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BOUND BY DECEPTION is a fast-paced adult fantasy romance combining fake dating, morally grey protagonists, and a ghost-whispering heroine who refuses to be anyone's asset.

Set in the richly imagined city of Ashenveil , where a supernatural governing body polices the boundary between the living and the dead , this is the story of Seraphine Calloway, a junior book editor who talks to ghosts and has...

I used to be an ordinary person — until one day, my younger brother killed someone.
Everyone got down on their knees, begging me to save him. So I took his place and went to prison.
On the day I was released, my fiancée Teresa publicly broke off the engagement: "A convict like you doesn't deserve me!"
My adoptive parents disowned me on the spot and kicked me out: "You're a murderer. We don't care ...

So it's true. I am their mate! I am the one they have been waiting for all this time. How can that be? Can I really be so lucky?

"Don't bother celebrating. We do not intend to make a detestable human servant our queen." Angel Fenris states, his voice laced with disgust just like the last time we met.

His rude words hurt me more now than they did yesterday. The full moon must have heightened my e...

Mara Kim has never belonged anywhere… until someone decided she did.
Thrown into Isteros Academy—a world of old money, blood money, and cruel social games—she's an outsider by birth and an afterthought by design. Her sister Solyn is the school's untouchable queen and Mara is her favorite target.
Everyone expects Atreus to treat his fiancée’s scholarship sister like everyone else does—as if she doe...

They say no one survives a Spark for more than seven days. I wasn’t supposed to prove them wrong. I was a scav. A nobody. I lived in the shadows of gods and fed on what they left behind.

Then one of them died… and made sure I didn’t stay human.
Now something is burning inside me.

It lets me tear through walls. Kill without effort. See things I shouldn’t.
It’s killing me.

They say there’s a cure...

Ava Rosetti was supposed to marry the mafia prince her father chose for her.

Instead, minutes before the vows, she overhears the truth. Nico Varra does not want a wife. He wants ownership, power, and the final key to a secret Ava’s dead mother hid years ago.

So Ava runs.

Barefoot, terrified, and still wearing her wedding dress, she throws herself onto the back of a stranger’s motorcycle and beg...

She was given a choice. Marry him… or watch her father die. Seraphine Caelis refused. So Azriel Kaine pulled the trigger. Left with nothing but grief and survival, she signs a contract that binds her to the most dangerous man in the underworld. Now trapped in a world of power, blood, and control, she quickly learns one thing— She is not a wife. She is an asset. But when enemies begin hunting her, ...

Evelyn Reed gave up her rising career as a brilliant lawyer to marry Liam Vance, the charming heir of a powerful billionaire family. She believed love was enough. She believed loyalty meant something.

Then Liam asked for an open marriage.

He is having an affair with her friend Chloe—who is now pregnant. Amid this devastating reality, Evelyn makes a stunning discovery: she is also carrying Li...

She never imagined her life would come to an abrupt end over of a poisoned 30ml of jelly, but it did, and it was the start of a new one.

M awakened in the body of an abandoned child who had been loathed by everyone and had a criminal record, having been given a new life and a second chance in life.

M got blessed and received a Tycoon System that would lift her to a higher level, enabling her to ...

After Aria sneaks out to a party despite being grounded by her father, it becomes her last straw as her father decides to send her to live with her mother in Paris who is married to a powerful french billionaire, Valentin Montclair.

She detests the idea of living with her mother but she isn’t given a choice. There she meets the Montclair brothers, Adrien and Lucien Montclair. She’s also asked to ...

The king is cursed. They say his touch burns. They say no bride survives him.
So when they forced me into another woman’s place, I thought I was being sent to my death.
I was wrong. He touched me… and I didn’t burn.

Now the most dangerous man in the empire won’t let me out of his sight. He watches me. Tests me. Touches me like he’s trying to prove I’m real.

If he discovers I’m nothing but a serv...

Every night, he slips through my window. He never tells me his name.
He also never lets me touch him.
He owns me in the dark, then disappears before dawn.
For two years, he’s ruled my nights, taking me in every possible way.
Controlled me in ways I can't tell you.
Made me crave things I don’t understand. But when morning comes,
he returns to me as someone else. Natte Johnson.
The global hotel tyco...

She was claimed.

She was broken.

Now they both want her back but this time she makes the rules.

Carols life was never her own.

First an Alpha who called her his fated mate raised her under his iron fist molding her into the perfect survivor.

Then a stranger with hypnotic blue eyes took her body and vanished without a trace.

Years later both men return.

One demands her absolu...

"Sweetheart, girls don't need to know the details. Just learn enough to help your mate when he comes home hurt."
Those mocking words from her old teacher burned deep into Solange's memory.
As the daughter of a powerful Alpha, she possessed a brilliant mind for medicine, but in a werewolf society dominated by males, her gender was a cage. Refusing to let her potential be reduced to a mere housewif...

Cassette Winfield never wanted war. She just wanted an apology. But when the new transfer student and hockey captain dents her car, and laughs it off. Cassette refuses to back down and accidentally paints a target on her back. Overnight she becomes the school’s favorite punchline ,humiliated in hallways, on screens and online. Marvin Woods thrives on attention . As the golden boy of the hockey tea...

Elowen Sterling is sarcastic, gloomy, and too tired to care what anyone thinks. Between juggling college, two part-time jobs, and keeping her twin brother afloat after their father’s death, she has learned how to survive by keeping her head down and her guard up.

Then her scholarship gets pulled, and the only way to get it back is to coach the one man she swore she would never look at without ki...

For the love of him, I hid my billions and played the invisible wife for three years. Now? The game is over.
For three years, Elena endured a husband who barely acknowledged her, a mother-in-law who treated her like hired help, and a sister-in-law who sneered that she was nothing but a golddigger. All the while, her husband, Damien, pined after his "perfect" ex, like his own wife didn't exist.
The...

At twelve, she pulled a wolf-blood boy from the snow.
Ten years later, he became the Alpha King ruling the North, while she knelt at his feet—a prisoner.


Elena Veyrmont was once the most noble daughter of Saint Crow City—sending back three trays of pastries merely because the frosting roses weren't symmetrical enough, marriage proposals stacking up on her father's desk like cordwood.

Overni...

Sophia gave three years of her life to a man who ruined her without even looking up from his phone. Married into the powerful Vale family, she thought loyalty would protect her. She was dead wrong. Caught in her own bed with his assistant, Marcus Vale offered eviction instead of an apology. Because that's exactly what trash like him does.

Thrown out into a rainstorm with an empty bank account, t...

She has no magic. He has too much. Their fake relationship is the only thing keeping them alive.

Sabrina Pendleton is a Null—born into a powerful witch coven but possessing zero magical ability. Her only weapons are relentless discipline, sports analytics, and the captaincy of Silverlake Prep's basketball team. But when her uncle decrees she'll be forced into an arranged magical marriage on the w...