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When the Tide Took Him — A Romantic Suspense Novel
Four years ago, on a fogchoked night in coastal Maine, Silas Ward vanished without a trace. The town moved on. The police closed the case. But Eveline Shore never stopped searching—or feeling the echo of the boy she once loved whispering, “Eve, I’ll always find you.”
When Eveline discovers a torn page from Silas’s notebook hidden inside the abando...

Twenty years ago, four-year-old Alicia vanished from a park, falling from Connecticut's wealthiest heiress to an orphan overnight. Twenty years later, her birth parents find her working at a coffee shop, bringing her back to a life of luxury.

But behind the fairy tale reunion lurks deadly danger. A mysterious guardian angel named Gabriel begins sending her prophetic warnings about her family's im...

Claire's love for Richard was legendary—three years of devotion that everyone envied. Until the day she found her best friend Monica on top of her husband in their living room, and her world shattered.

"Sign it, Claire," Richard said, tossing divorce papers at her hospital bed, his once-warm blue eyes now ice cold. "You disgust me. You're clingy, obsessed, and suffocating."

One year later, Clair...

🔔🔔 Fair warning: this book contains steamy scenes, forbidden romance, stepdad and daughter taboos and languages strictly 18+

When desire crosses the line, hearts are bound to burn.

Isabella has always lived in the shadow of control until one night shatters every boundary she thought she could keep. Drawn to a man she can’t have, she’s caught between guilt and a passion that refuses to die.

Bu...

Bianca Morena is accustomed to playing the dutiful daughter, but when her powerful family in Cape Townthe Morenas, who control vast wealth and trade routes—informs her she's been traded into an arranged marriage to solidify a corporate alliance, her compliance shatters. She is to marry Alessandro DeSanti, heir to a powerful Italian empire, a man she's never met and whose future she desperately wan...

"Three years ago, standing at the altar under the admiring gaze of hundreds, Gabriel declared that he would love only Catherine, unwaveringly, for the rest of his life.
Three years later, after receiving a diagnosis of infertility, he heartlessly threw divorce papers in her face and cast her out onto the streets with nothing.
Three years ago, Catherine, in her kindness, saved a girl who was about ...

Her twin was born to shine. She was born to be her shadow.

At eighteen, she discovered the Alpha’s son promised to her sister was her fated mate but that changed nothing until tragedy struck.

Her sister died on her wedding day, and she was forced to take her place as the Alpha’s wife.

Five years later, on the night of their shared birthday her sister returns. Alive. Beautiful. Changed and now...

At the most-awaited Mapping Ball, where fates are sealed, Lucianna's dream seems to come alive when she discovers her destined mate is Jacob, the alluring and powerful Alpha of the Shadow Pack.
But instead of love, she is met with a cold whisper of disdain.
"I despise weaklings like you," he sneers, a secret humiliation only for her ears.
Stunned and reeling from his venomous words, Lucianna, o...

They were the city’s perfect couple until the cameras caught their perfect breakup.

After three years of a loveless marriage to a billionaire CEO, George Robert, Lea finally files for divorce. The media named her “the woman who tamed the Ice King.”
They have no idea she’s the one who melted first and got burned.

The ink on their divorce papers is barely dry when fate brings them together again. ...

She loved him enough to die for him.
A thousand years later, she’s back to make him pay.
Seraphina Vale was once a witch with a pure heart and a dangerous gift. When the vampire Caelum Draven was hunted and left to die, she broke every law of magic to save him, binding her life to his forever. But love became a curse. Betrayal followed, and she lost everything, even her soul.
Now, Seraphina liv...

Adrian's wolf pushed harder against his control. Lila watched his pupils elongate, watched claws extend from his fingertips. The air in the corridor grew thick with power, with the wild dangerous energy of an Alpha on the edge.

"Adrian, listen to me." She dropped her bag and held up both hands. "You're losing control. If you shift here, guards will come. Celeste will come. Everyone will see."

"L...

In a world of forgotten gods and crumbling kingdoms, Serenity is offered as a maiden to the divine—a sacrifice meant to save her people. But the gods do not come. Instead, Lucian, a dragon lord in human form, claims her for himself.

Bound by a forced alliance under moonlit vows, Serenity must navigate a bond she never sought. The more she resists, the closer her heart draws to him. And yet, lovin...

