Surprise! This is a Marcus Volturi love story.

Do you know what it is like to be royalty and be treated like a porcelain doll? Having to learn what you will be when you get older and find your mate to rule by your side, well let me tell you it is not easy. After convincing my parents to let me go to public school for my high school and college years because I wanted to be a regular person for a few years until I met my mate, well let me tell you my story of how I went from being a regular person to becoming a mom and ruler of the werewolves and kidnapped.

Meeting your mate is meant to be the best moment of your life and in some circumstances you would be right but, my mate used and rejected me and guess what... I'm pregnant!

They say mafia leaders have no feelings, no emotions, and no weaknesses but maybe that's just what Damien Rosewood needs in his life. He just messes around with girls but never let's them close. He never believed in true love but when he saw her everything he didn't believe in changed. She changed him by one glance. Zemira Rose Harper is a 18 year old girl that just moved to Nevada from Australia to live with her brother after her mother's death. Their father doesn't give two shits about them. She is sweet, kind, innocent, and loving but she has a dark past. Damien Foxx Rosewood is the strongest 20 year old mafia leader and Alpha there is. He is strong, feared, powerful, respected mean, arrogant, cold, and dark. He has two younger siblings and a very happy couple as parents. He is the son of Maxwell Rosewood and Felicity Rosewood. The strongest and most powerful mafia leaders with a big secret that only their gang and close friends share. They are the Darkwood Pack. Can Zemira love him when she finds out his deepest darkest secret??

Narcia is the future alpha of her pack. Females rarely lead, but she was born an only child. In order to rule over her pack one day, she will need to complete her mating seremony. There is only one issue, her mate HATES her. Narcia bullied Liam all throughout his poor childhood. He was always small and frail compared to others, and he was a human. Now turned freshly 18, she meets him again in university after 2 years away. How can she tell him that she found out they are mates in a world full of shifting creatures and that her pack's future resides on him forgiving her?

Long ago, an attack on the Romano family, the biggest Mafia family in town, left a young girl blamed for her parents' deaths. Sent away for her own sake, she spends every moment reliving that awful day. After eight long years of suffering, she is led back to her brothers. But they don't want her there, and they make sure she knows it. Not long after she's reunited with her family, a faceless enemy takes up arms against the Romano family. And there is nothing Allora can do, except watch as the world burns around her, knowing she'll burn right alongside it. Until... maybe, just maybe, something changes, and Allora finds herself not quite so alone. ~~~ "You'll rot in hell for what you did, Allora." His voice echoes in my ear, his hot breath ghosting my skin. My hand falls limp over the side of the bed, the blood trickling down my finger is warm, almost soothing. Darkness takes me in it's familiar embrace. ~~~ Updates every Wednesday and Sunday

Let the hunt begin... Charlotte Whitmore wants a husband, and she has just the candidate in mind: Dominic Westbrook. Trouble is, the infuriating man insists on seeing her as the impish girl she once was-even as every other gentleman in London has taken notice of her womanly charms. When her beauty lands her in danger, it's Dominic who comes to the rescue...only to announce his affections are not of the romantic variety! Dominic saw enough sorrow in his parents' union to know he wants nothing to do with marriage-which is exactly what he'll be trapped into if he acts on his desire for the irksome siren. And then Charlotte does what Dominic least expects: she gives up on him! As feigned indifference gives way, blistering passion burns at last. But just before the pair can give in to their hard-won bliss, an enemy with unfinished business lurks, threatening to destroy them both.

After being disowned by her parents, fifteen year old Serena Verlice finds herself in a toxic relationship with a much older man. She undergoes four years of emotional and physical abuse until one day she goes to the doctor and receives a devastating diagnosis. Deciding that she wasn't going to spend however long she has left with her cruel fiancé, she takes off in the night, spending months on the run. She bounces around Italy from hostel to hostel, working any job she can get as her health slowly deteriorates. Desperate for money, she agrees to do a small drug run for a local cartel and somehow becomes targeted by the notorious Italian mafia. After finishing their education abroad in England, Emilio and Lucian Cruz return home to Italy to help their parents run their mafia. Their parents; overwhelmed by threats coming from their enemies, reluctantly put their sons in charge of eliminating rival cartels. But what happens when on a mission Emilio comes across a girl who catches his eye.

In ancient Rome, a horrifying tradition existed: baby girls were often murdered at birth, viewed as weaker and less valuable than boys, who were considered fit for war and essential to society. Centuries later, echoes of this dark practice linger within certain mafia families. While the killings have stopped, a cruel alternative remains-selling their daughters to other families to avoid appearing weak in the cutthroat world of organized crime. The Hernandez family, with their reputation built on strength and loyalty, has raised eight sons. But when Stefano and Vittoria Hernandez finally welcome a baby girl, their joy is overshadowed by fear. Tradition demands sacrifice, and the family's survival in the mafia world hinges on the unthinkable. They are left with no choice but to give her up, a decision that will haunt them and ripple through their family for years to come.

COMPLETED: JANUARY 8TH 2025 Ariana Grace Russo is a 12-year-old girl who lived with her dad. Her dad took her when she was 3 years old. Since then she has lived with him in a small town with a different last name that she got after he remarried her stepmom. One day her father was found dead in his car at his workplace parking lot. Her stepmother goes missing after his death and isn't seen for months. It is then that her oldest brother agrees to take her guardianship and she moves in with them. Her oldest brother was raised by his mother and grandmother, after both of them passed in a house fire, he took over custody of his 6 youngest siblings. The second oldest was of age but continued to live with him and help raise the younger ones. He searched all over for Ariana for 3 years before he found her. She has a total of 8 brothers. 4 are overage now. Some of them like her while others don't. Her brothers are a part of the Italian mafia. How will Ariana live with 8 boys and be the youngest sibling? What happened to her stepmom? #1 in Gruesome 05/03/24 #1 in 12yearsold 07/16/24