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"Let the light shine upon you." It was only an activity to pass the time. The book was just one of the many she read. It may linger but like the many, it will pass. However, it caused her death. A morose ending that triggered her stress. She couldn't understand how the villain came to be. Of course, it would be a great plot twist. But. Come On. Of all the characters it had to be him. ... An enigma was inserted into a book. Would you like to meet the villain's savior? or How to save a villain 101.

WARNING: This story contains intense emotions, brutal betrayals, slow-burn obsession, and a female lead who doesn't know how to stay dead. Proceed with caution... and snacks. SIDE EFFECTS MAY INCLUDE: screaming at your screen, falling for fictional men, and yelling “JUST KISS ALREADY.”...Get ready for this neverending rollercoaster of excitement!!! She was known as Qin mu, the organization’s deadliest sword. Feared and ruthless, everything dead or alive shuddered at the mention of her name. Until one night, they turned on her. Framed by the people she trusted, she was labeled as a traitor and was electrocuted to death on an electric chair. Qin mu awakens in the body of Shen mu, an ordinary girl who was relentlessly bullied… and who looks exactly like her. With a strange centipede-long scar now marking her face and fragments of her past creeping in, Qin mu begins to piece together the truth behind the betrayal that shattered her world. Then she meets Huo yunxiao , the cold, enigmatic young master of the powerful Huo family. His gaze unsettles her and His presence stirs something deeper. But as vengeance calls and shadows whisper secrets long buried, she must make a choice. Will her thirst for revenge and the mystery of her past destroy the chance at the love she never knew she needed? Or will she place her aching heart in the hands of this god-like man and the promise of a peaceful future?

He called her plain to her face. She needed the money too badly to walk out. Ruby Brown has spent a year as Ethan moore's assistant. Invisible. Underpaid. Running his errands, absorbing his cruelty, surviving on office coffee and stolen muffins to pay for her sick aunt's care. He has never once said thank you. So when he sits her down, closes his door, and says he needs her, she braces for the worst. What he offers is somehow stranger. "I need a fiancée. You fit the profile. Move in, play the role, sign the contract. I'll pay you Ten thousand dollar monthly Until the contract expires, you get Twenty Thousand upfront." A fake engagement. His penthouse. His rules. Two people who can't stand each other, living under one roof, pretending to be in love. What could go wrong? Everything. Because Ethan didn't plan for the quiet moments between the performances. The mornings she hums in his kitchen. The night she calls him out on his cruelty and he doesn't fire back. The way Mateo Brooks looks at them both and says "She's good for you" and Ethan doesn't laugh. He signed a contract to use her. She signed one to survive. Neither of them signed up for this. Enemies don't fall in love. But apparently, nobody told them that.

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WARNING: MATURE CONTENT +18 Sonia Sawyers, a thrice-divorced woman, marries Liam Sinclair in a flash marriage, believing he is the reincarnation of a past love she owes and wronged. Cursed to never find true romantic bliss unless she makes amends to the past love, Sonia plans to spoil Liam and give him the best life that he deserves, especially when riddled with a strange terminal illness that doesn’t give him much time to live. As they navigate their relationship, a new love interest pushed by his mother complicates matters and threaten their bond. Despite the curse’s power, which makes all the men she gets involved in be drawn to their soulmates when with her, she finds herself falling for Liam with each passing day. But then, amidst such matters, a man who resembles her past love’s reincarnation completely appears, complicating matters to the extreme. Sonia become torn between the two. Should she follow her heart and risk everything for Liam, or make amends with her past and potentially lose her only chance at happiness? As Liam’s mother pushes him towards another woman, Sonia faces an impossible choice. Will she follow her heart or fate? Can she break the curse and find true love with Liam, or will he leave her for his soulmate?

"Do you know where you are?" "Who cares which hell I fall into!" Dakota responded coldly. "Do you know what I do with my enemies?" "You kill them and drink their blood!" Dakota never imagined attending her sister's engagement party would turn her life upside down. The man she loved twice, the mate she gave everything to, the father of the twins she nearly died birthing, is marrying her sister. Raising their son. Living the life he promised her. With her memories flooding back in devastating waves, Dakota does the only thing she can: she runs. Straight into enemy territory. Into the hands of Alpha Kade, the rival her pack has feared for years. He should kill her. Use her as leverage. Start a war. Instead, he offers her refuge. But when her mate comes demanding her return, claiming the bond can't be broken, Dakota faces an impossible choice: The man who destroyed her twice, or the enemy who's offering her a chance to destroy him back. Some loves are forbidden. Some are fatal. And some enemies... become everything.

