8127 Book(s) Related to ugly truth about the girl next door

For eight years, I loved the boy next door. When my parents died, his family took me in. And on my twenty-first birthday, Grayson Hale finally kissed me.
That same night, I heard him laughing with his frat brothers.
“Easiest five hundred bucks I’ve ever made.”
I was just a bet.
When his ex came back, he took her side and humiliated me in front of everyone. So while he got ready to propose to her, I packed two suitcases and got on a plane to New York.
Now he’s followed me across the country, begging me to come home.
But this girl next door is done waiting.
This time, I walk away. And someone better is already waiting for me.

Maya Bennet came to college with one goal: survive.

Keep her scholarship. Work enough hours to pay her bills. Graduate. Don’t make mistakes.

Especially not the kind that come with a charming smile and a football jersey.

The last thing Maya needs is Cole Ryder.

The star quarterback has a reputation for breaking hearts, avoiding commitment, and never taking anything too seriously. He’s exactly the kind of guy Maya has spent years avoiding. But somewhere between late-night study sessions, stolen moments, and Cole showing up whenever her world starts falling apart, he becomes impossible to ignore.

For Cole, it starts as curiosity.

Then concern.

Then something much more dangerous.

Before he realizes what’s happening, the girl who never believed she’d be chosen becomes the center of his entire world.

But falling in love doesn’t magically fix real life.

Maya is still carrying the weight of family problems, financial stress, and years of believing she’s only worth what she can accomplish. As old wounds reopen and painful family secrets come to light, she’s forced to decide whether she can finally stop carrying everything alone.

Because Cole isn’t the only one falling.

The real question is whether Maya can believe she deserves the kind of love that’s willing to stay.

Filled with laugh-out-loud banter, found family, emotional healing, college chaos, and a swoon-worthy quarterback who falls first and falls hard, The Rogue Next Door is a heartwarming slow-burn romance about learning that sometimes the strongest thing you can do is let someone love you.

Arvin thought betraying her father would finally set her free.
After turning in Mario De Luca, one of the most feared crime lords in the country, she is forced into witness protection under a new identity, hidden away in a quiet Sacramento neighborhood where survival depends on staying invisible.
But the past doesn’t stay buried for long.
Especially not when she meets Asher West.
Her dangerously attractive neighbor is calm, unreadable, and far too observant. From the moment they cross paths, he notices things he shouldn’t. The fear behind her smile, the lies in her story, the fragments of the life she's running from.
What begins as harmless attraction quickly spirals into something darker when Arvin realizes Asher is hiding secrets of his own. Far deadly ones because Asher isn’t just another wealthy businessman living next door.
He is the man who controls California’s most feared Mafia empire.
And the deeper Arvin falls into his world, the more she discovers that her arrival in his life may not have been an accident at all.
Now caught between two criminal empires and a man whose obsession is becoming impossible to escape, Arvin must decide whether Asher is the danger she should fear most… or the only person capable of keeping her alive.
A dark romance of obsession, power, hidden identities, and the terrifying pull between two people born from violence.

Fresh Take on the Billionaire Romance. Daniel is powerful but he is broken by guilt, and emotionally complex. His wealth isn’t fantasy,it’s a source of isolation. Nora’s warmth and authenticity bring the realism and humanity missing from most billionaire stories.

(Book 1) Rebecca is young and innocent when Noah Jones moved in next door. Wise and worldly, he never would have thought he would be drawn to such a shy, fumbling girl.
However, from the moment that he failed to rescue Rebecca's welcome pie, he couldn't put her out of his mind.
But there was no way that he could introduce her to what most would consider a depraved lifestyle. On the same note, he couldn't keep himself away from her.
Rebecca is wildly attracted to Noah, more so than she had been to anyone before. He makes her feel things that, even at 19, she couldn't understand. But she wanted to find out with him.
But what would people think about a young woman such as herself getting caught up in all Noah's luscious debauchery? And should she care?
It only got worse when her strict, uptight parents started pushing her into the arms of the one man in town that almost made her physically sick. Keith is not the kind of man that Rebecca wanted to be tied to, much less be alone with.
However, when Rebecca's secret love for Noah comes out in the open. She is forced away from everything and everyone that she knew.

Gianna Flores is a very beautiful amd intelligent girl who has a painful past which she is trying to forget. Her past makes her shield herself from the world and creating a giant wall between her and everyone around her except her family. Alexander McQueen is every girl's dream boyfriend,he has a dream of becoming a musician which is Father doesn't agree to. Alexander and his family move to a new neighborhood to start afresh meaning Alexander had to change into a new college. Discover how Alexander and Gianna path cross ways and the changes they bring into each other's life and also the unexpected feelings that come up. Watch out in this intriguing story. * * *

a magical bakery should be simple.
Bake the bread. Sell the cakes. Keep the witches, mermaids, and faeries from fighting inside the shop.
Seraphina was doing just fine until a dragon walked into her bakery and ordered a chocolate and lavender cake.
Now her best friend, Evelyn, has fallen hopelessly in love with him.
Her magical cat keeps threatening everyone over oat milk.
And the grumpy dragon next door seems determined to make Seraphina lose her mind.
The worst part?
He isn't just a dragon.
He's a prince.
An exiled one.
And somehow, Seraphina is becoming the only person he wants beside him.

