"I don't know when you stopped feeling like home... and started feeling like temptation." Julian Hart has spent years chasing one dream: earning the prestigious Vanguard Fellowship that could secure the future he's worked so hard to build. Love has never been part of the plan—until his mother announces she's getting remaried. At the engagement dinner, Julian comes face to face with the one person he never expected to see again. Xavier Cole. His childhood best friend. The boy who disappeared twelve years ago without a single goodbye. Now they're forced to live under the same roof... as stepbrothers. Xavier is no longer the warm, carefree boy Julian remembers. He's quiet, guarded, and impossible to read. Yet living under the same roof slowly begins to break down the walls Julian spent years building. Familiar routines begin to feel comforting again. Old memories refuse to stay in the past. And somewhere between sharing a home and sharing a life, Julian finds himself questioning feelings he never thought he would have to face. Living under the same roof was supposed to make them strangers. Instead, every shared morning, every familiar routine, every accidental touch, and every lingering glance pulls them closer to a line they were never meant to cross. Some secrets can destroy a family. Some feelings refuse to stay buried. And sometimes, the hardest person to walk away from... is the one you're forbidden to love.

Reborn as the Villain Alpha's BrideEveryone knows the Villain Alpha is a monster.So when Lyra Ashbourne rejects her engagement to the future Alpha King and chooses the Villain Alpha instead, the entire werewolf kingdom believes she has signed her own death warrant.No one knows she has already lived this life once.In her previous life, she gave everything to the man she loved. Her family's trust. Their armies. Their future. In return, he framed her for treason, slaughtered everyone she loved, and sent her to the executioner's block.When fate grants her a second chance, Lyra makes a vow.She will never help him become king.She will never sacrifice her family.And she will never become his Luna.If marrying the most feared Alpha in the kingdom is the only way to rewrite fate and destroy the man who betrayed her, she'll do it.Even if the Villain Alpha truly is the monster everyone believes him to be.But the deeper Lyra is drawn into his world, the more she uncovers secrets that should have remained buried.Because sometimes, the greatest villain isn't the man history condemned...It's the man history crowned a hero.