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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...

Behind closed doors, forbidden desires come alive, secrets unravel, and temptation becomes impossible to resist. From dangerous attractions to st*amy encounters and sinful fantasies, each story explores the irresistible pull between passion and pleasure.

In a world where desire has no rules and every touch carries a secret, one thing is certain: some pleasures are too tempting to resist, and som...

Would you keep a secret that could destroy your happy marriage hidden until you die, or choose peace of mind and risk losing the home you have always cherished?
Sonia Elliott has everything a woman could wish for: a loving husband, two wonderful children, and a comfortable life in Charlotte, North Carolina. Her husband, Andrew, is devoted to his family, working hard overseas to give them a future ...

Elowen Ashford was the best assassin of the future. Then lightning struck, and she woke up inside a book, in the body of a poor girl nobody loved.
Her mother is clueless. Her half-sister hates her. Her stepsister Isolde stole her fiancé because of a dream, and now Elowen has to marry Isolde's groom instead: Commander Lucian Marsh. He is poor, people say he won't live long, and he can't have childr...

My boyfriend, Jasper Lennox, swore he'd make Tallulah Rowley pay for humiliating me.
His plan: build her up, then tear her down. Give her my VP title, a sports car, a condo—so the fall would hurt more. "Be patient, babe. It's all part of the game."
So I was patient. Even when Tallulah whispered that my five-year-old sister, Marnie, was secretly my illegitimate kid, and Jasper stopped asking about ...

I found an earring wedged in the passenger seat of my professor husband's car.
It was the kind his favorite student always wore.
He glanced at it and explained, "It was snowing today, so I dropped two of my students off on the way. One of them must have lost it."
I put the earring away and smiled at him. "It's fine. You don't have to explain."
I knew all the students he meant. The only one who lik...

The day we submitted our college applications, Chloe cried a little, and that was all it took. My two childhood best friends were ready to throw away their shot at the Ivy League and follow her to a community college.

Nothing I said got through to them, so I went behind their backs and called their parents.

Their parents rushed over that same night and made them switch their applications back, w...

The summer I turned eighteen, Ethan took my virginity.

It hurt, but I lay awake all night, secretly happy. I thought my six-year crush had finally paid off.

Until the next day, when I stood outside the hockey team's locker room and heard the guys inside whooping.

"Damn, Captain, you finally slept with Ava."

I froze. I was about to slip away quietly when Ethan's careless voice drifted out:

"I ...

When I was kidnapped, Eric was on a yacht watching the sunrise with his new girl. He casually told the kidnappers to go ahead and kill me.
To stay alive, I took off my own clothes and wrapped my arms around the waist of the Mafia's new boss.
Later, Eric finally came after me like a madman, desperate to save me.
But the young don only laughed softly and looked down at me, asleep in his arms. "She's...

Three days after I lost our pup, my mate finally reached out through the mind-link.

He sounded pleased with himself.

"Three days without a scene. Guess you finally figured out pack rules apply to you too. I'll have your Starfall token sent over. And quit making a war out of everything Brielle does."

I didn't answer right away. I was looking at the blood still dried on my thighs.

He must have t...

My boyfriend of three years, Blake, had promised to propose at my twentieth birthday party.

But that night, he walked right past me with the ring and got down on one knee in front of my stepsister, Chelsea.

The whole room clapped. I just stood there, frozen, in the white dress I'd picked out for my engagement.

Everyone was just waiting to watch me fall apart.

Then Grayson, heir to the Hale fam...

In the game, I was the girl everyone wanted dead.

I woke inside Cities of Ash as Mara Arkwright—the sickly sister players blamed for ruining their favorite character’s life. My body couldn’t survive the radiation outside. Keeping me alive was bleeding my brother’s shelter dry. And I remembered exactly how my story ended: abandoned in the wasteland, eaten by a monster.

I had no intention of follo...

Two years ago, a car crash took my sight. The day it finally came back, I couldn't wait to share the news with my husband, Grant.

But outside the door, I overheard Grant talking with his assistant, Owen.

"Mr. Holloway, Mrs. Holloway has been blind for two years. Just so you could be with your first love, you had Mr. Callahan wear your cologne and copy your voice, and lie beside her every night.....