Fleeing an abusive husband with nothing but a half-packed duffel and her six years old daughter, Kaia didn’t expect salvation to come with a job offer.

Good pay. Free housing. Zero drama.
At least, that’s what her best friend promised.

But nobody warned her that her neighbors growl when they’re turned on.

Now she’s got multiple Alphas sniffing around like she’s the last bite of dessert. They’re hot. They’re dangerous. And they say, she, a human, is theirs.

She has no clue what being "the mate" really is but when claiming season starts?

She might just let the Alphas do their worst!

PS: contains M*M scenes.

"I never thought I'd get tangled up with Ethan Reid. He was everything I hated — arrogant, smug, and always under my skin. And when he came to me with that stupid and cocky grin of his, and dared to call me his "Baby"?

I thought the fake dating would be a simple way to make our exes jealous, but the universe had other plans. I'm not the type to follow anyone's rules, let alone his. But something in his eyes made it so impossible to disobey. His touch? It was harder to resist. He was determined, so determined to prove that he could make me bend, make me fall for him. I never expected to want to. And I never expected that he'd become the one person I needed to fight for.

He may have started out as my enemy, but now? He's the one thing I can't live without.

He was my new neighbor and I hated him instantly. Some fall in love at first sight but for us, it was pure hatred at first sight. We should have stayed enemies forever but life was unpredictable. In the end, one kiss was it all it took to turn us into something more.

It was unclear what we were but I could tell that something had changed; the player next door had become something more to me...


Rylie Myers never thought it would be possible to hate someone with every fibre of your body but meeting Blake Weston changed that.

Blake was Rylie's new next door neighbor and Rylie couldn't help but dislike him from the moment she saw him and the series of disastrous encounters that followed didn't help.

Their enmity was mutual and should've stayed that way... but one accidental kiss changes everything.

And before they realized it, they were stuck with each other, forced to keep up a charade that involved them being something more than enemies.

The only question now is what happens when fake feelings start getting a little too real?

After having her heart broken by her childhood friend turned boyfriend, Rylie Myers was convinced that love wasn't for her. The arrival of Blake Weston, a hot teen model and playboy who coincidentally turned out to be her new next door neighbor only added to her conviction that all boys were the same.
After getting off on a bad foot, a feud ensued between the two with no particular end in sight. Things however took a turn when they accidentally shared a kiss. Both Rylie and Blake were determined to put the incident behind them until circumstances forced them to keep up a charade that involved them being something more than enemies. As fake feelings gradually become real, will Rylie fall for the player next door? Or is she just in for another heartbreak?

Roxy Elliot is fed up with her non-existent love life. She is dying to turn in her V-card, but no matter how often she throws herself at a man, it never goes anywhere. If she didn't know any better, she might think she was cursed. Now, though, she's just been tapped to take her turn as the caretaker of the family business--a safehouse that caters to paranormal beings. She knows nothing about their next client, but the minute she sees him, she knows she's in trouble.Donovan Warren is a battle-worn dragon who has danger on his trail. He needs a safehouse, and he needs it now, but the minute he meets the caretaker, he recognizes the risk. She's a maiden, and everyone knows dragons can't resist maidens. What everyone doesn't know--it's a dragon's lust that makes him lose control. Now, he has to resist the beautiful temptation of a woman who drives him to distraction in order to keep them both safe.Yet, when someone…or something…threatens Roxy, Donovan soon finds himself embroiled in a situation he never saw coming. Thanks to a promise to a purple-haired pixie, he will fight to the death to protect the maiden who could be his destruction...or his salvation…as he becomes the Dragon Next Door.

I hated my new neighbor before I even knew his name.

Damon Blackwood was arrogant, reckless, annoyingly charming—and somehow always where I didn’t want him to be.

Unfortunately, the universe had a cruel sense of humor.

Because the boy next door was about to become impossible to escape.

And the more I tried to stay away from Damon, the harder it became to remember why I ever wanted to.

Some people bring peace into your life.

Damon brought trouble.

And somehow, I started wanting more.

Moving into the other half of a semi-detached house was supposed to be the easiest part of starting university.

Then she meets the four boys next door.

The star athlete who lives for competition. The kind one who makes everyone feel at home. The quiet, towering boy who notices more than he says. And the grumpy one who seems determined to keep her at a distance.

They are best friends, campus royalty, and completely impossible to avoid. But as late-night study sessions, crowded house parties, and shared secrets blur the line between neighbours and something more, she begins falling for each of them in a different way.

