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Elena Jefferson lost everything when her parents died. Stripped of her inheritance and treated as an outsider by her own family, she spent years waiting for the day she could reclaim what was rightfully hers. Instead, she is betrayed once again and handed over as collateral to settle her family's debt. Her new master is Kaiser Castillo, Europe's most powerful Mafia King—a dangerous man who has long desired her. With nowhere else to turn, Elena proposes a deal: she will become his wife if he helps her destroy those who ruined her life. But in a world ruled by power, blood, and secrets, revenge may cost her heart.

On the night of her anniversary, Renee was pushed into the sea by her husband and best friend, their betrayal disguised as an accident. They pretended to grieve at her funeral, but little did they know, even the Moon Goddess couldn't let it end that way. Renee was reborn. This time, everything is different. The powerful, cold-hearted Alpha—her best friend's father—finds himself drawn to her in ways he never expected. With a smile, he says to her "best friend," "Little angel, come meet your new mommy."

The day he first saw her, one thought consumed him, "I want to fuck her." Their first meeting, which seemed like an unexpected encounter, turned her life upside down. Rainee humiliated him in front of everyone just because Alex bullied her beloved brother. Alex Fraser swore to own her all for himself, to make her beg on her knees until he was satisfied. But their obsession led them to get deceived by their own desire.

After losing both her parents at a tender age, Ciara experiences coldness despite having her best friend Carlista whose parents chose to raise her, she faces several oppositions from extended family and even outside pressure as a result of her inherited wealth; she falls in love with her best friend's brother who refuses to acknowledge their relationship to the public.

Blurb: "No, please stop! You can't do this," I cried out, breathlessly. He chuckled with a mischievous glint. "Can't do what exactly?" His fingers continued tracing my nipples, arousing me beyond control. "I own you, and I can do as I please with you, wherever and whenever I choose. This body will heed my call," he remarked darkly while he played my body like a string, and he was completely right. The heat radiating from his body and mine was intoxicating, and despite my protests, my body betrayed me. The traitor! Reena, a human who found herself in a mystical world of supernaturals, with no memory of her past or how she got there. She was made a slave and subjected to ridicule and torment by others because of her perceived weakness. However, on one fateful night, her encounter with the lycan king, sealed her fate as his slave. Not knowing the king had a dangerous plan for her, Yet, despite her initial fear, she found herself developing deep feelings for him. Now discovering her real identity threatens to tear the supernatural world apart. With danger lurking at every corner and enemies ready to tear her apart. Will she relent or pursue a future that might jeopardize both her hard-won freedom and her bond with her mate.

[Warning: Mature content] "You're not Irina anymore," he whispered, " You're Isabella... my dead sister." When twenty-one-year-old Irina Wilson wakes up in the mansion of Lorenzo De Luca, the ruthless Don of Naples. She's given two choices, go to prison for a murder she didn't commit, or pretend to be his dead sister Isabella. Blackmailed into living a lie, Irina is forced to step into Isabella's world, a world of luxury, danger, and secrets she dosen't understand. But everything changes the moment a little boy calls her Mama. Now trapped between a child who believes she's his mother and a man who dosen't only want her but her body too, Irina begins to question who she really is. When Isabella's husband returns demanding his wife back, the truth she's been running from unravels. What Irina dosen't know is that she is not pretending to be Isabella, she is Isabella. A woman who survived death, lost her memory and fell in love with the man who destroyed her life. As lies crumbles, heart collides and blood debt becomes due, only one truth remains, love can be born even in the hands of the man who killed you.

Clark Johnson has always been invisible. A quiet bookworm in a very small Michigan town, he's used to being overlooked until the day Gordie Thomas, the school's larger football star, asked him to be his chemistry partner. What begins as an unlikely friendship quickly becomes something neither of them expected. But first love is rarely simple. As their secret relationship deepens, Gordie finds himself torn between the life everyone expected him to live and the feelings he can't seem to ignore. And when a girl enters the picture, Clark is forced to watch the boy he loves slip further and further away.

"Obviously I cherish and adore you..." He brushed a stray strand of hair behind my ear, "...and every so often, I want to ruin you too." *** After an eventful night with a stranger, Lyra's life took a turn as she received a call from her father to return home for her sister's wedding, only for her to realize that the stranger she met the other night was her soon to be brother in-law. Just as she decided to forget about that night and move on with her life and marry the man her father picked for her, she heard the news that her fiance was killed in his own home by none other than her brother in-law As the tension between the both of them rises, Lyra soon come to realize that she wanted him more than she thought. *** Dante Russo wanted just one thing, Lyra Lombardi and a Russo gets what a Russo wants.

At thirty-four, Rhea Voss has nothing left but debt and desperation. Her father is dying. The hospital bills are drowning her. She needs a job. Instead, she gets a contract. Dominic Ashcroft: young, ruthless CEO of Axiom Automotive doesn’t want an assistant. He wants ownership. He sees her weakness. He sees her need. And he offers her a deal that will save her father’s life… at the cost of her freedom. 24/7 availability. No privacy. No refusal. No walking away. To the world, she’s his executive assistant. Behind closed doors, she’s his obsession. But when desire turns into something far more dangerous, and a secret begins to grow inside her, Rhea realizes she didn’t just sign a contract. She signed herself over to a man who never lets go. He bought her debt. Now he’s coming to collect.

My pathetic older brother embezzled millions of dollars from the most ruthless billionaire in New York City, and the absolute only way to save my last remaining family member from a federal maximum-security prison is to physically sign my entire life away on a legally binding marriage contract. I foolishly thought I was simply surrendering my family's massive shipping empire to Damien Sterling to pay off a corporate debt, but the psychotic, golden-eyed monster had a completely different, terrifying obsession from the very beginning. Damien did not just want to conquer my company; he wanted absolute, permanent ownership of my body trapped securely inside his penthouse, and he was completely willing to orchestrate my father's fatal car crash three years ago just to force my inexperienced brother into a corner and corner me into his bed. When I discover the horrifying truth about my father's brutal murder and steal a loaded silver revolver to escape his heavily guarded estate, I accidentally drive straight into the territory of the bloodthirsty Russian mafia who want to use my life as physical leverage against my ruthless new husband. Now Damien is actively slaughtering his way through an entire warehouse of heavily armed men just to drag me back to his gilded cage, and I am terrifyingly forced to realize that the dominant monster who completely ruined my life is the exact same man who will brutally butcher anyone else who dares to touch his legally contracted wife.