“Stop this God forsaken wedding!!” I boom, my voice resonating through the halls of the church. Murmurs fill the air as eyes turn to me, dressed in nothing but rags. My grip tightens on the bat in my right hand. How dare they? How dare he? My eyes burn as I match forward, my body trembling with rage. “Clara, what–” His words are barely out before I send my hand forward, swinging the bat at him. Thick red blood spurts out as screams fill the air. ~~~~~ Clara Thompson thought it was love when she took the fall for a theft her husband committed just a few weeks after she gave birth. Thought she was doing the right thing for him, for them, but she was wrong because on the day she came out three years later, she found out he was getting married to her best friend of ten years. Her whole world shatters as she watches her best friend take her life, her husband, and her daughter. Left with nothing but pain and a deep ache for revenge. She teams up with the one person she swore never to look at again, the one person everyone thought was dead. Spencer Thompson, twin to her husband and her first love, the same man who left her without a word. Now he is back from the dead, not as the same man she once knew, but a cold, heartless mafia man who wants nothing but destruction. As Spencer offers her a chance to reclaim her life and daughter. Filled with nothing but hate, she takes up the offer, determined to make everyone pay. But what she didn't know when going close to Spencer was that when dining with the devil, you use a long spoon.

I never wanted any part in this. But I have no choice. With a deep sigh, I force down an invisible lump in my throat, looking up at the priest.I press my fingers tighter into the flower I am holding, hoping it hides how much I am shaking. Dreading the words the priest is about to utter. “Do you, Ariella Cecilia Boone, take Dermos Salvatore to be your lawfully wedded husband?” The priest asks.I blink.I badly want to say it, badly want to scream that I am not Ariella Cecilia Boone.My lips tremble as I force the truth down my throat, “Yes, I do.” I murmur, my voice a little over a whisper.~~~~Ariel Hannah Boone didn't know what life had in store for her when she woke up on her twin sister's wedding day, only to find out her sister had run away.She went into panic when her mother insisted she take her place because Dermos Salvatore was no man to joke with.Dermos was the most feared Don in the whole of Sicily, one who killed without care. A blood thirsty murderer with no remorse.In an attempt to save her family from his wrath, she takes her sister's place at the wedding.Pain, suffering, and betrayal are all she knows the moment she became his. Secrets begin to unveil as she realises her family isn't what it seems.And when whispers of her sister's disappearance reach her, she finds out the truth.He never wanted Ariella; it had always been her.Ariel has to choose between a love built on lies or betraying her sister and family. She was his bride, and he was her prison, yet he would never let her go.

He is the uncle she must respect by day.The ruthless billionaire she can’t escape at night.Finding her fiancé in bed with her high school rival the night before their public engagement announcement was the breaking point for Anastasia Steele. Sick of playing the perfect, submissive girlfriend for the elite Rosewell family, the psychology intern chose one night of pure, uninhibited rebellion.It was supposed to be a flawless one-night stand. A clean slate. A way to reclaim her agency.Until she walked into the chief neurosurgeon's office to save the dying man who raised her, and came face-to-face with her mysterious, dark-eyed lover.Dr. Vincent Cornwell is a clinical genius, the heir to a medical empire, and a man driven by a meticulous, terrifyingly possessive nature. He agrees to perform the life-saving surgery for free, but his terms are absolute: Anastasia belongs to him. Alone.Caught in a suffocating web of dark desire and hidden contracts, Ana surrenders to the affair. But the carefully constructed walls of her world completely crumble at a grand family gala.Lady Rosewell introduces her long-lost brother, Vincent, and instantly fast-tracks a new wedding date.Now, Ana is trapped in the ultimate psychological nightmare: bound to the uncle in the dark, but forced to marry the nephew in the light. In a world governed by wealth, power, and dangerous secrets, how far will a man go when his obsession turns lethal?

After Azalea gave her Alpha title to her fiancée, the Beta, he betrayed her by impregnating her twin sister. He broke their bond and chose Azalea’s sister as his Luna. It was the most painful and horrible experience for Azalea. And as if that wasn’t enough, Azalea was forced to replace her twin sister, who was supposed to marry the ruthless Lycan prince, Federico, by tradition. Both of them didn’t want the union, so they agreed on a contract marriage. The deal was to be discontinued after Federico got his heir from her, but things didn’t play out as easily as they’d bargained.

Just a year after losing her mother, she was sold out by her stepdad to repay a loan he took from the cruel alpha, her supposed mate. All she ever wanted from him was love, all she cared for was his attention but he never gave her any of that instead he tormented her, and he treated her like she was nothing. To him, she's only but a breeder who'd be discarded after she births his heir, but then she did the unthinkable. If she can't have his love, then he will never have an heir. Set to make him lose the way she did, she fled in the night leaving him shattered by dawn. Years passed and they crossed part again, now he wants her back, he needs his heir to secure his throne. Will she let go of the past grudges and accept his love now that he's willing to give it? Or will she stick with his brother who was always there for her even when he abandoned her? Find out in Sold to be the Cruel Alpha’s Surrogate.