The problem is, they are falling too.

And none of them are willing to step aside.

A young couple recently moved in right across the hall from us.
The husband, Richard, works as an auditor at City Hall. His wife, Chloe, is the morning show host for a local TV network.
Chloe is about five-foot-three, with curves in all the right places. Her entire being radiates an unignorable, mature housewife charm—she is absolutely gorgeous.
Richard is a serious whiskey enthusiast and often invites me over to the patio for a couple of drinks, so our families quickly grew close. My wife, Sarah, and Chloe, in particular, became like sisters the moment they started talking about Sephora's new releases and luxury bags. They could easily gossip for an entire weekend.
And that... gave me an opportunity.

Ella James has spent most of her life being overlooked, underestimated, or laughed at.

At school, she’s the girl in the oversized hoodies. The girl people make jokes about. The girl no one chooses.

After years of disappointment, Ella has learned not to expect much from anyone—especially not from Beckett Cross.

Popular, confident, and seemingly perfect, Beckett has always been everything Ella avoids. He’s the kind of boy who belongs at the center of every room while she’s spent years trying to disappear into the background.

Then a family emergency forces Ella to move in next door.

Suddenly, the boy who barely notices her at school becomes impossible to avoid.

Inside his home, Beckett is different. Kinder. Softer. Protective in ways that leave Ella questioning everything she thought she knew about him. But every morning when they walk back into school, the walls go back up, leaving Ella trapped between two versions of the same boy.

One who looks at her like she’s special.

And one who acts like she doesn’t matter.

As feelings grow and old insecurities refuse to stay buried, Beckett finds himself facing a truth he never expected: somewhere between late-night conversations, family dinners, and stolen moments, Ella became the first person he looks for.

But loving Ella means more than feeling something when nobody is watching.

It means choosing her when everyone is.

And for a girl who’s spent her entire life feeling like someone’s second choice, that may be the one thing she can never compromise on.

A slow-burn emotional romance about self-worth, first love, healing old wounds, and learning that being seen can be the scariest—and most beautiful—thing of all.

Lydia Moore is a spoiled momma's girl who lives in her perfect little bubble, blissfully unaware of the dangers lurking just around the corner...That until one day when she accidentally meets badboy/tattoo artist Julian Hale, who also happens to be her secret admirer and the one to change her life forever...

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"Why did you invite me into your home, Lydia? Aren't you afraid of me? Didn't you say that you were going to file a restraining order against me?"

She only blinked a few times in utter bewilderment, clearly taken aback by his words as she slowly turned around to face him.

"I-I was just...H-he was drunk and I know he can become a very difficult person to deal with when drunk," She rushed to explain as she dared look up into his oddly captivating eyes.

"Didn't seem like it to me," He tilted his head, his gaze becoming more and more intense with each passing second as it roamed all over her slowly heating up face, lowering to take a look at the state of her dressing.

"I-I...My mom would've killed me if she ever would've found out that he was here," She stammered, struggling to keep herself in check.

"Yeah, but you're alone with me now. You're alone and defenceless, and you invited me into your home. There are a thousand things I could do to you right now and no one would be able to save you from me," He so calmly said as he took a step even closer, their bodies being so close to touching with each ragged breath, her limbs already starting to shake at the sound of that.

On her wedding anniversary, Esme's husband demands a divorce
He accuses "You got promoted because you slept with your boss!"
Esme decides to invite her boss to a bar as a form of revenge.
To her surprise, the sexy single dad actually shows up—
and soon moves in next door with his two daughters...

The heartbreak of a countryside girl, Emma Taylor, opens another door for true love. However, her new love seems to come with hurdles as he’s not just any man next door to her apartment, but a billionaire who is also the next heir to the company she works for.

What happens when everyone is against the love of Liam Anderson and Emma Taylor, and they have to succeed in breaking every rule to be together? Will their love for each other prevail, or will their challenges consume them and break them apart?

At eighteen, Sienna Miller has always lived in a world of numbers, patterns, and quiet certainty. A prodigy in mathematics and actuarial science, she is brilliant beyond her years—but socially adrift, navigating life through logic in a world driven by emotion. Freshly graduated from Harvard, she should be stepping confidently into her future but her heart and mind are now torn by bonds that pull her in different directions.

Roman Blackwood is an Alpha—powerful, ruthless, and born to lead. As a billionaire CEO, he dominates both the corporate world and his pack with the same unrelenting intensity. Women are easy. Disposable. Forgettable. Until the moment he sees her.
Sienna is not what he expected.
She is too human. Too Fragile. . And entirely unprepared for the dangerous world he inhabits.
But she is also his mate.
And that changes everything.

