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I was getting married. Damon, the boyfriend I’d lived with for eight years, didn’t know yet.
He’d just hired a young, pretty assistant named Fiona, and the two of them were inseparable.
For Fiona’s birthday, Damon ordered an enormous five-tier cake for the office.
At the party, everyone smeared cake everywhere. Some of it ended up on my face.
Damon had completely forgotten that I have a severe dai...

Enzo Falcone wasn't just the ruthless heir to the city's most dangerous mafia family. To me, he was the man I had secretly loved for eight years.

On my twentieth birthday, he finally took me to his bed. I thought I'd finally won his heart.

But thirty minutes later, standing outside his private VIP lounge, I heard his underboss laughing.

"Boss, you seriously took Serena's virginity just to win a...

My fated mate married my sister in my wedding dress. Before the party was over, I walked past him in another man’s.
Three times we planned our wedding. Three times, Theron chose Coralie. This year a seer said she’d die unless she married him today, so my family gave her my place and locked me upstairs. Then they ignored my screams when his friends forced their way into my room.
They all laughed of...

At the charity gala, one of Lucien’s men, eager to curry favor, led in ninety-nine women. Every one of them looked a little like me—the eyes, the hair, even the figure.
“Mrs. Sterling’s health is delicate, and she can’t carry a child. These girls are all built for babies. Let them have yours, and Mrs. Sterling can raise them.”
Lucien pulled me against his side and spoke to the whole room, in a voi...

I stared at my reflection in the wedding dress, suffocatingly happy.
Kyle approached without a sound.
His chest was warm against my spine, his arms looping around my waist. His fingers idly mapped the line of my collarbone. His breath heated my ear, drawing a shiver from my body.
Face burning, I met his eyes in the glass. "Do you like it?" I asked softly.
He pressed a kiss to my earlobe. And with ...

At my best friend's wedding, the bridal bouquet bounced off a bridesmaid's fingertips and landed squarely in my arms.
The entire ballroom erupted.
Every eye in the room turned to Russell.
Everyone knew we’d been together for eight years, and the crowd wasted no time chanting:
"Propose! Propose!"
"Put a ring on it, Russell! She caught the flowers!"
The crowd shoved him forward until he was standing...

I'm Piper Moran, a broke romance novelist with one humiliating problem: I write sex scenes for a living and I've never actually had sex.

My readers noticed. My royalties tanked. My rent is three weeks overdue. According to my best friend Roni, there's only one cure—find a willing, gorgeous guinea pig and have a one night stand.

Enter Declan. My brand-new neighbor across the hall. Six-foot-thre...

Her weight had always been a target for cruel minds. For years, she poured her soul into becoming an elite surgeon, proving her worth with a scalpel until her brilliant hands commanded the respect her body was denied.
Then a prominent man bled out on her operating table.
Overnight, her career shattered. Branded a murderer and hounded by a bloodthirsty public, she was cornered in an alley, brutally...

Poppy Wren has three rules for running a matchmaking shop: trust your instincts, keep enchanted objects in sight, and never fall in love with a customer.

With Aunt Marigold away, Poppy has one month to prove she can run Wren & Whimsy. Then an experiment awakens a matchmaking register, pairing her with a name that should never appear beside hers.

Hers.

And Adrian Vale’s.

Handsome, wealthy, and ...

On my wedding day, my fiancé, Jace Mancini, had his men lock me outside the church gates.

Through the iron bars, I watched him walk his pregnant mistress down the aisle in my place.

He just shrugged at me. "Gianna's carrying a Ferraro heir, Nina. I need that alliance. Give me a year, then I'll divorce her and you'll be my girl again."

Everyone was sure I'd wait for him. I always had.

For eight...

The day my seven-year-old son stopped calling his father "Dad" and started calling him "Mr. Hawthorne," my husband still had no idea he'd already lost his family.
For years, I'd stood by Rafe Hawthorne, the billionaire CEO I'd sacrificed my career and dreams for. I thought our marriage meant something. I thought our son meant everything to him.
Then his first love, Marigold, came back with a littl...

Before summer break, we'd already planned a beach trip to Nantucket.

A few days before we left, Chase, my boyfriend of two years, said he wanted to hit the water park outside town first, kind of like a warm-up for the beach.

I even bought a new swimsuit for it, thinking it'd be a day for just the two of us.

