Weak to Strong

My mate rejected me in front of four hundred wolves. So I claimed the Lycan King instead. It was supposed to be a joke. When an Alpha rejects a girl in public, the old law lets her name a second mate, and the pack gets to laugh at her twice. Nobody has been accepted in a hundred years. So I looked past every boy in Hollowpine, straight at the most dangerous man alive, and said his name. Adrian Sterling, sovereign of every pack on the continent, stood up while four hundred wolves went to their knees. "Accepted," he said. "Mine." Now the man who threw me away has to bow to me. The court gives me eighty-six days to shift, or I'm exiled as a pretender. I've never had a wolf. But I have something nobody else has: when I heal, I can see every mate bond as a thread. True ones shine silver. And half the marriages in the King's court are gold. Forged. The King has a secret of his own. Lycan kings without a mate go feral before thirty-three. He's thirty-one, and he chains himself in a tower every full moon. The only thing that quiets him is me.

I gave my husband five years of my life, and he never once looked at me like I mattered. I wasn’t stupid. I knew about the other woman. Everyone did. But I kept telling myself that being patient was the same thing as being loved. Then one night I stopped telling myself that lie. I didn’t yell. I didn’t cry in front of him. I simply put my ring on his desk and asked for a divorce. He signed the papers so quickly it felt like he had been waiting for me to say it first. So I left. I took almost nothing. I started over with nothing but a laptop and a stubborn decision not to disappear quietly. Turns out I’m good at this. Really good. Six months later, I walk into the biggest business event of the year. The entire room goes silent. I am the person who just bought a share of his family’s company. And I am standing next to the one man he truly hates. He looks at me as if he is seeing me for the very first time. Too bad, he already had five years. Now he won’t stop showing up. He won’t stop trying. And he won’t stop looking at me like he made the worst mistake of his life… because he did. The problem is, there is another man now. A man who never made me feel invisible. A man who actually wants to know me. For the first time in my life, I get to choose. Not who gets to keep me, but who I truly want. He is about to discover that the wife he let go, no longer needs him. But, the real question is whether that truth is finally what makes him worth wanting back.

{MATURE — mid slow burn, knotting, claiming, check your trigger warnings. Fmc is a plus size and won't change. This is bear shifter erotica romance.} "Look at you," Orion growled against my throat. “Taking every inch like you were made for me." "Orion—" "Say it again." his voice was gravel with hunger. "Say my name while I fill you up." "I can't — it's too much—" His grip tightened on my hips, fingers bruising, possessive. “It's exactly enough." He pressed his forehead to mine, eyes darkened. "You were made to accept my knot. Your body already knows it even if you don't.” *** Man or bear — Aurora chose a bear shifter. Aurora Whisper ran from everything she knew — the abuse, the lies, and the man who convinced her that being owned was the same as being loved. Bleeding and broken in a mountain rainstorm, the last thing she expected was him. Orion Beckham. Alpha of the Boulderback Pack. Leader of the Boulderback MC. A man built like the mountains he rules — dangerous, and completely undone by a woman who falls broken into his world and refuses to leave his mind. He is possessive. Obsessive. Devoted in ways that should frighten her but it doesn't. What he does to her body should be illegal — Orion Beckham learns every inch of her like she was made specifically for him. Because to his bear, she was. And he intends to prove it. But her past comes back — and it wants her on her knees. Too bad she already belongs to a bear.

"Sign it," he said. Three years of marriage ended with a line and a pen that trembled in her hand. It wasn't the papers that hurt—it was the way he didn't even flinch when she did. Amelia Hart walked out of his penthouse that night with nothing but a suitcase and a broken heartbeat. She'd given Daniel Sterling everything—her love, her identity, her silent devotion—only to be discarded the moment she became inconvenient. But when the empire he built begins to fall, when the cold CEO who never looked back suddenly needs the woman he threw away, he returns with the same hands that once let her go, now reaching for what he destroyed. Only this time, there's a clause he didn't read…

Billionaire CEO Julian Hawthorne runs his life—and his romantic conquests—by the entries in a private, meticulous journal. But when his business comes under threat from his estranged father, he needs a Personal Assistant who won’t fall for his money, his charm, or him. Enter Sloane Carter. Brilliant, broke, and fiercely independent, Sloane accepts a job she didn’t apply for because she has no choice. She vows to manage Julian’s life, not his women—and definitely not her own growing attraction. But as secrets surface and the lines blur, Sloane discovers the journal that keeps Julian’s heart locked tight. To secure her future, she may have to destroy the system he uses to avoid love—and risk becoming the one woman he can’t manage.

