Joi Oh

Adrian Hayes has spent years trying to understand the human mind, but he cannot explain the missing pieces of his own memories. Haunted by strange nightmares and fragments of a past he cannot remember, Adrian’s carefully controlled life begins to fall apart when he meets Lucien Armand — a brilliant criminal profiler with a cold reputation and secrets of his own. Lucien knows something Adrian doesn’t. Years ago, their paths crossed in a place Adrian was never supposed to remember. A place connected to a dangerous criminal network and a truth that could destroy them both. As Adrian searches for answers, he discovers that the people closest to him have hidden more than they revealed. Betrayals, family secrets, and forgotten memories force him to question who he can trust. Lucien may be the only person who can help him uncover the truth… but he is also connected to the darkness Adrian is trying to escape. When the past finally begins to surface, Adrian must decide whether to run from the truth or face it — even if it changes everything he thought he knew. Because some memories are painful to recover. And some people are impossible to forget.

""This is wrong..."" she whimpered pleasure consuming her. “You want me just as much as I want you, give in to your desires sweetheart and I’ll make you feel so f*ck*ng good, that you won't ever want another man to touch you,” he whispered huskily making her core throb. That was what she was afraid of, that when he was done with her, she would be left broken… Scarlett Malone was a feisty headstrong young she-wolf, blessed by the moon goddess as the first Alpha Female. Moving to a new town with her mother to start afresh, they were welcomed into a new pack and a new family. Things became complicated when she begins to feel attracted to her handsome, smart, and cocky stepbrother, the future Alpha of the Blood Moon Pack. Will she be able to overcome the illicit thoughts that consume her mind and awaken a pleasure deep within her? or would she push even her own boundaries and explore the forbidden feelings that burned within her?

“F*ck it!” He thought, arching closer to the guy, throwing his arms around his neck, “I'm getting engaged tomorrow and will be closeted for the rest of my life, living under pretense. Why don't I just experience s*x with a hot dude for one night? Just one night… just one night…” *** Lincoln Smith had no regret that night he made the impulsive decision to have s*x with the hot, mesmerizing man across the bar. He was sure it was the best night of his life… one he would never get to experience again. But then on the day of his engagement party, he was to receive a shocking blow. The man he had shared an intimate, passionate night with, the man he was sure he had a connection with, was his fiance’s big brother! Right there and then, he knew he was universally and colossally f*ck*d! WARNING: This Book Contains Some Explicit Scenes Between Characters That May Not Be Suitable To Some Readers. Viewers Discretion Is Advised.

Raymond Cooper—a former police detective at Morozov, decided to resign from his job and move to Cirillo to reinvestigate the murder case of his late friend, Arnold Walter, after the police decided it was a failed robbery attempt that led to the murder. With a piece of paper that he found in his friend's hand, he searched for clues leading him to a girl named Amanda Chloe. All the investigations he carried out in Cirillo led him to the trauma and old wounds he had received from his past. Will he be able to deal with his trauma and find the answer to his friend's murder?

Dorian Keene was once untouchable—admired, feared, and cruel in the way boys are when they believe the world belongs to them. Caspian Vale was the opposite: quiet, brilliant, marked, and easy to target. What Dorian never admitted was the truth beneath the cruelty—he was terrified of how badly he wanted the boy he was meant to destroy. Years later, life shows no mercy. Penniless, grieving, and battling a worsening illness, Dorian takes a job that feels like a miracle only to discover his employer is Caspian. No longer the boy he buried, but a powerful tech mogul with an unreadable stare, a carefully constructed life… and a fiancée at his side. Dorian tries to keep his distance. Caspian pretends nothing ever existed. But desire doesn’t die, it waits. And the closer they get, the harder it becomes to tell where control ends and longing begins. As secrets surface and memories fracture, Caspian is forced to confront a truth he’s spent his life denying and Dorian must decide how much of himself he’s willing to lose for a love that was never supposed to exist. ~~~~~ “Once His Nightmare, Now His Employee” is a slow-burn MM romance that drifts from longing into obsession, where power shifts, choices cut deep, and loving the wrong man may cost everything.