Driven by instinct and the Mate bond he cannot ignore, Roman does the only thing he can—he pulls her closer. Offering her a internship, that brings her closer to him. To a secluded estate where she will live just steps away, in the cottage next door.
Close enough to protect her. Close enough to claim her.
But Roman carries a secret that could shatter everything—He is a wolf. And Sienna is destined to be his but will his autistic Mate understand this?
Yet Roman is not the only one who feels the pull.
Nikolai Drakov—enigmatic, powerful, and dangerously alluring—is no ordinary rival. A vampire from a 500 year old bloodline also believes Sienna is his fated mate. And he has no intention of stepping aside.

What begins as desire quickly spirals into a battle of dominance, obsession, and fate.

But something is buried in her past too..
A truth waiting to surface.
And when it does—it will change everything.

For eighteen years, Mira has lived as though she were nothing.

Weak, poor, and unable to fully awaken her wolf, she survives as a servant in the ruthless IceMoon Pack, where she is treated as less than everyone around her.

But after her eighteenth birthday, strange dreams begin haunting her—a forgotten castle, a silver door, and a pair of glowing green eyes waiting behind it.

When danger finally forces Mira into the forest, she follows a voice inside her telling her to run.

And she finds the door.

Behind it is Stefan—the ancient Lycan King who has been imprisoned for more than three hundred years.

The moment he sees her, he says four words:

“You finally came back.”

Mira has never seen him before.

Stefan remembers her.

As the secrets of her bloodline begin to surface, Mira discovers that she may be connected to the lost kingdom Stefan once ruled—and that her family has been hiding the truth for generations.

Now Stefan wants his kingdom back. Mira wants to understand who she really is. And between them stands an ancient curse, a forgotten betrayal, and a Silver Door that was never meant to be opened.

Because Stefan may not have been imprisoned to keep him inside.

He may have been imprisoned to keep the world safe from what would happen when he came out.

She just needed the money while he just needed someone to watch his little brother.

Zara Owens is the girl nobody looks at twice, except to laugh. Bullied, plus-size, and invisible by choice and by force, she has survived three years at Westbridge High by keeping her head down, her armor on, and her expectations low. The last thing she needs is Chase Hendricks complicating any of it.

Chase is Westbridge's golden boy. Star quarterback, perfect life, the kind of face that makes rooms go quiet. From the outside, everything about him looks exactly as good as it seems. From the inside, his father is gone, his mother works doubles, his relationship is a performance, and the only person in his week who talks to him like a real human being is the girl he keeps running into in his own kitchen.

Forced together every evening under the same roof, almost enemies at school but something far more dangerous at home, they are both about to find out that the person who sees you most clearly is the one you least expected and that being truly seen, after years of hiding, might be the scariest thing of all.

Evelyn's life changed when a hot sexy neighbor moved into the apartment next to hers, Walt Andrews. A divorcee and an ex-mafia boss. Her only aim in life was to work hard to be a strong and independent lady, so she could bring her parents' killers to book and take revenge like she promised them on their deathbeds.

She had a one-night stand with the boy next door, Walt Andrews, and got pregnant for him. They both agreed and signed a contract to get married for One year for the Child's sake, plus Walt was willing to help Evelyn with her revenge.

But what happens when Evelyn finds out that Walt Andrews had once been married and had two children from two different women??

How would she face the truth when she learns about the real reason why Walt Andrews married her??

And what would happen when she finds out that the man she has been married to was once a Mafia boss??

The letter arrived while I was fighting a burnt piece of toast.
There was no name on the envelope, but I knew where it came from—Star Ring Academy. A place I thought only existed in my mother's diary. A place that could teach me to control my magic. A place where I wouldn't have to keep pretending to be "normal."
What I didn't expect was that this place had its own marked person too.
Kain Ashworth. Every student and teacher avoided him. They said he was a curse. Dangerous. That everyone who got close would disappear.
So when he sat alone in the last row, I walked over and sat down next to him.
Everyone thought I'd lost my mind. But they didn't know that I understood loneliness—the kind where the whole world turns its back on you—better than anyone.
Then, out of nowhere, he recognized my last name. And he said to me: "You and I are the same kind of people."
I didn't quite understand. Was he saying he knew my secret?

I thought the scariest thing in school was the jock who harassed me. But then he vanished without a trace, and everyone blamed me.

There is no strong evidence to lock me away, so I walk the school hallways trapped in a living hell. The police watch my every move, the town hates me, and my adoptive parents treat me like an unwanted curse in their home.

Desperate to clear my name, I didn't realize the real danger was living right next door.

Xavi Moreau is the quiet, haunting boy who looks right through me. He doesn't live with his family; he lives alone in his own place. To the world, he is a handsome party guy who drinks, smiles, and blends into the crowd.

But I noticed the truth. His smiles are fake. His laughter never reaches his cold eyes. He is just copying the emotions of others to hide a dark, hollow soul.

When he notices my stares, his obsession shifts entirely to me.

