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My sister's husband showed up on the gossip pages with his first love, so Claire decided to divorce him. Then she asked whether I was leaving too.

"Of course," I said.

I had been my sister's shadow since we were kids. Claire was smart, capable, and brave enough for both of us. She married billionaire CEO Grant Whitaker, and I married his younger brother, Cole. Following her had given me a home, ...

When I woke up, an entire year of my memories was gone.

My fiancé, Kai, told me the car accident had stolen my memories, but not the love we shared. He was gentle, attentive, and seemed like the one person in the world I could trust.

Until his younger brother, Jasper, came back.

The way he looked at me was nothing like the way a man looks at a stranger.

He said Kai had been lying to me all alo...

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Three years into my marriage, I discovered the devastating truth: I had never been married at all.

Damian, the man I had loved for eight years, had secretly married another woman while letting me believe I was his wife. For three years, I had willingly played the role of his secret mistress, never suspecting the truth.

The cruelest part? I had endured countless painful rounds of IVF jus...

Five years ago, Aria stole a digital file from the powerful Sloane Empire during an operation, unknowingly taking evidence of their offshore criminal businesses. She vanished and buried her identity as the legendary Ghost, until someone exposes her.

Within hours, a $10 million bounty is placed on her head, turning her into prey for assassins and mercenaries. Aria realizes the Sloanes are behind t...

After the tragic death of her four-year-old son, Amelia Carter’s perfect life begins to unravel.

Once adored by her husband, Amelia became the target of his quiet disgust after childbirth changed her body in ways she could not control. The man who once called her beautiful now barely looks at her without judgment. Every cruel comment, every cold stare, every reminder of the weight she failed to l...

Sienna Hart said her heart was failing because she expected me to be the punch line. I called 911. By the time the paramedics arrived, no one was laughing—and my boyfriend was looking at me as if I had ruined something precious.

"That night, Alena was sold by her mother for one billion to serve a man who was looking for a virgin. That man was me, Mom! I was the one who bought Alena! She was sold and forced to do something she didn’t want to do, and Mom still thinks Alena is a woman of loose morals?"

Alena was treated like a burden in her own family. Made to be a servant, humiliated, treated unfairly, even beaten. All ...

My sister was supposed to marry the Devil. Then she was murdered.

Now I’m wearing her ring, sleeping beneath his roof, and answering to the name Mrs. Vescari.

Luciano Vescari doesn’t love gently. He commands. He protects. He watches everything and everyone around me like the entire world is one wrong move away from becoming a threat.

I was never supposed to be his bride. But when my sister and ...

Vanessa Miller has spent two years proving she belongs in the water.

At Sterlingview University, she’s a star swimmer with one goal: win the BUCS Couples Challenge and earn a place in the Championship competition.

There’s only one problem.

She needs a partner. And the best person for the job is Seth Ellis, the last person she would ever work with. He holds a secret that could ruin her swimming ...

Mia’s husband never stops complaining about her curves. Too soft. Too heavy. Not attractive anymore.
Desperate to fix herself, she starts training at her brother-in-law’s gym. Jake is older, built, and looks at her the way her husband never does.
What begins as private sessions quickly turns filthy. He takes her innocence in the locked back room while she begs him to keep it secret.
She’s still ma...

As a master con artist, my rules are simple: assume liquid identities, never leave a trace, and never use my real name—Clara Sterling.

Infiltrating the life of paranoid CEO Arthur Vance for my final, lucrative heist should be easy. But before I can steal his files, a stranger arrives using my birth name, systematically erasing my existence and framing me for murder.

My stalker, Julian, is a ruth...

A gifted woman sacrifices her brilliant future for the man she loves, only to watch him choose another woman over their own dying daughter. After walking away and rebuilding the life she abandoned, she discovers that the greatest revenge is not making him suffer, but becoming someone who no longer needs him, while he spends the rest of his life chasing the family he was too blind to cherish.

"You're my mate. I promise I will never lie to you," Gideon vows the morning after he hits Clara with his car and the bond snaps into place but Clara has spent years learning that every promise a wolf makes comes with a leash attached.
Clara has survived years alone in the city by hiding what she is a female wolf shifter who fled her old pack after it destroyed her family. When a dangerous new al...

I’ve spent years chasing the same finish line as Caleb Hayes.

