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One impulsive kiss to hide from an ex. One desperate contract to save a child. After a double betrayal by her boyfriend and best friend, Lyra impulsively kisses a handsome stranger in a grocery store to avoid being seen weak.That stranger turns out to be Lucas Thorne, a cold tech billionaire whose traumatized nephew Leo, has been silent since an accident. When Lyra is hired as Leo's specialist, the boy forms an unbreakable bond with her the only person who can bring back his voice. To ensure his son's recovery, Lucas proposes a one year marriage contract. But as Leo begins to speak and the fake family starts feeling real, Lyra and Lucas must decide if their marriage ends when the contract does, or if they're ready to admit that the healing wasn't just for the child it was for them too.

CONTENT WARNING ⚠️ These are not innocent stories. What's inside these pages is not for the faint hearted. You've been warned. Deliciously. **** Sins Worth Keeping is a collection of stories about men who want what they cannot have and reach for it anyway. In dark corners, empty locker rooms, late nights that last too long and hotel rooms that know too many secrets. These are not love stories that play it safe. These are the ones that burn. Find your quietest corner. Turn the pages and try to breathe normally. Fair warning — once you start, stopping will feel like the hardest thing you've ever done. Don't say you weren't warned. ⚠️🖤

Lena built The Crib as neutral ground : a sanctuary where vampires don’t hunt, witches don’t curse, and even Alphas respect her authority. No chaos. No war. No attachments. Until a cursed Alpha collapses at her door. Darion carries betrayal in his past, danger in his blood, and a bond with Lena that should never exist. Protecting him means exposing the secret power she’s hidden for years — a power strong enough to start a war. Now enemies are closing in, the sanctuary is no longer safe, and Lena must choose: Protect the Alpha fate tied to her… Or protect the secret that could destroy them both. Because some mates aren’t meant to find each other. And some sanctuaries were never meant to fall.

Tiana Greene arrives on Lycan Isle with nothing but a suitcase, a scarred past, and a desperate need for work. When she is hired as a maid in the sprawling cliff-side mansion of Ross Lycan – the island’s reclusive billionaire – she expects long hours, strict rules, and silence. What she does not expect is the man himself: cold as the steel in his voice, brutally private, and carrying a shadow in his gaze that keeps everyone at arm’s length. Rumours whisper through the island of former staff fleeing in fear, of Ross’s cruelty, and of the mysteriously vanished brother whose memory haunts the mansion halls. Tiana tries to keep her distance, but every forbidden glance and accidental touch tightens the invisible thread pulling them together. When a near-fatal accident on the cliffs pushes Ross into her life more violently than either of them intended, the dynamic shifts. Ross grows protective yet distant, drawn to Tiana in ways he cannot accept – while she fights her own confusion over the man beneath the frost. As the annual island festival approaches, tensions rise. Tiana becomes a target for the island’s elite women, whose humiliation of her sparks a dangerous, possessive reaction in Ross. Social pressure thickens, rumours spread, and the boundaries of employer and servant begin to blur into something darker, deeper, and irresistibly intimate. But everything changes the night Tiana slips into a forbidden study and uncovers the truth about Ross’s past – a past woven with loss, guilt, and secrets buried beneath the island’s stormy surface. Now she must decide. Can she love a man built from shadows? And can Ross love someone brave enough to walk into the darkness he’s spent years trying to hide?

"Sign it, Elara. You were never more than a debt to be paid." For three years, Elara Vance was the Silver Crest Pack’s best-kept secret. As the "Shadow Luna," she lived in the corners of Alpha Silas’s mansion, loving him in a silence that was never returned. No ceremony, no pack bond, just a legal contract and the cold comfort of his bed. When Silas’s childhood sweetheart returns, Elara is discarded like a broken toy. Forced to sign a silent divorce and banished from the only home she’s ever known, she leaves with nothing but the clothes on her back and a secret that could destroy the pack: she is carrying Silas’s heir. Five years later, Elara is no longer the timid girl who flinched at shadows. She has a new life and a son to protect. But when her son’s life depends on an Alpha’s blood, she is forced to return to the world that broke her. But this time, she isn't seeking Silas’s help. She’s seeking sanctuary with the man Silas fears most: The Enemy Alpha. Will Silas realize the value of the "Shadow" he lost, or will Elara find a new throne in the arms of his greatest rival?

Why do we covet the forbidden? When most of their lives are lived by the rule book of vampires, breaking some rules is a way to taste freedom for the rebellious and fearless Lilianna Arioch, especially when she meets the alpha werewolf and an heir to the kingdom of Lysidamus-Grimoire Azriel Langston-and falls in love with him. However, Lilianna's adventure does not end with her falling in love with the forbidden, especially because Grimoire is not interested in her. In the ages where vampires and werewolves are forbidden to have any romantic relationship, will Lilianna fight for her right to love who she wants to, even if it means fighting alone and turning her back on everyone? Will she finally get the love she never had? Witness the story of how an undying love burns amidst war, betrayals, pain, opposition and rejection.