A marriage of deception is what Elijah Ford came up with as a solution to escape his billionaire, homophobic and controlling parents. The best bride is Clara Hills, his childhood friend who's a lesbian and in the same situation as Elijah. Seven years into the deception... Lucian Reid comes into their lives and turns the peacefulness upside-down. The husband gets a boyfriend, and the wife gets a girlfriend. Is it time to fight for their love or to cower and hide like before? Or should they start another deception in order to survive?

NATHAN COLE THOUGHT HE HAD SURVIVED HIS PAST. He buried the love, accepted an empty marriage, and learned to live with choices he never wanted to make. He convinced himself it was enough… that he could endure it. Until Damon Sterling came back into his life. Now he's powerful, untouchable… and the only man who can save his wife's mother. But Damon isn't offering help. He's offering a debt. Because five years ago, Nathan didn't just leave… he left him in pieces. And this time, he wants it paid back. What he demands isn't money. It's control. It's submission. It's Nathan on his knees again… destroying, with his own hands, the life he built to escape him. With a pregnant wife, a family depending on him, and a past that never stopped burning under his skin, Nathan is trapped between what's right… and what he still wants. Because some decisions don't break you right away. They consume you slowly. And some debts… get paid with your soul.

Luke is only the vagabond son of the Earl of Athea, who wants to prevent the marriage of his elder sister to Prince Artanis. But something unexpected happens. He takes her place, as the prince’s groom, making a blood contract. Even if there is hatred in this relationship, it may be the only thing that will remain in your world amid so many secrets, lies and discoveries. After all, it seems that Luke doesn’t know everyone around him as he imagined. Is the prince really your greatest enemy? Warning: Contains anorexia, physical and mental warning and low self-esteem.

He believed I was his. He had no idea I had come to destroy him. The firelight caught in Edward Fraser’s eyes, turning them to molten gold. He leaned back in his chair, studying me like I was a puzzle he wanted to take apart slowly. “You’re not afraid of me,” he said, voice low, certain. I met his gaze, refusing to blink. “Should I be?” His mouth curved just enough to make my chest tighten. “Most people are.” “I’m not most people,” I smirked. He reached for the decanter, poured a slow measure of whisky, and slid the glass toward me. His fingers brushed mine deliberately, lingering a fraction too long, and the contact jolted through me like heat. “Careful,” he murmured. “You keep looking at me like that, and I’ll start thinking you want something from me.” I took a sip, ignoring the way my pulse kicked. “Maybe I do.” If he knew the truth that I’d come here to destroy him, that every smile was a calculated move, he’d have thrown me out long ago. But instead, he kept leaning closer, letting the air between us tighten until it was hard to breathe. We crossed paths in narrow hallways, shoulders brushing. His gaze would drop to my mouth before he looked away. And every time, I told myself it meant nothing. But the truth was in the pull between us, inevitable, dangerous, impossible to resist. He wasn’t the heartless monster I’d imagined, and I was starting to wonder if the real danger wasn’t what I’d do to him but what he was already doing to me. ******************************************************************** For nearly twenty years, I had lived for one purpose: to annihilate the man I blamed for my parents’ deaths. Edward Fraser, Scotland’s most powerful billionaire, ruthless master of an empire, and the untouchable lord of the estate where my life had burned to ash. By thirty, and already a rising star in corporate law, I had finally gotten my chance. When Edward hired me to handle a secret, high-stakes property deal deep in the Scottish Highlands, I walked straight into the lion’s den with a polished smile and a weaponized plan: get in, get close, gather proof, and destroy him. But the closer I got, the more the truth twisted into something dangerous. Edward wasn’t the merciless villain I remembered. He was guarded yet magnetic, his quiet voice laced with power, his solitude a silent wound. And, worst of all, he trusted me. Every stolen glance across a firelit room, every brush of fingertips, every unguarded moment chipped away at my resolve. The man I had vowed to ruin might not have been the monster I’d built in my mind, and wanting him might have been the most dangerous betrayal of all. Could we survive the love growing between us, or would the final truth break us?