In an era when men ruled kingdoms and women were expected to remain silent behind silk curtains, one girl dared to challenge fate. Born into a declining noble family during the turbulent years of ancient China, X'ian grows up witnessing betrayal, corruption, and endless warfare between rival states. When her family is falsely accused of treason and executed, she narrowly escapes death. Forced into exile, X'ian disguises herself as a scholar and enters the dangerous world of politics. Armed with intelligence, patience, and an unbreakable will, she begins climbing the ladder of power. From a servant girl to an imperial strategist, from a forgotten exile to the most influential woman in the empire, Lady X'ian's rise will shake the foundations of heaven itself. Yet power comes at a terrible cost. As ambitious princes fight for the throne, ruthless generals seek glory, and hidden enemies emerge from the shadows, X'ian must decide whether she is building a better empire—or becoming the very monster she once swore to destroy. History remembers emperors. Legends remember Lady X'ian.

Aurelia Vale spent her entire life believing she was nothing more than a powerless human living among werewolves. Without a wolf. Without a mate. Without a place she could truly call home. In a pack that valued strength above all else, she survived by lowering her head and enduring their scorn in silence. The Alpha heirs despised her. The future Beta dismissed her existence. Even the warriors treated her as an inconvenience. When the cruelty becomes unbearable, Aurelia walks into the Moon Goddess Temple to sever her bond with the pack forever. She never expects her blood to awaken an ancient power thought long extinct. Thunder shatters the sky. Her wolf emerges. Aurelia is not human. She is a White Wolf, heir to a forgotten bloodline that once ruled over Alphas and commanded entire packs. Worse yet, the scent of five mates binds itself to her soul the moment she awakens. The very men who once humiliated her now feel the pull of the bond. The pack that cast her aside now kneels before her power. And a mysterious fifth presence watches from the shadows, waiting for the perfect moment to claim what he believes is his. As Aurelia flees the pack that betrayed her, her strength continues to grow and long buried truths begin to surface. Faced with obsession, regret, and a bond she never asked for, she must decide whether to grant forgiveness or tear down the hierarchy that once broke her. This time, Aurelia is no longer the one being chosen. She is the one who decides who is worthy of standing beside the White Luna.

She was never chosen to save the world — she was forged to survive it. Etani is a half-fae assassin who understands the rules of survival: power is taken, mercy is punished, and every victory has a cost. She was never meant to be a heroine — only a weapon. When fate drags her from the shadows into the heart of political and divine conflict, Etani is stripped of her power, betrayed by courts and gods alike, and forced into leadership she never wanted. Each battle reshapes her. Each choice costs her something she cannot replace. As assassinations give way to crowns, and kingdoms become bargaining chips for gods, Etani must navigate brutal power struggles, shifting alliances, and enemies who would rather break her than kill her. Survival demands sacrifice. Power demands blood. And destiny does not care who it destroys along the way. This is a dark epic fantasy of ruthless survival, morally complex choices, and a female lead who does not seek redemption — only control over the chaos determined to consume her. For readers who enjoy dark fantasy, morally grey protagonists, and stories where power is both weapon and curse, Etani is a completed 12-book saga of transformation, vengeance, and the thin line between predator and prey. Content Warning: This series contains graphic violence, sexual content, torture, murder, cannibalism, domestic and sexual abuse, mental illness (including depression and suicidality), abortion, and miscarriage.

