The 39 Steps 2008 Novels & Stories

Drew Anderson's beloved stepsister, Lisa Anderson, severely injured a pack member with wolfsbane. Drew wanted me to take the fall. He said that as long as I confessed, he would formally make me his Luna. Drew placed a forged confession in front of me. "Freya, you're the only one who can help me. I swear I'll protect you forever." After he finished speaking, I saw Lisa hiding behind him with a victorious smile on her face. I looked at Drew's pleading expression and silently picked up the feather quill. Just as the tip was about to touch the parchment paper, my phone lit up with two new messages. One was from Drew. [Don't worry. I've already spoken to the Council of Elders. You'll only be locked up for a few days.] The other was from his sworn nemesis, Liam Kramer. A video clip was attached. [The real evidence is in my hands. Interested in making a different choice?] I deleted Drew's message and replied to Liam. [What is the choice?]

At the awards for the Global Jewelry Design Competition, my stepsister Sandra took the grand prize. She used the designs she stole from me. What she didn’t know was the show’s biggest sponsor: Jude Moretti. Godfather of the Moretti family. A bloodthirsty monster scarred in an explosion, a man they say can never have children. And the grand prize? Becoming the Godfather’s bride. That night, Moretti’s men, all in black, delivered a gold-trimmed marriage contract. They were here for the “genius designer.” My fiancé, Marco, panicked. He whisked Sandra off to Vegas to save her. They got married that night. With the deed done, Sandra strutted back in, wearing my silk robe. She flashed the ring on her finger and the hickies all over her neck. “Marco’s mine now,” she purred. “What are you going to do, Odessa? The Godfather’s only giving you a day. If you don’t marry him, the Family will have to appease him. That means sending you to the red-light district. Selling you to the kind of sicko who gets off on broken things.” She was wrong. I had another choice. I found my father and stepmother, both scrambling to deal with the contract. “I’ll do it,” I said. “I’ll marry the Godfather.”

Victor’s private jet has barely cleared the runway when Amelia gives in to the one man she’s never allowed to touch: her husband’s son. She has everything money can buy, except the intense, raw passion her body craves. Ethan has the fierce intensity that finally gives it to her. For nineteen stolen days they turn the penthouse into their personal playground: the marble island where she loses herself in his embrace, the glass shower where he holds her dripping wet, the marital bed where they lose all control night after night while Victor is away thirty thousand feet in the air. She was a bored trophy wife. Now she’s obsessed, counting the hours until her husband leaves again, because only Ethan can break through her walls, ruin her composure, and make her forget she ever belonged to anyone else. Nineteen days. No limits. No mercy. And when Victor comes home, she’ll greet him with the memory of Ethan still burning inside her, smiling like the perfect wife.

For twenty years, the De Santis family was shaped by betrayal. Samuel de Santis abandoned his wife, Isabella, and their two sons, Adriano and Lorenzo, to start a new life with Silvia. Years later, Samuel died, and Isabella followed after a long illness caused by two decades of heartbreak and abandonment. Adriano de Santis grew up consumed by the belief that Silvia was responsible for destroying his family. After losing his mother, he vowed to make her pay. His weapon of revenge was her daughter from her previous marriage, Monica de Rossi, because he knew that shattering Monica would mean shattering Silvia. His plan was simple: assume a false identity, get close to Monica, earn her trust, make her fall in love with him, then destroy her and her family from within. But executing his plan is not as easy as he expects. Monica is strong, independent, sharp-minded, and impossible to tame. Moreover, she is already engaged to Sam Conti, her childhood friend, which makes his plan even harder to carry out. What begins as a calculated act of vengeance slowly spirals out of control, until he finds himself trapped between revenge and an unexpected love that threatens everything he swore to destroy.

Chase Greene, son of Alpha Ron Greene of the Greene Woodland Pack was getting introduced to his father's new wife's daughter, his stepsister and he couldn't be less interested in anything as he was on this. But the second she walked through the door and his eyes fell on her, his wolf awoke and screamed in his head, " Mate!" But she couldn't feel the bond and was getting married in no time. As much as it confused Chase why the moon goddess would make his stepsister his mate, he couldn't just watch her walk into the arms of another man. He was going to be the Alpha soon and he needed a mate so if his wolf chose her then she was HIS!