Hakim was every girl’s dream at Northwest High and every guy’s role model. He was hot, smart, popular, romantic and all, and every girl’s dream was to get laid by him. He was living the dream life, but he had one single problem; Dante. Dante was the complete vice versa of Hakim; soft, gentle, unnoticed, innocent, and these traits drew Hakim’s heart towards him, and for that reason, Hakim hated him. He hated his lingering gazes and admiring glances, and he hated that he felt the need to hold him, to protect him, and for that reason he resolved to torment Dante, making his high school days unbearable. Dante was forever scarred by him, and his heart broke into many pieces. Now, years later, after the two drifted apart, going on to their two separate worlds, Dante builds an image for himself. He is no longer the timid, innocent boy at Northwest High, but is now a top corporate lawyer in the industry, and a fine one at that. What happens when he is hired by a law firm and finds out that his boss is no other person but Hakim? And what happens when a workplace romance sparks between him, Hakim, Basil (a detective), and his co-worker, Cole

What do you fear the most? Matthew's only fear is coming out as gay to his family, who are devoutly religious and consider homosexuality a sin. But when he heard from his doctor that he had less than three months left to live. Matthew decided that living his truth was more important than his fears. He planned on telling his family his sexuality, and also, confessing his feelings to his longtime crush, the son of a Deacon, Keith who was every lady's dream in college. But what if Keith is just like everyone else? Would Matt's last wish come true before the end of his days on Earth? And what happens when all that glitters does seem to be gold?

"You either walk away now," Aiden said, his voice sharp and cutting, "or you stay and deal with the consequences." Tristan's chest tightened as he met Aiden's gaze, the challenge blazing in his dark eyes. Every instinct told him to run, to leave before things spiraled out of control, but his feet wouldn’t move. “What’s it gonna be, Tristan?” Aiden’s voice was low, almost taunting. “Because if you stay, there’s no turning back. You won’t just be here. You'll be mine. Every inch of you, every breath, every thought... mine!" ...... Even before they became stepbrothers, Aiden and Tristan had never been on good terms, not since high school. Tristan couldn’t have imagined that the arrogant guy he despised—the same one he hated with passion—would one day become his stepbrother, a fact he refused to acknowledge. But after a drunken night led to an accidental kiss, something shifted in Aiden. He began to see Tristan differently, from an angle far removed from brotherhood. It enraged him. He fought to keep hating him, to remind himself how wrong it was. Yet, the harder he tried, the more he missed him. The more he wanted him.

“So what are we now…?” Maddox asked, leaning in until his visor almost brushed mine. My throat tightened, the heavy scent of his cologne trapping me. “You’re my stepbrother.” His mouth curved into a dangerous smirk, crowding me against the locker room wall until I could feel his bulge. “And…?” *** Jace only wanted a normal life. He wanted to focus on his sophomore year, play hockey, and keep his head down. Five years ago, his father married into a family that held the keys to their painful past—but the real nightmare begins now, when Jace is suddenly forced to share a luxury apartment with his stepbrother. Maddox Donovan is everything Jace avoids. He’s arrogant, destructive, and magnetic in all the wrong ways. The exact kind of boy Jace’s late mother warned him about. Their parents thinks sharing a room will 'bring them closer,' but Jace’s only rule is simple: ignore him. Act like he doesn’t exist. But rules mean nothing to Maddox. One chaotic night—born from tension between them explodes into a ruthless one-night stand, dragging Jace into a game he never saw coming. By day, he’s assisting Maddox on the ice. By night, he’s playing his submissive behind closed doors. It was supposed to end when the semester ended. But as the lines between hate, need, and self-destruction blur, a darker truth looms. Their parent union wasn't a romance—it was a calculated revenge. And when the secrets of the past finally collide with their forbidden present, it won't just destroy their hockey season, it is meant to burn their new beginning to ashes!