"Stop." His voice is low and controlled and furious underneath both. "Whatever you're doing in there the books, the reading, the tucking in — stop." "They asked me to read to them," I say evenly. "I don't care what they asked." He takes a step toward me and I hold my ground, which seems to make it worse. "You've been here for just less than two weeks, and you're already in Dorian's room, touching his things, letting them climb all over you like you're" He stops, jaw tight. "You're not their mother. You're on a twelve-month contract." "I'm aware of what I am," I say. "Are you?" Something sharp enters his expression. "Because from where I'm standing it looks like a woman playing a very long game. Soften up the children, charm the staff, make yourself indispensable — and then what? You think I don't see it?" Something cold moves through my chest, but I keep my face neutral. "You think I'm doing this to get to you." "Aren't you?" He says it like it's obvious, like I'm naive for pretending otherwise, and the contempt in it is so clean and practiced that for one second I almost believe I deserve it. "You should wake up from that delusion. Whatever you think you're building here — it won't work, you will never have me." He moves before I register it, closing the distance between us in one smooth step, and then his hand is at my neck, warm and deliberate, his thumb pressing lightly against my pulse like he's checking whether I'm afraid, and the answer my body gives him is humiliating. His mouth drops to the curve of my neck and shoulder, not rough — slow, purposeful, his lips dragging against my skin like he has all the time in the world and knows exactly what he's doing with it, and I shudder despite everything I know about this man and this moment and exactly what he's trying to prove. "This," he murmurs against my skin, his voice low and terrible and close, "is all you'll ever get from me." ********* Sloane Carter had her work stolen, her body broken, and her heart shattered in pieces. Then a truck ran her off the road on a rainy night, and she woke up inside the worst romance novel she had ever read. Wrong century, wrong country. Wrong body. Twelve-month contract marriage to a man carved from ice, three feral six-year-olds, and a dead man's secret buried so deep the whole empire is rotting from the root. In the novel, the heroine smiles gently, loves quietly, and dies before anyone notices she was worth saving. Sloane has bruised ribs, a stolen career, years of swallowed rage and absolutely no intention of following the original script. The cold CEO didn't bargain for a woman who'd already survived the worst he could ever be. Neither did the man who put her in that car. He thought killing Sloane Carter would silence her. He had no idea it would set her free.

Jemina Ellengarde should have been living a fairytale. She was beautiful, noble, and married to the most powerful man in the empire—the cold and untouchable Duke Noctellis Ellengarde, the hero revered across the continent. People envied her. They whispered that the duke loved her so deeply he kept her hidden from society itself. The truth was far less romantic. After years of mistaking indifference for devotion, Jemina finally realizes something devastating: Her husband never truly loved her at all. She runs away into the most dangerous place in the empire: The Null Forest. But surviving the Null Forest is only the beginning. What starts as a desperate escape slowly becomes something far bigger than Jemina ever intended. A hidden lodge in the trees. A sanctuary for women with nowhere else to go. A growing family made up of lamias, monsters, mercenaries, emotionally troubled girls, and one increasingly overworked duchess who somehow became responsible for all of them. Now Jemina must learn how to survive deadly creatures, protect the people under her care, and manage the absolute chaos of life inside the Null Forest— All while her dangerously complicated husband slowly makes his way into the very forest she ran to escape.

After the Royal General’s death, Dionus fractures. Esmeralda Malcolm. The daughter of the fallen hero, a forbidden Blood-Hound without a Wolf, was meant to vanish. Until her nineteenth birthday. An ancient contract awakens. She becomes Mistress to the Seven Princes of Sin: immortal brothers of astounding power and fragile minds. A silver-haired vampire who treasures her: “My lady, your fists are too precious. Let me handle him.” A werewolf warlord with terrifyingly obedient men: “Dear Mistress, your command?” A seven-star chef feeding her by hand: “Say the word, and a king’s feast awaits.” A hidden system measures their loyalty. But the Second Alpha Prince returns. The only man who remembers the girl behind her smile. And the ancient Rogue King, prophecy of extinction, has revived… and he’s coming for the girl who saved his life. When kingdoms hunt her to control Alpha Kings and Princes… Esme only laughs. If they want her… they’ll have to survive her monsters first.

