betrayal

Three years ago, I defied Alpha Caspian Blackthorn's direct order and saved children from a burning settlement—an act of mercy he called treason. He sentenced me to public execution for undermining his authority during wartime. I survived only because my brother took the blade meant for me. Now, as our packs bleed each other dry in an endless war, the Elders have brokered an impossible peace: I must become Caspian's bound mate. The man who wanted me dead will now be tied to me for life, our bond the treaty that ends decades of bloodshed. He thinks controlling me will be easy. He's wrong. But the mating bond doesn't care about our hatred. It awakens something ancient between us—a connection that shouldn't exist, emotions neither of us wanted, and a power that terrifies the very Elders who forced us together. When I discover the war was orchestrated by those closest to us, I face an impossible choice: use my position as his mate to destroy the Alpha who killed my brother, or protect the man who's becoming the only person I can trust. Because the enemies we should fear aren't across the battlefield. They're standing right beside us.

At nineteen, Leah Anderson never imagined that her life would take such a sharp turn—from worrying about school assignments and a lagging iPad to being forced into a marriage arranged by her parents. Always living in the shadow of her favored older sister, Layla, Leah has learned to endure unfairness in silence. But when her parents suddenly replace Layla with her for a blind date meant to repay a powerful family favor, Leah’s quiet world begins to unravel. What starts as a simple blind date quickly turns into something far more binding. Leah meets Magnus Wilson, a cold, disciplined billionaire heir burdened by family expectations and a painful past. Though undeniably handsome and successful, Magnus makes it clear that love is not something he can offer. Their meeting reveals a shocking truth—this is not a date, but the beginning of an arranged marriage designed to protect family interests. Trapped between obedience and her desire for love, Leah struggles with the reality of a loveless marriage she never chose. Her only comfort comes from her best friend Jessie, whose optimism clashes with Leah’s fear of becoming emotionally imprisoned. Meanwhile, Magnus faces his own battle, pressured by his domineering grandfather to move on from a past love and provide stability for his young son, Jeremiah. As both families push forward with plans for a marriage certificate before even setting a wedding date, Leah and Magnus are forced into close unexpected encounters, and subtle moments that hint at something deeper beneath Magnus’s emotional walls. Unspoken tension begins to grow. Bound by duty rather than affection, Leah and Magnus step into a union neither of them believes in—yet fate has a way of challenging even the strongest resolve. In a marriage built on obligation, can two guarded hearts perhaps discover a love they never planned for?

The dark grey sky released a torrent of rain, casting a misty veil over the university campus.The girl with sharp facial features, was navigating towards Arcadia. As lightning strikes, her dark brown eyes sparkled with a fleeting radiance,as if reflecting the electric flash. Despite her efforts to appear calm, she couldn't help, but to bite her lower lip occasionally, a subtle sign of anxiety was building inside her as she emerged from the social sciences block. Her long eyelashes fluttered as she gazed up at the rain-soaked sky. Her raven-black hairs were pulled back into the tight bun, with two loose strands framing her face.

Ning Xuan was a talented cultivator with a legendary body. However, his bloodline was stripped six years ago, reduced to a waste. Yet after his so-called sister's care, his blood was restored. Yet when the girl heard this news, she said: "As expected of the Nine Nether Divine Body. Its True Blood is this formidable the moment it regenerates! With this, I shall surpass Ning Yang and become the sole Heavenly Maiden of this continent!"