Every single time he approaches me, I push him away. I deny him. I fight his terrifying presence with every ounce of strength I have left. But Xavi doesn't back down. He offers me the one thing I desperately need: a promise to find the truth and clear my name.

I wanted to find a killer to save myself, but the killer has already found me, and he has no intention of letting me go.

Jane is a teenager in high school who had always been insecure about her looks thanks to her older sister who was always deemed more beautiful. She thought living under her sister's shadow was the worst thing that could happen to her.

Until one day, her luck turned for the worst when the school's biggest jerk and the bad boy Jake decided to force her to become his wing-woman to win Liliana's heart! Not only that, she accidentally bumped into an even bigger jerk, Jake's older brother Aaron who couldn't seem to keep his hands off of her. How will she ever escape these ruthless bad boys?

Isabel's life has been a constant struggle with the word "ugly." Her Leucoderma skin disease had made her believe that she could never be beautiful. It seemed like every person she met had an opinion about her appearance, and none of them were kind. They made her feel like it was a crime to not be born with flawless skin. Despite her outside flaws, Isabel had a pure soul, but unfortunately, no one ever bothered to understand it. Instead, they treated her like she was worthless, as if her appearance was all that mattered.

But hope arrived when Isabel's marriage was arranged with the handsome and charming Mason Williams. For the first time in her life, Isabel started to believe that someone might accept her for who she was, without judging her physical appearance. She dreamed of Mason being the love of her life, someone who would see past her flaws and cherish her inner beauty.

However, on the day of their marriage, Isabel's hopes were crushed when Mason Williams called her "The Ugly Bride." It was like a punch in the stomach, and Isabel wondered if Mason would ever be able to love her for who she truly was. Would he hate her forever or be able to see past her physical flaws and fall madly in love with her pure soul? Only time could tell...

Demetrio Laureti is the most sought-after millionaire in town. An arrogant, domineering and extremely handsome man, he is used to taking all the women he wants into his bed. When his secretary is fired, he immediately sends for a new one. Confident that they have hired the most beautiful of them all, he decides to make a bet with his best friend and conquer Evangelina Anderson, a woman of grotesque appearance, which is not at all to the taste of the Italian, but, however, manages to drive all his senses crazy.

Will Demetrio be able to conquer his ugly secretary? Will Eva be able to forgive Demetrio after this bet?

What happens when the world’s most beautiful man marries the woman society calls ugly?

Sonia lost everything—her home, her dignity, her son—after her husband’s betrayal left her scarred. But a surprise contract marriage to billionaire actor Fabian Martinez may be her only chance at redemption.

It was supposed to be business:
✔ One contract
✔ Six months
✔ Zero feelings

But under the cameras, in courtrooms, and behind closed doors, something real begins to bloom.
Because while the world sees her scars, he sees her strength.
And while the world calls her ugly, he calls her his.

As she laid bleeding from various cuts by broken glasses from the car crash, with life fading from her eyes, all Sonia could think about was why? Why would life be this unfair?
How could the Mendez be allowed to get away with what they’ve done, and what she would not have given for a second chance to destroy these monsters who took everything from her.
“Please one more chance, please………” she whispered weakly till life faded from her brown colored eyes, forever closed in death. But if revenge will destroy everything in its path, including you, will you take the chance?
This was the choice Sonia had to make, when she was mercifully given a second chance at life after dying from a car crash, she was in with her parents, and younger brother Dev whose head was bashed in by the windscreen of the Voltron vehicle they were in.

She is a wolf in sheep's clothing, in order to get the answers she has been seeking for years, she used her charm to infiltrate the lives of those that may give her the answers that she seeks.

In that journey to reveal the truth regarding her origins, she fell in love so deep that she will do anything to keep that love and family with her. Even if it means killing those that knows about her past. she will become the villain once more to gain the happiness that the world owe her.

"I'm pre.. pregnant." She was barely able to speak.

"What did you say?"

She stepped back trembling.

The look in his eyes shifted from lust and desire to hatred and anger.

"I..."

He cut her off; "I can’t be with you! Fucking you for few nights doesn’t mean I am gonna replave my Luna with you!"

"And?"

"Get out of here and abort the baby." He said bluntly!

He used her body like every night like a slut. He knew that wild hybrid homeless she-wolf is his true mate but he wouldn’t admit.

He broke her.
Rejected her.
Abort her.
Then kicked her out of his life like a damaged good.

He never knew that he'll regret it and chase her and kneel for her to get her back.

But... she wasn’t weak anymore.

Marry with me, and you will be given 1.5 billion dollars.
Getting rid of Mina, Fred's wife, after five years of her problematic self, he finally felt relieved.

He needed a new wife so he got married to Jayda on the contract that she was going to be given 1.5 billion dollars. Fred and Jayda had shared a strong bond a few years back after an accidental 'one-night stand'.

Trying to balance their relationship seemed to be a problem, as both of them were too enclosed in the fear of revealing their pasts and problems, with Jayda being so cold...

