She went looking for a story. She found a curse. Kelsey Jones is a desperate reporter chasing an anonymous tip about a dead crypt in the Carpathian Mountains, and the moment she touches the ancient dagger inside it, she triggers something that hasn’t moved in a hundred years. Now she’s trapped in a gothic castle with the most dangerous creature in the hidden world, a Lycan King so cursed he kills to survive and shifts into a monster by night. He looks at her like he’s seen her before. Like he’s been waiting. Like she belongs to him. She has seven days before the curse becomes permanent. She has a glowing dagger that can end him. And she is slowly, terrifyingly, forgetting every reason she had to leave. The question isn’t whether she’ll survive him. The question is whether she’ll want to. Seven days. Two souls. One impossible choice. And a love so old it survived death itself — only to face something far more terrifying: THE TRUTH.

Elara Hart knew marrying billionaire heir Aaron Blackwood would never be a fairytale… but she never expected to become the unwanted wife living in the shadow of another woman. Cold, powerful, and impossible to read, Aaron keeps Elara at a distance while the world watches their marriage crumble under gossip, humiliation, and the constant presence of the woman he once loved. Yet beneath Aaron’s ruthless exterior lies a broken man haunted by a past he refuses to speak about—and somehow, against all logic, Elara becomes the only person capable of reaching him. Just as their fragile relationship begins to change, a shocking scandal tears everything apart. Betrayed, heartbroken, and pushed to her limit, Elara disappears from Aaron’s life overnight. But some secrets refuse to stay buried. As Aaron searches desperately for answers, hidden truths surrounding the Blackwood family begin surfacing—truths tied to obsession, betrayal, and a tragedy from years ago that may not have been an accident after all. Now the woman Aaron once rejected may be the only person who can uncover the truth. If it doesn’t destroy them both first. Because in the world of the Blackwoods, love is dangerous… and someone is watching Elara far more closely than she realizes.

**The moment her lips parted, I seized the chance, slipping my tongue inside and tangling with hers. She trembled beneath my hold, her tiny fingers clutching over my bare shoulders, caught between resistance and surrender. She wanted to push me away but didn't know how. But I deepened the kiss, claiming her mouth like it was mine to take. She whimpered, gasped, her soft protest lost between us as I swallowed every sound she made. Her body tensed, her struggles growing more frantic as if she was trying to say something but I kept devouring her mouth. But then....one gasp shattered everything. "Luca! Brother!”** Sofia thought returning to the Virelli mansion after years abroad would feel like coming home. Instead, she walks straight back into the orbit of Luca Virelli — her cold, ruthless foster brother and the feared head of the Italian mafia. The same man who spent years making her feel like she didn’t belong. But something has changed. Because the moment Luca sees her again, his icy indifference shifts into something far more dangerous. OBSESSION.

**Inside, tension crackled. “What do you really want, Lydia?”She broke. “Just today. Then we forget each other exists.”Afterward, Reid traced her cheek. “Tell me this isn’t going to matter in a week.”**They met when neither of them knew who the other was. months later, he walked into her boardroom and destroyed the fragile control Lydia Carmichael had spent years building around her life.At 38, Lydia has everything she is supposed to want, a respected career, a stable marriage, children she adores, and a life carefully built on loyalty, discipline, and responsibility. She is not unhappy. But somewhere between deadlines, routines, and years of being needed by everyone around her, she stopped feeling fully seen.Then an international summit takes her to a luxury hotel where she meets a quiet, magnetic stranger wearing a baseball cap low over his face. Their connection is immediate, unsettling, and impossible to explain. What begins as a late-night conversation becomes one reckless, emotionally consuming night neither of them expects to matter after they leave.But it does.Reid Colton cannot stop thinking about the woman who never recognized him, never cared who he was, and walked away without even giving him her last name. Months pass, yet she remains lodged beneath his skin like a bruise he cannot heal. Until he finally discovers her identity—and manipulates a career-defining endorsement deal with her company just to see her again.Lydia’s world shatters the moment he steps into the conference room and she realizes exactly why he felt familiar all along.NFL superstar quarterback Reid Colton.Now trapped between public scrutiny, unbearable chemistry, and the slow collapse of her marriage, Lydia must decide whether what happened between them was simply a mistake… or the beginning of something powerful enough to ruin every life attached to it.Dive into this emotionally charged forbidden romance and discover what happens when one unforgettable night refuses to stay buried.

She volunteered for an adventure. She was destined to be his obsession. When Lyra Kane stepped into the Dying Veil Realm, she expected wonder and discovery. Instead, she and eleven other women were betrayed — brought not as ambassadors, but as breeding stock for a dying world. But the High Lord has claimed only one. Kaelith Vaelor, the cold and ancient ruler who has desired no woman in four centuries, becomes dangerously fixated on Lyra from the very first glance. He will share nothing — not her body, not her future — with anyone else. What Lyra doesn’t know is that Kaelith secretly engineered the entire mission to bring her to him. Years ago, he bound their souls across worlds through a forbidden ritual. Now, the closer they become, the faster his life force drains. His obsession is killing him. Trapped between a jealous court that wants her gone, a rebel faction that wants her to kill the High Lord, and her own treacherous desire for the man who manipulated her fate, Lyra faces an impossible choice: Save the man slowly dying for her… Or destroy him to set herself free. He claimed her body to save his world. But his obsession may claim both their souls.

**The moment I stepped inside and our eyes met, his gaze changed. Storm-grey eyes swept over me slowly, from the top of my loosely pinned hair, down my neck, across the modest but carefully chosen neckline of my simple grey dress, and all the way to my feet. His stare lingered on the soft swell of my cleavage for a heartbeat longer than proper. Heat bloomed low in my stomach. I pretended not to notice, but I felt the weight of it like a physical touch. I crossed the room and set the tray down on his desk with a quiet clink. “Is there anything else, Alpha?”** Elowen Mosswood has spent her entire life being treated like she doesn’t belong. Overshadowed by her perfect stepsister Celestine, ignored by her own father, and trapped in a pack that sees her as nothing, Elowen has learned one thing very well:Invisible girls survive by staying quiet. Until the night her suspicions were finally proven true.Now the sweet, obedient girl everyone underestimated is done playing nice. Done surviving. Done staying quiet.And what better way to destroy her stepsister and stepmother than by tempting the one man Celestine cannot afford to lose? The more Elowen pulls him in with innocent smiles and stolen moments, the more Leander begins to look at her instead of the woman he’s meant to claim. In a world where mate bonds are sacred, an attraction like this should be impossible.Unless something is terribly wrong. As desire turns into obsession and secrets buried for years begin clawing their way to the surface, Elowen realizes she may not be the only one hiding dangerous intentions.Because someone in her pack has been lying. And the lie didn’t just steal her future.It killed for it. When the truth finally comes out it won’t just destroy a mating ceremony. It will burn everything to the ground.

By day, Elena is invisible — the perfectly composed assistant to one of the most powerful men in the country. By night, she becomes someone else entirely. Someone men pay fortunes to spend an evening with. Someone no one is supposed to know about. She has kept both worlds airtight for years. Until the night her boss sits across a dinner table from a man who has already seen her without the mask — and she watches Adrian Volkov's dark eyes begin to calculate.