He wore gloves to protect others from his sins. She wore kimonos to reclaim her identity. Willing Prey is a romance fantasy novel about a disillusioned ex-colonel, Gerald Aldrick, finally feeling his dead heart beat again after getting unfairly yelled at by a fearless geisha, Robin Taylor. But instead of anger or annoyance, Gerald feels nothing but admiration for her fervor and personality. Robin isn't as impressed with him, but fully plans to take advantage of his legendary colonel status for her own benefit with the help of her mind-reading ability. The question is, will she find herself feeling more for him than she initially expected? INDIGO - BOOK ONE LGBTQ+ Dark Romance - Urban Fantasy - Dark Academia Rated MATURE for a reason-please, refer to the chapter titled 'disclaimer' for the full warning list.

Magic is scarce. The world has forgotten how to use it and is now in grave danger. Virgil may not be the hero Arthia deserves, but he's the one it got. Thirty-two pieces against a million. A standalone sequel to "A Second Chance" and "Elven Crown". Cover by Animaleo.

He didn't fall in love with me. He remade me. I was his masterpiece, his myth, his weapon in a war against our rivals. He owned every piece of me, and I worshipped him for it. But the god who created me is beginning to see me not as his perfect asset, but as his one true weakness. Now, the lie is real, and the only thing more dangerous than a man who plays god is a god who falls in love with his creation. A dark, slow-burn romance about obsession, power, and the devastating cost of loving someone who is incapable of loving you back.

Her blood makes her what they hunt. Her scent makes her what they fear. And falling for the one boy she was warned to avoid might be the spark that sets the whole town on fire. Some secrets don't make you powerful. Some love stories don't save you from monsters. They help you survive them. ________________________________ Six months before everything went wrong, seventeen-year-old Kelsey Blackwell moves to her father's isolated forest town after losing her mother. She expects awkward family dinners, old grief, and the kind of small-town boredom that makes every day feel the same. She is very, very wrong. Cold Creek is nothing like she expected. It is a quiet forest town where people stare too long, whisper bloodkin like a curse, and act as if Kelsey has broken rules no one ever bothered to explain. Her father will not tell her the truth. Her grandparents pretend everything is normal. And the woods around town feel alive in a way no forest should. Then Kelsey crosses paths with Ethan Greystone, the one boy she was warned to avoid. Ethan belongs to everything Cold Creek understands: bloodline, instinct, power, control. Kelsey is someone everyone would rather keep hidden. She is human in a place built for predators, and the more Ethan notices her, the more the town begins to turn against them both. Because the danger in Cold Creek does not only wait in the forest. It watches her. It reacts to her. And the deeper Kelsey is pulled into the town's secrets, the harder it becomes to tell whether she is the target, or someone everyone should have feared from the beginning. Because what they don't know is this: sometimes the most dangerous girl in town is the one who never becomes one of them.

Vengeance is never black and white. Neither is submission. Valleria never meant to want them. She only meant to kill the man who stole her mother's life. Hiring a mercenary pack was supposed to be simple: pay them, use them, leave them. But the road north exposes a truth she cannot outrun - her target is her father, and the men she hired are becoming something she cannot resist. Meredith - dominance wrapped in steel and discipline. Kaigan - a wicked smile and a liar's heart. Davur - a gentle touch hiding devastating strength. Ahfi - dark magic that feels like a lover's breath. As danger closes in, Valleria is pulled into a storm of loyalty, lust, and lethal devotion. Her revenge is no longer clean. Her desire is no longer safe. And the men she hired may be the ones who ruin her... or save her. --- What to Expect 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Slow‑Burn → Heavy Spice ⚔️ Golden Fleece Revenge Quest 🛡️ Mercenary Pack Romance 🔥 Dominant Female Lead ✨ Dark Magic, Trauma, and Found Devotion 💀 Enemies, Betrayal, and Blood‑Deep Secrets Content & Trigger Warnings: • Slavery, captivity, systemic abuse • Graphic violence and parental death • Attempted sexual assault (off‑page/discussed) • Non‑consensual magical influence

For Cassie, life is mostly about passing exams, dealing with people, and trying not to have a mental breakdown every other chapter. She knows better than to expect peace. Fate has never been that kind, and its timing is always annoyingly perfect. So OF COURSE, that is when Chris shows up, the universe just decided to drag and drop him straight into her life. He is calm in an unsettling way, notices things he really should not, and somehow always knows what is going on in her life. He appears exactly when needed, asks the right questions, and gets way too comfortable being involved for someone nobody invited. What follows is academic stress, elite chaos, crossed lines, and the slow realisation that care can start to feel a lot like control. This is not a cute romance. It is about obsession acting normal, danger pretending to be concern, and a guy who really should not have this much access to anyone's life.

A marriage that began as a contract but is now their life. Terms that are bound in ink but seep into every breath and gaze. Miya Morikawa may be a mathematics professor, but even she cannot solve the equation of them. Not when she cannot understand their beginning nor their present. All she knows is they are married, and she is tired. Sergei Morozov may write his world in terms and conditions, but this is the one paper he knows he should regret signing, but does not. All he knows is there are two in his house, and only one in his heart. --- This is a love story between the moon and the flower. A short love story, for words cannot capture the tale of the two. And there is only the ending where the two stay not out of obligation, but out of choice.

Rated-R: {Read the Author's Note For More Information} Two gay villains. Not just wicked smokers and immature characters, no. They were more on the inside. Twisted geniuses, yes-but not mindless monsters. Stanley Stickman and Pop weren't chaotic for fun; they had purpose, strategy, and one deadly clue about who their enemies really were. And Cityville? It wasn't some generic town either. Beneath its grey-colored buildings and New York streets hummed secrets, layered storylines where every character played a role: Sawyer, the bear with tan fur, Decan, a stuffed dinosaur, both dressed up as an agent spy... all guarding what this place truly hid under layers of comedy and forced healthy relationships. But then? Chaos paid with vials. A controlled masterpiece shattered like glass when those two transformed, not into a funny predicament, but into something far more dangerous: Attractive. Manipulative women. 5 foot nine and unforgotten at first sight. Fangs glinting under streetlights, Pasts screaming around them like omens... fear and obsession radiating off everyone else because suddenly? The sassiest ladies in town could destroy you without blinking. A break out rumor raining over Sawyer and Decan to crack their X-rated relationship in one day... No laughter here now. Just a numbing truth, "Two hot women..." "Agents cut deep..." Is it really just a beginning for both parties or an end to their shining futures in Cityville...? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Victor Caraway, a promising young man destined for greatness, faced a profound loss with the death of his birth mother at a young age. In the wake of this tragedy, he joined forces with his best friend, Alister Hendrix, to develop a groundbreaking invention known as the "Henroway Device." However, his efforts are interrupted after meeting a mysterious young woman. She makes him question everything he's done. Yet she, too, has a secret of her own. The world is haunted by the possibility of the re-introduction of the illusive Mothrye; half-human, half-moth . With humanoid bug creatures, magic users, and criminals around, no one is safe. War is on the horizon once again. Only Victor can decide what he's going to do about it.