"It is your choice," he said, stepping so close to me that our lips were almost touching. "Either do what I say - or get another job." My heart stood still as I gazed up into his deep, dark, dangerous eyes... In a world where women's only role in life is to sit at home and look pretty, Lilly is determined to fight for her freedom. There's only one problem: a powerful man blocking her way.

The moment the veil lifts and he sees a stranger's face, his rage is palpable. What follows is not a marriage but a calculated punishment-cruelty masked as civility, shame disguised as duty.

[ BOOK 1 OF AZITERA: YTHER'S QUEEN ] Consumed by avarice, the four human kingdoms-the Infernal Empire, the Kingdom of Caelum, the Kingdom of Treterra, and the Nayale Archipelago-betrayed their covenant with Yther of Azitera, the race blessed by deities, who protected humans for untold centuries. They slaughtered and defiled the beings that once protected them from storm, famine, poverty, and pestilence without mercy. Betrayed by the humans they protected, the Ytherians were enslaved. Their four queens were caged, chained, and imprisoned to serve as nutrients to the human kingdoms. The once prominent Ytherians were reduced to nothing but servants. As the four kingdoms of the human race prospered for many years since their betrayal, one news staggered them, causing them to tremble in fear and rally their armies to protect and defend their domain: Sollel-the Mistress of Flame, one of Yther's queens-had escaped her prison. Her flames will raze hell, ready to burn the souls of her betrayers. COMPLETED CECELIB | C.C. COVER: ASTRID JAYDEE

"I have never hated someone as much as I love you . How can I love you, when I resent you this much." He crumbled to the floor with a defeated sign "You are unsure ,which pain is worse ?.The shock of what happened or the ache for what never will,when I had no one " he looked up , blood shot eyes gazing into mine I walked away. Footfalls did not follow Charmaine Brown learnt from a young age,wounds that never show on the body are deeper and more hurtful but nobody prepared her for a wounded heart. A chance encounter in melbourne is all it takes to have her perfectly curated world misaligned .