Eloise’s hand trembled as Damien closed the distance between them. “You know too much,” he said, his voice low yet threatening. “Then give me reason to keep your secret,” Eloise replied, her chin lifting with defiance. She had nothing to lose now with her father gone. Damien’s gaze softened, just enough to keep her confidence alive. “Be mine, Eloise. Only then will both our futures remain intact,” he accepted the proposal. *** Upon her bedridden father’s request, Eloise Wilkins travels to town to stay with her uncle’s family for the season. Whilst Elosie enjoys her stay, she is unaware of her uncle’s plans to steal the money her father has set aside for her to inherit after his death. One fateful night at a ball brings a shocking revelation about her father’s death, and the culprit behind it is someone she least expected. Before her uncle seals her fate, Eloise stumbles into a childhood friend whom she proposes to using a secret he needs to remain hidden to force him accept her offer. With the help of her new husband, could Eloise expose the truth behind her father’s death? … After a reunion with his childhood love, Damien Hawthorne does the unexpected and gets married to the ever-so-cheerful Eloise Wilkins. Damien uses his power to help Eloise expose her family’s deeds and reclaim what belongs to her. Given a second chance with Eloise, Damien doesn’t intend to let her slip between his fingers again.

After waking from a bizarre dream, Suzy Kale discovers a horrifying truth—she’s transmigrated into an apocalyptic novel. And not as the heroine. She’s nothing more than a disposable side character destined to die after being betrayed by her own half-sister. With only three months left before the world descends into chaos, Suzy is determined to rewrite her fate this time around. She awakens her spatial ability ahead of schedule, stockpiles billions’ worth of survival supplies, and builds an impregnable safehouse to survive the coming disasters. Everything is going according to plan… Until she’s suddenly bound to a bizarre system known as the "Handsome Men Collection Guide." [Bind a qualified target to receive rewards.] [Close contact with targets increases your strength.] “…So this system basically wants me to flirt my way through the apocalypse?!” At first, she only approaches these men for the rewards and power boosts. But before long, the way they look at her starts becoming increasingly dangerous. "Wait a second... I only wanted the freebies. I never meant to make all of them fall for me!"

To stop a war, Lexa Bourbon is offered as a tribute bride to the infamous Mad King, Alaric Kingsley. The cursed king whose brides never survive. The monster Lexa believes murdered her mother. And the man she swore to kill. But on their wedding night, her assassination fails. When Lexa awakens after a near-fatal fall, her memories are gone… or so everyone believes. Still legally bound as the king’s wife, Lexa is stripped of her title and cast into the abandoned palace, a cursed place feared even within Antares. Surrounded by enemies, watched by the Queen Mother, and trapped beside a possessive king who refuses to let her go, Lexa quickly realizes survival inside the palace is far deadlier than war itself. “You tried to kill me,” Alaric murmured against her lips. “Did you really think I’d let you escape me so easily?” As buried memories slowly resurface, Lexa begins uncovering terrifying truths about her mother’s death, the king’s curse, and the darkness growing inside the Mad King himself. Because in Antares, becoming the king’s bride is easy. Surviving him is not. ****************** Important Note: Chapters inside this book are for Pilot Read only. You can follow and read the full story & updates by becoming a patron at my Patreon account. Link follows: www.patreon.com/eustoma_reyna ***** contact me, your Author, at: Discord Link: https://discord.gg/PNGkTUy twitter: @EUSTOMA_reyna instagram: eustoma_reyna Facebook Page: @eustoma.reyna see all my works at: https://linktr.ee/eustoma_reyna

R18 | Mature Themes Polyamorous FL vs possessive monogamous billionaire ML Two people who cannot love the same way fall into a relationship so intense that one tries to make it permanent while the other prepares for its inevitable end. Ace Yoel doesn’t belong to anyone—and she never will. Not to lovers. Not to rules. Not to the world that keeps trying to cage her. By day, she’s a Caltech prodigy. By night, she’s Nova Caldwell—a hacker who slips through firewalls, secrets, and identities like they were never there. She lives by one rule: No one owns her. Then she meets him. A man powerful enough to rewrite lives with a single command. A man who doesn’t ask. Doesn’t negotiate. Doesn’t share. And the moment he sees her—he decides: she’s his. What begins as attraction turns into obsession. What she calls freedom, he calls betrayal. What he calls love… feels dangerously close to control. She plans for the day she’ll leave. He plans for the day she won’t be able to. And when love becomes a battle between possession and freedom— only one of them will win. An emotionally and sexually intense story where love blurs with control… and sex becomes a weapon neither of them can stop using.