Handsome, hot blooded, hardworking, wealthy, and hard to handle Chief Kaave fought on the city streets of DIRTY SOUTH, where he staked his guts and brains to build an empire. An empire his very own daughter, Coco Kaave, would do any and everything for.

But when Roy, the charming, dangerous hustler with a heart as cold as hers crashes into her world, Coco finds herself distracted…dangling between ...

Damian Cole lives in the shadows... a phantom, a name whispered in boardrooms and corners of the country as the Ghost CEO. No one knows his face, but every empire fears his name.

And there is one man he wants to destroy more than anyone else: Victor Lancaster, the ruthless tycoon responsible for shattering his family... Raped his sister, leading to her death, and killed his father in front of his...

After losing her mother, Rose’s world shatters further when her father, Thomas, remarries the cunning Melissa and arranges a loveless marriage between Rose and Connor Miller, the aloof heir of the wealthy Miller family. What begins as a forced union quickly turns into a tangled web of betrayal, power, and forbidden longing.
From the moment Rose meets her in-laws, she sense their genuine smiles . H...

But the chicken is never found no matter what they do

His curse is her destiny . Her magic is his only hope. Princess Saraphina of the Fae Kingdom has one last chance to save the withering world: an alliance with the human king, Elias. A cruel twist of fate, for Elias's Kingdom has long been the Fae's bitter enemy. But there is a secret history between them, a mystical bond that makes their mutual hatred far more dangerous. They are fated mates.

Kin...

Mirella Throne has never been the favorite. Not at home, where her parents constantly compare her to her perfect sister, Celestine, and not at school, where her curvier body and sharp tongue make her an easy target. But Mirella isn’t the type to stay down. If no one wants her, she’ll build her own empire—and she does, starting with a secret group of outcasts called the Legion.

Then there’s Kaelen...

Chloe’s life is painfully ordinary. Overdue bills. A nightmare boss. Zero excitement. Everything changes the night she takes a wrong turn home… and sees a man get murdered. Now she has only one protector, and he is more terrifying than the killers chasing her: Dominic Moretti, a cold, calculating mafia king in the making, obscenely powerful and allergic to weakness.

His solution is brutal in its...

"I don't know what kind of trick you are playing or what powers you have, but I will have you locked up, until I can find a way to undo you. And I will be the end of you!!!"

Lucien Draco used to be the most powerful werewolf in existence, a born Alpha destined for greatness. But when his entire family was brutally murdered before his eyes, he made a choice that would curse him forever. He turn...

She saved his life.
He ruined hers.
Now they have another chance, but a secret could tear them apart.

Aria Blake is a new maid, unnoticed by the rich and powerful. But when tech billionaire Damian Cross is attacked at home, she's the one who finds him barely alive. She saves him, then vanishes.

The next day, she's fired for something she didn't do. She's silenced, embarrased and sent away.

Dami...

She is his death… He is her salvation.
He was born to love her… She was born to kill him.
She is his fated mate and also his fated calamity.
Born on the full moon, Izzy was marked as a curse. Her family was eradicated, but the moon goddess forbids her death.
The shed of her blood on the Lydrian Marsh pack was foretold to bring disaster, but torturing her will cause no harm and no amount of torture...

Ella has spent her life in the shadows, an omega with no voice and no choice. But when the Alpha’s rebellious daughter forces her into a dangerous game of deception, Ella is thrust into a world where one slip could destroy her. At the academy, she wears Lyra’s name, Lyra’s face, yet inside, she trembles with every step.

And then there’s Alex. The dark, commanding Alpha who has sworn to avenge his...

"Guilty."
With one word, Guinevere lost everything. Her coven. Her magic. Her identity. Years later, she lived in the shadows with her mate and their hybrid son—a secret too dangerous to exist. When the pack discovers the "unholy" child, they don't just kill; they annihilate.
After witnessing her mate’s fall and her son’s live burial, Guinevere is no longer the girl who couldn't control her magic....

In Jacqueline Paige's Animal Senses Series, hearts and tempers collide with wild passions and animal instincts.

Animal shifters live among normal humans (one-forms) and have since the dawn of time. They blend in without any cause for notice until a crime organization finds out and starts hunting them to sell off across the globe.

The shifter alliance is formed to protect all their kind. Their te...

She was sold to her greatest enemies…four ruthless Lycans who ruled with power, danger, and desire.
But fate had a cruel twist… they were her fated mates.

