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This author once failed as a heroine… and returned as something entirely different. Not as a savior. But as the villain. And she didn’t come back empty-handed. She brought secrets. She brought sins. She brought a story that was never meant to be read. Sinners & Saints is not just a collection of dark romance stories— It is a confession. A warning. And a door best left unopened. Within these pages lie twisted love stories where desire and destruction walk hand in hand, and every choice comes with a cost. So the question is simple: Will you turn away… or step inside anyway?

Josh Carter, a beguiling wealthy person known for his costly occasions and laid-back manner, is at crossroads. At the point when his dad dies suddenly, he is given a horrendous predicament framed in his dad's will: wed to acquire the Carter family riches, or watch everything deteriorate away. The Carter realm's past weighs intensely on Josh's shoulders, yet the idea of surrendering his unique lone fierce way of life feels like detainment. Josh makes a dangerous arrangement to get away from this unexpected circumstance. He moves toward Amy Wesley, the contemplative and bashful proprietor of a little bookstore in the downtown area, with a fascinating proposition: a contract marriage. Amy, who is lowered under water and fantasies about reestablishing her valued yet monetary striving bookstore, takes Josh's deal. They start their contract marriage, what starts as a ploy changes into considerably more. Josh's unbending facade starts to break, finding scars from a difficult past he's for quite some time tried to neglect. Amy, with secret stores of force, shrewdly directs Josh through the complexities of their bogus marriage. Their lives become weaved surprisingly, and the limits between what's valid and what's only for show get obscured. Amy finds a secret note tending to her, covered in the dusty profundities of the bookstore, similarly as they have faith in the possibility of certifiable love. The note implies a labrynth of foul play and covered thought processes that causes some qualms about Josh's real goals. Amy starts on an excursion to find the purpose for Josh's inspirations, driven by encoded hints from the note, and the plot takes an unexpected bearing. The novel closes with a strained excursion through the city's complex roads, leaving Amy's life in risk, and a dark message implying towards a perilous plot squeezing to swallow them both.

​Two dangerous players. One blood-stained crown. And a fated mate bond that feels like a death sentence. ​Avery is a ghost. A packless rogue hiding her lethal Lycan lineage behind silver scent-maskers, she only cares about survival. But when her teenage brother is captured by the tyrannical King Magnus, she is forced to do the unthinkable: orchestrate the brutal abduction of the King's estranged son. ​Jake Crescent is a True Alpha—a 6'6" god of war who turned his back on his father’s corrupt throne. But after Avery delivers him straight into the King's cages, his world fractures. ​Now, they are forced back onto the university campus. Avery must act as Jake's official "shadow," monitoring his compliance for the King. But the ultimate cosmic joke awaits them: Jake is Avery's fated mate. ​Wounded, furious, and radiating a dark, possessive hunger, the betrayed prince is no longer the protective male she once knew. He promises to make her suffer for every drop of blood she spilled. Avery must play the heartless traitress to keep her brother alive, even as the mate bond threatens to burn them both to ash. ​In a game of psychological warfare where love is a weakness, who will break first?

Bloodbound Trials A Forbidden Fantasy Romance of Power, Betrayal, and Desire. Under the light of a crimson moon, one forgotten secret has the power to awaken an ancient kingdom. Ariana has spent her entire life believing she was ordinary until a mysterious pendant, haunting dreams, and a dangerous stranger shatter everything she thought she knew. Thrust into a hidden world of forbidden magic, cursed bloodlines, and ruthless enemies, she discovers that her past has been buried beneath centuries of lies. As dark forces close in, Ariana must unravel the truth behind her family's disappearance and embrace a destiny she never chose. But every answer comes with a price, and every ally hides a secret. Bound by fate to a brooding warrior sworn to protect her, Ariana finds herself caught between duty and a growing attraction that could change both their lives forever. Yet trust is a dangerous gamble when betrayal lurks in every shadow and the line between friend and enemy grows thinner with each passing day. To save the future, she must confront the sins of the past. To claim her birthright, she must survive the Bloodbound Trials. Perfect for readers who love epic fantasy, slow burn romance, ancient prophecies, hidden kingdoms, and unforgettable heroines, Bloodbound Trials is the first installment in a gripping saga where love and loyalty are tested, power comes at a terrible cost, and one woman's choices will determine the fate of an entire world.

For centuries, the kingdom hunted one girl... Not to crown her... But to sacrifice her. Joy has spent her entire life believing she was an ordinary village girl struggling to care for her dying mother and younger brother. Hidden from the world since birth, she has no idea she is the legendary Luna everyone has been searching for. Meanwhile, in another territory, a poor Alpha with no family and no future is fighting a different battle—surviving unemployment, loneliness, and rejection. When a mysterious billionaire Omega announces the world's deadliest survival competition with a reward of one trillion dollars, both Joy and the Alpha see it as their final chance to change their lives. But the prize is only bait. The competition is a carefully designed trap. Every deadly challenge brings them closer to an ancient prophecy. Every survivor hides dangerous secrets. Every victory comes at the cost of another life. As love blossoms amid betrayal and bloodshed, Joy discovers that an old umbrella given to her by her mother carries a forgotten power capable of changing the fate of the werewolf world. Can a hidden Luna and a broken Alpha survive a game designed to destroy them? Or will destiny demand the ultimate sacrifice?

Vera fought for her life in the apocalypse for ten years. Ten brutal years left her disfigured, hungry, and almost broken, but she still clawed her way through it. She killed zombies, ran from mutated animals, starved, bled, and learned humans were often more dangerous than monsters. Then her brother, the only family she had left, betrayed her. Vera thought death had finally come. Instead, she woke up inside a trashy book she once read to stay sane while the old world fell apart. A book with a twisted plot and too much drama. And because her luck had always been terrible, Vera did not wake up as the heroine. No, of course not. Her second chance was to become the hated second female lead, pregnant, unwanted, and written to die when the plot no longer needed her. Her babies were supposed to die too. Even the three men who got her pregnant were written as future corpses, all to push the story toward spoiled women and one psychotic male lead. But Vera was not the woman from the book. She had survived one ruined world. She had not walked through radioactive rain and eaten mutated food just to cry over fantasy characters or beg for love inside a stupid plot. So Vera adapted. She accepted her punishment, took her three unborn babies, and left for the garbage center without making a scene. Everyone thought she had been thrown away. Vera saw a chance to make money, protect her babies, and build something of her own. Now the woman meant to disappear is building a wasteland empire, breaking the plot, and driving three men insane because she no longer chases anyone. By every rule in that world, Vera should be dead. But dying a second time was never an option.