Story By Mike Fordham
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Mike Fordham

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The Woman He Let Die
Updated at May 16, 2026, 02:00
BLURB:June Ashbourne spent five years shrinking herself to fit inside her husband’s world.She became quieter when he called her emotional. Smaller when he called her embarrassing. Softer when he stopped loving her in public.And when she collapsed on the floor of their mansion — bleeding, terrified, and carrying the child she had fought desperately to conceive — her husband abandoned her for another woman’s applause.By the time June wakes in a hospital bed, her baby is dead.So is the woman who begged for love.Because the grieving wife Cole Ashbourne discarded was never who she claimed to be.Behind the plain dresses and submissive smiles hides a secret empire worth hundreds of millions. Hidden patents. Revolutionary medical research. A genius the world has worshipped for years under another name.And now?June wants everything back.His company.His reputation.His peace.His future.One elegant move at a time.But revenge becomes dangerously complicated when Cole finally begins seeing his wife clearly — just as she stops loving him entirely.Now the man who ignored her tears is addicted to her silence.The husband who let her die becomes obsessed with the woman reborn from the blood he left behind.And when the truth about the stolen research, the mistress’s manipulation, and the child they lost finally surfaces before the entire world—Someone is going to burn.
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The woman in her place
Updated at May 13, 2026, 04:10
BLURB:Damian Vale never recovered from losing the love of his life.Three years after the crash that destroyed her car — and him with it — he still lives inside the ruins of her memory. His family calls it grief. His therapists call it obsession. Damian calls it love.But when a clause in his grandfather’s inheritance threatens control of the Vale empire unless his fiancée publicly resumes her role beside him, Damian makes an impossible decision:he hires a stranger who looks exactly like the dead woman.Elena Marrow accepts immediately.Not for the money. Not for the luxury. Not even because she needs a job.She accepts because she deserves to suffer.Because three years ago, on a rain-slick highway, Elena got behind the wheel drunk.And Damian’s fiancée died because of it.Now Elena is sleeping in the dead woman’s bedroom. Wearing her perfume. Learning her smile. Listening to the man she destroyed whisper thank you for bringing her back.But the cruelest part isn’t the lie.It’s that Damian slowly stops searching for the ghost.He starts falling in love with Elena instead.The woman who ruined his life becomes the only thing keeping him alive.And when he discovers the truth, he will have to decide what is stronger:his grief…or the woman standing inside it.He asked her to pretend to be the woman he lost.He never imagined he was falling in love with the reason he lost her.
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THE ASHES WE CALL MERCY
Updated at May 13, 2026, 03:45
BLURB:Aria Vale has spent her entire life invisible.An omega servant born without status, she survives by keeping her head lowered, her voice soft, and her hopes painfully small. But during the future alpha’s sacred mating ceremony, her world shatters when the bond snaps into place between her and Darius Blackthorn—the heir to the most powerful pack in the north.Before the entire pack, Darius rejects her.Cruelly. Publicly. Completely.Humiliated and heartbroken, Aria flees into the forest where rogues descend upon her beneath the trees. Blood stains the snow. Her pack assumes she died screaming.But she survives.And when she wakes, she finds herself in the territory of Lucien Voss—the feared rival alpha whispered about like a ghost story.Lucien is patient where others were cruel. Gentle where others were dismissive. He gives Aria warmth, safety, dignity… things she has never been allowed to want before. Beneath his careful attention, she slowly begins to heal. Slowly, dangerously, she falls in love.But Lucien’s kindness hides something monstrous.He orchestrated the attack that destroyed her old life.He engineered her rescue.And worst of all—Aria is not the first broken omega he has tried to remake into someone who could love him back.As buried memories claw their way to the surface and old lies begin to unravel, Aria finds herself trapped between two men who claim they hurt her to save her.One destroyed her past.One destroyed her future.Neither asked what she wanted.And for the first time in her life, Aria begins to wonder:What if becoming whole means choosing no one at all?
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The Omega's second chance
Updated at May 12, 2026, 09:35
BLURB (First-Person POV):I never thought an Alpha would want me—let alone my feared mate. But Raine did… and then he shattered me, right in front of everyone. He said, “I don’t mate with slaves.” My heart broke, and I ran. I ran so far they thought I was dead.Years later, I returned—stronger, fearless, and no longer Lyra Hale. They call me Luna now. And then he walked into my world again, unaware I survived. My first thought: I could finally have my revenge. My second: why does my heart still race when I see him?He once destroyed me, but now… maybe fate isn’t done playing its cruel, funny game.