Every moto race, every championship, every damn victory. He’s the only rider who pushes me to my limits, and the only one I refuse to lose to.

I’ve fought my way to the top, earned every podium, every trophy, and every scar that came with it.

We’ve been rivals for as long as I can remember. I am that one rival he couldn't beat. In...

Because of one woman's words, Naomi Pierce and her seven-year-old daughter are cast aside in a house where they once belonged, forced to swallow humiliation while the husband and son who should have protected them stand on the wrong side. This time, Naomi stops waiting to be chosen. She walks away from the man who failed her, lets go of the son who learned cruelty from the people around him, and t...

She was the fastest woman in America until one race with him destroyed everything she built. Now the only path back to the Olympics forces her to train, run and win beside the man she has hated for three years. But the closer they get, the more she realizes the crash that ruined her life was never an accident..

Chloe Mei was raised to believe power destroys everything it touches. So she learned how to stay small. Quiet. Untouchable.
Wyatt Gravemont was raised to be powerful.
Heir to one of the most feared criminal empires in the country, Wyatt is precision honed into human form, cold, silent, and ruthless enough to inherit his father's throne. Love is a weakness. Mercy is fatal. Emotions are liabilities ...

" He was every girl’s heartthrob in school and also the greatest bully of all time. He bullied me at every given opportunity he had. Every encounter, every closeness, every grip, made me want to tear him apart. Now I’m forced to live together with him. How long will his torments last?"

Melissa Whitmore was a new student in Jasonville High School who got bullied by most of the students and also by...

"Ms. Hart, I've filed to dissolve our match. I expect your cooperation."

Major General Adrian Voss stared at me. Spotless uniform. Unblinking, amber slit-pupils. He was an Alpha snake shifter, and an eighty-percent genetic match to the body I now occupied.

Beside him, his childhood sweetheart, Serena Vale, watched me eagerly. She was waiting for my hysterical, tearful breakdown.

I knew the scr...

Riley thought stealing from a billionaire would be her biggest mistake.
She was wrong.

The real mistake was trusting her partner.

Left behind with empty hands and a target on her back, Riley is dragged into the world of the man she tried to rob, a billionaire who doesn’t forgive, doesn’t forget… and doesn’t let things go.

Now trapped under his roof as both captive and servant, Riley quickly lea...

Adele Mayfield has spent her entire adult life chasing perfection on the ice as a figure skater. She's closer than ever to qualifying for Nationals, the one competition that could finally launch the career she has always dreamed about.

But when the man she thought she was building a future with squanders the money meant for their lease, her life begins to fall apart.

Evicted and out of options, ...

All Mia Bell wanted was to make her third-year relationship anniversary with her boyfriend unforgettable.

After months of being ignored by her perpetually busy boyfriend, Ethan, Mia decides enough is enough. She plans a surprise getaway, sneaks into his house, drugs his favorite drink, and waits for him to pass out so she can drag him into the car.

It’s ridiculous.

It’s reckless.

And, accordin...

Lana Sinclair was a renowned actress and entrepreneur. She had everything she could ever dream of. Fame, power, and a mate she believed loved her.
Until the night he tried to burn her alive.
Betrayed by her fiancé and replaced by her own twin sister, Lana is left for dead in a warehouse fire meant to erase her existence. But fate has other plans. Two years later, she wakes with a new face, a blazi...

On Valentine's Day, the Rogue King came to slaughter my mate, the Alpha of the Silvercrest pack, Adrian Barrett. But he wasn't home. He was busy celebrating with his childhood love, Celeste, leaving our five-year-old daughter at the assassin's mercy. To save her, I swallowed deadly wolfsbane.

"Daddy, please come home! Mommy is coughing blood!" Sophie sobbed into the phone.
"Stop lying just to rui...

"@everyone: Nina is stranded at the downtown bar in this blizzard. Ella, your brother drives an SUV, right? Have him go pick her up ASAP!"

In my last life, I caved. I read the Slack message from Duke, my boss and fiancé, and sent my brother out into the storm. That single mistake cost Jeffrey his life. He was beaten to death in jail over a rigged rape charge. Meanwhile, Duke stole my inheritance....

"You're too brilliant, Lyra. It makes me sick. I had to ruin MIT for you, just so you'd never leave me."