As the only surviving heir of the Alpha King, Selena Blackthorn thought she had the perfect life. A loving father. A caring Mate. A rare bloodline passed down to her by her family. But she was wrong. After her father’s sudden death, Selena places her trust, her power, and her heart in the hands of the man she believes is her fated Mate. On their wedding day, beneath the Blood Moon, he repays her devotion by rejecting her, shattering their bond, and pushing her from a mountain to her death. She should have stayed dead. Instead, Selena awakens two weeks before the wedding ceremony, reborn with her memories intact and her long-silent wolf finally awake. The truth unravels quickly. The man she loved is her murderer. Her adopted sister is his true mate and accomplice. The life Selena believed was destiny was nothing more than a carefully constructed lie. This time, she is not the obedient Luna they expect. Drawn by a pull she cannot deny, fate leads Selena into the path of three rogue triplets—warriors exiled as boys for a crime they never committed. They are dangerous. Relentless. Untamed. And when the bond snaps into place, it is not gentle. It consumes her. Only then does Selena uncover the truth that has long been buried.The rejection was false. The bond was never real. The triplets are her true mates. Bound by destiny and sharpened by exile, the triplet help Selena uncover the conspiracy that destroyed her family, stole her crown, and nearly erased her existence. Together, they will burn through lies, bloodlines, and false kings to reclaim what was always hers. This time, Selena will not be used. She will not be silenced. And she will not die quietly. Betrayed by One, Bound to Three is a dark fantasy romance of rebirth, body-positive power, false bonds, fated mates, and a queen who rises from betrayal to claim her throne on her own terms.

Unclaimed Vows is a story of forbidden love shaped by blood, power, and deception. Ten years ago, Amelie Mitchell walked away from the boy she loved to chase her dreams. Fate draws her back when she is forced into a contract marriage under the false identity of Sophia Redford—to Dr. Elijah Chen, heir to a powerful empire. What she never expected is that Elijah’s younger brother is Dylan Luis Suarez Chen —her unrequited love. As Amelie steps into her role, from Elijah’s fiancée to his wife, unresolved love and buried resentment resurface between her and Dylan. Torn between duty and desire, she becomes the center of a silent betrayal. She makes a vow to one brother, while her heart remains with the other. Trapped in a marriage built on lies, she learns that some vows remain unclaimed until love demands to be chosen at last.

Luo Qiu became the boss of a ‘club’ by chance. It was a weird club that sold strange items, assisted by a servant girl with 300 years of work experience. Countless people with dreams, hopes and ambitions came to the club, exchanging everything precious they owned just to fulfill their desires. They would offer their lifespan, items, and even their soul. Each successful trade would increase Luo Qiu’s lifespan by a little. “Tribute successful, your lifespan has increased by 99 years.” Thus, Luo Qiu began his endless life as the club’s boss.

Title: The Crimson Ribbon's Silhouette Genre: Darkromace/Romantic/ Thriller / Mystery Synopsis: The story follows 16-year-old Soha (Ira), the daughter of the Bangladeshi Ambassador to South Korea. Living in a world of diplomacy and high-rise glass buildings, her life takes a chaotic turn one morning. While walking to her Korean school, she witnesses a luxury car crash through the 15th-floor glass wall of a 20-story skyscraper. In the midst of the smoke and falling glass, she locks eyes with a man who feels hauntingly familiar. He is Adrik, the same man who, ten years ago on a rain-soaked afternoon, carried a 6-year-old Ira in his arms to safety. Back then, he was a kind-hearted 20-year-old student; now, he is a 6'4" towering figure of mystery, labeled by the Korean police as a dangerous Mafia operative. Before disappearing into the shadows, Adrik throws a small box at Soha’s feet. Inside, she finds no evidence or messages—only the blood-red ribbon she wore in her hair the day they first met. Shaken and confused, Soha realizes that Adrik has been guarding this memory for a decade. Driven by an unbreakable bond and the secrets of the past, Soha finds herself drawn into Adrik’s dark world. As the police close in, the 16-year-old girl must decide: is the man she once called her savior a cold-blooded criminal, or is he protecting her from a truth far more dangerous?The Iconic Scene (Preview): In a dimly lit room, the 6'4" towering figure of Adrik stands silently. Soha, trembling yet determined, reaches out and grabs the red ribbon around his neck, pulling him closer into a desperate, tearful embrace. The height difference disappears as she clings to the only person who ever made her feel safe.

