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Devoted and hopeful in a three-year loveless marriage, Selina believed she would finally secure her husband Zane Kaius’s affection — or at least his attention — the moment she revealed her pregnancy to him. But everything shattered in a single night when Zane told her she was unfit to have a family with him. Only then did she realize she had been nothing more than a pawn all along — while he continued choosing another woman over her. A rebuffed wife with no identity. Betrayed and heartbroken, Selina decided to keep her little secret from Zane. She was determined to protect and raise her child alone, while reclaiming the life she had slowly lost. She wanted a divorce. Yet the same man who once rejected her now clings to her, unwilling to let her go at any cost. This time, however, Selina is no longer the woman who allows herself to be trampled on.

Emily Carter never expected her life to change the night she signed a contract marriage with the ruthless billionaire Adrian Knight. To Adrian, the marriage is nothing more than a business deal. To Emily, it is a chance to survive in a world she barely understands. But as their fake marriage continues, strange secrets begin to surface. A mysterious child appears. A forgotten night from five years ago returns to haunt them. And Emily starts to realize that Adrian might not have chosen her by accident. Because the truth is far more dangerous than she imagined. Emily Carter is not just an ordinary woman. She may be the lost heir of a powerful family that someone tried very hard to erase from history. And the moment the truth comes out… everyone will become her enemy.

the fractured kingdom of Eldrath, where humans forge uneasy alliances with elves against endless hordes of orcs, ogres, and werewolves, Derk stands as a living legend of war. Towering and battle-scarred, wielding the colossal spear-sword Bonebreaker, he carves through monsters with unrelenting fury. Yet beneath the rage lies a single tether to humanity: Layla, the silver-haired half-elf healer whose gentle touch and quiet strength are the only things that keep his demons at bay. Together with his lifelong comrade Varg—charismatic, golden-haired, and rising swiftly toward the rank of general—the trio forms an unbreakable force. Varg’s tactical brilliance and easy charm have earned him the loyalty of soldiers and the admiration of allies alike. On the blood-soaked battlefields of Thornhold Gate and beyond, they fight side by side, turning the tide against King Gorvath’s savage legions who kidnap and defile human women as trophies of conquest. But the full moon brings more than monsters. Ancient curses stir in the shadows, and whispers from forgotten powers begin to twist even the strongest bonds. As victories pile higher and the war grows ever more brutal, cracks appear in what once seemed unbreakable trust. Derk’s world is built on blood and loyalty—yet when the night of betrayal arrives, it shatters everything he thought he knew. A dark fantasy epic of visceral combat, graphic savagery, forbidden desires, and heartbreaking loss. For readers who crave the raw intensity of Berserk, laced with tragic romance and shocking turns that leave no one unscathed.

Sold to the father. Fated to the sons. Desired by all three. Amaris Storme was sent as an arranged mate, a peace offering to a cold, grieving Alpha who refuses to touch her. But the moment she steps into his territory, everything goes wrong. Because the bond doesn’t choose him. It chooses his heirs. One twin wants her out of spite. One twin wants her but cannot claim her. The father wants nothing, until he wants everything. Father and sons are driven onto opposite sides, each pulled toward the same woman they should not want. Old wounds reopen and the pack begins to split from the inside out with Amaris at the center of the storm. She was never meant to belong to them all. Now none of them are willing to let her go. Three Alpha wolves. One forbidden bond.

Being fated to three Alphas should have made her the most blessed she-wolf in the packs. Instead, it made her their game. One toyed with her life. One pretended to love her. One tried to control her power. But when betrayal shatters her heart, she leaves them all behind. Except... one Alpha refuses to let her escape. Because to him, she was never a pawn. She was always his mate. The mate he had waited...hundreds of years for. Valerie Jude was once the beloved daughter of the pack’s greatest warrior, until her father was executed for a crime he swore he never committed. Branded as a traitor’s daughter, she was stripped of her status and forced into slavery within the very pack her father once protected. For eight years, Valerie lived in silence, enduring humiliation, beatings, and hunger in the shadows of the pack house. Stripped of dignity, forced to survive as a slave, she learned one rule: .....endure, or die. Even her wolf became a secret she could never reveal. Because the truth behind her father’s death was more dangerous than she ever imagined. Days before the future alpha’s ascension, Valerie stumbles upon a conversation she was never meant to hear. A sick bet. A calculated betrayal. And a truth that shatters her remaining hope. The man she trusted is not her savior, but one of her tormentors. The alpha who ruined her life… is her fated mate. To him, the sacred mate bond is not a blessing, it is a punishment. A humiliation he plans to repay with cruelty, rejection, and destruction. To the others, Valerie is nothing more than a prize to be used and discarded. But fate was never done with her. As three alphas close in on her, each with their own twisted intentions or dark desires, Valerie stands at the edge of something far more dangerous than suffering. The awakening of the wolf she was forced to silence. When the truth behind her father’s execution begins to surface, and her wolf stirs once more, the three alphas will learn too late: The girl they broke was never weak. And the mate they planned to destroy… Was never meant to kneel!!!!!

