Mystery

“You belong to me, Freya.”

“No,” I whispered, staring into his cold gray eyes. “I never belonged to anyone.”

Leopold Gray’s jaw tightened.

The most powerful man in the country wasn’t used to hearing the word no.

And that might be exactly why he became obsessed with me.

After losing her parents, Freya Raphael was raised inside one of the wealthiest families in the city.

To outsiders, she was ...

Five years after fleeing Manhattan, Evelyn Valentine has survived things that would break most people — and become something that would frighten them. Now her husband is dead, and his funeral has drawn her back to the city she once escaped, back into a life she thought she had sealed shut behind her.

But the past refuses to stay buried.

Adrian Winthrop — her late husband's son, the man whose for...

Lila Anderson never thought fairy tales could exist, but when she enters a contract marriage with the reticent billionaire Ethan Cross, she finds herself in a nightmare from which she is unable to free herself. Lila believed she understood everything there was to know about her new husband and herself, but Ethan's world is murky and full of secrets and whispers.

Upon arriving at Ethan's vast, de...

"Kneel," he said, his cold voice carrying authority.
My knees hit the stone before I could process what I had just did.
I lift my head, and my breath hitched.
He steps closer, his scent hits me instantly, he smell of smoke, cigars, and something fresh, dangerous, and addictive.
Two fingers catch my chin, tilting my face up. His dark, unreadable, and searching locked on mine. My heart slams agains...

I was reborn one year before my husband fell in love with another woman. This time, I successfully took her place and became the idealized figure, the one admired and longed for by my husband and her other suitors.

"I quit." I slammed the words onto the table like a verdict.
From my purse, I pulled out the papers I had carried for weeks, the ones I had drafted in the dead of night while he was in her bed, and slapped them in front of him.
DIVORCE.
Serena Vaughn had been invisible for too long, the discarded wife of Damien Blackwood, a billionaire who saw her as nothing more than a trophy. But when humiliatio...

Ethan Cole was just an ordinary man.

He worked at an office for $12 an hour, was three months behind on his rent, and only had four numbers in his cell phone, which was cracked in a bus stop. He was not unlucky. He was just one of those guys that no one cared about.

Then on a Wednesday night, a mugger got a knife into his ribs and that's the end of Ethan Cole.

Except it wasn't.

He pulled me closer, trailing butterfly kisses on my neck. My heart leapt to my throat as he whispered huskily.
“Let’s tie up your ex and have sex in front of him. This will be your ultimate revenge, princess!”
…
Omega Harley was a perfect housewife, deeply in love with her husband, Alpha Xander Ledger. But when she found out about his affair with her best friend, Ella, all bets were off. Fuele...

"Why did you marry me?"

"Because I had no other choice."

The day my grandfather fell critically ill, I was abandoned by my boyfriend of seven years and lost my last pillar of support.

To fulfill my grandfather's dying wish, I married Charles William, a man I had never met.

Cold, arrogant, dangerous—that was my entire impression of this new husband.

It wasn't until after my grandfather's death...

Luna Sera received news that the Omega Maya, her husband’s sister in law, was pregnant. She claimed that the biological father of the child in her womb was Alpha Cassen, Sera's husband. Instead of showing remorse, Alpha Cassen made excuses, "You cannot give me a child. The Moreno clan must not go extinct." That night, Sera dialed a forbidden number and chose to marry the most powerful Alpha in the...

Before meeting Elliot Winter, Michelle’s life was a routine of beatings from her drunk dad to juggling part-time jobs. He was handsome, loaded, and had a smile that could melt ice.

There was also a twenty-year age gap between them, Michelle didn't care because their relationship was the only ray of sunshine in her rather bleak world. And when he popped the question she was more than happy to say...

Vaelis Renn was never supposed to survive her entrance trial. Her magic answers only to the Crimson Moon, wild and impossible to tame, the kind of power every instructor has warned her will get her killed or get someone else killed first. When her trial ends in fire and screaming students, she expects to be sent home in disgrace. Instead, she is dragged into something far worse.
The Conservatory h...

"Don't test me, Stone; your family has always thought that it was untouchable... Felt on top of the world, didn't you? You didn't care about who you needed to stomp down to get there?"

His fingers hung dangerously over the trigger; I shook as far as my binds would let me, tears rolling down to the gag in my mouth… that muffled my cries.

But even as I had the gun pointed at my head, my husband wa...

“You’re under arrest.”

“For murdering my father?”

Agent Weston Foxx’s expression didn’t change. “Murder is only one of the charges.”

I laughed, because apparently there comes a point where your life falls apart so completely that hysteria is the only option left.

“I didn’t kill him.”

“Then prove it.”

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Twenty-four hours ago, I was Brooke Mitchell, successful CEO, devoted daughter, and ...

“Just give me one more week.”
“Genevieve, you’re out of weeks.”
My parents left me a failing coffee shop, crushing debt, and an illness that makes every breath a battle. Then I discover a door to a kingdom ruled by dragons.
With no money and nowhere else to turn, I do the only thing I know: open a coffee shop. My drinks soothe troubled souls, and strange wisps of magic seem to ease my illness. For...

Adaline Voss has never questioned her luck. When a full scholarship arrives from a university she has never heard of, she takes it. She needs the door. She walks through it.
Ashveil University is not what it looks like in the photographs. The students here carry something that shifts their eyes at the edges of anger. The northwest trees hold an attention that trees should not be able to hold. And ...

“You’re not going back to work.”

“You don’t get to decide that.”

“I do when the man sitting beside you was murdered.”

Stone stepped closer. “Walk out that door, Fox, and I’ll follow.”

“To protect me?”

His jaw tightened. “To make damn sure you come back.”

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Getting involved with my biker bodyguard was never part of the plan.

Neither was watching one of his brothers die in front of me.
...

Vera's life collapsed completely the year she turned twenty-two. Her father absconded with embezzled funds, leaving behind a staggering $7.8 million in debt. Her mother remarried and severed all ties without looking back. Her seven-year-old brother—a child genius afflicted with systemic lupus erythematosus—required treatments costing $600,000 a month.

Her bank account held exactly $412.

And as i...

Seven years ago, Cassian Aldren was erased from his family, stripped of power, and buried under a scandal useful to everyone except the truth.

Now he returns to Black Harbor in the rain, carrying one duffel and a command identity the city was never meant to hear again: Black Meridian.

Evelyn Vale is fighting a different war. Her logistics company is being choked by board betrayal, dock seizures...

I died in a rainy day. For twenty-eight years, I clung desperately to my adoptive family, craving nothing but warmth and a home. Yet all my devotion was nothing but a joke.
Everyone in the household loathed me, quick to side with my adoptive sister Isabelle over every lie she spun. I gave my whole heart to my fiancé Damien Sterling, believing he would be my salvation. But when the truth surfaced,...