Mira was never meant to be theirs. Traded by her father as nothing more than a breeder, she vowed to destroy the monsters who took everything from her. Yet the moment their eyes met, the bond ignited—a connection that burned hotter than hatred ...

Cassie had a whole life figured out she thought that she have everything going for her and everything in her life was perfect until an unexpected turn of events happened that would change the way she view life and love forever. After a failed engagement and finding out that her fiance had cheated on her and had been doing so for five years and has a child with someone else that she thought her fia...

Lucas: “You need the money, and I need a wife to shut my grandmother up. We’re a perfect match—don’t overthink it.”
Sophia: “You really know how to sweep a girl off her feet. Where’s the romance?”
Lucas: “I’m offering a solution, not a fairy tale.”
And that's how Sophia Lane got married to the Cruel CEO of Davenport and Co multi billion company, because of money and a burning hope to save her youn...

“Speaking of that,” he murmured, his gaze dragging slowly over her body like a deliberate violation, “how do you like to be fucked?”
She lifted her chin. “How do you like to fuck?”
He stilled, clearly caught off guard. Then a slow, dangerous smirk curved his lips.
“Wrong answer.”
He drove into her in a single, merciless thrust.
…
She was the Luna everyone despised.
Betrayed. Broken. Sold like prop...

Samantha's life took a drastic turn when her sister, Olivia, stole from Nicolas Lewis, the most powerful man in the city and the feared king of Wrath, a cold mafia lord. Olivia, the third child in their family, put both herself and Samantha in peril. Fearing for her sister's life, Samantha took the blame for Olivia's crime. However, Nicolas had no intention of sparing anyone who crossed him, belie...

When Abby Anderson rebels against her father’s plan to remarry, she escapes into the night and surrenders to a passionate one-night stand with a stranger. But her world shatters when she learns the man she can’t forget is Kevin Stone—her soon-to-be stepbrother.

Forced to live under the same roof, Abby and Kevin fight a losing battle against their desire, stealing kisses and moments that could des...

“Divorce? Divorce?” Camilla brokenly asked her husband. She couldn't believe what she heard.

“Yes, I think we should just get a divorce.” Caesar barked.

Camilla Garrison was betrayed by her fiance, by sleeping with her step sister.

That wasn't enough; she was also chased out from the house her maternal grandfather left for her and was tricked by her blood brother and father to sign her company ...

Zara Alaric had always lived in the shadow of her stepsister, Selene was pampered, adored, and destined for a life of luxury. But when Selene disappears on the eve of her wedding, leaving only a letter behind, Zara is thrust into a world she never asked for: forced to marry Adrian Voss, a ruthless billionaire CEO with a heart as cold as his empire.
At first, Adrian despises her, and surviving his ...

"Tere bina jeena... ek Kargil hai."
"He gave me a folded flag. I wanted a future."
"I fight for India, but I dream of her."

In the snow-wrapped silence of Siachen and the scarred corridors of military hospitals, Waiting to be His tells the story of Major Shashwat "Lion" Rajput-a battle-hardened soldier with frostbite scars and unsent poetry-and Dr. Kavya Malhotra, a psychologist who saves soldier...

He was my father's best friend and my legal guardian. I mistook his obsessive control for protection—until the night of my eighteenth birthday, when he shattered that illusion in his study. For eight long years, I lived a double life: his pure, adopted daughter by day, and his dirty little secret by night.
I thought it was love. Then today, a Wall Street alert announced his engagement to a media h...

The devil doesn’t wear horns. He wears a tailored suit.
Mara should have run the night she met Damian Hale—the city’s most feared CEO, a man with enough power to ruin nations. Instead, one reckless choice binds her to him in a marriage built on secrets and lies. He’s cruel, he’s dangerous, and he’s breaking her piece by piece… until she can’t tell whether she wants to escape him or beg him to nev...

Dusin loves Jenna and he has no doubts, but he still harbors feelings for his first love. When she comes back distraught, he ends up falling into her trap. By the time he realizes why Julia is after Jenna, it’s already too late– She’s left him.
Dustin finds out Jenna is living with another male wolf, whom she trusts more than herself.
What does Julia want from Jenna?
Who is Jenna living with?
Will...

“You don’t know what you do to me, Theodota,” he murmured, his voice husky.
My breath caught in my throat as his teeth gently nibbled on my neck, then against my throat. I moaned. My core throbbed at the way my name rolled off his tongue like worship. Like a prayer. Like he wanted to have me right there, right at that moment. He kissed my collar bone softly, and sparks flew through my body. It bu...

