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Maren Voss took the job at Montreaux Capital because her father is dying and the salary was too good to question. She never planned on catching the attention of the CEO. Cael Montreaux noticed Maren the day her application crossed his desk, but only because he put it there. He has been watching her for three years. It started when he discovered she is the daughter of the woman who died alongside ...

Tyler has been through more than most, and life has never given him a real break. All he wants is to finish his job and figure things out—but one wild trip to Vegas changes everything. He wakes up married to Quin McKenzie, the same man who made his life miserable years back and probably doesn't remember.
Quin is wealthy, controlling, and desperate to keep his inheritance, so he offers Tyler a dea...

Juliana Hartmann has everything—wealth, independence, and a fiancé who is as powerful as he is charming. She’s built her dream career away from her family’s mafia empire, determined to prove she doesn’t need her father’s influence to succeed.
But when threats start closing in, her father hires Simon Linden, an ex-special forces operative, to be her personal bodyguard. Simon is cold, calculating, a...

James Smith disappeared for five years and suddenly returned.

In the eyes of his fiancée Evelyn Thorne, James is just a scarred drifter.

At a charity gala in New York, just as Evelyn is about to announce the annulment of her engagement to James.

Suddenly, the Four Great Consortiums of New York, along with hundreds of billionaires present, all rise to their feet and bow respectfully toward the m...

Bryson POV
Blackridge University was already a nightmare before I dumped hot coffee all over Julian Hayes.
He's tall, built, with this perfect smirk that makes me want to punch him. Captain of the hockey team and the biggest asshole I've ever met.
He destroyed me in front of everyone. Made sure I knew exactly where I stood.
But then I joined the hockey team to make my mom happy, and suddenly every...

A strange traffic jam hurls Chloe twenty-three years into the future.
The world she knew is gone.
Her husband, Nathan, is no longer the young man she left behind—he’s successful, respected, and living with a new family.
But when the woman who disappeared twenty-three years ago suddenly returns…
can love survive the years that were lost?

I was an innocent and calm girl. I did not dare to use any curse words. But...

“Fuck!" A breathy moan left my lips.

I tipped my head back, eyes closed as my core ached with so much need I could die.

My fingers clenched the edges of the table like my life depended on it, every nerve screaming for want as my school counselor ate me wild.

The innocence is dead.

Not only was I cornered in the cou...

At twenty-five, Lexi Thorn has fought hard for her success in a man's world. The last thing she needs is Julian Styles, a rich, possessive, and irresistible man twice her age—thinking he can win her over.
Their first encounter is explosive. Their second? A mistake she can't stop thinking about.
Lexi knows better than to fall for someone like Julian. He's powerful, untouchable, and hiding secrets t...

Vandal dies betrayed by his fiancée and allies, only to awaken in another world as a chained child marked for sacrifice. His captor, Elizabeth, eerily resembles his mother, but a monstrous power in his left eye turns her nightmares against her and grants him escape.

Alone in a brutal wilderness, Vandal learns he can devour Echoes of living beings, gaining their strength, though the sentient eye ...

Content Warning
This book contains explicit sexual content, BDSM themes, power dynamics, violence, and dark romance elements. It is intended for mature readers (18+).
Lucifiel Thorne thought he had wiped out every last hunter.
He was wrong.
Levi Cross is just trying to survive. Between college, bills, and a past he doesn’t fully remember, life is already hard enough. The last thing he needs is att...

In the cutthroat world of organized crime, where loyalty is a currency more precious than diamonds, Mafia Don Luciano Rossi reigns supreme. His life, a tapestry woven with threads of power, violence, and calculated risk, is about to be irrevocably altered. A woman, initially perceived as nothing more than a debt, a possession to be collected, is poised to ignite a fire within him he never knew exi...

In the ruthless Frostveil Pack, Ophelia has always been the unwanted “human” charity case, adopted sister to the brooding hockey captain Kai, and constant target of mockery. When a drunken kiss with Kai ignites a dangerous attraction, she discovers he believes she is his fated mate… a secret he refuses to claim because of the forbidden bond between adopted siblings.

But Ophelia is hiding far big...

“Finally...I’m here.”
Tyler murmurs as he stares up at the skyscraper.
“I will pull this place down, every brick of it. No one among them will escape,” Tyler, the Emperor returned, whispers, his hand on the locket hidden under his shirt.
After going through fire and enduring the bitterness of those who should have been family, Tyler, once taken away in disgrace, returns in dark glory to take reve...

Lucia Romano vanished thirteen years ago. Kidnapped as a child, she disappeared before the marriage contract binding her to Alessandro De Luca could ever become real.

Alessandro De Luca swore he would never obey a marriage contract but fate had already chosen for him.

Now the ruthless heir of a powerful mafia empire, Alessandro has lived by one rule....he will marry only for love, or not at all....

"I spent ten years scrubbing your floors, Greene. Tonight, you'll scrub mine."
Elara Vance has always been the pride the Republic until she ran away from home, fell in love with Greene Jones, a man who treated her like dirt and discarded her like she was never the girl the entire Republic feared because of her strong dominating pheromones.
Now she's back after twelve years to serve revenge to Gree...

“What do you think people would say if they found out you don’t have a dick?” Christian asked, his voice low and dripping with seduction. His hand pressed firmly against my crotch, fingers exploring the flat, unfamiliar emptiness there. A devilish smirk curved his lips. “Or if they discovered these voluptuous breasts you’ve been hiding so well?”
A strangled moan slipped from my throat as his hand ...

“As you make your bed, you must lie in it. Pretty noble to sell your body for your brother. And you nearly lost your life for your cheap friend? A sacrifice must be your life motto. Who do you think you are? A saint?”

He captured her, and had no way to escape this devil. In his peculiar way, both tough and gentle, she can only accept it and lower her guard down.

He was looking for someone ...

In a world bound by duty and tradition, Violet discovers that she has a forbidden love for her step brother that threatens to tear her apart—and destroy everything she holds dear.
Violet , has always been the outcast who has been cursed with the ability to foresee people’s death. She was hated by her parents and tormented by her pack, her only love was her elder brother, Jacob, the future Alpha.
B...

"Sign the papers. We're getting divorced." He said with a straight face.
Morgan loved him with her entire heart. She sacrificed everything for him, all in the hope that he would love her back.
In that moment, all the years of her life spent loving him wasted. The baby in her stomach she had planned to tell him about weighed heavily on her mind.
"I was with you only because you looked like her." ...

Temptation has a way of slipping past every boundary and challenging even the strongest resolve. What appears controlled, familiar, and respectable on the surface often hides emotions that are far more complicated beneath. Hearts are drawn toward connections they know they should resist. Unexpected. Irresistible. Forbidden.
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A lonely wife fi...