He carved her wedding ring from a single piece of walnut because he said no store could sell him something worthy of her hands. Bethany Cole isn't looking for love the morning a quiet carpenter sits down at her bakery counter. Steven Marsh doesn't flirt. He doesn't perform. He just shows up. Every morning, same stool, same order. Until the day he doesn't, and she realizes she's been holding her breath since yesterday. She falls in love with his hands first. The way they hold a chisel. The way they steady a doorframe. The way they shake, just barely, the first time he reaches for hers across a counter dusted with flour. What follows is a love story built the way Steven builds everything. Carefully. Precisely. One perfect detail at a time. A courtship that never rushes. A proposal she never sees coming. A marriage that works because he pays attention to the things no one else notices. How she hums when she's nervous. How she tucks her hair when she's thinking. How she presses her lips to the walnut ring every night before she falls asleep. Steven doesn't say much. He doesn't need to. He builds things instead. A nursery sanded by hand. A life so steady and so sure that Bethany stops waiting for it to fall apart. He remembers how she takes her coffee. He notices when she's quiet. He loves her in the small, constant ways that nobody writes books about but everyone wants. What Makes the Perfect Husband is the love story that will ruin you for every other one. So beautifully constructed that by the last page, you'll want to start over just to live inside it again only now you know the ending.

All the captain had to do was point and utter a single command: Her. From that moment forward, Alice's life would never be the same.

Amorette Belrose drew the summoning circle in her own blood because she had nothing left to lose. No sister. No freedom. No name that wasn't written in a brothel's ledger. She expected a monster. She got a Prince. Azraith, Prince of Bonds, answers her call with four conditions: she will not run, she will not lie, she will not beg, and she will not go hollow. In return, he offers what no human has ever been given. A bilateral bond. A shared soul-link with a demon who has consumed four hundred and thirty-seven lives and has never once said the word love. But Amorette's debt to the Velvet House isn't the only chain around her throat. The man who murdered her sister still breathes. The brothel madam who sold her still profits. And the bond she forged in desperation is becoming something neither summoner nor demon negotiated for. Something that burns when they touch and aches when they don't. Something with teeth and tenderness and a price that neither of them can afford to pay. When Amorette is taken by the man who collects women the way other men collect butterflies, the bond shatters, and Azraith discovers that four thousand years of darkness taught him nothing about what he'd burn to get her back.

She was born with porcelain skin and gold in her veins, which made her a target from her first breath. Morana has survived the assassin's guild that raised her, the dragon who kept her caged for two years, and the five brutal years running from both. When a bounty hunter named Donomie captures her with promises of protection, she knows better than to believe him. She's right not to. He delivers her straight to the monster she escaped. But Donomie didn't count on falling in love with his prey. And he certainly didn't expect to fight his way into a dragon's lair, climb into the beast's throat, and nearly die to get her back. Now Morana faces an impossible choice: trust the man who betrayed her, or face the courts of Ashenmarch alone while a kingdom's worth of nobles scheme to control her and a vengeful dragon circles ever closer. She didn't survive seven years of running to become anyone's pawn. The king wants to make her his queen. The court wants to destroy her. And Morana? She's going to build a throne of her own from the ashes of everyone who underestimated the girl who bleeds gold.

The wolf didn't come to protect her anymore. He came to claim what fate had already decided was his. Elowen thought the creature at the edge of her property was only a strange kind of guardian-silent, watchful, almost gentle in the way he lingered in the tree line as if protecting her from something she couldn't name. Until the night he finally moved. Rain-dark air turns electric with instinct as those golden eyes burn with something feral and starving, and the distance between them shatters in a heartbeat. What follows isn't an attack, not truly-it's nature unleashed, a bond demanding to be sealed in the only language the beast understands. Elowen was never being hunted. She was being chosen. In the cold earth of the forest, fear and surrender blur together as something ancient awakens between them-teeth, hunger, heat, and a connection that feels less like violence and more like destiny snapping into place. And when the darkness takes her, Elowen understands one impossible truth: This wolf was never just a wolf. He has been waiting for her. And once the bond is made, it cannot be undone. Because whatever he is... he has marked her as his.

They wanted a weapon. They created a queen. Novalee Ashford had a simple life-a job she tolerated, a husband she adored, a future she believed in. Then Dante Santoro decided she was his. Ripped from everything she knew, Novalee is thrust into a world of violence, cruelty, and impossible choices. The Santoro family doesn't just want to own her body-they want to remake her soul. Under their brutal tutelage, she transforms from victim to weapon, from captive to bride. But Novalee has a secret: she remembers who she was. And she's planning something they never expected. Vengeance. With Atlas-the guard who was supposed to keep her caged-as her unlikely ally, Novalee plays the deadliest game of her life. Every smile hides a blade. Every submission masks rebellion. Every moment brings her closer to the reckoning they deserve. They wanted to create a monster. They succeeded. Marked, Broken and Carrying his Heir is a dark romance containing mature themes and graphic content. Reader discretion is strongly advised. ****WARNINGS**** Explicit sexual assault/rape Non-consensual sexual situations Explicit consensual sexual content Sexual degradation and humiliation Forced sexual performance Violence: Graphic murder Torture Domestic violence and abuse Blood and gore Beatings and physical assault Captivity & Control: Kidnapping and imprisonment Human trafficking elements Forced marriage Psychological manipulation and gaslighting Conditioning and breaking Loss of autonomy Trauma & Loss: Pregnancy loss (violent, explicit) Forced hysterectomy Suicide Grief and mourning PTSD symptoms Other: Forced drug administration Starvation/food control Sleep deprivation Isolation Death of spouse