Mika

"For years, I belonged to him. Not his mate. Not his love. But his bedmate. His Gamma. His shadow in the night. Alpha Calhoun made sure no man dared touch me, no wolf dared look at me. I was his possession, his secret, his sin wrapped in skin. And I endured it all—his rough hands, his dark devotion, his kisses that tasted like fire and chains because at least, for a while, he was mine. Until she returned. His destined mate. His so-called true love. And suddenly, I was nothing. Cast aside, silenced, left to wither in the shadows of a love that had never been mine to claim. But the thing about being claimed by a man like Calhoun… is that he never truly lets you go. ""Try to leave me, Elodie,"" his voice had been a snarl against my throat, his grip bruising my waist. ""I'll burn down every border, tear apart every wolf that stands in my way, until you crawl back to me. You're mine, even if the Moon Goddess herself wants to rip you away."" He didn't know then that I already had one foot out the door. And when I finally left his pack… I took more than just my broken heart with me."

She reads minds. He catches killers. But the darkest secrets are the ones they buried in her own memory. Selene Morozov is a brilliant but aloof criminal psychology professor. Her life of quiet isolation shatters when she stumbles upon a gruesome murder scene and becomes the prime suspect. To clear her name, she’s forced into an uneasy alliance with the only person she can’t seem to read: Detective Zachary Hale—a sharp, brooding young cop with a chip on his shoulder and an inexplicable grudge against her. Together, they dive into a twisted game of cat and mouse with a cunning killer. But as her psychological profiles unlock one case after another, Selene uncovers a chilling truth: her own memories have been tampered with. Ten years ago, her mother didn’t die in a random accident—she was a victim of a brutal, unsolved serial murder case. And Selene herself was there. Now, with her mind as the only crime scene, Selene must race against time to unravel a decade of lies, confront the ghosts of her past, and trust the one man who seems to know her better than she knows herself. Because the deadliest secrets aren’t the ones we keep from others… but the ones we keep from ourselves. Cold. Sharp. And utterly unforgettable. This is psychological suspense at its finest.

"You're not my mate!" Beta Gavin Marino screams, his anger evident. "I can't accept you. No one will ever accept you after what you did." "I reject you, Gavin Marino!" The words stun me even as I say them. My heart aches, but it's what's best. He hates me. No one will ever love me. I cry silently, but I wipe my tears away. Crying doesn't change anything. I need to leave this pack before I lose myself completely. Gavin accepts my rejection, though he seems to be in pain, even though it's what he wanted. I turn and walk away, heading back to the packhouse where everyone treats me with disdain. A few days later, I feel relentless. I can't bear the pain any longer. On a rainy night, I make my escape. However, I'm brutally attacked on the border of the Sapphire Lycan Royal Pack. Falling in and out of consciousness, I hear a roar that shakes my core and the ground beneath me. "You touched my mate; you'll pay for this!" It can't be—it's the voice of the most powerful man in the realm, the Lycan King, Alpha Nicholas Lavista. I feel sparks and tingles in my arm. "I've got you now." Those words guide me into the darkness. Apphia's life has been harsh and brutal. She has faced mistreatment from her pack members and suffered the pain of her mate's brutal rejection. Feeling completely alone, her circumstances take a dramatic turn on a fateful night when she encounters her second-chance mate—the powerful and dangerous lycan Alpha. Little does she know that she is in for the ride of her life. As things become increasingly complicated, Apphia discovers that she is no ordinary wolf. Tormented by threats to her life, she must confront her deepest fears.

"Zero points. Zero memory. Six hundred acres of cursed land. And a mysterious power to make the deadliest plants in the world bloom for her." Willow Elmwood should be dead. Instead, she wakes from a root cocoon in the mountains with nothing—not even her past. When she's assigned the most dangerous land in the city, pressed against the killer The Briar Corridor, everyone expects her to fail. The The Briar Corridor has other plans. Now she's building a farm with mutant chickens, a scarred ex-soldier, and a dung beetle that produces miracle medicine. But her peaceful life is threatened when a familiar face arrives—the man from her forgotten past, now the most powerful soldier in the nation. Some secrets refuse to stay buried. And some farms grow more than just food.

“I, Julius Armstrong, reject Doris Charles as my mate.” The laughter came right after. This was the second time my mate rejected me because I cannot talk. In the pack, they call me dumb not because I am stupid, but because I am mute. When I turned eighteen, my first mate rejected me for that reason. Today, it was the Gamma. He is twenty-one, the same age as the Alpha and Beta. This was his third rejection. The first girl was too fat, the second was too short and now, I was dumb. I never wanted to attend the mating ceremony. I knew how it would end, but my stepmother forced me to go, and my stepsisters came just to watch me get mocked again. The next day, wolves who had found their mates returned to officially claim them before the Alpha and pack leaders. I went only because I was forced, just to stand there and watch my stepsister get chosen. Then something happened that no one expected. The Alpha claimed me as his mate in front of everyone. Was I shocked? Yes. Did I believe him? No. Did I think it was a cruel joke? Absolutely. Because no Alpha would choose a rejected, mute girl like me.