“You are not a prisoner, but you are my wife. You are officially a Davenport for the next six months, so act like one!” He warned me.

“Fuck you.” I spat at him.

“If you want my dick, all you have to do is strip and bend over the table. I might consider you and fuck you.”
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THIS IS A SPICY AND DARK MAFIA ROMANCE BOOK. KILLIAN DAVENPORT IS UNHINGED!! R18.

185 days.
That’s how long Aspe...

In the roaring heart of the Royalkins Empire—where gold-trimmed towers kiss the sky and secrets sleep beneath polished marble—two lives move in quiet orbit, destined to collide long before fate admits it.

Angela Hills has been raised for a throne carved from legacy, duty, and expectation. To the kingdom, she is the empire’s crown jewel: elegant, disciplined, perfect. But behind the palace walls,...

Money. Power. One night of reckless desire.
Cora Dev has lived with quiet self-discipline for years—until her closest friend betrays her, delivering her into the arms of a stranger.

Julian Watson, the ruthless heir who controls an empire with a single call, needs a bride to quell a scandal and outmaneuver his enemies.
He never expected her.
She never expected to carry the next generation of the W...

When Diana returns back to her home after the death of her ex husband and her father, she finds out that things are no longer the same, and the boyfriend she was forced to leave was now a powerful CEO.

She tries to navigate her new job, even though he hates her and makes her life hell, but then, she is thrown a curveball.

Her father's death might not have been accident, and all evidences point...

He marked her as his… Now there’s no way out.

Isla Monroe is a struggling college student with big dreams—until a single night changes her fate for good when she crosses paths with Damian Cross, the dangerous and charming powerful heir to a ruthless mafia empire.

With one claim, he marks her as his. But Damian didn’t choose her by accident—his secrets are tied to her past. As enemies close in an...

"Didn't know a clumsy girl would be sent to me?" He said, and I felt a ripple go through me.

His voice!

It was the deepest one I have ever heard. His aura screams power but I don't know why I kept on looking at his face as if I was under a love spell.

"You keep looking at me, did you find me too pretty?" He asked, and his deep voice jolted me awake, goosebumps traveling down my skin when I rea...

No one warned me that the man who used to slip me extra birthday money and ruffle my hair would come back ten years later looking like every bad decision I wanted to make. No one told me the man behind half of New York’s skyline, the ruthless, billionaire CEO with the devil’s mouth and my father’s trust, would look at me like I was a woman. Not a child. Not his best friend’s daughter.
Now every ti...

I didn't look up until I was done packing, then I clutched my suitcase and looked at him. He glared so hard at me, so hard that I feared he was going to do something again. His eyes were cold and I knew he was fighting so hard to keep the anger just beneath the surface. But I had made up my mind. I was leaving. I couldn't stay here any longer, not like this.

"I can't believe you're doing this,...

“I love you, Derek, and I need you to understand,” she said, her voice thick with emotion as tears streamed down her cheeks. Her hands trembled as they grasped his shirt, conveying the depth of her feelings.

Sensing the intensity of the moment, he stepped closer, placing his hands on her shoulders in a calming gesture. Leaning down, he kissed her gently, allowing that shared connection to commun...

She never intended to fall for anyone—let alone three of them.

Trying to make ends meet in Los Angeles, Alexis didn’t expect to be caught between her childhood crush, his irresistible brother, and a rising celebrity she was only supposed to fake date.

With family chaos, betrayal, and forbidden love threatening to tear everything apart, Alexis must figure out where her heart truly belongs… before...

Plot

Maureen and her brother Lancelot were the children of the Beta male and female both love each other like every sibling. Suddenly things changed when Lancelot turned eighteen, he began acting strange and wanted his sister to stay away from him which broke his sister's heart. In an angry frenzy, he nearly killed his sister while trying to make her stay away from him.
He had to insist ...

Reader Advisory!!!
This story contains steamy scenes, mature language, and forbidden romance.
Recommended for readers 18+ who enjoy emotionally intense and sexually charged love stories with depth.
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“I’m going to turn every dirty page you’ve ever read into your reality, Teyana.”
And Jeremy Carter did.
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It started with a simple party dare and ended with my legs wrapped around the ever-addictive J...