Then I got to the gate, and my best friend Skylar was standing there in a bikini that wa...

After five years deployed overseas, Silas came home to Long Island with a woman and a little girl.

He said they were the widow and orphan of a fallen brother-in-arms, and it was his duty to take care of them.

The little girl was draped over his broad shoulder, calling him "Daddy" in a soft, sleepy voice.

And my own daughter hid behind my legs, peeking shyly up at this stranger, and said: "Sir."...

To get out of an engagement my family had set up years ago, I sent the Carringtons a doctored photo of myself, my face covered in freckles and my skin dull and sallow.

The Carringtons were the richest family in New York, and everyone knew their only heir, Damian Carrington, was picky to the point of obsession.

If he didn't like the way you looked, you weren't getting within ten feet of him.

So ...

On the day my fiancé, Nicholas, was supposed to marry me, he married his childhood sweetheart instead.

Vanessa was pregnant with another man's child. Without a husband's name to shield her, she would be cast out of the Russo family's protection.

"It's only until the baby is born," he told me. "It's a signature on paper. I won't even put a ring on her. You've waited seven years, Isabel. Can't y...

I'm the Alpha's fated mate. I'm also the woman he uses to give his Luna the babies she can't have.

Three years ago, he took my newborn son from the healer and handed him straight to her. I begged until the healers had to hold me down.

This week, I gave birth to his daughter. They carried her out before I even saw her face.

My son calls her "Mommy" now. I'm not allowed anywhere near either of my...

At our twelfth attempt at a wedding, Elias was late again.
To keep the guests calm, I had to walk around with a glass of champagne, explaining to each of them one by one like an idiot.
That was when I got a text from Chloe, one of the researchers in his lab:
Stop waiting. He's not coming. He's still in the lab with me.
And here's a little secret while I'm at it: the only reason he proposed to you ...

Eight years married, and Draven still left video calls open all night on business trips just to hear me breathe.

Friends called it devotion. Only the two of us knew what it was.

The night before our wedding, I walked in on him tangled naked in bed with a girl.

Since then he's owed me — and he paid, in grand gestures and in a love that landed ten times heavier than it needed to.

Last week, I fo...

In this house, my son isn't allowed to call his father "Papa."

Vincenzo Marchesi is a mafia Don. He doesn't do fatherhood. He didn't even look at Leo the day he was born, simply because he never wanted us. He forces the boy to exclusively call him "Sir."

But tonight, Vincenzo broke his own rules. He stumbled through the door, chuckled, and scooped Leo into the air. "Mama, look!" Leo gasped, his ...

Seven minutes before the beast-mark registration system closed, I received a video message.
The sender was me.
Only she looked fifteen years older.
"Talia, Kellan secretly changed your training academy application to Ironfang Camp. He and Briar have been together for a long time. He only did it because she didn't want you hanging around him anymore."
My future self looked straight into the camera,...

One careless moment, and I got transmigrated into a tearjerker novel.
The System said that once the heartbreak meter was full, I could go back to my own world.
I nodded thoughtfully.
Nathan Sterling was about to ask for the emerald bracelet my mother left me, so he could lend it to his childhood sweetheart to show off in. I spoke first.
"Lucas came over today and accidentally broke the wishing jar...

In my fourth year as Alexander Sullivan's canary, he got bored of me and ended it.
I was ready to beg him to stay—tears, screaming, threats, the whole act. Like I had a hundred times before. Perform the devotion. Keep him happy.
But the comments drifting across my vision said that this time, Alexander meant it.
He'd fallen for someone else. This really was the last time we'd ever see each other.
I...

I fell in love with my father’s friend, a man exactly twelve years older than me.
I was fourteen the first time I saw him. He was waiting at arrivals at JFK in a dark suit, broad in the shoulders and narrow at the waist, the most striking person in the whole crowd.
He smiled, ruffled my hair, and handed me a beautiful white dress. “Welcome to New York, little princess.”
The year I turned twenty, s...

For three years, I loved a man who never let me all the way into his world. I knew the Cavalieri name carried weight in Chicago. I knew there were calls I wasn’t allowed to hear and dinners I was never invited to. I didn’t know how dangerous that world really was.
I thought the night he knelt with a ring would be our beginning.
He was supposed to say my name.
Instead, he said hers.
Serafina.
Right...

