ONE NIGHT TWO LIVES Maya Chen has spent twenty-four years making herself small. She apologizes to doors, waits four minutes between her boyfriend's texts, and has been the quiet, easy one in her family for as long as she can remember. So when she walks in on her boyfriend of three years in bed with her own sister — her beautiful, shining, everything-Maya-isn't sister — she does the only thing she knows how to do.She says *sorry.* She leaves the necklace on the counter. And she walks home alone in the rain.Dragged to a nightclub by her fierce best friend for one night of "being somebody else," Maya does the most un-Maya thing of her life: she leaves with a stranger. Tall, dark-suited, dry-witted — a man named Adrian who looks at her like she's interesting instead of invisible. It's reckless, thrilling, and over by morning. A note on the pillow. A watch left behind. No last names.Then Monday arrives, and with it her new job.Maya walks into the gleaming Hale Group tower as an executive secretary and finds her stranger sitting behind the CEO's desk.Adrian Hale. Her one-night stand. Her new boss.Bound by professionalism, both pretend Velvet never happened. But with her ex-boyfriend crawling back, her sister hired into the same company and sharpening her cruelty, and a company gala threatening to expose everything, Maya is forced to decide what she'll keep enduring — and what she'll finally refuse.Because one night split her life in two. And the second one belongs to her.

In a world ruled by werewolf packs and ancient bonds, The Silent Mate follows Elena Whitmore, a quiet and misunderstood girl who has never spoken a word since childhood. Hidden beneath her silence is a powerful secret—one that could change the fate of every pack.When Alpha Damon Blackwood, a feared and ruthless leader, discovers that Elena is his destined mate, he expects strength, fire, and loyalty. Instead, he finds a girl who cannot speak, cannot defend herself, and refuses to meet his eyes. Frustrated and intrigued, Damon is drawn to her in ways he cannot explain.As enemies rise and dark secrets begin to unfold, Elena’s silence becomes more than a weakness—it becomes a mystery. With the help of unexpected allies like Lucas Reed, Damon’s loyal beta, and Seraphina Vale, a seer with her own hidden motives, Elena must find her voice in a world that underestimates her.But when the truth behind her silence is revealed, it could either unite the packs… or destroy them all.