Arranged Marriage

I stared. I gulped. My heart skipped a beat. My stomach twisted, and I could feel the butterflies stirring violently inside me. A lingering cold chill ran down my spine, spreading through my veins, flowing with the heat of lava in my blood.

The man before me was heavenly. I could barely look away. From the way his dark grey eyes pierced into mine to how his jet-black hair fell in spiked strands ...

Princess Poppy never thought there would be an end to the war between her kingdom and that of the Dark Elves. That is until a proposition is made for her to marry the dark prince. Forced with the choice to save her people or herself, she picks the lives of the people in her home. The problem is Prince Erik isn't as accepting of the arranged marriage as she is. In fact, he wants to do everything he...

There is a place where names are forgotten, faces are hidden, and only the body speaks.
It doesn’t whisper. It moans. It obeys. It disobeys. It begs.

You were warned not to touch.
But you will.

Welcome to Velvet Heat, a collection of 100 dangerously intimate stories that whisper in the dark and bite when you’re not looking. These are not tales of sweet love and gentle kisses. These are fantasie...

"I married you for power," he said with a smile.

She believed him.

But the warrior who spent four years bleeding on frozen battlefields, who lost everything and survived on memories of her alone—he's been playing a very different game.

Sometimes the biggest lie is pretending you don't care.

“Look at you trembling under my touch like a good girl….can you handle anything Elara?.” Adrian whispered as his tongue drags over my throat.

A jolt of electricity filled my body, as my eyes were on his. “Yes.” I breathed out softly.

Elara has thirty days. Thirty days to live under the same roof as Adrian Moretti—the ruthless mafia king who gets everything he wants.

She will do anything to m...

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“Don’t call me your brother.”

I froze the first time Sebastian said those words.

After my father’s death, I had no choice but to move into my mother’s wealthy new husband’s mansion, where everyone treated me like an unwanted country girl.

Especially Sebastian—the cold, ruthless heir who hated my mother… and hated me for being her daughter.

I thought marrying the charming heir Alistair would be...

She was kidnapped by the enemy. She never expected her sister's mate to become hers.
"No," I whispered, horror crawling up my throat. "Not him. Anyone but him."
"It's not possible," I said, my voice shaking. "Elena was your mate."
"Mates die. The bond can happen again." Cain's expression hardened. "But this? This is wrong. The Goddess must be laughing at us."
"I don't want this any more than you d...

She needed a second chance. He needed a fake fiancée.
A ninety-day contract was supposed to solve all their problems—until stolen kisses felt real, a fake engagement became a forced marriage, and betrayal threatened to destroy everything they had built.
In a world where love is the biggest gamble, will they walk away when the contract ends, or fight for a forever neither of them expected?

On a special occasion, the Hilton family announced Olivia's marriage to Clayton Bradford, four years her senior, the most sought-after bachelor in town, and the man she had secretly loved from afar. She thought he could learn to love her too. But four years later, he still couldn't forget Caroline.

Just as Olivia discovered she was pregnant, Caroline returned, shattering any chance she had of Cla...

Five years after Alpha Hunter Graham, ruler of Dark Wood Pack lost his mate to the cold hands of death, he was heartbroken, lonely, and lost in a veil of misery hoping to join his dead mate in the afterlife. He didn't want to leave his pack in a vulnerable state so he appointed his stepson Hades to take over the Alpha title Hades Graham, a ruthless and cruel wolf, would stop at nothing to seize al...

“You’re so eager for me, Haven, with those sweet sounds just for me. But don’t worry, no one is going to hear you up here.”
I swallow hard and stare into his ocean-blue eyes, liking how that promise sounds.


If the opportunity to be given one million dollars in exchange for accompanying a prince to social events for one month arose, would you take it?
That was the proposition Haven Jones wa...

Natalie swore she would never come back to Blackwood Ridge.
Not after the memories. Not after the abandonment. And definitely not after the mother who chose ambition over her own daughter.

But when her estranged mother—now the powerful CFO of Sterling Crest Bank—asks her to return home for the summer, Natalie reluctantly agrees. Years ago, after her parents divorced, Natalie left town with her fa...

Alessia realizes that forcing her marriage with the only man she loved was her greatest mistake when Thompson, her husband, returns with his fated mate. Even after bearing his child, Thompson's indifference remained. He uses Alessia solely to maintain his reputation.
Fate decides to cast a faint hue of light into Alessia’s bleak existence as she's unconsciously drawn to Lycan Cyril, the enigm...

Camilla. An Italian American whose parents were allegedly killed in an auto accident, is attending law school in New York City. Camilla was oblivious to what her parents had actually been doing with their careers, kept in the dark by her family for her entire life. Her brother completely cuts off contact with her after he graduates from high school. The only family she speak with is her Nonna, who...

''Kiara, I won't deny the fact that you are hot and I badly want to fuck you right here.' he said, walking closer to me.
''How dare you?'' i said without heat.
He traced his fingers at my lower lip, making me shiver with every touch of his palm.
Oh, shit! This man would be the death of me.

Our deepest, darkest desires aren't made known until we're faced with...

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Two years ago, a brilliant scientist died under mysterious circumstances inside the locked gates of Levi's Sports Academy.

To uncover the truth, eighteen-year-old Thalia cuts her hair, binds her chest, and infiltrates the country’s most exclusive, boys-only football academy under a false identity as Renn Willow.

But when the Captain, Evander Manchester finds out her true identity as a girl, be d...

"You called me baby in bed last night. And today you are getting married?"
I looked up in shock.
Lex was standing right in front of me.
Then it hit me.
Lex was Ian's stepbrother.


Six months earlier, Aria had been drinking with her friend at a bar, complaining about her arranged marriage. Ian, her fiancé, was gentle and steady, but to Aria, he was unbearably dull. She could already see her futu...