Darius Blackthorn, my mate and the Alpha of the Silverpine Pack, had told me more than once that I was too domineering.
My parents thought I wasn't understanding enough. Even my own daughter, Lyra, had openly admitted that she liked Selene Vey more than me.
If everyone believed Selene deserved everything I had more than I did, then I would give her everything during the final three days of my life...

I was Richard's sidekick.
When he skipped class to race cars, I covered for him.
When he chased a bankrupt heiress, I delivered his love letter.
After graduation, the heiress went to Oxford, and I followed him all the way to Harvard.
In a foreign country, I made my move and had him, every last bit of him.
Until the heiress came over for grad school too.
When Richard stayed out all night for her ag...

No one is destined to become a king from the very beginning, and Moira Carvaine is no exception.

At first, she was nothing more than a pawn abandoned by her kingdom. With the King threatening the life of her sister Seraphina, she was forced to travel thousands of miles north, marry Soren Valha, the Alpha of the Frostmoon Pack, and wait for an opportunity to take his life.

However, Soren's ruthle...

Six years. One breeding contract. One Alpha who believed his human Luna married him for money. He paraded his assistant in front of her at every gala. He locked her in the darkness she feared most. He forced the antidote down her throat — never knowing she was carrying his child. On the last day of the sixth year, she walked out with nothing but a yellowed page and a miscarriage report. By the tim...

I spent six years loving my guardian. He spent six months making sure I'd stop.
Then the scans came back, and I had two days to leave New York before his wedding — and one green folder to hand over: the deeds, the pier, the letter I wrote in case I never woke up.
He canceled the wedding. He followed me to Zurich. He sat outside my surgery for eleven hours.
But the tumor is taking names now. And th...

For twenty-two years, Natalie Bennett was the twin everyone forgot to look at. Then she took a job three thousand miles away — and became the one person her family could not afford to ignore.

Everyone expected Serena to spend her life debt on the marking ceremony. She asked the Alpha to release her instead—and he tore up the only form that could have saved their son.

Her boyfriend of three years lost her in a poker game — then posted her old photo to the dark web so the whole underworld could laugh at the "gift" the Rossi family had sent the Don. Tomorrow night she's expected to show up as the prize. She does. Fifty thousand dollars of her own money says she's on time. And no one in that room recognizes the woman who walks in. Not yet.

My father and brother had always favored my half-sister, Maren. Sometimes, I felt they hated me simply for being born.
At a Moon Festival, Maren and her friends shoved me into a freezing ceremonial pool and held me underwater.
I would have drowned if Viktor, Alpha of the RedEmber Pack, hadn't rescued me.
He wrapped me in his cloak and declared that I was under his protection.
He built me a castle,...

Three times, he postponed our wedding for her.
For five years, I worked for Ethan Hale without a salary, loved him without a complaint, and never once told him who I really was.
On our fifth anniversary, the chapel was finally booked. Then I walked into the airport and saw him checking in his childhood friend, Chloe, on my ticket to our wedding.
“It’s just one trip,” he said. “The wedding isn’t go...

After Gideon Ashford pushed me off the cliff, my lost System finally reconnected.
It told me my mission had failed.
Every bond between us would be permanently erased.
From now on, every time Gideon broke my heart, I would lose a piece of my most cherished memories.

I thought about it for a moment, then looked up. 
"If I forget everything, does that mean we are completely over?"
"Yes," the System ...

My husband, Zachary, chose to save his sister-in-law right in front of the kidnappers.

The kidnapper pressed the gun to my temple and asked, "Choose your wife or your sister-in-law?"

Zachary didn't hesitate. "Let Valerie go," he said.

He actually chose to save his sister-in-law! In that moment, even the baby in my belly seemed to stop kicking.

Later, they locked me in the basement. Drugs to de...

“Reject you? Oh, little Omega, that would be too merciful. You’re mine now, and I’ll make sure you regret every second of it.”

All her life, Zivelle Roswyn has been treated like a worthless mistake. Born without a wolf and raised as a servant, she believes earning a scholarship to Eclipsia Royal Academy will finally give her a chance at freedom.

But her dreams shatter when the Moon Goddess decla...

He rejected her in front of millions now he can't catch her.

Lila Quinn was born into a pack where racing determines status, power and worth. Unfortunately, she was born without the one thing she needed most... a wolf.

For years, she endured humiliation while her younger brother became a rising star and Alpha Jaxen Dray rose to the top.