Lucid wakes up in a strange purple forest that feels like a dream. He remembers everything, but his face is hidden behind a mask and his body is covered in torn rags. Lucid knows he is not a hero. He was abandoned in a dying world and called a coward by the people he once fought beside. Now, a voice named Alice speaks from within his own mind. It is just as lost as he is and cannot remember its own past, but it is filled with a hope he lacks. Alice guides him forward, and as they journey through broken worlds, it might be the only one who can help him find the answers he needs and his only way of home

The Case 404 is a novel that tells the story of Edward and his brother Arthur, who, upon returning home, witnessed the body of their sister. This shocking event drove Edward to search for the truth, unable to accept reality after the police closed the case, ruling it as a suicide.

On a storm-soaked night, the Unezugawa District is consumed by devils born from humanity’s deepest fears. Seventeen-year-old Haruto watches helplessly as the Abandonment Devil—an entity forged from the terror of being left alone—slaughters his parents before his eyes. Yet when the monster corners him, something is wrong. Haruto does not tremble. He does not beg. He feels… nothing. His emptiness draws the attention of something far worse. In a flash of crimson, the legendary Crimson Devil appears—an ancient entity once believed to have nearly triggered the apocalypse centuries ago before being sealed by exorcists. Fascinated by the boy who cannot fear, it offers Haruto a contract: Power beyond human limits… In exchange for a precious memory each time he uses it. Haruto accepts. But there is a truth no one knows. The Crimson Devil dwelling inside him was once meant to begin the end of the world. Instead of destroying humanity, it chooses something unthinkable—it spares the brave and forms a covenant with one. To prevent future catastrophes and hunt the very devils born from mankind’s fear, Haruto joins the Exorcists—the same organization that once fought against the Crimson Devil itself. Now feared by devils… Suspected by humans… And slowly losing the memories that make him who he is… Haruto walks the thin line between salvation and annihilation. Because if the devil inside him ever changes its mind— The apocalypse will not be stopped.

Creation was born from war, and war will end it. Long ago, Light and Void clashed and left behind six Fragments of Existence — relics said to hold the power to unmake reality. Most called it myth. House Spark calls it destiny. Betrayed and chained by his own sons, Solareth Spark entrusts his last hope to the children he sired with mortal blood. Hunted, unprepared, yet bound to the fragments, they must endure trials across the cruelest realms of the cosmos. If they survive, they may rise beyond gods. If they fail, all existence will fall.

Wren Calloway has exactly two things going for her: a steady job at a diner she loves, and a dream she hasn't been able to afford yet. Then a man in a suit that costs more than her rent sits down in her section — not to order food, but to offer her a contract. One year of marriage. Five million dollars. And a credit card with no limit. Beckett Harlow doesn't want a wife. He wants his inheritance. His dying father's will is brutally simple — marry within six months or watch the billion-dollar Harlow empire pass to a cousin who'll burn it to the ground. The only woman his father will accept is the waitress who's been serving him decaf every Tuesday for three years. Beckett thinks she's a gold-digger. She thinks he's an insufferable prick. They're both wrong. They just don't know it yet. What starts as a transaction — signed, sealed, strategically airtight — cracks open the moment they're forced to actually live together. Because you can't share a kitchen at 2 a.m., carry someone inside when they've fallen asleep in the car, or hold a man's hand in the doorway of his dead brother's life without the contract becoming irrelevant. The elite world they're navigating is vicious, the opposition is relentless, and the clock is always running. But the real war isn't in the boardroom. It's in the space between two people who agreed to perform love and accidentally started feeling it. Terms and Conditions: Love Not Included is a slow-burn romance about what happens when the deal expires and neither party wants to leave — 140 chapters of tension, tenderness, and the quiet devastation of falling for someone you were never supposed to keep. The terms were simple. The feelings didn't get the memo.