The Ancient Fiend Dragon Emperor, Su Han, had once governed the holy realm and held sway for a whole century as the most powerful man of the entire galaxy! However, after his death from berserk Qi deviation due to merging different cultivation levels, his men mutinied, his lover fell into a deep sleep, and his best friend became a fugitive! Now, after being reincarnated, Su Han will surely make a comeback and turn things around, killing everyone that had once betrayed him!!!

[18+ | Mature Content | Dark Romance] After slaving away for years as Ares King's sole overworked secretary, Catherine has finally had enough of his domineering and heartless attitude. She wants to quit and use the severance pay to settle her family's debts, and spend more time with her long-term boyfriend. But soon after she hands her resignation letter, she finds out that her long-term boyfriend cheated on her. He claims she's a wreck with no future, and he's better off without her. Heartbroken and devastated, Catherine is grasping at the last straw when her boss, Ares King, proposes a contract out of the blue. "Become my wife for one year." "Why me, Mr. King?" "Because we work, Ms. Lane.” The last thing she wanted was to make a deal with the devil. But this offer is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Sell your soul to the devil for one year. How hard can that be? ********** "How many?" I froze. Did he expect me to count? "How. Many?" "I-I don't—Ah!" Ares spanked me again, continuously. My eyes stung, and sweet pain overtook me. I should feel sick from deriving pleasure from this, but strangely, I wasn't. "Two?" I teased, purposely getting the numbers wrong. "You shouldn't have done that." Just as I thought, he started again, but this time he drove each hit with more force until my ass was burning. "Fifteen!" I yelled, shaking. "Wrong." My heart momentarily stopped. "I got it right!" "You missed one." He pressed his hand on my searing bottom, and I moaned. I tried to squirm away, but he trapped my hands behind my back, his voice dark with warning. "Move again, and you'll regret it." ~ A/N: This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or real events is purely coincidental.

After his wife's affair and the discovery that his child belongs to another man, Li Feng is cast out into the rainy night. Since fate won't allow him to live an ordinary life, he resolves to live an extraordinary one. “How many roads must a man walk down, before they call him a man" --- <Blowing in The Wind> Bob Dylan

I quit…. Bhooom…. I have transmigrated….. I have become a villainess real daughter…. system, are you there…. Yes host I am a wishing system…. You can make one wish but I am cursed and your enemy would get double of what you wished. The upgraded function is to show the opportunities and chances or recent turning points of the people in a certain range around you for a price of luck points. The more luck points spent the more detailed the information would be. The luck points can be obtained by causing emotional fluctuations using the wish or other means. “Ho… my mutated wood power is with me, this system is good. Let’s make a wish first.” “I want to be groped and touched by a lecherous man…” (Oh… the touch is really good. this lecherous uncle seems to have practiced for a long time touching the women) The heroine nearby suddenly got sandwiched between two lecherous men groping her and touching her forbidden parts. The protagonist nearby suddenly felt an old ugly fat aunt touching his butt while a man in front of him touching his front…. (Protagonist became speechless… “Why am I being touched by people like this?”) After transmigration she has future memories of original owner. She is a brainless real daughter that was not welcome by her unloving family. The fake daughter is both white lotus and green tea. Accidentally fell in love with the fiancée. So participated in the wilderness survival reality show, targeted by some lecherous participants, because a scandal, abandoned by all, later there is apocalypse, natural disasters, zombies, mutated species but earth integrated into real cultivation earth. There are cultivators…. ……………………………………………… This novel contains Netori, cuck, netorare (NTR), netorase, cheating, adultery, lactation, exhibitionist, outdoor intercourse, sluts, bitches, whores, sissy, and other things…. Read it at your own risk… ………………………………

Five years ago, after a car accident, Ye Fan fell from a demonic prodigy to an "idiot"! Five years later, on the same day, his seven older brothers and three uncles all perished on the battlefield, a family of ten loyal martyrs! At the funeral, Ye Fan's fiancée called off their engagement. The stunning sister-in-law declared on the spot, "If you didn't want to marry him, I will! I am willing to carry on the Ye Family line..." Ye Fan felt uneasy, "Sister-in-law, please don't. I'm really not an idiot anymore!"