When the people who wanted revenge finally came after us, my husband, who loved me more than anything, threw himself in front of me to protect me.
He was stabbed eighteen times and died right there.
I didn't call the police. Instead, I cleaned up every trace the killer had left behind.
Later, my mother-in-law grabbed my hands and cried, "You were there when my son died. Please, tell everyone who k...

The night before our church wedding, a car ran me down. I slept for two years.
The day I woke up, I heard my husband was getting married again.
Outside my hospital room, his best friend asked, "Celina's awake. Are you really still doing this? You're marrying the woman who almost killed her. What happens when she finds out?"
Joren didn't even lower his voice.
"Romina never meant it. She's spent the...

My due date was any day now.

My husband, Ethan, had promised to stay home with me tonight. Then, out of nowhere, he grabbed his car keys.

"I'm going over to Vanessa's tonight to watch her kid. She has to work late."

I stared at him, stunned.

"I could go into labor any minute. There's no one else here. You're going to leave me alone to go to your ex-girlfriend's?"

He glanced at my belly, clear...

On yearbook photo day during senior year, I instinctively took my usual place beside Luke Ward.
A classmate spotted us and immediately started teasing.
"Come on, everyone, make room! Let the lovebirds stand together!"
I'd heard jokes like that more times than I could count, but they still made my cheeks burn.
I had a secret crush on Luke, and every time someone called us a couple, I couldn't help ...

My wife loved watching me get jealous.

She said the more it bothered me when another man got close to her, the more it proved I loved her.

So every year on our anniversary, she let her best friend, Julian Hale, take my place as man of the house for a few days. Then she and her friends placed bets on how long I would last.

The first year, Julian wore one of my custom suits without asking and pos...

I spent eight years loving a man who couldn't recognize my face, only to realize his "face blindness" magically cured itself for his intern.
"Name three features of your bride," my bridesmaids teased at the altar.
Arthur didn't hesitate. "She has dimples... and a crescent scar near her temple."
Laughter filled the chapel, but I stood frozen in my wedding gown. I have no dimples. I have no scar. B...

At the stroke of midnight on my birthday, I stared at the gift Jasper had sent me, completely paralyzed.
A lace thong soiled with bodily fluids, and a hotel bedsheet with traces of blood.
I flipped the table right there. 
But when I looked up, Jasper was just staring at the mess with a helpless, amused smirk. 
"The little girl is throwing a tantrum. Don't mind it. Our wedding is in three days. Don...

"My family's company went bankrupt, and my father was critically ill.

I dropped out of school and worked multiple jobs every day.

Debt collectors beat me and broke my ribs, but I couldn't afford painkillers.

Every penny I earned went to expensive medicine, all to save my father.

Until I saw my father, who should have been bedridden on oxygen, holding a champagne glass at a hotel banquet hall.
...

I was nine months pregnant when a sudden, agonizing cramp twisted through my abdomen.
But my husband, Nathaniel Voss, the Don of the Voss mafia family, had ordered his men to lock me inside the estate's underground holding cell.
All because he wanted to make sure I wouldn't give birth before another woman.
That woman was Isabella, the widow of his late brother.
And she was due to deliver her baby ...

The hurricane made landfall in New York just as I got off work.
I was standing outside the office with a coworker, waiting for a ride, while my boyfriend's texts came in one after another.
"It's pouring. Don't forget your umbrella."
"Don't cut through the parking garage on the way home. The water's freezing and the floor's slippery."
"Take a hot shower when you get in, and make yourself some tea. ...

The agony of flesh being torn apart still burned in my memory.
But I had been reborn.
I tremblingly touched the face in the mirror. Whole, unmarked. Was this real?
Just moments ago I had been struggling on death's edge, and now I stood in an 18-year-old body. Everything felt too surreal.
The entire pack still thought I was that naive Seraphina, forever living in the shadow of my pureblood sister Z...

At two in the morning, I went out in the pouring rain to bring Victor the condoms he'd asked for.
He leaned against the doorframe of his penthouse and took the paper bag, letting his callused thumb brush across my knuckles. Then, with a soft laugh, he informed me that I had a blind date next Wednesday.
"Serena's coming back to New York. She can't find out you've been sleeping with me for five year...

My husband loves watching me get jealous.

He says the more it bothers me when his best friend gets close to him, the more I must love him.

