Where The Crawdads Sing Novels & Stories

I was pregnant, but his lover came back. - "My lover is back." When he smiled and told me this news, I hid the pregnancy from him and left him. I always knew he was still in love with his ex-girlfriend, but when his father asked me to marry him, I said "yes" because I loved him. After leaving him, I gave birth to the baby alone. "Darling, I've been looking for you for a long time." At the banquet, a familiar deep male voice sounded. I suddenly turned around and saw the handsome face that I had been longing for. "You have mistaken me for someone else." My nose was sore and I tried to hide the child behind me, trying to escape. "Don't go," he holding me in his arms. "I miss you very much."

After four years of nothing but pain, Jade, the Luna of Black pack, finally finds the courage to leave her loveless marriage. She uncovers a long-buried secret that promises to changes everything. With her grandmother's relic in her hands, she decides to start her new life elsewhere and dig out the secrets it held. But when the alpha starts fighting for her, she finds herself torn between her loyalty to the pack and the need to be more than just the Luna warrior and wife. Will Atlas’s redemption and groveling be enough to sway Jade’s mind from her new path?

When my son was found after we lost him three years ago, he forgot all about me and hid behind another omega woman, calling her Mommy instead. To keep my son close, I let the omega stay in my pack, never expecting I’d caught her in my bed with my Alpha husband. Betrayed by my mate. Rejected by my son. Humiliated before my pack. I lost everything in a single day. When danger came, I still chose to save my son, but he chose to leave me in the woods, bleeding, abandoned and dying. I believed it was the end for me until a stranger lifted me into his arms and whispered: Fated mate.

One viral video destroyed my life. ​My boyfriend cheated. My roommate filmed it. The entire school watched. ​I didn’t mean to kiss Ryan Carter. I just wanted revenge. ​I thought I was using the King of the Ice to hurt my ex. I was wrong. Ryan isn't just the most feared guy in school, he’s my future step-brother. ​Now, we’re sharing a hallway by day and a forbidden secret by night. But as our fake feelings turn into a dark obsession, I’m realizing the terrifying truth. ​Ryan didn't just happen to be at that party. ​I was his target all along.

I've spent two years loving the wrong man. As the captain of North Crest University's hockey team, Jason Brooks was every girl's dream. To me, he became my nightmare. I stood by him through every victory, forgave every betrayal, and convinced myself that love meant enduring the pain. By the time I finally found the strength to walk away, my grades had crashed terribly, and my scholarship was hanging by a thread. What made things even crazier was finding my best friend in bed with my ex. I thought that was the lowest point of my life. Then I accidentally crossed paths with Damien Knight, the captain of Westlake University, North Crest's biggest rival. One unexpected encounter turned into a campus-wide scandal. Suddenly, everyone believed I had traded one hockey captain for another. The rumors spread like wildfire, my ex became obsessed with winning me back, and before I knew it, I was living under the same roof as the one man who made me feel something I'd never felt before. But loving the captain of our biggest rival comes with a price, and some people will do anything to tear us apart. Including the man who refuses to let me go.

Ava Morrison gave Alpha Adrian Blackwood four years of devotion and unwavering love. In return, he promised to love her even if he had to reject his fated mate if he ever found her. But when the beautiful Sophia who happens to be his fated mate appears at the Summit Ball, Adrian breaks his promise without hesitation, accepting the mate bond and abandoning Ava completely. "The mate bond, Ava... I can't fight it." "Then don't expect me to fight for you either." Humiliated and heartbroken, Ava flees straight into Prince Dante Salvatore, the Alpha King's son, who recognises her as his fated mate. He claims her publicly, igniting a war between two possessive Alphas who both want her back. Caught between love and survival, Ava must make a choice: the Prince offering power and devotion, or the Alpha who shattered her heart but would die to prove his love is real.

