"You can't take all of us, sweetheart." Valen's voice is smooth, teasing, but the way his fingers brush against my hip isn't playful. It's testing. Behind me, Fennec chuckles, his breath warm as he leans in, his lips barely ghosting the shell of my ear. "She could try." His voice dips lower, dragging heat down my spine. "I'd love to watch her try." ------------------------------- Soraya Cordova was never meant to survive. Stolen as a child and discarded as a mistake, she was given a second chance when the Cordovas adopted her into a life of wealth, secrets, and silent wars. But when her parents are declared dead and the world turns against her found family, she realizes survival is no longer enough, she needs to fight. Raised as assassins, her adoptive brothers have spent years keeping her in the dark, but now? Now, she's in the center of the storm. Wanted by the government. Hunted by the man who created her. And trapped in a dangerous game of love, loyalty, and lies with the only people who have ever mattered. Because in their world, trust is a weapon. Not all love stories are gentle. Some are jagged at the edges, built on shadows and sins, tangled in pasts too dark to escape. White Lies is one of those stories. It's about the things we do to survive, the lies we tell to protect, and the love that thrives even in the darkest corners. Read at your own risk.

Natasha was stolen from Earth and thrust into a world of desert kingdoms, merciless skies, and laws written in blood. Her survival depends on obedience-until the warrior who owns her refuses to treat her like something to be broken. Rhyzel Sa'reth has lived his life by duty alone. Taking a human was never part of the plan. Protecting her becomes the one thing he cannot stop himself from doing. In a land on the brink of war, where humans are traded like coin and loyalties shift like sand, their fragile connection becomes a dangerous spark. Because the more she challenges him, the more he chooses her. And the more he chooses her, the more the world wants to break them both. This is not the story of a possession. It is the story of what happens when a single choice changes the fate of a people. Slow Burn. Forced Proximity.