READ ON TO DIVE INTO THE LOVE STORY OF JAYDA AND FRED AS THINGS UNFOLD BETWEEN THEM."

Ailenna Maytha and Marianne Lyon-Maytha are the betrothed sisters of Prince Nickolas of Luavyn — however, the future King can only have one Queen. The three were allowed to live freely until the age at which Nickolas would receive the crown. What their parents didn't expect is that the distance between the three would create unexpected bonds that could compromise the Real game and the interests of many important people.
When Nickolas begins his journey to prepare to take the crown, the three will have to make a difficult choice: reason or heart. How much tension can a relationship endure before bonds break? What kind of love are we looking for when we choose not only the person to say “yes”, but also the future of the entire Kingdom?

Lyric had spent her life being hated. Bullied for her scarred face and hated by everyone—including her own mate—she was always told she was ugly. Her mate only kept her around to gain territory, and the moment he got what he wanted, he rejected her, leaving her broken and alone.

Then, she met him. The first man to call her beautiful. The first man to show her what it felt like to be loved.

It was only one night, but it changed everything. For Lyric, he was a saint, a savior. For him, she was the only woman that had ever made him cum in bed—a problem he had been battling for years.

Lyric thought her life would finally be different, but like everyone else in her life, he lied. And when she found out who he really was, she realized he wasn't just dangerous—he was the kind of man you don't escape from.

Lyric wanted to run. She wanted freedom. But she desired to navigate her way and take back her respect, to rise above the ashes.

Eventually, she was forced into a dark world she didn't wish to get involved with.

"Take off your clothes, I want to see the body I'd be living with for the rest of my life," he commands, moving to the other side of the room where the red armchair was.

She hesitated, and that displeased him. He growled, clearly infuriated. “Do you need some kind of motivation? Because you will not get it. Take off your fucking clothes!” he thunders, making her jump and her legs shake.

With shaky hands and a trembling body, she grabbed the hand of the silk gown again and dragged it down. Her eyes stayed glued to the floor, not having the audacity to look up at the alpha king across the room from her.

“You’re not done yet!”
Mia Asika had wanted only one thing for the longest time, enlightenment and the freedom to travel the world in search of it. Mia's dreams however ended the day Ariel, her beautiful and fair older sister who was betrothed to the alpha king, died the night before her marriage and she became the last resort. Hated at sight, the alpha king moved to make her union to him that of misery.

Can Mia's will for survival withstand the alpha king's cold and unloving nature?

The cover-up that could bring down the Federation.

On the fringes of human space, a murder will light a fuse and send two different people colliding together.

He’s a thirty-year veteran of military operations, she’s the youngest daughter of a wealthy business family.

Both used roundabout means to become detectives. She’s smart, he’s tactical. Now they need to learn from each other.

Mix in a very early high budget R&D AI created by the Military and we might have a problem.

For those trying to hide from justice.


Two years ago, a small moon in a far off system was set to be the location of the first intergalactic war between humans and an alien race.

It never happened. However, something was found many are willing to kill to keep a secret.

Now, they have killed the wrong people.

How many will need to die to keep the truth hidden? 

As many as is needed.

He will have vengeance no matter the cost. She will dig for the truth. No matter how risky the truth is to reveal.

When Gwen Mitchell, a scholarship college senior stumbles upon a murder by six guys she considered friends, and she was almost raped, beaten to a pulp and throwed off a cliff into the Pacific Ocean to prevent her from saying what she saw, everyone including her best friend and mother believed she drowned.
Five years later, armed with a new face and identity as Elizabeth, she is back but with vengeance and revenge as her motive.
As the men begins to die one after the other, Elizabeth must make sure she finishes what started five years ago without getting caught.
When the system fails you, those you trust destroys you, and left you dead, what becomes of the person who survive?
Is revenge justice or does it make you the monster you are hunting?

“A masterpiece of thriller and mystery. Blake Pierce did a magnificent job developing characters with a psychological side so well described that we feel inside their minds, follow their fears and cheer for their success. Full of twists, this book will keep you awake until the turn of the last page.” --Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (re Once Gone) NEXT DOOR (A Chloe Fine Mystery) is book #1 in a new psychological suspense series by bestselling author Blake Pierce, whose #1 bestseller Once Gone (Book #1) (a free download) has received over 1,000 five star reviews. FBI Evidence Response Team intern Chloe Fine, 27, finds herself forced to confront her own dark past when her troubled twin sister needs her help—and when a body turns up dead in her small, suburban town.Chloe feels life is finally perfect as she moves back into her home town, and into a new house with her fiancé. Her career with the FBI looks promising, and her wedding is on the horizon. But, she learns, all is not as it seems in suburbia. Chloe begins to see the underside—the gossip, the secrets, the lies—and she finds herself haunted by her own demons: her mother’s mysterious death when she was 10, and her father’s imprisonment. And when a fresh body is found, Chloe soon realizes that her past, and this small town, might hold the key to solving both.An emotionally wrought psychological suspense with layered characters, small-town ambiance and heart-pounding suspense, NEXT DOOR is book #1 in a riveting new series that will leave you turning pages late into the night. Book #2 in the CHLOE FINE series will be available soon.