I died in a puddle of my own blood on a rainy night, watching the boy I’d known for eighteen years walk away with Alice, the varsity cheerleader. No ambulance. Just taillights disappearing into the dark.

But instead of fading to black, I blink and find myself staring at my Common App dashboar...

For three years, I loved my brother's best friend in secret. Ethan Blake promised that on his twenty-eighth birthday, he would finally tell everyone I was his girlfriend. Instead, he leaned close at dinner and joked that he was tired of me.
In my first life, I fought for him, married him, and died waiting for a husband who never came. In this life, I smiled and gave him exactly what he asked for.

Melina wanted closure but instead, she got a scandal.

One drunken night with hockey superstar Jace Hamilton turns into the hottest headline on campus, forcing two enemies of fate into a fake relationship neither of them wants.. at least... that's what they keep telling themselves.

With jealous exes on both sides, secret enemies, ruthless paparazzi and dangerous secrets closing in, pretending b...

Calista Dorian never envisioned falling for her boss.
Damian Westwood was the temptation she should have resisted. A brilliant, powerful music mogul whose charm made the impossible feel inevitable.
But the moment she starts to believe in their love, Damian walks away without warning, no closure or explanation, just heartbreak.
Driven by the need to start over, Calista moves to another country.
T...

The night he paid a hundred million dollars for my first time, I had already made up my mind.

I was going to bring this man to his knees.
Even if he was my uncle.

…

One month earlier, I accidentally saw my future:

I don't carry Hartford blood. I was switched at birth.

My family cast me aside like trash. My fiancé fell in love with the real heiress. Together, they had me committed to a psychia...

"I saved you. Now you're mine."

Five years ago, Matteo De Luca took a bullet for me. Ever since, I willingly stayed hidden as the secret lover of New York's most ruthless Mafia heir.

He claimed the shadows were the only way to protect me from rival families. I believed him—right up until his former flame, Serena, returned to the city.

Suddenly, his protective instincts shifted. He left me al...

My best friend spent seven years warning me that my boyfriend would betray me. On the night he proposed, I found her anonymous post: “Tonight he proposed to my best friend. Then he slept with me.” By morning, they still thought I knew nothing. By the next night, I was gone.

When Lydia Mark slays her brother’s murderer in the subterranean vaults of the Mark estate, she expects execution. Instead, the chaotic prison break unleashes Damon Thorne—a legendary, terrifying underworld sovereign who spent five years locked in solitary confinement. Claiming an unpayable life debt, Damon slaughters her uncle Julian and drags Lydia into the night. With both syndicates believing ...

It was a contract marriage signed out of desperation to save her mother's life, but Sofie actually believed that she could melt Alexander's heart and make him love her.

But, her world came crushing upon learning she was pregnant with his child. That wasn't part of the deal of the contract.

Afraid that Alexander might take her child away from her, Sofie decided to leave him. Especially after h...

Six months after watching my mother murder my father, she took the last thing I had left—my boyfriend and f**ked him right before me beneath my dead father’s photo frame.

She pushed me out, and I ran straight into the arms of Hockey Coach Jethro Meyers.

Ruthless and dangerously attractive, the moment our bodies collided on the ice, the mate bond snapped into place with violent force.

But he sho...

I’ve been hopelessly gone for Damon George since I was fourteen and he looked straight through me.

Now I’m a freshman at Blackwood University, and Damon isn’t just my best friend’s older brother anymore. He’s the hockey captain every girl on campus is chasing. The guy with a pro career hanging on his final season. The one person I promised myself I was finally done wanting.

Then one stupid dar...

He was the stranger who saved her that night.

She never saw his face.

She never learned his name.

But she never forgot the kiss.

After losing her job and discovering her fiancé in bed with another woman, Emma Brooks leaves Los Angeles with a broken heart and one goal: start over.

She moves to her grandmother’s small town, expecting peace and a fresh beginning.

Instead, she meets Ryder Kane.
...

Velora has spent her entire life living in her sister's shadow, hiding a truth that could destroy them both.

At Ravenwood Academy, the last person she ever wants to cross paths with is Eryx Nightbane, the ruthless future Alpha feared by the entire school... and her sister's boyfriend.

But one chance encounter awakens something neither of them can explain. The closer they are, the harder it becom...