"Honesty and politics don’t belong in the same sentence," they say. Celine Yue, a kind-hearted social worker, stepped into politics to help more people. But what she didn’t know… was that her own party would be the one to end her life. After her death, she wakes up in another world as Cyrina Vaeloria, the Elf Princess—right on the day of her arranged marriage to Lucian Aetherion, the cold, mysterious Human Prince and strongest mage alive. A political union to keep two powerful races from tearing each other apart. But this so-called alliance is just a mask. She despises the way other races are trampled beneath noble boots. Cyrina refuses to be a pretty puppet. She dreams of building a new kingdom—where races aren’t divided by power, bloodlines, or magic. To do that, she’ll need power of her own. And lucky her... she just married the most dangerous man in existence. With sharp wit and stubborn grace, Cyrina slowly bends her cold husband to her will— She toys with the ruthless Archmage, tames the untamable… and drags him into a revolution wrapped in royal silk. After all, if you marry the strongest mage alive… you might as well make him yours. ***** excerpt~ Lucian’s voice is like a blade, low and sharp. “Do you even understand what you said in the royal assembly?” Cyrina lifts her chin, unbothered. “I understand perfectly. I said I’ll build a new kingdom—where every race can live together.” His eyes darken. “You don’t know what you’ve sparked. That speech—” he steps closer, “—could ignite a war. You’re underground now, Cyrina. Buried beneath politics you don’t even see coming.” She spins on her heel and waves dismissively. “Ugh. Kaelen Blackthorn, your master is giving me a migraine. Get me out of this castle before I set it on fire.” Kaelen gives a slow, exaggerated bow. “As you wish, my lady.” He takes her hand like the perfect gentleman and leads her toward the door— But Lucian’s voice booms behind them. “Kaelen. Don’t forget who your master is.” Kaelen pauses. Glances back. “I remember, my lord. But as per your standing order… I obey only my lady’s command.” A smirk tugs at his mouth. “Even if it means going against you.” **** Per Golden Ticket = 2 extra chapters

They say seven is the number of perfection. For Luna Seraphine, it was the number that ended her silence. Six times, she tore the divorce papers apart, choosing love over pride, endurance over dignity, surrendering to the cruel demands of the mate who never cherished her. The seventh time, she signed her name without trembling. Alpha Ravyn panicked. His mistress, Daisy, the daughter of Seraphine’s former nanny, laughed it off. She’s only throwing a tantrum, they said. She’ll crawl back. They were wrong. The truth shattered what little remained of her heart: the child she had loved and raised for six years was never hers. That revelation became her breaking point. This time, Luna Seraphine walked away without looking back. As her power rose, so did Ravyn’s regret. The Alpha who once discarded her now slept outside her door, desperate for a single glance. But the woman who opened that door was no longer the Luna he broke. Cold, untouchable, unforgiving. Ravyn fell to his knees, begging for her hand, only to realize he was no longer the only one. Men of influence and power now competed for her attention because Luna Seraphine was no longer just a Luna. She was a world-renowned business mogul, a shadowed philanthropist. The most sought-after surgeon of her time, and a cyber genius. Then, a powerful, cold Alpha, one infamous for hating women, just shook the entire werewolf world and the North American billionaire elite, the Sovereign Circle, with a single tweet. “Sera is mine. I’ll pluck out the eyes of anyone who dares to look at her.” The internet exploded. The pack world went silent, and Ravyn… lost his mind. But the real question is this, will he dare challenge the richest, most powerful Alpha in the world… for the ex-wife he let go?

After dying in the apocalypse, betrayed by her boyfriend and best friend, Roanna “Rory” Smith wakes up in an Interstellar Beast World—a place where females are scarce and paired with multiple beast mates. But the quality of her mates depends on her rank. After five years of diligent work across the stars, Rory is blessed with incredible luck: she matches with nine extraordinary beasts. There’s just one problem—these nine male beasts either want to dissolve the match, ignore her, or try to swindle her wealth. Fed up, Rory decides to break all the matches and wait for a better batch. Then, suddenly, her mates come groveling for her attention, offering her all the power, riches, and status they possess. What kind of beastly magic is this?!

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!"