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THE WOLF BETWEEN US
Updated at May 11, 2026, 12:52
BLURB:When Liora Vale is forced into Black Hollow territory to investigate a string of ritualistic murders, she expects monsters.She does not expect him.Kael is feared even among wolves—a violent recluse whose mind is fractured between two warring selves. One is cold, ruthless, and terrifyingly intelligent. The other is the wolf within him: primal, possessive, and convinced Liora is his fated mate.One body.Two men.And both of them are dangerous.The wolf touches her like devotion.The human touches her like punishment.Yet the deeper Liora falls into their shattered world, the more she realizes the crueler personality is hiding something devastating. Every rejection, every threat, every act of coldness conceals a desperate attempt to protect her from truths that could destroy them both.As rival packs close in and hunters seek to weaponize Kael’s fractured mind, Liora must navigate shifting identities, missing memories, and a bond neither personality fully understands.Because someone split Kael apart for a reason.And if his two selves cannot become whole again, Black Hollow will drown in blood.
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The blood that bound us
Updated at Apr 28, 2026, 01:32
BLURB I have killed twenty-seven wolves.I don’t remember their faces. I only remember the blood.They told me they were rogues. Enemies. Monsters.I believed them… because I had nothing else to believe.Until tonight.She was supposed to be my next kill.Chained in my dungeon. Broken. Silent. Waiting for dawn.But the moment I stepped close, something inside me woke up.My wolf—dead for fifteen years—howled one word.Mate.Now I can’t breathe. I can’t think.Because the woman I am meant to love… looks at me like I am the monster who destroyed her world.And maybe she’s right.They say I have until sunrise to end her life.But no one told me what to do if saving her means losing everything I am.Or worse… discovering the truth about the blood on my hands.
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Rejecting the alpha
Updated at Apr 18, 2026, 02:05
BLURBI thought finding my mate would feel like magic.It did. For about five seconds.His name is Caden. He has golden eyes, a voice like deep water, and the kind of face that makes you forget how to breathe. He looked at me like I was the answer to a question he had been asking his whole life.Then he blinked.And he was someone else.Same face. Same body. Different soul.That one looked at me like I was the problem.His name — the other one's name — is Raze. He does not smile. He does not want a mate. He does not want me. He made that very clear the night he pinned me against a wall and told me to run.I should have run.But here is what nobody tells you about fated mates — your soul does not care how complicated the situation is. It just knows. And mine knew both of them.One holds my hand. The other holds the door shut.One whispers my name like it is precious. The other spits it like a warning.I am supposed to choose.But you cannot choose between two halves of the same heart.And when the enemy came for me in the dark — it was not the gentle one who saved my life.It was the one who told me to run.
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Thirty days to fall in love
Updated at Apr 13, 2026, 17:25
BLURBI told him I was expensive.That was a lie. I told him I only needed thirty days. That part was true.When Nathaniel Cole walked into my life with his ten-million-dollar offer and his perfectly pressed suit, I almost laughed. He wanted a wife. A prop. Someone to smile at his board meetings and disappear quietly afterward.I wanted something much smaller. Someone to sit beside me on Tuesdays when the chemo made the room spin. Someone who wouldn't look at me like I was already gone.So I made him a counter-offer. One dollar. Thirty days. No questions.He thought he was the one doing me a favor.He has no idea that when Day 31 comes, I won't be here to argue about it. And he has no idea that in thirty days, a man who had everything will finally understand what it means to lose something that money cannot touch.My name is Ava Reese. I am twenty-seven years old. I have thirty days left to be alive in the way that counts.And I chose to spend every single one of them with him.
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Alpha with two personalities
Updated at Apr 13, 2026, 17:08
BLURBI thought finding my mate would feel like magic.It did. For about five seconds.His name is Caden. He has golden eyes, a voice like deep water, and the kind of face that makes you forget how to breathe. He looked at me like I was the answer to a question he had been asking his whole life.Then he blinked.And he was someone else.Same face. Same body. Different soul.That one looked at me like I was the problem.His name — the other one's name — is Raze. He does not smile. He does not want a mate. He does not want me. He made that very clear the night he pinned me against a wall and told me to run.I should have run.But here is what nobody tells you about fated mates — your soul does not care how complicated the situation is. It just knows. And mine knew both of them.One holds my hand. The other holds the door shut.One whispers my name like it is precious. The other spits it like a warning.I am supposed to choose.But you cannot choose between two halves of the same heart.And when the enemy came for me in the dark — it was not the gentle one who saved my life.It was the one who told me to run.