Lena Pruitt has one rule: stay invisible, stay safe. Then her mother marries into the Calloway family, and suddenly she shares a roof, and a very thin wall, with Declan Calloway, the most infuriating boy she has ever met.
He is seventeen. Her stepbrother. Student body president by day, reckless and untouchable by night. Every girl at Westfield High wants him. Lena wants nothing to do with him.
But the night of a party changes everything, and the morning after changes everything twice. Because the secret they are now carrying is not the only one in the house. And when the truth about who Declan really is surfaces, Lena realizes the boy she thought she hated may be the only person who ever actually chose her.

#Warning! Some chapters contain 18+ content#

“Kiss me and you die.”

His breath was warm on her skin, his finger tracing her lips, but in a flash, Detective Lizzy Mason’s gun was pressed against his forehead.


In a city drowning in blood and mysteries, Detective Lizzy Mason has made it her mission to chase the monsters that everyone else fears.

Every day brings a new horror; a student murdered on campus, a jealous brother’s toxic rage, a father’s indescribable crime, a serial killer case.

But even as Lizzy pieces together the dusk around her, she’s fighting one within herself; the pain of a damaged marriage and a heart too disturbed to love again.

When her daughter is abducted, Lizzy’s world shatters. The chase turns personal, and the truth she unveils jerks her to the core. Because this time, the killer isn’t hiding in the shadows. He’s much closer than she thinks.

~All her life the pack thought of her as nothing but an Omega. The Beta’s Daughter stole her boyfriend the Alpha’s son but if only they knew there was more to Khione than they knew.

~“Yes, Alpha I’m all yours I’ll be your good little omega.”

Grinding on his already rock-hard bulge he squirmed under me desperately.

“When was the last time I gave you a release?”

“Too long Alpha almost seven weeks. Please.”

His whimpers became desperate as he became wet, I could scent his slick soaking his boxers.

“Maybe I should put you out of your misery….”

He nodded eagerly.

“Or maybe I should leave you to suffer….”

I pretended to start to climb off.

“NOOOOOO!!!!! PLEASE FUCK ME ALPHA!!”

“Well since you asked so nicely.”

I leaned forward and kissed him deeply and passionately. Undressing us both, I lock eyes with him stroking him.

“My mate my omega, my love I’ve missed you.”

“OH GOD, I have missed you too. Please put me inside of you.”

I straddled him again sliding down slowly inch by inch his hips jerked every time I clenched. We spent hours together when he wasn’t inside of me, I had my strap-on buried deep inside of him I felt our bond strengthening the tether between us stronger, but it would not snap into place until we marked each other which would have to wait.

~“Spread your legs and arch your back.”

Obedience again. I release myself from my slacks stroking myself praying I do not nut after two strokes. I lined myself up grabbing her hips I thrust hard into her.

“FUCK TRISTAN!”

“Shhhhh…... we are in school remember. Control the noise or I’ll have to punish you.”

She bites her lip and nods, and I start slow taking my time watching her eyes roll back, I had to take a deep breath no one feels like her no one makes my body tingle like her.

“I missed this tight pretty pussy. Is this pussy mine Kay?”

“No fuck you Tristan.”

"Sign the Brooklyn house over to Isla. I'll cover your tuition next semester."

Gabriel didn't look up. Just sat there in his leather chair like he was doing me a favor.

My mother grabbed my sleeve. "She has depression, Rachel. She just needs a studio. Why are you making this so hard?"

I looked at her, then at him. That house was the only thing my father left me when he died. The only thing. And my stepbrother was sitting in his leather chair, offering me a trade like it was nothing.

"That house is the only thing my father left me," I said. "You know that."

Gabriel finally looked up. "I know. Sign anyway."

My mother tightened her grip on my sleeve. I shook her off.

"Give me the pen."

I signed. Grabbed my suitcase — packed for three days — and walked out.

I had nowhere to go. I didn't care.

