“This is my office. Bought with the money that I made. I made you who you are. Without me you’d be nothing more than a starving, working-class tramp scraping by on minimum wage to pay the bills. So, unless you want bad things to start happening, I suggest you apologize right fucking now.” From the outside, Vivienne's life looks like a fairy-tale: a nobody waitress swept into Hollywood stardom and the arms of a rich husband. But behind closed doors, it's a nightmare, and one that's about to get much worse. The only one willing to protect her now is Marcus, an ex-military, ex-mafia shifter who won't let anything hurt her. Anything. Yet problems still loom. Vivienne's stalker is still at large, her abusive husband and his family threaten her happiness at every turn, and Marcus's position as an alpha shifter means even the other packs are against his feelings for a regular human. Can the two of them survive and find happiness together, or will these obstacles tear them apart forever? [UPDATE MON - THUR hopefully]

"You've lost." Seraphina stared down at the ivory set between them, unable to lift her gaze from the chessboard as Alios rose from his seat. A clawed hand dragged its way over the wooden frame of her chair before dipping down to coil a finger through her long hair. "What shall I demand of you now?" He murmured softly, and the princess felt her heart begin to ram against her chest. Her thighs clenched involuntarily and she gasped when a firm hand cupped her chin and dragged her gaze over to meet her soulmate's burning gold eyes. "Don't look away from me, my sweet little lark. I'll have you singing for me in a moment. Now open your mouth." They say nothing good comes from the Voided Lands, and that if you go there then you never return. So when Seraphina is whisked to the shadowy kingdom by the King himself after an attempt on her life, she fears for her future. Alios seems to be everything she loathes in a man: arrogant, cruel, and manipulative. Yet as the two work together to uncover a plot to ignite a war between the kingdoms, she finds herself drawn to him and to the future they could have together.

"So you're our new sisters huh?" The man looked me up and down, then scoffed. "What a waste." Ame and Ema have been together their whole lives, but with their father's new marriage on the horizon they've been forced to transfer both home and schools to stay with their new stepbrothers, men with sterling reputations and less than familial intentions. How can Ame protect her sister and herself from beasts when they sleep just a few doors down?