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His Mercy was a trap
Updated at Feb 21, 2026, 05:26
BLURBShe walked away from betrayal with nothing but her sick son.He offered salvation — with chains attached.After catching her fiancé cheating, Emma Bennett leaves with her dignity bruised and her son’s life hanging by a thread. When the hospital refuses her dying child a life-saving surgery, hope becomes something she cannot afford.Then Sebastian Vale — ruthless billionaire and owner of the hospital — steps back into her life.“I can save your son,” he says.“But you’ll live under my roof.”It’s not charity.It’s a contract.Forced into Sebastian’s cold, controlled world, Emma must decide how much of herself she’s willing to sacrifice to keep her son alive. Because Sebastian doesn’t rescue women.He positions them.He studies them.He uses them.And the moment Emma signs, she discovers the most dangerous truth of all —The hospital refusal wasn’t an accident.And neither was she.
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For my son, I signed
Updated at Feb 14, 2026, 03:32
BLURB She walked away from betrayal with nothing but her sick son.He offered salvation — with chains attached.After catching her fiancé cheating, Lisa Hale leaves with her dignity bruised and her son’s life hanging by a thread. When the hospital refuses her dying child a life-saving surgery, hope becomes a luxury she can’t afford.Then Alexander Crowe — ruthless billionaire and owner of the hospital — steps back into her life.“I can save your son,” he says.“But you’ll live under my roof.”It’s not charity. It’s a contract.Forced into Alexander’s cold, controlled world, Lisa must decide how much of herself she’s willing to sacrifice to keep her son alive. Because Alexander doesn’t rescue women.He owns them.And the moment Lisa signs, she learns the most dangerous truth of all —Alexander didn’t choose her by accident.
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Breathless under their Rule
Updated at Jan 30, 2026, 01:38
BLURB They broke me in front of everyone.Four powerful men claim they own me now.I learned one rule at Crescent Academy: power decides who gets to live.I am bound to the four brothers who rule it by fate, and each of them wants something different from me.I have to give up everything else to choose one.If I don't give them what they want, I could die.This is not a safe place for love.It is the most dangerous choice I can make.
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Exiled not destroyed
Updated at Jan 30, 2026, 01:08
BLURB I survived the night my child died. My mate did not choose me. He chose power. He let them call my grief weakness and cast me into the snow to protect his rule. I lived as a rogue for years—bleeding, hunting, enduring—until war crossed my forest and left an Alpha’s son crying alone in the cold. I saved him before I knew who he was. Now his father wants me back in his world. Not as a mate. Not as forgiveness. But as a secret he cannot afford to lose. Every truth I carry can destroy his authority. Every step closer to him costs me my safety, my allies, and the last pieces of who I used to be. I know what loving powerful men costs. The question is whether survival will cost me even more— or if this time, telling the truth will burn everything down.
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Rejected under the Alpha's crown
Updated at Jan 15, 2026, 04:40
BLURB (FIRST PERSON)I always thought my mate would save me.I was wrong.I am just an omega maid. I clean the floors and bow my head. I save up coins so I can leave one day. I wanted a mate who was kind. Someone gentle. Someone like Kale.But fate gave me Alpha Dorian.He is cold. He is feared. And he belongs to another woman.I tried to run. I tried to say no.Then my mother got sick.The Alpha gave me a choice I could not escape.Stay close. Stay quiet. Stay his secret.Every time he looks at me, my heart breaks.When my heart says no, my body listens.I am losing myself in his arms.But what happens when the truth comes outAnd he must chooseHerOr me
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The Lycan who found me
Updated at Nov 29, 2025, 02:49
❤️ BLURB (First Person POV)I thought my wedding day would be the happiest day of my life.But instead, it became the day I lost everything.He—Alpha Damian Hale, the man I loved since I was sixteen—left me standing in front of everyone. His so-called lover claimed she was pregnant and dying. He looked me in the eye and said our marriage was just a deal… that I was nothing to him.I ran that night. Away from the pack, away from the shame, away from him.But fate had other plans.A storm, a near-death escape, and then him—Lucian Draven, the Lycan King feared by all Alphas. He saved me, but when our eyes met, the world stopped. Because the bond was real. He was my true mate.Now, the man who once broke me wants me back. But I’ve learned one thing from the ashes of my heartbreak—I may have lost my first love, but this time, I won’t lose myself.
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