A business tycoon and a polymath died after achieving her goal to become the richest person in the world showing the world that a woman can stand on the top of the world. But world cannot accept something like this and the people were suppressed by her became jealous. They used some barely underhanded means to kill her. She thought that she would be dead and go to the underworld instead he came to an ancient European model place. Wendy lark was dressed as cannon fodder playing a female supporting role in a book about a re-born female protagonist. The heroine was her cousin that appears gentle and talented but actually quite conceited. She was reborn on the way to exile and she used her tricks to ascend to become a queen. Wendy’s whole family was used as a stepping stone and was destroyed on the road of exile. "You are about to die, how can you still eat?" Madam lark asked "When you are about to die, I am trying to be a well fed ghost." Wendy lark answered. In the chaos of the house raiding scene, Wendy hurriedly grabbed the engagement agreement with a chicken wing. During the breaking up of the marriage, Wendy exchanged the engagement agreement for a mule cart and twenty silver coins then she started a long journey of exile. In order to survive, she used her business and knowledge of cooking like making spicy roasted pig, fried chicken, farming cotton, and breeding sheep. She even engaged in building water power, building cities, building cement roads, and creating a prosperous fortress in the south where she was exiled. Accidentally she played a big game, and the plot was really shifted…

Zombie Apocalypse? Been there, done that. Got the mutation inside of her to prove it. Seraphina made a wish, a chance to die human and be reborn a year before the world ended. She thought that if she could just go back to the life she had before, to the body she had before, then everything would be fine. That was what she was promised when the lab burned down. That was what she was expecting. But wishes never go the way you wanted them to. Instead of having a seed inside of her to keep her safe, Sera brought back the creature that had been trying to take over her body. And it was stronger than ever before. When the apocalypse came this time around, it wasn't the zombies she had to worry about. Blizzards, a new ice age, shifting temperatures, and a summer from hell were all become part of the course for the inhabitants of Country N. But when she tried to help a friend, secrets that should never have been exposed come to the surface. She told them that she was just lucky. That it really wasn't as heavy as it appeared, that it really wasn't as far as it appeared, that she really wasn't as purple as she appeared, she lied. Betrayed and taken back to live in a cage and be experimented on, Sera isn't going to forgive or forget the betrayal that she had experienced. And when an old friend from a past life shows up, ready to spill everything so that a new human race can emerge from the ashes.... well, Sera just isn't having it. She didn't survive what they did to her in Country M, but this time, she wasn't in it alone. More than willing to take on the government, the survivors, the zombies, and the elements, Sera will carve out her own place in the world. A world that she was never supposed to survive. Details: RH (No MM) Military Betrayal Zombies And a hybrid that never should have been reborn Other Books: Apocalypse Series: Rebirth In The Apocalyse: Third Time's A Charm Fight, Flight, or Freeze: The Healer's Story Be Careful What You Wish For: A Zombie Apocalypse Novel Star's Universe: Star's Ships Part Of Your World Stand Alone: Dancing With Monsters The Witch In The Woods: The Transmigration of Hazel-Anne Davis

Her childhood was forged in shadows, and she was sharpened into a weapon, trained to be a ghost, a killer—an instrument of vengeance. The target: a decorated general who brought down her family. But fate doesn't follow orders. Just as Lara was about to execute her long-planned mission, everything spiraled out of control. A military convoy intercepted her escape route—escorting none other than the general himself. And then came the moment that changed everything. A blinding crash. Screeching tires. Her body was thrown like a ragdoll, then darkness. She had a fleeting recollection of another world, another lifetime where kings ruled the land with an iron fist. But she woke up, and twelve long months had passed.  She did not know where she was or who she was. She remembered nothing. They told her different names. A child with trembling hope whispered, “Mommy, your name is Moira Torres.” Her doctor insisted, “Your admission slip says Larissa Reyes.” A hardened general leaned close and commanded, “Remember who you are. Remember your mission.” Then another general—dangerously calm, incredibly familiar—looked at her as if she mattered and asked, “Can I call you Lara?” The name unlocked something buried deep in her soul. Lara Norse Kromwel. Daughter of General Odin Norse. Empress of the First Empire. But the man who watched her most closely dismissed it with cold certainty. “This is the 21st century,” he said. “What nonsense are you spouting? What Empress? You are my woman. You can only be mine!"

