Hate surrounded us. Why wouldn't it after everything that happened in the past? Rhys Archer had already ruined my life once, and he was about to do it all over again. Breaking my heart once wasn't enough. The cold and brutal prince wanted to do it again. It wasn't meant to be me. I wasn't supposed to end up with him. I'm the substitute. I'm not meant to be his, nor is he destined to be mine. Could he love me? Never. . . . Ava Robinson. The Marshal's daughter. And Prince Rhys's substitute bride. When Ava's sister runs away a week before her wedding day, Ava's forced to take her place with the man she despises most. Rhys Archer. The crowned Prince of the Kingdom of Kilthorne. Her worst nightmare, nemesis, and... the only boy she's ever loved. Once upon a time, it was forbidden, and the prince put his duties before his love, breaking Ava down and leaving her to pick up the pieces. Now, when it's time for him to marry, the most suitable contender was someone familiar. Their twisted fate brings them back to each other, this time in the bond the two desperately want to escape. Can old feelings rekindle with the vows of holy matrimony? Or can hatred be the only vow they make to each other?

●COMPLETED● Kate Russo was trained by birth to be a dutiful and compatible wife for the next Don of the Italian Mafia. She was forced to become a quiet lamb, but they don't know how rebellious and resilient she had become with time. But what happens when she finally meets the infamous Don and he's nothing like what she was always taught and believed he would be? Will she let her prejudice win or break the walls she'd build around her all these years. Rome Moretti, the next in line for the throne of the Italian Mafia has to marry his consigleire's daughter, in order to claim it. He didn't have a choice in the kind of life he was born in, but he did chose the kind of man he was. Nobody had ever seen him but feared his wrath. Will he let his marriage become something more than a bargain for the throne or push away his wife like every voice in his head that told a different story. ___________________________________________ #3 in badgirlgoodboy

Alina Bardot is a very talented figure skater. But her coach is having problems with her speed and hires a hockey player to teach her to be faster. When Reece gets sighed up to teach a figure skater to skate like him he has no choice but to say yes... "Book 1 of Laurie U"