So every year on our anniversary, he lets his childhood friend, Summer Kessler, play "Mrs. Holloway" for a few days, and his friends bet on how long I'll last.

The first year, Summer wore my pajamas and curled up against his chest for a photo. I made her tak...

Stella’s car knocked me off my bicycle and sent me sprawling on the ground.
When Ethan hurried over, his first love let out a long breath of relief. “Darling, you’re here. His assistant can work out the compensation with you.”
The man took off his made-to-measure suit jacket and wrapped it around her, but his gaze had landed on my injured leg, and stayed there.
“You two know each other?” she asked...

For five years, I was the one who held Dane Carrow together.

When silver got into his blood, his first love, Linnea, pulled it into her own veins and died in his place. I was the one who stayed after. Through the nightmares. Through the full moons when his wolf clawed at him from the inside. Through five years of "Not yet, Tamsin. When my wolf is steady, I'll mark you."

Then Linnea's sister show...

For six years, I was Ethan Ashford’s wife. Nobody knew.

At the office, I was just his assistant. At home, our son wasn’t allowed to call him Dad.

On Owen’s sixth birthday, Ethan promised to come home. Instead, he spent the night at a candlelit dinner with another woman. At two in the morning, he signed the divorce papers I handed him without reading a single line.

The next day, he introduced us...

Ask anyone in Westbrook who the richest man in town was, and the first name out of their mouth would be Graham Thorne.

Hardly anyone knew he'd been married for years. Or that his wife was me.

For five years, every time he went off to see his first love, Vivian Hale, another priceless necklace showed up in my jewelry case.

By the time the ninety-ninth one went in, he finally sensed something was...

When I was diagnosed with leukemia, the first thing I felt was relief.

I wasn't really their kid anyway. If I died, I wouldn't owe anybody anything.

When I was six, my little sister Sloane and I fought over a limited-edition doll. Mom dragged me into a corner and said it slowly, making sure I didn't miss a word.

"You're not our real daughter. Everything you have in this house is a handout from ...

For six years, I was the secret wife of Logan, the coldest billionaire in New York.

He never acknowledged me in public, and he treated our five-year-old daughter, Mia, like she was invisible.

I thought he was just carrying old wounds.

Until his first love, Serena, came back to New York with her son.

Suddenly Logan had all the time and love in the world. But only for Serena and her son.

When M...

"Are you really going to mark Lyra?" his Beta asked.

Alpha Cole laughed. "I have to. The Alpha King wants an excuse to wipe us out. Marking his precious daughter buys us immunity."

"What if she finds out Thea is carrying your pup?"

"Lyra?" Cole sneered. "She's pathetic. She's so obsessed with me, she'll swallow her pride and share my bed just to keep the Luna title. She'll protect Thea just to ...

"You're pathetic." My husband Julian Julian glared at me.
"I thought marrying into the Moretti family would at least bring me some leverage, but you? You're completely useless. Unlike you, your sister has just been named the sole heir."
With a sharp jerk, he ripped our wedding ring from my finger and smashed it against the floor.
"I should have picked her from the start. Marrying you was the bigge...

Jaxson Rourke, head of the Rourke family, had one unbreakable rule: at 9:00 PM every night, he stopped taking calls.

Even in the early days of our relationship, his 9 PM blackout was absolute.

I only broke that rule once. Followed by a rival crew late one night, I called him in a panic.

His voice was ice-cold. "Handle it yourself, Soraya. You know my hours."

I spent the entire night alone at t...

My husband, Dante, is the most feared Mafia don on the East Coast.

On our wedding day, a car bomb nearly killed him.

He survived. But the doctors told me the trauma had split him in two. He'd developed a second personality.

That other personality called himself Dario. He was false and cruel, his heart full of nothing but his first love, Bianca, and he treated me like an old piece of furniture g...

I’m the lowest of the low in the palace beneath the sea: a half-blood maid who cleans the mermaid prince’s chambers.
Then his Blood Tide hit, and the prince I’d quietly loved for five years lost control.
He doesn’t remember that night. He doesn’t remember me.
But I’m pregnant with his child.
When I finally work up the courage to tell him, he’s polishing his trident and swearing to find whoever “se...

The night my wolf was supposed to wake up, my family chained me to a chair in front of the pack seer.

