Kidnapped from her pack and abused since childhood, when Arden finally wanders free into the arms of her mate, how long until her demons come looking for her?

"Stop. Stop, please." I sob as the whip comes down on my back once more. "Shut up yo-" my tormentor's words are cut off by a ferocious growl. I sense another masculine figure in the dark room, but can't make out a word he's shouting. The burning and searing pain that I'm experiencing is just too much. A sickening snap is heard and something drops onto the cold, stone flooring. The chains around my wrists and ankles are broken along with the tight metal collar around my neck. "Mate." my rescuer growls, gently cradling me in his arms. ********************* Charlotte Beck has been tortured and abused by the Red Stone pack ever since she turned eight. She doesn't know why they hate her or how she ended up a lower rank than the Omegas; no one even bothered to label her as a slave. She has never known the true meaning of love or how it felt like, all Charlotte knows is that her pack surely doesn't feel that way about her. Finding a mate was a dream that was thrown out the window long ago; all of the verbal abuse led her to believe that she didn't deserve one. It's not until she attempts to escape again that she realizes that she has a chance of living a better life, one where abuse isn't an everyday thing. Xander Reynolds, Alpha of the Lunar Shadow pack, finds her when she's taken to his cells as a trespassing prisoner. Known as the strongest Alpha in the continent, he does everything he can to protect his mate. The only problem is that she's too emotionally scarred to allow him to. His dark and violent reputation is the only thing that Charlotte knows about him. The memories of their childhood together beaten out of her mind. Traumatized and high on fear, she struggles to let down her walls. Her real home is with a man who she cannot remember and a brother who she wishes she remembered. Can Xander get his mate to love him? Or will Charlotte let her past keep them apart?

Alessia has never spoken a single word in her life. Stolen as a child by a ruthless gang, she grew up in captivity, taught to believe that pain was a lesson and obedience was survival. Forced to work as a servant, she endured years of mistreatment, never questioning the twisted reality forced upon her. Despite the cruelty, she remains kind, her innocence untainted-but dangerously unaware of the true depths of evil in the world. Until the night she escaped. Lost in the dark streets of Naples, she collided into Matteo De Luca, the cold and merciless head of the most powerful mafia family. Matteo is a man feared by all, a king in the underworld where blood and loyalty rule. He has no patience for weakness. No room for softness in his life. But when he sees the mute, trembling girl looking up at him with wide, trusting eyes, completely unaware of who he is, something inside him snaps. She doesn't fear him. She doesn't know he's a monster. And for the first time in his life, Matteo feels the dangerous urge to protect instead of destruction.

Marc'Qwuan Reid is a 23 year hopeless romantic with a crush on his roommate, a woman named Jasmine. Their friendship was perfect until she took her first steps into getting over her ex. Now they notice new things about each other that puts their friendship to the test.

Freddy's wife is gone, and nothing makes sense anymore. He decides to make breakfast, but is out of bread. On his way to the store, he steps into the past-his old dog, his childhood home, his father's anger-all waiting for him. He meets a beautiful woman who offers to help him. They search for what is real as she takes him home, only to discover the house on fire.

*3rd Place in the Four Leafed Clover Awards* My original anthology of unsettling flash fiction. Short and 'sickly'-sweet chapters. Stories range from: ✓ ageless Russian high schoolers, ✓ a guy that dies every time he travels between dimensions ✓ star-walkers who wear the dead, and ✓ a bio-tech virus that consumes animals and humans There's even a 3-part horror ARG (Alternate Reality Game) about a Nature Reserve where children go missing and come back differently after interacting with [REDACTED] Primates. Oh, and there's a drawing of a not-frog that promises he's a real frog. Allegedly. 🐸

an·dro·pho·bia | \ ˌan-drə-ˈfō-bē-ə noun : an abnormal dread of men : repugnance to the male sex Thea is the definition of sweetness. Whether it be stopping to talk to a homeless person in the streets or volunteering overtime at her local charity shop, she feels the need to give and not take. Although that comes with disadvantages of its own, the effects of a strange phobia of hers only make her life more difficult: her growing fear of men. And when she meets the most terrifying of them all, she is forced to ultimately confront her fear. In the form of a murderous member of the mafia by the name of Synn, that same uncontrollable terror that she experiences in the presence of a man only sparks an interest in him. But unbeknownst to Synn, a man who revels at the tremor of his enemies, he cannot figure out why her wide, teary eyes do not give him the same pleasure. Why does that same terror-stricken look on Thea's face only make his heart clench with pain instead of content? #1 in Hot #1 in Fear #1 in Scared #1 in Sweet #1 in Kind #3 in Cute #5 in Love Cover done by @kimtherespeopledying

Step-brother bully enemies to lovers romance. I met them once before, many years ago at our parents wedding, they had made it very clear then we would never be family and I was happy with that, I didn't want three brothers, especially not sanctimonious jocks like them. and anyway I would never see them, they lived across the others side of the county with my dad and their mum and I lived with my mom. Any time I had seen my dad since then, had been at my grandparents house when they had gone to see their dad. But now everything had changed and I would have to live with them...

For years, Sienna Vale has hidden the fact that she's an Omega. With the right suppressants, discipline, and sheer willpower, she's managed to pass as a Beta, avoiding the fate of being claimed by a pack. But when a rare mistake exposes her, she suddenly finds herself trapped with a powerful pack of Alphas and a Beta who have no intention of letting her go. Why Choose/ Reverse H Omega verse Non-Shifters

{Complete} What happens when your parents make a deal with the Devil that you have no say in? What happens when the Devil decides to take you as payment? Willow is not your average human. Ripped from the mortal plane and transported to Hell as a baby, she grows up with demons for best friends and angels for enemies. Raised alongside Lucifer's children, physical embodiments of the Seven Deadly Sins, she'll have to fight hard to make it past her eighteenth birthday. Author's note: Deals with the Devil is the first book in the Purgatory Academy series. This book will be multi-pov and focus on Willow's time in Hell as she ages from a baby to a legal adult. Themes include: SLOOOOWW burn, enemies-to-lovers, friends-to-enemies-to-lovers, and friends-to-lovers REVERSE HAREM