Ashton is stuck between an underwater volcano, and a heart devouring dragon. Metaphorically speaking anyway. The princess of the sea has sworn on her mother's life to drag him down. Problem is, Ashton can't be killed. So after hundreds of years of pulling beasts of legend to her side, rewriting history, and backing him into a corner where he broke his heart into pieces, she thinks that with one final push... she may convince Ashton to simply end his own existence. Ashton is fully aware of her little schemes, it's not every day a dragon get's its still beating heart ripped out, then is bound to the land it ruthlessly conquered. Ashton would have even found it mildly poetic that the slain dragon was now forced to bless the land for all eternity... if, and emphasis on the IF, the blessing hadn't been twisted into a curse for the last 700 years. Now, Ashton has a few minor inconveniences to deal with. First, he's stuck in a decaying body. Second his memories aren't fully intact. Third, it would prick his pride if the descendants of "blessed" dragon died while he was in their territory. Fourth, he has two really, really, REALLY scary siblings that don't always bother with the details. Fifth, the only reason this princess and her grandmother even had the chance to scheme against him is because he was looking for a possible mate. He's the only one of his kind, thousands of years alone has him craving for a companion... for a heart to sing just for him... There are really only two outcomes now that Ashton is starting to regain his memories. Will the princess succeed in dragging him down, used as the new sacrifice to keep the "blessing" going, or will he ascend? Well, maybe three outcomes. Maybe this time a heart will sing for him as he ascends... a bird can hope.

Natalie Brooks, the young lady of the Brooks family, hid her identity to marry Samuel Morgan for love. The three-year cold marriage ended with a divorce when his first love, Lily, returned. Natalie left proudly, returning to her home, the most powerful Brooks family in New York, with her four talented brothers. Natalie gradually transformed into a strong businesswoman. Samuel was surprised because Natalie was completely different from the image of the weak wife she had been before. He began to waver, remembering the years of living together, but was still surrounded by Lily's weak pretense. Although Natalie was divorced, she still had lingering feelings, but she chose to strongly confront him, determined to prove her worth. From here, she continuously confronted Samuel and Lily, both to regain what she had lost and to force them to regret ever looking down on her. Meanwhile, Lily always played the role of the "weak girl", taking advantage of Samuel's pity, but she increasingly revealed her jealousy and hypocrisy. Natalie's brothers – especially Nathaniel Brooks and Henry Brooks – were fiercely protective of their sister and wanted Samuel to repent for what he had done to Natalie.

Makun's life has been cursed since birth, or so he thought. When spiritual chains binding his soul begin to break, he discovers his failures weren't bad luck. Someone has been feeding off him for years. Now awakened to a world of mystics and predators, Makun must fight to survive, uncover who chained him, and claim the power that was stolen from him. But in a world where every deal costs a piece of your soul, how much of himself will be left when he finally ascends?

He thought his father saved him. He never expected it to be her. When Dementors close in and a powerful Patronus drives them back, Harry is certain—it had to be his dad. Who else could have cast such a strong, familiar charm? But a spin of Hermione's Time-Turner and a three-hour rewind later, Harry's world is upended. Because it wasn’t James Potter who emerged from the shadows. It was Lily. Alive. And everything Harry thought he knew is about to change. Past and present collide, secrets unravel, and the boy who lived might finally discover the parent he never had the chance to know—and the truth no one ever told him.