What does the underboss of an infamous crime family have in common with a spirited primary school teacher? Absolutely nothing—except a marriage of convenience, of course.

When Lionel Tyson defaults on a gambling debt and offers his most prized possession as collateral, Austin Hawthorne is underwhelmed. But in desperate need of a housekeeper and permanent childminder, he knows he’d be an idiot to ...

Lexi Volkova arrives in Chicago as the premier draft pick of a brand-new expansion franchise. The Chicago Vixens are new, underfunded, and invisible. Then Marco Rossi walks into her life with a smile, a genuine love of a game he was never allowed to play, and a last name that owns half the city.

Behind the galas and charitable foundations, Vincenzo Rossi runs Chicago's underworld, and he sees in ...

SMUT WARNING!! : This book isn't just sweet romance. It's filthy, raw and unapologetically dark.

Expect:
Three brothers who don’t know the meaning of gentle.

A heroine who moans even when she swears she won’t.

Fingers, tongues, and cocks where she least expects them.


“Spread wider, Angel,” Zane growled against my ear, his fingers ruthless between my thighs.

Ziven's c*ck shove...

On the very day Charlotte Blackwood discovered she was pregnant, she walked into her bedroom expecting to surprise her billionaire husband with the happiest news of their lives.

Instead, she found him in bed with her best friend.

Branded a cheater with fabricated evidence, abandoned, and left for dead after a tragic fall, Charlotte lost everything—her marriage, her unborn child, and even her mem...

A falling planter knocked me out after a fight with my lifelong rival. When I woke up, I remembered everything. But I decided to play dumb and fake amnesia—figured it was the perfect excuse to fleece him for some cash.
“Who are you?” I asked.
Nathan Cole looked shocked for a second, then lied through his teeth“Your boyfriend. We've been together for eight years.”
Wait, what?!
He glanced at my mout...

I was always a clingy girlfriend, something my online boyfriend seemed to eat right up. That is, until my brother's birthday dinner. I noticed his pretty-boy roommate's phone lit up the exact second I sent a text.

My brother chuckled. "She's been texting you non-stop all night. Doesn't it annoy you?"

The roommate barely looked at his screen. "Annoying," he muttered.

My thumbs froze over the key...

My family ignored my calls while I was dying in our basement. They thought I was trying to ruin my younger sister's graduation.
That night, my brother finally came looking for me. My sister wanted the cookies I used to bake for her.
I was right beside him when he demanded that I come home.
He couldn't hear me. My body was still downstairs.

Milan Bellamy was raised to believe appearances mattered more than pain. So when her husband started hitting her, her powerful family helped hide the bruises instead of helping her escape.
Four years later, Milan is done.
With two-year-old twins, barely any money of her own, and nowhere safe to go, she runs—and ends up in the path of King.
Tattooed, powerful, and dangerous in ways Milan doesn’t un...

⚠️ WARNING: This book will ruin you for vanilla sex. Side effects include spontaneous wetness, missed deadlines, "one more chapter" syndrome at 3 AM, and explaining to your partner why you suddenly have ideas. Reader discretion advised. Vibrator recommended.

For readers 18+ who like their fantasies FILTHY and their boundaries FLEXIBLE.

She didn't know she needed five frat brothers until her boyf...

He begged his cold billionaire boss for help.
Alexander Devereux said no.

So Adrian put on the wig, the dress, the lipstick…
and became the high-priced fantasy men pay fortunes for.

Tonight the client is Alexander himself.

One year. One million dollars. One fake marriage.
Adrian just has to keep the secret that the woman in Alexander’s bed
is the same soft-spoken secretary who sits outs...

For years, Ashley Carter built her life around one man.

She gave up her medical scholarship, worked exhausting double shifts, and poured every dollar she had into Weston's hockey dream.

She never asked for anything in return.

Until the night Weston became Rookie of the Year.

Standing beside the man she had sacrificed everything for, Ashley expected to finally hear him say her name.

Instead, h...

Melanie Sanders earned her spot as the first female point guard in elite college basketball, but her past is a weapon in the wrong hands. When Ken—the captain of her rival team—discovers her brother’s dangerous, criminal life, he uses it to back her into a corner. Protect her brother and her career, or let everything burn.

​Trapped, Mel gave in to his coercion and spent one night with him to buy ...