Bianca, the golden girl they adopted, had been missing for five days. They were sure I'd done something to her.

"Open her mind," my father ordered. "Show me what she did."

Fine. Let them watch.

Let them watch who spiked my drink the day I came home. Who took the credit for the night I spent ke...

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'm mute, and I got pulled into a horror game where the only way I can talk to the boss is sign language.
He swore up and down that he could read ASL. Go ahead, he said. Say whatever you want.
I told him I needed to look for clues. He asked if I wanted to touch his abs.
I told him I needed to leave. He grabbed a fistful of my shirt and rolled me up in his blankets.
After he'd misread my signing fo...

I donated a kidney to my adopted sister.

Seven days later, I lay on the cold hospital bed, listening to my fiancé and family laughing down the hall.

They were popping champagne to celebrate my adopted sister's discharge.

No one remembered I had just had surgery. No one remembered my nut allergy.

When someone handed me a plate of almonds, I smiled.

I shoved them into my mouth, handful after ha...

Dante finally noticed that I'd stopped telling him things.

When I bought a new dress for the Autumn Gala, I didn't send him pictures and ask which one he liked. When the Moretti family held its annual Winter Gala, I attended alone as Mrs. Moretti. And when the doctors said the bullet fragments lodged beneath my shoulder blade had to come out, I scheduled the surgery by myself.

No call. No text. ...

I was promised to Dominic Kane before I was even born.

He's the most wanted heir in Westbridge, and the whole city knows one thing about him: he can't stand an ugly face. Anyone who doesn't meet his standards gets dragged out of his sight before they ever get within arm's reach.

I didn't want this kind of marriage. So I had my father send the Kanes a photo of a plain girl covered in acne. And fo...

"Drink it," my husband, the Sovereign, commanded coldly.
He forced the bitter abortifacient down my throat, convinced I was carrying another man's bastard.
For three years, I endured brutal torture in a border camp, believing I was sacrificing myself to save his kingdom.
I didn't know it was all a lie—a punishment he designed just to appease his mistress.
I know I wasn't even pregnant because ...

On Family Day at his private school, the teacher asked the children to give each member of their family a score.

On his card, my son, Leo, wrote:

"Dad, 100. Aunt Bianca, 100."

"Mom, 0. I hate her."

For three years I had fought my ex-husband, Damon, in court with everything I had. I gave up every cent of alimony just to win custody away from him.

But now, looking at that card, I was suddenly, ...

All because I pointed out a mistake in an intern's proposal during a meeting—a mistake that could have cost the company over a million dollars—she felt humiliated and ran crying to my fiancé, the CEO, threatening to quit.

Without even hearing my side, Callum stormed into my office.

"Couldn't you have told her privately? Briar's young and sensitive. Did you really have to embarrass her in front o...

Arthur used a glitch in the particle collider's data to make a temporal jump.
He was going back to the past to win back his first love.
I secretly went back with him.
And then I watched with my own eyes as the man I'd personally trained into the perfect lover held his first love's hand and confessed with all his heart:
"I didn't know how to love before. Now I've finally learned."

My phone screen lit up the dark nursery.

It was Lily's fifth birthday. I lay next to my sleeping daughter and stared at Chloe Harrington's latest Instagram post.

The caption read:

[Bedtime is so hard without a dad. Thank God he dropped everything to be here tonight.]

The photo showed a man lying on a bed, reading a story to Chloe's son. That man was my husband, Arthur Sterling.

I swiped dow...

I loved Kael Duskmane for fifteen years. I was his stepsister, quiet and loyal, always waiting for him to see me.
He never did. And in my first life, that love cost me everything.
Now I’ve been given a second chance, on the very day he asks me to give up my white wolf to save his fated mate.
I don’t argue. I don’t beg. I say yes, on one condition: when it’s done, I leave Duskfall Pack for good.
He...

When my husband admitted he'd fallen for Ophelia—the girl my parents raised in my place—I divorced him and went home to the woman who raised me.
Darius tried everything to win me back. I said no every time.
Then Mom's heart gave out. The ambulance pulled up to our door, and Darius stepped in front of it.
"Bronwyn, I know you can't stand Ophelia. I'll put her on a plane tonight. Just come home, and...