“You won’t survive this pack, Seraphine Stone.”Darius Blackthorn cornered her against the cabin wall, emerald eyes blazing with dangerous hunger. “Then maybe,” Seraphine whispered with trembling defiance, “you should stop looking at me like you want to ruin me.”His hand tightened around her waist. “Ruin you?” Darius growled darkly. “I want to own every broken piece of you.” ###### Seraphine Stone spent years hiding her submissive wolf inside a violent pack where weakness means death. Survival was simple: obey, endure, and never trust anyone. But everything changes when ruthless alpha Darius Blackthorn arrives seeking revenge for his dead mate and missing sister. Dangerous, dominant, and emotionally scarred, Darius immediately becomes obsessed with Seraphine’s defiance. While the pack turns against her, Seraphine finds herself trapped between fear, desire, and deadly secrets that could destroy them both. As enemies become reluctant allies, attraction burns hotter than hatred, and revenge threatens to consume everyone involved. In a world ruled by dominance and brutality, can Seraphine survive the alpha determined to break her walls or will Darius destroy the only woman capable of saving him?

"You aren't in control, Andrea, I am. Your needs are irrelevant here; if the coitus isn't satisfying to you, the paycheck should be."When desperate, recently unemployed illustrator Andrea stumbles upon a cryptic personal advertisement seeking a temporary female companion, she never expects to land a high-paying transactional arrangement with Robin Borders, a guarded, ice-blue-eyed billionaire masquerading under an alter ego. Desperate to escape drowning in unpaid bills, Arianne accepts his strict, emotionless terms: service Robin once a week in a sterile luxury penthouse for thousands in cash, with zero intimacy or personal attachment allowed. However, Andrea shatters his boundaries by challenging his dominant control, using clever psychological games and profound physical vulnerability to breach his emotional fortress. As secrets unravel and high-society galas blur the lines of their transaction, can their strictly business arrangement survive real, undeniable feelings?