She is a princess. He is a warlord. Fate made them enemies. Destiny made them mates. Princess Aurelia of Valdaria has spent her entire life hating the Northern Clans—the savages who burn villages and slaughter her people. Their leader, Ryker of the Shadowpack, is the most brutal of them all. A monster. A killer. Her father's greatest enemy. But when their eyes meet across a battlefield soaked in blood, Aurelia's wolf awakens with a single, devastating word: Mine. He is her fated mate. Now Aurelia faces an impossible choice: betray her kingdom and run with the enemy, or watch him die at dawn by her father's headsman. She chooses him. But escaping the castle is only the beginning. Ryker's people despise her. Her father's knights hunt her. And the forbidden bond between them burns hotter than any war. As they flee through the Whispering Forest—barefoot, bleeding, and bound by a fate neither wanted—Aurelia discovers the man behind the monster. And Ryker discovers the fierce, stubborn princess who would sacrifice everything for a mate she was never supposed to love. They are enemies by birth, lovers by fate, and outcasts by choice. But when war looms and betrayal strikes from within, can their bond survive the fire of two kingdoms at war? Or will the mate bond that brought them together be the very thing that destroys them both? The Enemy's Mate—a sweeping forbidden romance where love is the deadliest weapon of all. ---

He was the boy his father never wanted—the product of a forced marriage, a walking reminder of the scandal that trapped Mark Ashford.At seven, Cole Ashford watched his father beat his mother, Grace, until she tumbled down the concrete service stairs of the Ashford mansion. She died at the bottom. No one spoke the truth. The servants were paid off. The police were paid off. And Cole was too small and too terrified to speak.Mark remarried quickly—a cold woman named Tara. She finished what Mark started. Starvation. Beatings. Cruelty that knew no bounds. Cole became a ghost in his own house, invisible to his father's world of corporate greed and private jets.At fifteen, Cole ran. He left behind the Ashford name, the Ashford fortune, and the Ashford lies. He disappeared into the gutters of Crestwood, sleeping in abandoned factories and surviving on scraps.But Cole Ashford was smarter than his father ever knew.He taught himself to code. He built a software empire from a stolen laptop. In seventeen years, he didn't just make money—he made history. A billion-dollar tech conglomerate. A penthouse overlooking Crestwood. A new name: Cole Sterling.Now he's back.Mark Ashford's empire is crumbling. Bad investments. Boardroom scandals. The old man is desperate. And when a mysterious billionaire named Sterling offers to buy the struggling Ashford Industries, Mark sees a lifeline.He doesn't recognize the man sitting across the boardroom table.But Cole recognizes the service stairs. He remembers every bruise. Every hunger pang. Every scream from his mother.He didn't come back to save his father's company.He came back to burn it to the ground.Welcome home, Cole. The stairs remember you.---

Maya thought she was invisible. For seven years, her husband Derek beat her, cheated on her, and made her feel worthless—all while their young son, Leo, watched in terror. But the night Derek turned his fists on little Leo, Maya found a strength she didn't know she had. She fled with nothing but her child and a shattered heart. Now, three years later, Maya is a successful bakery owner, raising Leo alone in a safe home. But Derek has found them. He wants custody. He wants revenge. He wants to destroy her. Derek thinks she's still the scared wife he used to abuse. He has no idea that Maya is now a lioness protecting her cub—and she will burn his world down before she lets him touch her son again.---