The first thing I did when I came back to life was to pawn off my engagement to the Don of the Schroder family, Edmund, on my stepsister. In my last life, he used the "family rules" to make me give up the one thing I loved—racing. He threw out all my colorful dresses and turned me into his canary in a gilded cage. I died, suffocated and hopeless. When I opened my eyes again, I was back on the day the marriage contract was to be signed. I quietly switched my name with my stepsister Laura's and let Edmund sign the papers. He didn't forget to warn me, "Stay out of trouble. Our wedding is in three days. Be a good girl and wait for me to come get you." But he had no idea I'd already bought a fake ID and passport. In three days, I'd be gone. I'd be free.

From the first time she met them, she knew her life would never be the same… Lucy had lost her parents to a coup and was forcefully mated to the man who orchestrated it. Now, he is sick and nearing death—much to her happiness—but that relief doesn’t last long as she is introduced to three hot, sexy males who are her stepsons. These stepsons despise their father and have transferred their hatred to her, seeing her as her father's replacement for their mother, unaware of the true story behind her becoming their stepmother. So what happens when they discover that their stepmother is their mate? Will they reject her out of hatred? And if they don’t reject her, will she accept them after enduring torture at their hands and that of their father? Can she bring herself to mate with the children of her parents' murderer? Additionally, there is a traitor on the loose, posing a threat to the peace of everyone. To get answers to all of these questions, READ TO FIND OUT!

Betrayed, broken, but never defeated. When Jasper cast Elena aside for her sister, she thought her world had ended. Left heart-shattered and humiliated, she becomes determined to heal the wounds his betrayal carved into her soul. But Elena is not a woman who stays broken. Out of her pain rises a bold, breathtaking queen, fierce, radiant and unstoppable. Her beauty turns heads, her strength commands respect, and suddenly the very man who once overlooked her now craves her. Yet among the powerful men drawn to her light, one stands apart, Nathan. Mysterious, protective, and everything Jasper was not. His presence awakens a love, Elena thought she had lost forever… but with enemies circling and Jasper refusing to let go, her heart is now both her greatest weapon and her greatest risk. A secret about her later comes to light and it changes her whole life she thought she knew, find out what it is!!!!!!!!!!

Scarlet’s world shattered the night she discovered her husband in her bed with her own sister. The betrayal was brutal. The humiliation, unforgivable. And what hurt the most? Neither of them felt a single ounce of remorse. Within months, her husband divorced her and married the very woman who helped destroy her life, her sister. They thought she would break. They thought she would disappear quietly. They were wrong. Ryan Marchetti—cold, calculating, and dangerously powerful, has spent years waiting for the perfect chance to destroy his business rival. Marrying that rival’s ex-wife is the ultimate move. Strategic. For Scarlet, marrying Ryan isn’t about love. It’s about revenge. A calculated alliance. A public statement. A promise that she will rise from the ashes they left her in. Together, they become the scandal that shakes empires. But revenge is never simple. Because behind Ryan’s icy control lies a secret, one tied to her past, to her ex-husband, to the very marriage that ruined her life. A truth so explosive it could unravel everything she thought she knew. Was she just a pawn in Ryan’s war from the very beginning? Or is the man she’s slowly falling for capable of betraying her too? In a game fueled by vengeance, power, and buried truths, Scarlet must decide: Will she let betrayal destroy her again… Or will she risk her heart for the one man who might truly love her?

My Alpha fiancé made me drink a witch's memory potion on our mating ceremony day so he could bond with my stepsister instead. "Serena is under a vicious curse. Only bonding with a powerful Alpha can break it." "Aria, you're the only one I love. I don't want to hurt you, so if you drink this memory potion, you'll temporarily forget the person you love most. Once I help Serena break her curse, you can take the antidote and recover your memories." "Then I'll break the bond with Serena and make you the most honored Luna of our pack." I didn't hesitate. I drank the entire vial in one gulp. But he didn't know the witch never created a corresponding antidote. In seven days, I would forget him forever.