The Duke challenged her to ride his worst horse. A beast no one could touch. She jumped the wall he’d shattered his shoulder on—the one no one had cleared in 7 years. He was trying to prove a point. She proved an entirely different one.
They said Tempest was unrideable. The Duke’s stable masters whispered it. Visiting nobles laughed about it over brandy. Even the…
I showed up to fix her condemned house. 30-day clock. A corrupt councilman. A creek that had been weaponized. Then she handed me a key before I’d even signed the contract. I thought I was saving her home. Turns out… she was building mine.
*”Careful,”* she said from the porch, her eyes dropping to the red notice tacked behind me. *”You might actually want…
I called her my wife as a joke. She whispered, ‘I wish that wasn’t a joke.’ So I laughed it off. Six years of friendship, one scam artist boyfriend, and a wobbly dining chair later… I finally stopped being an idiot. She’s keeping the hoodie.
My name is Ethan. I’m twenty-eight, and I spend most of my days with a drill in one hand and…
She was just a waitress trying to make rent. Then a vampire prince bit her sleeve—and her reaction changed everything. No screaming. No running. Just a soft hum and a gentle hand on his hair. Three months later, she’s dating the king.
The restaurant had been cleared for the evening, as it always was when Aldrich Thorne made a reservation. The Vampire…
She survived five years alone in a frozen wasteland. No pack. No warmth. No hope. Then the earth shook. The Giant Alpha King arrived at her cabin door with 10 wolves. Turned out the “worthless rejected omega” was his fated mate all along. The cold didn’t break her. It forged her.
One might think the worst thing a pack could do is leave an omega to die in the freezing wilderness….
The jungle wasn’t just hiding the enemy. Vietnam had creatures that turned every step into a gamble. Giant centipedes in your boots. Cobras in your foxhole. Tigers watching from the treeline. The scariest part? The soldiers never knew which would get them first—bullets or things with more legs than mercy.
The letter arrived at a farmhouse in Virginia forty years after the war ended. Inside, a single photograph. A young…