At De’ Lamour — the restaurant of love — Erinen was left alone with a broken heart, and a promise to herself never to love again. For her, love is no longer a dream. It is a debt she has finished paying. Delete the pictures. Block the number. Lock the heart. Move on. Simple. But life has never been kind enough to follow her plans. Because just when she is finally done with love, something happens and she meets a man with an answer proof ego and who treats emotions like contracts and control like oxygen He does not believe in love. She does not want it. Unfortunately for both of them, fate is persistent and the heart remembers what the mind tries to forget. Troupe: Heartbreak • Healing • Slow burn • Cold male lead • Emotional growth • Contract marriage • Forced proximity • Love after betrayal • Strong female lead

[This is a tale of Immortal lord who once shook the realms] discord-https://discord.gg/gQru3w3uAj In a world where only women wield the power of Origin, men live as servants. But Jaenor, a sly soul reborn from modern Earth, learns he is the last heir of House Arkwright — a bloodline of men so feared they once made witches tremble. Now hunted for what he might become, Jaenor must use wit, charm, and ruthless ambition to climb from a farmboy to a man who could shatter the order of the world. {For pics and videos of the characters visit my x/twitter account-https://x.com/jl_lucifer/status/1995335037521453235?s=20}

What's the price of one year of your life? For Lara Whitfield, the math is simple. A hospital bill she can't pay. Twin sisters whose tuition gap financial aid won't touch. A mother fighting her way back from illness. And a dream — a catering business called Whitfield's, mapped out in a green notebook she keeps under her mattress — that waitressing wages will never reach. She's been holding her family together since she was nineteen. She knows how to survive. What she doesn't know is how to say yes to something this reckless. Then Callum Mercer walks into her diner. He's thirty-three, the CEO of Mercer Holdings, and the kind of man who has never once been late to anything — including, apparently, the moment he decides to propose a business arrangement to a woman he's never met. His father's will carries a condition: marry before his thirty-fourth birthday, or lose the inheritance. The woman named in that will — recommended, not required — is Lara. The offer is five million dollars. One year. A contract that protects them both. She has twenty-four hours to decide. She says yes. But here's what neither of them planned for. They planned for logistics. For public events and shared spaces and the careful choreography of two private people learning not to collide. They planned for performance — the practiced ease of a couple that has something to prove. They didn't plan for 6 AM coffee already made when she gets to the kitchen. They didn't plan for sticky notes multiplying on a refrigerator that's never had anything on it before. They didn't plan for the way she'd talk about her dream and he'd listen — really listen — and quietly dog-ear the page. They didn't plan for the farmer's market at dawn, or cardamom cake that tastes like a memory he'd buried, or the specific way she laughs in the kitchen — unguarded, real — that he's started protecting without meaning to. And Lara didn't plan to understand him. To see, underneath the precision and the walls, a man who learned to provide for people because he never learned to be present for them. A man who was built by a father who loved a company more than a son, and who has spent thirty years quietly, methodically, making sure he never needed anyone enough to be abandoned. She didn't plan to become the exception. The contract has one rule she can't break. Don't fall in love. He said it on day one, flat and informational, the way you'd put a warning label on something dangerous. She laughed. She meant it, at the time. There was a reason she took this deal, and the reason was practical, and she was not the kind of woman who lost herself in circumstances she walked into with open eyes. But seven months in, she writes in the back of her green notebook — the one she only ever uses for business plans — I didn't plan to love him. It happened in the Tuesday mornings. And somewhere across the penthouse, Callum is on the phone with his oldest friend, saying the only honest thing he has left: "I don't want the contract to end." One Year, Five Million, and You is a slow-burn contemporary romance about two people who chose each other for the wrong reasons and stayed for the right ones. It's about what happens when survival and love arrive at the same door. When the most controlled man in the room meets the one woman who sees him without needing anything back. When a deal meant to stay clean becomes the most real thing either of them has ever been part of. It's about holding things together and learning — finally, reluctantly, beautifully — to be held. The contract was for one year. What they built was permanent. Perfect for readers who love: Slow-burn billionaire romance · Enemies-to-lovers tension · Emotionally complex leads who earn every inch of their happy ending · Stories where love isn't a lightning bolt but a slow, quiet fire that takes everything you have to walk toward

A man, Berkan, with dark supernatural powers punishes the city’s criminals but a woman detective, haunted by a traumatic past, is hired to solve the case.

