Running Count Blackjack Novels & Stories

Ava Carter is barely making ends meet while taking care of her little brother. When billionaire Colton Sinclair offers her an unexpected deal—to carry a child for him—she’s hesitant but desperate enough to accept. The baby isn’t his, but his late sister’s, and after the original surrogate disappeared, he’s running out of time. What starts as a business arrangement soon grows complicated. As Ava and Colton spend more time together, their connection deepens, and emotions they never expected begin to surface. But when secrets come to light, will their deal bring them together—or tear them apart?

"Samantha," he murmured, pulling back just enough to look into my eyes. "What are we doing?" "Item seven.." I whispered, trying for lightness but hearing the tremor in my voice. "Crossing it off the list." ~ Fresh out of high school, Samantha knows two truths: she's madly in love with her best friend Rafael, and she'll never live to see him graduate college. So she creates a bucket list, determined to experience everything life offers, especially the taste of his kiss, before her secret claims her last breath. But time is quickly running out.... will she make it out alive?

Blair Anderson, a young hybrid, longed for nothing but freedom. She was tired of running from her father's killer, she harbored a strong hatred for Carson, the council leader whom she believed to be responsible for her father's death but fate plays a good one on her as she finds out that the person she spent her whole life hating was her one true mate. “what happens when she discovers the truth behind her father's death and her feelings towards Carson? Will she be able to let go of her vengeful quest, or will it ultimately destroy her one true bond?”

The convent was his safe haven. For Jerald, running away from the web of lies of his parents and not fully understanding why they had to do it but the pains from having been lied to clouded his vision and made him leave home. ************** Amari had lived most of her life in the convent and wondered what lies beyond the horizon of the church walls, longing for the outside but caving herself in the church until he came and within the spurs of the moment, showed her what it means to love and be loved back. *********** It's against the doctrine that a reverend sister is falling in love with a man who ought to become a priest, it was counted as the Devil's will and not of God.

He stood there, leaning against the desk with his dark eyes fixed on me like he already knew everything I was too afraid to say. “Do you know what happens,” He asked quietly, “to people who walk into fire without thinking?” “They burn.” I mumbled. “Exactly.” he said with a slow, cold smile on his lips. Rosalina Evans is a woman with simple dreams until one night changes her life. One moment she’s running from death, and the next, she’s locked inside the mansion of a man everyone fears, Christopher Romano, the cruel and powerful Mafia boss.

“Suck it.” “ What? , I said suck it . You said you were gay and in love with me so make me come. Deane mave , popularly known as BABY is an undercover FBI agent on the brink of losing his job due to his uncanny ways of solving cases. To save his job he is tasked with catching Zachary stallion FBI most wanted mafia. With no way in , he finds out that Zachary is gay. Running out of time, he decides to act as a gay man to get Zachary's attention. But is his job really worth it ?. Find out the story of Zachary and Deane in this thrilling novel.

Adira had always been cast aside, different, overlooked. It never used to bother her but when she got her wolf things changed. She was labelled a freak, one of few wolves who could full body shift, one who (just maybe) held the secrets to a cure for lycanthropy itself, if only the experiments would work. She wouldn't make it easy for them though and, lucky for her, she knew someone with just enough darkness running through his blood to be able to help her. All she had to do was convince him. 18+ Content Third Person POV

Bella was the fated mate of an Alpha Prince… until he betrayed her, used her, and tried to break her. Branded barren, poisoned in secret, and cast aside for his former lover, she escapes—only to fall into the hands of his most dangerous enemy: his exiled uncle, the Rogue Lord, also known as the devil of bikers. But Bella is no longer weak. With a hidden power awakening, a rare silver wolf, and a second mate bond she never asked for, she rises from rejection to become something far more dangerous. Now hunted, desired, and underestimated… Bella isn’t running anymore. She’s coming for everything they took.

🔞This book is an 18+ dark reverse harem shifter romance featuring extreme taboo elements, intense power imbalances, and unapologetically brutal themes. ~~~~~ "You'll scream our names," he said, voice low and merciless. "When we're finished, the pack will smell our seed on you for miles." _____ The triplet Alphas don’t share. They dominate. Their newest obsession is Lira. Marked. Hunted. Running from a fate that refuses to loosen its grip. Once they corner her, there are no bargains. No mercy. They won’t stop until she breaks. They won’t stop until she belongs. And whatever she was before them will not survive.

Finish the mission, Seven, or we finish your sister." My handler's voice is static in my ear. Clinical. My sister's heartbeat still echoes from this morning's audio clip, steady, for now. Across the Volkov's gilded ballroom, my three targets watch me with possessive hunger. Alexei, whose brutal hands lift my chin like I'm something precious. Dimitri, who counts my lies like other men count coins. Nikolai, whose kindness is the most dangerous weapon of all, because it's the first thing that cracked my programming. I was engineered for this. Genetically modified to be immune to their mate bond, sculpted into the perfect weapon to destroy the most dangerous werewolf mafia family in Russia. Six months to make them love me. Six months to kill them. My immunity is failing. I feel it when Nikolai's touch doesn't repulse me. When Dimitri's suspicion feels like concern. When Alexei's cruelty looks more like pain. The bond I was supposed to fake is stitching itself into my bones, real and terrifying. Now my handlers want the kill. My sister's life for theirs. But the man who created me is their uncle. This isn't a mission, it's an eighty-year revenge, and I'm the blade he sharpened to cut his own bloodline. They think they've claimed their fated Luna. I'm carrying the knife that could end them. And I'm not sure which is sharper anymore:the silver in my sleeve, or the hope in my chest that maybe, just maybe, I could belong to them instead of my creators.