𝙃𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙢, 𝙁𝙞𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙬𝙖𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙚𝙙 𝙎𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙪𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙩𝙨, 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙖 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙙𝙨 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝗔 𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗶𝗻, 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘂𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗱. 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗶𝗻 𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 . 𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲, 𝗮 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱. ▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄ "𝙄 𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙚𝙙, 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚... 𝙄'𝙙 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙞𝙩." 𝙃𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙞𝙙 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖 𝙡𝙤𝙬 𝙜𝙧𝙤𝙬𝙡 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙗𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝 𝙤𝙣 𝙢𝙮 𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙠 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙢𝙚 𝙎𝙪𝙘𝙠 𝙞𝙣 𝙢𝙮 𝙤𝙬𝙣 𝙖𝙨 𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙘𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙚𝙣𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙢𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙬𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣.

Aliona Saunders -- blue-eyed beauty, state-topper, the kindest girl you will see on the streets of Kingston. Her life is what you call paradise -- perfect, loving mom and dad, awesome friends, and what-not. Her parents work as consultants but some of their rules that Aliona must follow are weird and just don't add up. Like the "no pictures on any social media" rule; which teenager will follow that? Aliona doesn't know that they are so much more than consultants, and she finds that out on a hijacked plane when a certain someone meets her. ... Boris Ivanov is what you call a storm. A thundering storm that will destroy you if you stand in its way. After losing his parents and the love of life, he fell into the wrong crowds and became what his parents warned him not to. Everything in his life is planned as he set out to take revenge from the murderer of his parents. But what happens when he finds out that his long lost love, who was apparently dead, is the daughter of the murderers and has no recollection of her past? What happens when the two most unexpected worlds collide?

"Everyone has secrets." "Dreams are the subconscious' way of telling people what they truly want." ******* Artemis Mallory had lived fourteen of her eighteen years in the dark as to why her mother left her with her adoptive family and pack. She had gone through life feeling abandoned and lost. On the outside, she was a sarcastic, confident and independent girl. On the inside... She was hiding a dark secret. One that if anyone found out, someone she loved with all her heart would get hurt. ****** Ryder Black had it all. The perfect family, the perfect pack. Ever since he had turned nineteen, he felt like he had been missing something. His mate. The person that would make his life complete. When he met Artemis Mallory, he felt like the luckiest man in the world, but he soon found out that she was hiding something. Something that could potentially devastate any chance of a relationship. He was determined to find out what she was hiding, but was he ready for the consequences of unveiling these secrets? Ryder and Artemis were meant to be together, but would secrets tear them apart before they even had a chance? Will their dreams of a perfect life be enough to keep them together as dark secrets are revealed around every corner?

With her father deceased and her mother comatose, she lives with her uncle aka the Don of the Russian mafia. Being the niece of a mafia don, you don't have a life of privilege. No rainbows and bedtime stories; only training, training and... more brutal training. Throw in two older twin brothers and an older cousin, all of whom are overprotective, and lo and behold; you get a glimpse of the life of Natasha Kuznetsova. With two toxic, alcoholic parents who couldn't care less about him and the love of his life who betrayed him, Dmitry Markov is alone. Lost. He has long given up on life and love, barely surviving. One morning, he sets off on a journey to end all his pain. What happens when his journey is rudely interrupted by Natasha? Instead of succumbing to the darkness, he is greeted with a slap back to reality. Literally. She saved him from death, but will she be able to save herself from him? ... This is book 2 in Hopes series but it can be read as a stand-alone too.