Then the impossible happened.

Jaxen became her mate but i...

"I, Fiona Moonwhisper, reject you, Alpha Logan Silverwolf, as my mate."
The whole pack falls silent. In my last life, he said those words to me first, while they laughed at my body.
Months later, my best friend smiled as she poured poison down my throat and confessed that every sweet she ever gave me was poisoned.
Then the Moon Goddess sent me back one year.
My father is alive. My wolf is waking. ...

Bella Kim travels to the city with one dream: surprise her long-distance boyfriend, Asher Forest, with the news that she’s earned a full-term scholarship to play hockey alongside him.
Instead, she catches him cheating with a figure skater.
Heartbroken and humiliated, Bella impulsively kisses Tyler Brooks, the arrogant captain of her new team.
Five minutes later, their kiss is all over the internet...

Serena Caldwell gave her husband everything. Her loyalty, her heart and her dignity. His reward? Another woman in her home. Another baby in his arms. That night, she met a man who offered her revenge instead.

Damian Ortiz was rich, ruthless and irresistible. He wanted her as his fake lover and she wanted him as her weapon but when hearts get involved, revenge becomes dangerous.

Her ex-husband...

I clutched the pregnancy test results in my hand, standing in the shadows of the hallway.
I wanted to tell my husband that we were finally having another baby.
Instead, I overheard him complaining about my "suffocating" love, promising his mistress that he would get rid of me soon.
So, I threw the test in the trash, packed my bags, and decided he would never know about the child he just lost.

Halfway through the family's celebration dinner, the big screen started looping a video nobody was meant to see.

A man and a woman half undressed on the bed. She kept her face turned from the camera.

He didn't — it was Kai Voss, the Don's most trusted capo, caught clean on film.

The ballroom went silent. At the head table, the Don's face turned to stone.

Her face stayed turned away the whole t...

On our fifth wedding anniversary, I kicked open the door of the VIP suite to catch my husband in the act.

Vincent Castellano, the Don of our mafia family, was lounging on the sofa with a new girl, lazily lighting a cigar.

"You're five years older than me, Victoria," he said, blowing smoke toward the ceiling. "You should know when a man is done with you. Aren't you tired of playing the warden?"

...

Mari Reyes has spent three years looking for her little sister. Then a biker bleeds out on her ER table with a bullet that isn't made of lead, and he asks about her sister's jacket like he knows it. Declan "Rook" Voss is the Iron Fang MC's Enforcer, and he's hiding two secrets. He turns into a monster every full moon, and he's been keeping quiet about what happened to Josie. Now the club's rivals ...

What would you do if your name suddenly appeared on an app you never installed — and the girl who was supposed to hunt you was already dead?

Nerissa Ivy has never heard of The Hunt until a student is found murdered outside her dorm, with “Maya Bennett” written in blood on her door.

Then a strange app appears on Nerissa's phone. Maya's name is there, and so is Nerissa's.

Apparently, Maya had bee...

For eighteen years, no one had my trust the way Adrian Walker did.

Then, on the very night meant to honor my future, he pressed another woman"s hotel key into my hand and asked me to guard her reputation.

I offered him one last chance: meet me at the airport and pick the trip we had promised each other. Instead, he lied about a car accident, and I watched him wind a matching scarf around Sienna ...

She was sent to poison him. He’s been immune to poison since he was nine.

Serafina Corvino grows things for a living, mostly the kind that heal and sometimes the kind that kill. When the war between her family and Dublin’s most feared crime family ends at the cost of her hand in marriage, she finds a vial on her pillow and a photo of her little brother, along with a note.

Before the year ends, t...

Bailey Brooke never expected her scholarship to Night Stone College to change her life. As a human surrounded by powerful werewolves, her only goal is to stay invisible.

But everything changes when she catches the attention of four dangerous Alpha brothers—Brian, Ray, Aaron, and Lysander Night.

They are feared, desired, and powerful enough to make every girl at college fall at their feet. Yet Ba...

Ten years after the apocalypse began, I died torn apart by Fiends.

Then I woke up five days before the Demon Seeds fell from the Emerald Star.

This time, I know what's coming. I know who will turn, who will betray me, and which monsters hide behind human faces. With only five days to prepare, I liquidate my assets, stockpile supplies, and turn my sanctuary in the San Juan Islands into a fortress...