quick-reads

"I am offering you a contract marriage," Dorian said.
"Read the terms yourself," he instructed, leaning back in his chair. "First, there will be no romance, no emotional expectations, and no real marital intimacy between us under any circumstances. We will live in separate quarters. Second, you will be provided with an allowance of USD 100,000 per week to spend, full access to the family's medica...

Zane De Luca chose his Luna years ago, hoping that the Goddess would grant her as his mate when the time came. He's stunned when the scent that calls to his wolf doesn't belong to his girlfriend, but to her fraternal twin sister.

Alessandra Romano only has eyes for her ambitions. She knows the life that awaits a female after being mated, so she prays to the goddess that her birthday does not reve...

My mate rejected me yesterday. This morning, I married the monster who killed his wives.
The wedding gown was never mine—it was made for my sister, Paige. So was the groom. When the Hound of War demanded the Alpha's daughter, my parents spent one week scheming behind a locked door, and the way out they found was simple: feed him the worthless one.
The wolfless one. Me.
Jax, the man I loved for two...

“Very well. Try another escape, and I have you bend over my knees and spank your ass raw until you can’t walk for a week. And I will lock you up in the cage until you learn your lesson. Do you fucking hear me?”


A 20-year-old Red Klein doesn’t know the other world exists until a devastatingly handsome, gray-eyed billionaire werewolf alpha holds her captive, claiming her as his mate. 

Zax Sko...

Mikalya Carnell, a woman born into a cursed pack where women are nothing but birthing machines, became the first female alpha in the world. But to become the Alpha, she had to commit a crime that haunts her an eternity later. Now she’s a lone wolf, a rogue that has no place in the world. But she’s happy being left alone. But an Alpha can’t stay alone forever without forming a pack and inevitably, ...

"You came and ruined everything. Shouldn't you be planning to excuse yourself from this family? Undo whatever spell you did on Arthur and get lost."
I grit my teeth as the test paper crumpled further in my fist.
Hurtful as those words were, they had some truth to them. I had to ask myself the right questions. Give the right answers too.
I was a fool.
Four years ago, I traded my freedom for a dying...

“Are you rejecting me?” The word caught beneath my ribs.
“No.”
“Then what exactly are you doing?”
Trying to leave this room with my judgment intact.
“I have responsibilities that come first.”
Being conquered is humiliating. Discovering the conqueror is her mate? That’s just rude.
Twenty-two-year-old Tessa is used to being underestimated. An omega with a human mother and curves her pack never...

"You will do what I want and there is no going back on my words!" John's voice boomed out. "Dad, I f**king have a boyfriend, what do you expect me to tell him?" "That you are getting married!" "But he is mute." "I don't care!" Chloe Thomas, a sassy shopping queen known and hated by everyone, is forced to get married to a rich tycoon's son who everyone knows as a mute because he doesn't talk to p...

He was my destined mate. He was also the man who made me feel worthless.
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For years, Serena has lived like she doesn’t belong.
An orphaned omega, she has spent her entire life at the bottom of the pack hierarchy, watching Alpha Kieran rule over everyone while ignoring the girl whose family once sacrificed everything for his.
Then, on her eighteenth birthday, fate delivers the cruelest blow of all...

Catherine loved Marco with all her heart.

Until she discovered that he had betrayed her with her own sister.

Instead of defending Catherine, her family blamed her for standing in the way of their happiness. To them, she was nothing more than an unwanted daughter who had ruined the love story between Marco and the sister they had always favored.

So Catherine gave them exactly what they wanted.

...

His hand hovered close to my jaw, held back until I said yes. I hauled him down hard to me, the mating bond burning sharp between our bones.
“You know what this means.” Darian’s growl rumbled against my cheek.
“I know exactly what I want,” I breathed. “Kiss me. Don’t make me beg for it.”

I arrive at the Royal Pack’s wolf-royal court carrying only a bitter memory and quiet rage for my sister. Clai...

After the world ended, Aria woke a hundred years too late in a wasteland full of monsters, power, and men who should have stayed out of her path. Marked as the last Moonbinder, she can bind powerful shifters to her through irresistible soul bonds, drawing out their strength while awakening a hunger of her own.
Kael is a fierce white lion commander with a body built for war and a possessive streak ...

After a passionate one-night encounter with billionaire CEO Lucas Hart, struggling designer Amelia Vale learns she is pregnant.
Lucas offers her a marriage of convenience because an inheritance condition threatens his control of Hartwell Group. Amelia agrees to protect her future child and save her failing studio, hoping that their arrangement may eventually become something real.
Instead, Lucas...

Scarlett is out of options. Her ex, Caleb, has framed her, fired her, and left her destitute. In a desperate bid for justice, she storms his wedding, only to be thrown out into the rain—and straight into the path of Alpha Carter Blackwood.
Carter is everything Caleb isn't: lethal, protective, and impossibly wealthy. But he’s also a forbidden fruit.
Caleb thought he was throwing away trash, but he ...

Sage Bennett is invisible. A poor, bullied transfer student with glasses, braces, and secrets no one bothers to uncover. Until she walks into Wildfire Racing—and catches the eye of Zane Wilder.
Future Alpha of the Nightfall Pack. Ruthless. Arrogant. And her new boss.
He accuses her of sabotage. Vows to destroy her. Then fate plays its cruelest trick: on her eighteenth birthday, Sage learns Zane is...