A MFM Poly story Cain and Ezra have been together a long time. Childhood friends and codependent, they stay together through better or worse-though they lean toward worse. Their life is turned upside down when they both take in interest in a patron of their restaurant-Dominque. Their relationship twists even further, cocooning around her. But the two are toxic to one another, despite how sweet they are to Dominque. Will their toxic bond poison the relationship

Sixteen years I've survived his father's cruelty by keeping my head down, playing the useful accountant, the invisible family asset. Then Luca Scarfoni decided he wanted me. He's the mafia heir. I'm his step-uncle. It was the one line even he shouldn't have crossed. I was wrong. His obsession doesn't know rules, and it turns out, neither do I.

Successful CEO Kenneth Brey thought he had his life planned out nicely—until he hired supposedly straight Kelly North as this year’s holiday companion. For the past five years, CEO Kenneth Brey has advertised for a gay male holiday companion to join him on his single annual break. Although Kenneth claims to be neutral in his choice, he has certain non-negotiable requirements. Applicants must be between twenty-one and twenty-five, non-smoking, social drinkers, either versatile or passive, and be able to pull off the role of dutiful boyfriend in front of his clutch of gay friends. What does the candidate get out of the deal? An all-expenses-paid holiday and five grand in cash at the end, more if the candidate exceeds his expectations—a safe enough addendum, because for the past three years no one ever has. Kelly North sits in a quiet corner of the coffee shop, trying to finish an assignment. At twenty-nine, he is single once again. By now he should have settled down. But when his girlfriend of three years gives him an ultimatum—ring or road—he chooses the road. Worst of all, he has no qualms about doing so. As for his finances? Saddled with a string of outstanding student loans, he is struggling to finish his master’s while also supporting his brother through university. Losing his work at the estate agents’ could not have come at a worse time. Then he overhears the man at a nearby table recruiting for a job that pays a cool five grand. What does he have to lose? Author's note: this book is a collection of stories sharing the same central theme of fake gay relationships turning to real ones, so don't let the number of chapters in it scare you. The blurb here is the blurb of the first story which is Kelly and Kenneth's story, and other blurbs appear before their preceding story. The stories in the book are really amazing, and I look forward to having you on this amazing adventure.

"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."

"Win his trust and report to me." Lord Callum is the son of one of the world's richest men. He's also the youngest one. And with that, he was never expected to be the head of the family. Living a life of privilege and variety, he often spends his time in an unsuitable for his background company. Seeking the thrill and being easily bored with everything, he's unpredictable. Until one day Oliver- his new valet - shows up and that changes his whole life. Oliver is hired by Callum's father and the servant is supposed to report to the old Lord all of his son's actions and missteps. But something happens between Oliver and Callum that no one could have predicted.

"Kyra caressed her growing belly—she was finally pregnant with her best friend Nathan's child after three years of marriage. But when she returned home with the happy news, her Alpha husband was on his knees, begging her to end their bond. ""Sophia is back,"" Nathan’s voice raw with guilt. ""My fated mate."" Heartbroken, Kyra agreed to dissolve their union, hiding her pregnancy to avoid burdening him. Yet when she tried to leave, Nathan refused to let go. ""Can't we at least stay friends?"" She wrenched her wrist free. ""You lost that right."" Nathan didn't understand these feelings until Kyra was gone and then he knew this wasn't just friendship. This was love. And he'd fight to get her back. Then he appeared—Kieran, Kyra's stepbrother and the infamous Alpha from Raven Shadow Pack. He kept her captive, craving every inch of her. ""We're siblings,""Kyra gasped. His teeth scraped the mating mark on her neck as he growled.""'Not by blood.Run from him all you want, little wolf. But you belong to me now."" Trapped between two impossible loves—where does Kyra truly belong?"

Thirteen years ago, a single choice shattered their lives. Now, Aidan Vance is the king of Manhattan, and Kyle is an artist painting his pain in strokes of shadow and light. When fate forces them back into each other's orbit, the air between them crackles with a tension that neither can ignore. Aidan wants redemption; Kyle wants to forget. But as Aidan’s protection turns into an all-consuming fixation, they find themselves trapped in a web of secrets and unspoken desires. In a world of high-stakes business and underground art galleries, they will learn that the truth is more brutal than any canvas and that some obsessions never truly fade.