Samantha Dawson felt she could leave her errors behind, but one fateful night everything changed. Driven by a great urge to pay off her family's debt, she entered the arms of a stranger—a brief, explosive meeting that left her whirling. That evening, she never anticipated the outcome: a kid she has kept secret from the world and from him.
Four years fast forward: Samantha's meticulously repaired life is collapsing once more. She is presented with an unimaginable offer—a contract marriage with Adrian Blackwood, the mysterious millionaire with more influence than anybody should—as her son's safety is at stake and debts are closing in. The only issue is Adrian is unaware she already carries his most secret.
But Adrian also depends on her. He has to seem to have a flawless family if he is to land the commercial contract confirming his empire. Samantha is his response; he still doesn't know about the lethal shadows from her past threatening them both. Time is running out because of Adrian's own complex network of family treachery. Should he not get married soon, he runs the danger of losing control of his father's business to a merciless competitor with dark motives—someone already too near Samantha for comfort.
Neither of them understands how interwoven their fates have become as they descend further into this perilous dance. Secrets grow, passions blossom, and foes lie around every turn. Samantha has to choose, nevertheless, whether Adrian comes near to learning the truth about her son: should she tell everything or keep quiet while the walls of their precarious arrangement collapse?
And then a terrible revelation destroys their world, just as their well planned lives begin to fit.
Samantha has been hiding secrets other than the child as well

I am the wife of a mafia boss.

When a rival family raids our estate, I take the fatal bullets meant for my sister-in-law.

When my husband, Vittorio, arrives, I give him a weak, relieved smile.

Instead of helping me, he points the muzzle of his gun right between my eyes.

"The perimeter alarms didn't trip," his consigliere, Lorenzo, says. "Only an inside job. Boss, this marriage was a trap from day one."

I kneel on the floor, begging him to just look at the bullet wounds on my chest.

Vittorio just grinds his shoe into my broken collarbone.

"The docks. Smuggling freezer three. Let twenty below zero teach her some loyalty."

They drag me into that steel tomb reserved for traitors.

"Vittorio! I never betrayed you! I saved Bella!"

The life monitor beeps weakly, but he rips out the wire.

"Just static. Don't waste energy on a dead traitor."

By the time he learns the truth, I am nothing but a blue, frozen corpse curled up in the ice.

"If you behave, I'll let you go."

Veera looked at her kidnapper and raised a brow. She wanted to cuss at him, but realised that was not going to be wise since he was an Alpha who she had saved from the brink of death five years ago. Plus, she was tied to the chair and her mouth had been tapped yet again since she freaked out and screamed at him like any normal victim in a thriller movie.

Mature read 18+

Alpha at the Door 2020 By RainHero21 ©

Detective Aria Kane tracks down a murderer who decorates each corpse with flawless origami cranes. There were eight victims. identical cut. The same position. The same bird. Home is indicated by the clues. This killer is the subject of a thriller written by her fiancé, Ethan Cross. While she sleeps, he folds cranes. He is aware of details that only a murderer should know. Like a signature, he says, "Love you." She lies beside him every night. She checks the locks every morning. She discovers the pen in the hand of a deceased woman. Silver. engraved. The one she handed him. He claims to have lost it. She locates the pictures. victims in his life's background. months in advance. Grinning. alive. He was present. observing. Awaiting. She looks at his schedule. gym. Back off. book release.
There is a body for every date. Each alibi is a present. At three in the morning, she looks through his desk. discovers a drawer that is locked. locates a box. Nine birds of different colors. For every life. Two remain blank. Now he leaves cranes on the counter. She pretends to sleep as she unfolds and refolds them. He is aware that she is watching. He wants her to locate it. As she lies beside him, she can feel his weight causing the mattress to dip. His breath has a coffee scent to it. He whispers to her. As if it were the final thing Aria would ever hear, good night. The crime scene is the marriage. His desk contains the proof. The next victim has already been selected. All she needs to do is decide to arrest him. or turn into the last chapter.On the nightstand is the next crane. Yesterday, it wasn't there.

Bryan and I had been together for a year.

He was gentle, thoughtful. I had no reason not to trust him.

Until the night the typhoon hit.

He called. He said he, his mother, and his brother's family were outside my door, soaking wet. They just needed somewhere to stay for the night.

I walked to the door.

My hand reached for the doorknob.

That's when I saw her in the hallway mirror.

My future self.

Covered in blood. Clothes shredded.

She was screaming at me. "Don't open the door! They'll kill you!"

He killed her mother.
He killed her grandfather.
He went free.
If there's one thing twenty-five-year-old Lauren Burns knows, it's that she hates Aaron Spencer's guts.
The man was lower than a worm in her eyes and she didn't want to change her mind about him. She wanted to keep on despising the man who took her mom away from her.

That was until she met him.
Twenty years after the murders, both Aaron and Lauren now adults in their own lives, she comes face to face with Aaron Spencer, forcing him to face his past.
Lauren was disgusted.
Not from remembering the events that happened twenty years ago, but from realizing that Aaron Spencer was becoming a problem.
The kind of problem that filled her mind and her dreams and made her body hot at the mere thought of his hands on her.

But, despite that, Lauren was determined to keep her time in Woodfair short and quickly leave. But that was before things took a turn. The last thing she'd expected was that she'd get attacked at midnight, that she'd get kidnapped and threatened, but even more than nearly dying, Lauren did Not expect to finally end up in Aaron Spencer's bed.

-A deep tale full of mystery, secrets and desire.