After losing her mother and left with nothing to her name, Liora Hale accepts a full scholarship to the elite Everhart Academy, wanting nothing more than a fresh start and a way to survive. But her quiet world shatters the moment she crosses paths with Cassian Vesper—a cold, dangerously handsome student who seems to hate her on sight. What Liora doesn’t know is that Everhart Academy holds a deadly secret: the elite students aren't human, and Cassian is a powerful vampire ruling over them. As dark threats close in on campus, an undeniable friction ignites between Liora and Cassian—a romance that is strictly forbidden in his nightmarish world. But when a deadly attack forces a life-or-death choice, Liora is turned into a vampire herself. Forced into a dark reality she never asked for, Liora must navigate her new deadly nature alongside the dangerous vampire she was never meant to love.

Liora Hale was never meant to be chosen — not by her family, and certainly not by Xavier Kane. When her father brokers a marriage to save the family's collapsing finances, Liora is handed over as the "safe" substitute for her golden stepsister, sold to a man the world calls broken: a CEO whispered to be too frail, too weak, to be a real husband.But the man she marries moves like someone who has never been afraid of anything in his life. Behind Xavier Kane's public reputation as a hollowed-out heir is a truth almost no one alive knows — he is the unseen king of an empire built on fear, and the rumors of his weakness are armor he built himself.Liora came into this marriage believing she was the least valuable piece on the board. She doesn't yet know that her dead mother once ruled a rival empire, or that the silence surrounding her mother's death was never grief — it was a cover-up. As Liora and Xavier's cold arrangement thaws into something neither of them can control, the truth of who they both really are threatens to unmake the fragile trust between them, just as it makes them the two most dangerous — and most hunted — people in the city.

Emily arrives at Blackwood Academy believing her scholarship will give her a fresh start.Instead, she clashes with Alexander, whose behavior makes her first days miserable.Their rivalry grows when Emily becomes involved in a situation that threatens Alexander's position as hockey captain.But as they spend more time together, their assumptions about each other begin to change.Alexander discovers that Emily isn't interested in his money or popularity.Emily discovers that Alexander isn't as heartless as he appears.Unfortunately, their growing attraction creates problems neither of them expected.And when a secret involving their families comes to light, their relationship becomes much more complicated.

She was his fated mate. That was supposed to be enough. Elena Ashworth spent two years believing the bond would protect her. That the man who chose her would choose her every day. Instead she finds another woman laughing on the edge of his desk, and the same quiet lie she has heard too many times: She means nothing. You’re my mate. You can’t leave. So Elena does the one thing he never believed she would. She claims another Alpha. The problem is simple and brutal: werewolves can smell the truth. A fake relationship means nothing if the scent doesn’t match. Callum Reid agrees to help her—on one condition. He will leave his scent on her skin, in her clothes, in her room, until even her mate’s wolf can no longer deny it. What begins as a careful performance becomes something far more dangerous. Every touch, every night spent under the same roof, every deliberate mark of his scent pulls them closer to a line neither of them planned to cross. And when Damian finally catches the scent of another Alpha on his mate, his wolf does not ask for explanations. It only demands blood.