Aurora Valentine wishes she could just escape this world and leave everything behind. Tormented, bullied and harassed on a daily basis, she lives in the mercy of her treacherous, gambler and alcoholic father who loves to abuse her. Her fellow students in high school despise her for no reason and she is often harassed at her work. The only thing holding her back is her five year brother, Riley, who her mother had entrusted to her on her deathbed. But things take a turn for the worst when the school’s biggest bully and bad boy, Caleb Blackburn, suddenly takes an interest in her. Suddenly, the boy who used to be her tormentor had turned into her protector, attracting the attention of not only other allies, but jealous classmates that want her gone forever. But how can she accept the fact that the boy who had tormented her all through high school was suddenly obsessed with her? Will she give love a chance or will she end up just like her mother, broken and destroyed and six feet under.

What’s more embarrassing than a butt dial? Butt dialing your boss… And leaving a dirty voicemail when you’re uhh… “thinking” about them. Working as Ruslan Oryolov’s personal assistant is the job from hell. After a long day spent tending to the billionaire’s every whim, I need some stress relief. So when I get home that night, that’s exactly what I do. Problem is, my thoughts are still stuck on the bosshole who’s ruining my life. That’s fine—because of all Ruslan’s many sins, being gorgeous might be the most dangerous. Tonight, fantasies of him are just what I need to push me over the edge. But when I look down at my phone squished next to me, There it is. A voicemail for 7 minutes and 32 seconds…

"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.

"What do you want, Aveline?" The Alpha King's silver eyes burn into mine as he drops to his knees, his hands gripping my thighs like he owns them. His voice is a command, not a request, and I'm trembling, unable to form words. "Say it properly, or I walk away and leave you like this." The night before our wedding, I discover that the man sworn to hate me is also the only one who can bring me to my knees. All Aveline ever wanted was a mate who would protect and cherish her, someone to take her away from a pack that rejected her the moment they discovered she was wolfless. Instead, she gets public humiliation when her fated mate rejects her, then gets sold as a bride to the cursed Alpha King—a man whose hatred runs deeper than she could ever imagine. Alpha King Thorne doesn't just despise weakness. He despises her. The moment he sees her face, he's reminded of the mate who betrayed him, the one who chose death over being his. Her only purpose? To bear his heir. Nothing more. Stripped of her title and thrown into a world of dark politics and ancient prophecies, Aveline must survive not just his cruelty, but the dangerous obsession growing between them. Because the man determined to break her is the same one who makes her body sing with a single touch. "You're mine, Aveline. Tomorrow you become my wife. My Luna. My breeder." What happens when duty becomes desire, hatred transforms into possession, and the girl meant to be broken becomes the only one capable of bringing the most powerful alpha to his knees?

I am Princess Revienne Evonhart, the Emperor's firstborn. To the world, I am known by many names: the crippled princess, the abandoned princess, the princess with a cane. As if those were not enough, after the Great War, they decided to give me another one: the Crippled Luna of the North. That was the price my father paid to the war hero, Kyros Caelun Mooncrest. The man they called a monster. The mad dog, the Duke of the North, who that feared by everyone. People whispered that he was ruthless, that he killed without hesitation, that his eyes burned with nothing but bloodlust. They said he never removed his helmet in public because no one could bear to see what was underneath. Some even claimed he carried a secret about his true nature. And so, instead of the second princess, it was me they sent. The crippled daughter. The sacrifice the royal family offered to the monster of the North. I told myself I had no choice. That this was the only way I could serve the Empire and please my father. But what I never expected was to find salvation in the man everyone feared. Because behind the armor of the Duke of the North, I found a heart. And with it, the truth about who he really is.