For three years, Sienna loved a man who would never choose her. Alessandro Castellano kept her tucked away in his penthouse like a secret he was ashamed of—expensive gifts, whispered promises, and late-night confessions that felt real until morning came and he went back to his fiancée. Sienna told herself it was enough. That what they had was love, even if it lived in the shadows. She was wrong. The night she overheard him confirming wedding details with Vanessa, laughing about honeymoon plans while Sienna waited for him in silk lingerie he'd bought her, something inside her finally broke. Not dramatically. Not with screaming or thrown objects. Just quietly, like a door closing on a room she'd never enter again. When Alessandro walked in and saw her packed bags, he didn't believe she'd actually leave. "You'll be back," he said, so certain of his hold on her. "You always come back." But Sienna didn't come back. Six months later, she's not the same woman who cried in his elevator. She's built a life without him—a real career, real friends, therapy sessions that taught her she deserved more than crumbs from a man's table. She's even dating Dante Moretti, the charming businessman who looks at her like she hung the moon and doesn't hide her from the world. There's just one problem. Dante is Alessandro's biggest rival, and he knows exactly who Sienna used to be. Alessandro's perfect life, meanwhile, is crumbling. His marriage to Vanessa is a cold business transaction that leaves him hollow. Every woman he looks at reminds him of Sienna. Every night feels empty. He thought he could have it all—the socialite wife his family demanded and the woman who actually made him feel alive on the side. Turns out, you can't have it both ways. When he sees Sienna again at a gallery opening, transformed and glowing on another man's arm, something primal awakens in him. She's not his secret anymore. She's not his at all. And for the first time in his privileged life, Alessandro understands what it means to lose something irreplaceable. He'll do anything to win her back. Burn down his marriage. Destroy his reputation. Fight his own family. Prove he's not the same coward who let her go. But Sienna's not the desperate girl who waited by the phone anymore. She's found her power, her voice, her spine. And watching Alessandro grovel? There's a dark satisfaction in that she probably shouldn't enjoy as much as she does. The thing is, hearts don't follow logic. Chemistry doesn't care about self-respect. And when Alessandro looks at her with those desperate, hungry eyes and says, "I was a fool, and I'll spend the rest of my life making it up to you"—part of her wants to believe him. Part of her still loves him. But love isn't always enough, is it? Not when trust is shattered. Not when Dante's offering her stability and devotion without games. Not when Alessandro's vengeful soon-to-be-ex-wife is determined to destroy anyone he cares about. Sienna has to choose: the dangerous, intoxicating man who broke her heart but might have actually changed, or the safer path with a man who's never made her cry. Except Dante has secrets too. And Sienna's about to learn that sometimes the person who seems perfect is just better at hiding their flaws. In a world of billion-dollar business deals, family expectations, and old grudges, Sienna's caught in the middle of a war she never asked to fight. Both men claim they love her. Both men want to possess her. But this time, Sienna's not anyone's prize to win. This time, she gets to decide her own worth. And whoever ends up with her heart will have to earn every single piece of it—because she's done giving herself away to men who don't understand what they have until it's gone.

I was never supposed to want my sister’s husband. Victor Ravenscroft is discipline carved into flesh — a billionaire who commands boardrooms, headlines, and everyone around him. To the world, he belongs to her. To me… he became my weakness. What started as a mistake became a secret I couldn’t resist. And the more I fell, the more my life began to unravel. I lost my job. My confidence. My sense of reality. She stayed perfect. Poised. Untouchable. She comforts me when I cry, says I’m overthinking, insists it’s just stress. Victor won’t claim me in daylight. But in the shadows, I can’t escape him. Then I got dragged into a world I never imagined — a dangerous mafia society where power, obsession, and betrayal reign. Nothing I thought I knew about love, loyalty, or survival mattered anymore. Somewhere between desire and shame, I wonder — Is this love destroying me? Or am I destroying myself? Because when everything collapses, the most dangerous thing isn’t the affair. It’s the truth I never saw coming.