He stole her first kiss on their first encounter, and she accused him of being perverted and arrogant. Her straightforward personality hooked his interest despite the danger ahead. He announced a surrogacy competition to draw her towards him. She left no option but to join the competition only to find out he’s the same person she gave a great lesson he’d never forget. Trapped to the trick played by this ruthless billionaire, she played along with his game and became his wife. His dark secrets gradually unfold, destroying and drowning them into the deep abyss. He suddenly disappeared from her life, but another stranger came in. She could feel his warmth, and they kissed. Warm tears began to roll down from her eyes, soaking the white cloth over them. When he felt her heat tears, he panicked instantly. He did not know why, but he did not want to see her cry. “Darling, don’t cry...” He let go of her, his fingers gently touching her hair. “I won’t touch you, I won’t touch you anymore, okay?” She cried more violently, and she said in a choked voice, “Don’t talk!” “... Why?” He was a bit stunned. Gently biting her lip, she could not help saying, “When, when you talk, you sound like him very much...” He’s so gentle and dotes on her. When he spoke, she even felt that it was not another person, but her husband Joshua stood next to her. Even the way he kissed her was so similar... It was not until this moment that Hazel realized how much she missed Joshua. She was not afraid of waiting. Even if she had to wait for a long time, she would cherish it.

“You like that, don’t you…” Alpha Raiden said, jerking within me. “You’re mine to keep, mate. Your body and soul belong to me and you dare not reject me. I’m in charge of you…” *********** Aurelia lived for Alpha Raiden. For many years, her heart belonged to him but the one sided love of a weak and wolf-less omega wasn’t enough to keep Alpha Raiden even though she was mated and married to him. Three years into the loveless marriage, Aurelia was served divorce papers with the return of her mate’s ex-girlfriend, betrayed and broken. With no one to live for, Aurelia thought death was better than living as her mate’s prisoner but the moon goddess had other plans for her and the seed growing within her womb. Will Aurelia survive rejecting and escaping Alpha Raiden after he warned her against it? Will the seed survive as well and will revenge be her goal when she meets her ex-mate again five years later? A lot has changed and that includes Aurelia and now, Alpha Raiden wants her back but will the other man in Aurelia’s life let her go? Find out in the pages of this book!

Liam finally turned his eyes to her, "you couldn't get your wolf. I can't have a Luna without a wolf so therefore I, Alpha Liam Watson of Blood moon pack rejects you, Scarlett Osborne as the mate I was supposed to have. Olivia is now my mate. I have marked her and she would be having her Luna ceremony in three days time" Everything slowed to a stop for Scarlett as his words washed over her. She felt like the weight of the world was pressing down on her chest and she couldn't breathe as she fell to the ground. *** What was supposed to be the best day of her life became the worst day when Scarlett could not get her wolf. It became even worse when she injured the soon to be Luna and was banished from her pack by the man who was supposed to be her mate. Broken and in pain, Scarlett wanders around until she comes to a stop in a human town. All she wants now is to heal and try to forget about her past. Easier said than done especially when she finds out that she is pregnant. Pregnant from the one time she gave herself to alpha Liam.

​For five years, Nerissa Vane was the perfect, silent wife to Lysander Blackwood. She endured his coldness, his family’s disdain, and the humiliation of taking birth control every night to ensure she didn't "trap" a man who hated her. She was the woman who secretly saved his family from ruin, yet he saw her as nothing more than a desperate social climber. ​When Lysander’s first love returns and falls pregnant, the mask finally slips. Lysander doesn't hate children—he only hates the idea of having them with Nerissa. After a tragic accident where Lysander leaves a bleeding, pregnant Nerissa behind to save his mistress, Nerissa realizes that love cannot be begged for. ​She leaves behind a wedding ring, a positive ultrasound, and the truth about the debt he can never repay. By the time Lysander realizes he chased away the only woman who truly loved him, the "placeholder wife" is gone, and the powerful Vane Heiress has risen in her place. He wants her back, but this time, Nerissa isn't playing by his rules.