Some houses keep memories. This one keeps secrets—and everyone who tries to uncover them.

Twenty-two-year-old Adesewa Agbodemu has spent her entire life believing that her parents died in a tragic accident when she was a little girl. Raised in Lagos by her hardworking aunt, she has learned to survive disappointment, ignore unanswered questions, and build a future that has nothing to do with her m...

Ten years ago. Her father had given her only one choice: reject Darren, or watch him be exiled from the pack with no protection and no way back.

She forced herself to meet his eyes. “I’m the future Luna, Darren. I need someone worthy of me.”

Her wolf screamed inside her as she spoke the words that would destroy them both.
“I, Lyra Haralson, reject you.”


Ten years after Ly...

She needed a second chance. He needed a fake fiancée.
A ninety-day contract was supposed to solve all their problems—until stolen kisses felt real, a fake engagement became a forced marriage, and betrayal threatened to destroy everything they had built.
In a world where love is the biggest gamble, will they walk away when the contract ends, or fight for a forever neither of them expected?

"Oh my God, you look so perfect. You are just the right choice for Alpha Garrick, Zaria."

​Those were the sweet, supportive words my elder sister, Cynthia, whispered as she lovingly braided my hair and laced me into my white maiden silks. I trusted her completely, believing today would be the happiest day of my life.

​I walked into the Selection Ceremony with my head held high, ready to be claim...

"You want to marry me and have my name, Amy?" His breath grazed my ear, sending an involuntary shiver down my spine. "Then you’ll take everything that comes with it."
My eyes widened slightly. “What do you mean?”
He brought his smiling face directly in front of mine with our noses almost touching.
"You have to take everything," he murmured. "My money, my status and my body."
My breath hitched but ...

Mara Bell writes cozy fantasy romances.

Unfortunately, she is very good at writing men no sensible woman should ever date.

Her most popular creation is Lord Soren Ravelle, the terrifying Duke of Duskryn. Obscenely wealthy, capable of shadow magic, feared by half the kingdom, and responsible for enough fictional murders that Mara stopped counting.

Readers adore him.

Then, while trying to finish...

After Nora West discovers that her four-year relationship had been nothing more than a cruel joke, the last thing she expects is for her twin brother to collapse from exhaustion and land in the hospital. That incident brings her face to face with Alan Reed, Noah’s billionaire boss, a cold and emotionally distant man whose family has been pressuring him to move on from the woman he lost years ago.
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“No feelings. No interference.”

After catching my boyfriend cheating, marrying a stranger almost sounded sensible.

My father needed his family’s money. His mother wanted a bride for her Alpha son, who’d lost his wolf and had little time left.

Elias Vance wanted me to sign his terms, then stay away.

Fine. I didn’t need another man to disappoint me.

But I began noticing the pain he hid. He bega...

They say we only live once. Elena Hart got a second chance, and this time she is not wasting it on love that never loved her back.

For seventeen years, Elena loved her best friend, Damien Cole. When their families arranged their marriage, she thought her dream had come true. But Damien never loved her. His heart belonged to her twin sister, Elise.

Elena married him anyway. He grew colder every d...

"Spread your legs wider."

Nicholas's voice cut through the room like ice over steel.

Lilith obeyed because refusing meant her pack's destruction, her mother's death, everything becoming worthless.

His brothers watched with hungry eyes as he crouched between her thighs.

"This is what you are now," he said coldly.

"Payment. Property. A warm hole for us to fuck whenever we want."

"Welcome to...

A brutal slap landed hard across my cheek, the sting burning hot. My gambling father leaned in, spitting curses straight at my face. “Your birth parents dumped you by the roadside because you’re a freak, an unlucky curse. You were born to bring ruin to me!”
I stumbled back, shame searing through every inch of me, and ran to Jason, my fiancé-to-be after two years of love. But he looked at me with u...

For four years, Belle waited to become Chase Sterling's Luna.
Curvy. Soft. Never the pack's idea of perfect. She endured every whisper because Chase swore she was the one he'd choose.
Then, in front of the entire pack, he humiliated her — and chose someone else.
He doesn't know she's carrying his heir.
When Kacie demands she give up the baby, Belle chooses her child. And pays for it with her l...

Framed for the murder of her parents by the man she once loved, Angelina spent years behind bars for a crime she never committed. When she's finally released, a mysterious invitation from her elder sister leads her to the most dangerous Mafia clan—Camorra. There's just one problem, women are no longer allowed to join. She was forced to disguise herself under the identity of a man named Konstantin ...

“As much as I appreciate your input and your help tonight,” Amara said, pushing her mind off how good he looked, “I'd prefer you stayed out of it. I don't need to prove anything. Tonight was enough, and your acting was great. Thank you.”

“Oh.” Silas eyebrows rose, and an expression she didn't quite understand passed over his face.

“What?” Amara asked. “What’s with that look?”

“It’s just...I th...

Before she became the MC’s matriarch, Marge was a preacher’s daughter with no intention of behaving.

New Mexico, 1986. Nineteen-year-old Marge knows exactly what people will say about her falling for Frank, the president of the Sons of Doom MC. He’s thirteen years older, a Vietnam veteran, and a man with a brotherhood to lead.

She wants him anyway.

What begins with attraction becomes a marriage...