never allows me to appear at any events we're supposed to attend together. I plan 18 grand events for him, and he doesn't even let me show up for our anniversary. Then comes the 19th time, when he finally agrees to let me attend. I'm over the moon. I get dressed up, ready for the night, only to see Wendy Lowe—another Omega—already standing by his side. They stand there arm in arm, looking deeply in love, while the memory video I've worked so hard to put together has been replaced with clips of the two of them acting all sweet with each other. With his arm around Wendy, Blake looks at me with nothing but disgust. "My Luna needs the pack's full approval," he says. "You were never officially acknowledged as Luna anyway. Wendy earned their acceptance long before you. Starting today, she's taking your place." Everyone who knows me in the pack is watching, waiting for me to break down and lose it. But I don't scream or cry. I'm not even angry. In fact, I feel like I can finally breathe now. Because in just three days, the three-year mating contract between me and Blake will officially come to an end.

What if you fell in love with one person you've sworn to destroy? On her wedding night, Lara makes a vow not to love her husband, but to destroy him. After her parents’ brutal assassination, she loses everything — their billion-dollar empire, their legacy, and her place in the world to London’s most feared billionaire, Amiir Blackwood. He forces her into marriage to claim her inheritance, and strips her of all power. Now the former heiress serves coffee in her own father’s company while her husband rules from the top floor, untouchable. When she refuses to spend the night as husband and wife, he gives her sixty days to submit—or lose everything she has left. As she plots revenge, secrets surface that threaten to rewrite the past. The truth behind her parents’ deaths isn’t simple… and neither is the man she married. In a world where power is currency and love is a weakness, she must choose: Will she become the weapon that destroys her husband… Or the woman who changes the fate of an empire?

“I’m not your toy.” “Yes, you’re my toy, Tesoro. Mine to fuck, and mine to do with as I please. I could break you in half too, if I want. So watch your mouth!” ~•~ After discovering the same woman he’d had a one-night stand with years ago owes him a debt, Giovanni, blinded by his own desires, uses the opportunity to abduct her and propose a twisted bargain. Elaine is given two options; pay in two weeks or pay with her body when the time limit is up. But this is the same man she loathes for ruining her five years ago after impregnating her which led to her disownment. She’s had a hard life - working tirelessly to feed two mouths - hers and the son she loves so much. But knowing they won’t be able to stay together if his father is aware of his existence, Elaine decides to keep the child a secret and tread carefully. It was meant to be just sex, but Giovanni has plans to reignite their long-lost passion from the first night they made love, and also break the sharp witted woman who’s making him question his senses.

She came home for the holidays… and walked right straight into hell. Her toxic ex humiliated her in front of everyone and her family pushed her back into his arms like it was a game. Then Xavier stepped in....her ex’s quiet, dangerous uncle. A dominant biker who demands complete obedience. He offered her a deal: Sixty days as his. Sixty days of raw possession. Sixty days of filthy “Yes, Daddy” nights. Sixty days to burn her old life to the ground and in return her wedding with his nephew will be dragged and her sweetest revenge on him will be exacted. But when the lines between revenge and real feelings merge, Nora discovers one truth. Once the Biker Daddy claims you, he never lets go. Forbidden, Filthy and Slutty. How many days would you last??

I came to my father’s funeral in a white dress and a red rose, thinking the worst they’d do was spit on me again. They were celebrating. It wasn’t a funeral. It was Drelia’s coronation party with my father’s corpse in the background. I was ready to leave. Let them have their title, their cameras, their champagne. I’d go back to my law firm and pretend I never had Mende blood. Then the will changed. The family lawyer said two words that shattered everything: “You’re the heiress” Suddenly the bouncers who were dragging me out were bowing to me. Suddenly Drelia and Cade looked like they’d been gutted. Suddenly I had a title, a target on my back, and 30 days before the Council declared me Luna or declared me dead. The pack hates me. My family wants me gone. And the only way to keep my head is to play a game I never wanted to play: politics, blood, and maybe a marriage to the one man who has every reason to watch me burn.

Haunted and tortured by her past and living with the belief that her mother is dead, Kaitlyn navigates a world where only 500 years ago an ancient race declared war with the warriors known in Asgard as the Valkyries. Now in the present those same whispers are resurging with deadly precision. Kaitlyn must now embark on a journey with her girlfriend Samantha, and her sisters Olivia and Brittany, along with the assistance from another person, to uncover the truth about not only her past--but also learn how to prevent the extinction of her fellow Valkyries as they get caught up in the midst of the Olden War. In order to survive, she will have to call on not only her physical abilities but others as well as she decesdends deeper into the Darkness--a dark and troubled web of lies and deceit in order to solve the riddle of her dark and troubled past. But there's also something that she must ask herself. Just how far will she allow her trust to go, before she can't trust anyone ever again?

Andrew has everything, power, wealth, control. Until a single diagnosis takes it all away. Stage IV lung cancer. Three months to live. He shuts everyone out. No treatment. No pity. No weakness. Then Nancy Taylor hired to be his caretaker shows up, and refuses to go. She challenges him. Defies him. Sees through him. And no matter how hard he tries to push her away, she stays, steady, unshaken, impossible to ignore. Andrew doesn’t do attachment. He doesn’t believe in love. But with time running out and walls closing in, Nancy becomes the one thing he can’t control… and the one thing he can’t afford to lose. Because when the end is this close, falling might be the most dangerous thing of all.

When I was diagnosed with terminal Inner Wolf Decay, a System found me. It told me that if I could win the wholehearted romantic or familial love of just one out of four specific werewolves, I would get a healthy body and live. But for five years, I failed to win over a single one. Because they all fell for the same Omega—the fragile, hypocritical Chloe. Just because she framed me, claiming I ordered rogues to attack her, my targets glared at me with nothing but absolute disgust. My biological brother, Caleb, told me, "I don't have a sister as vicious as you." My pack healer, Julian, didn't believe I suffered from depression. He glared at me with revulsion and said, "Chloe is the one who got hurt. Stop playing the victim." My childhood friend, Victor, stared at me coldly. "You're so toxic. I really wish you'd just die." Later, just as they wished, my mission failed, and my inner wolf was actually going to die. But then, they were the ones crying and begging me not to go.

Elara has everything: the perfect life, the perfect boyfriend and everything money can buy. But in a bleak instant, she loses it all. After suffering the most crushing betrayal, she is reborn in another body as royalty with just a hundred days to live, facing a divine ultimatum. Now she is in a rat race against time; torn between trying to figure out her husband, the cold and distant King, Gregor, who is her true mate and the one thing she would give her new life for- REVENGE.

Jessica, a kind- hearted 25 year old drowning in poverty and personal trauma, never imagined she's end up married to one of the most feared billionaires in the city. Romeo Blackwood, a cold, ruthless CEO known for crushing rivals without mercy. When Romeo offers her a one year contract marriage to help him defeat his business rival and protect his empire, Jessica has no choice but to accept. The terms are clear: No love. No intimacy. Just appearance. Break the rules, and she'll face the consequences. But as the days pass, walls begin to crumble. Romeo, hiding a devastating secret- a terminal illness finds unexpected comfort in Jessica's warmth. And Jessica, still hauted by past trauma, begins to trust the man she once feared. What starts as a fake union slowly becomes something dangerously real.... but can love bloom under the weight of lies, secrets, and a ticking clock?