THE WOMAN HE DESTROYED IS BACK—AND SHE'S BRINGING HIM TO HIS KNEES Three years ago, Aria Kane was a naive businesswoman who fell hard for billionaire Damien Cross. Their chemistry was explosive. Their passion was all-consuming. She thought she'd found her soulmate. She was wrong. Damien seduced her for one reason: to steal her family's proprietary business intelligence. He used her love as a weapon, extracted every secret, and then discarded her like trash. Within months, her father's company was bankrupt. Her father took his own life. Aria lost everything—her family, her home, her future. She spent three years barely surviving, doing whatever it took to stay alive, burning with a rage that never dimmed. Now, everything has changed. Aria's estranged grandfather—a corporate titan she never knew—has died and left her his billion-dollar empire. Overnight, she transforms from powerless victim to one of the most powerful CEOs in the country. And she has one target in her sights: Damien Cross. While she was clawing her way up, Damien's empire has been crumbling. Bad deals. Betrayed alliances. A loveless engagement to a manipulative socialite. Unknown to him, Aria has been systematically destroying his business from the shadows. Now he's desperate, vulnerable, and backed into a corner. That's when Aria makes her move. She summons him to her office with an offer he can't refuse: She has evidence of all his illegal dealings—insider trading, corporate espionage, fraud. One phone call to the authorities and he's finished. His company collapses. His freedom disappears. Everything he built turns to ash. Unless he agrees to her terms. 21 nights. Complete submission. No limits. No safe words. No mercy. For 21 nights, Damien must surrender himself completely to Aria's control. She'll decide what happens, where it happens, and how far it goes. She'll strip away his power, his pride, and every defense he's ever built. He'll do whatever she commands—in the boardroom and the bedroom. Humiliation. Submission. Pleasure denied. Control surrendered. In exchange, she'll save his company and destroy the evidence against him. But revenge is never simple. As the nights progress, the power dynamic shifts in unexpected ways. Damien reveals he was trapped by his own cruel father, forced to betray Aria or watch his mother die. Aria discovers that surviving her trauma left scars that still bleed. The chemistry between them—the explosive, undeniable passion—never died. Someone is watching them. Dangerous enemies from Damien's past emerge. His father will kill to maintain control. His vindictive fiancée will destroy them both. And Aria's grandfather's death may not have been natural. As corporate warfare escalates into actual danger, Aria and Damien must navigate a minefield of trust issues, explosive secrets, and feelings neither wanted to face. She's supposed to hate him. He's supposed to grovel. Neither expected to fall in love—again. The 21-night countdown is ticking. Boundaries will be shattered. Secrets will explode. And by the final night, everything will change. Because the opposite of love isn't hate—it's indifference. And what burns between Aria and Damien is anything but indifferent.

Eros did not choose this life. He did not choose to be a slave. Nor did he choose to be an astral artist. But what he did choose... was to wage war against the world's oldest empire. For over a thousand years, his people have been silenced, persecuted, and degraded. No longer will they suffer. He will be their voice, their weapon, their god...

‘How cliché. I’ve read countless novels where the Hero is betrayed by their companions… but was I wrong to trust those who fought beside me for nearly six decades?’ ----- Betrayal. A word many live in fear of. A word some never expect… until it happens. A word that completely shatters one’s view of life. Just like any other heroic tale, Simon was the Hero of Earth, the one who defeated the Demon King and was about to end the war between races with his companions. Yet, in the end, he was betrayed by his own companions for reasons he never understood. Instead of finding death, Simon found rebirth. To his horror, he reincarnated as the very race he had devoted his entire life to exterminating… a race he despised, feared, and was disgusted by. Reborn as a demon infant within one of the most impoverished demon tribes, Simon found himself at the very bottom of a world he once sought to destroy. Fortunately, he was not entirely abandoned. His unique Seven Star Blessing, bestowed by his patron God, followed him through reincarnation. Armed with this Blessing and the Demonic Magic of his new race, Simon now harbors an ambition greater than ever before… to rise higher than he ever did as the Hero of Earth. To become a God. But the path forward is far from simple. Betrayals from those he would never expect. Endless trials and tribulations. And the lingering question of identity… Should he cling to his past as a human hero, or embrace his nature as a demon to survive? Can Simon abandon his hatred and live among demons? Will he erase his past entirely and fully embrace his demonic nature? Will his thirst for revenge drag him deeper into darkness… Or will he rise above it? In the end… Will he be devoured… or will he devour all?