She's the property of a King - • - After a fall from grace, Venus lost it all. She's forced into an engagement with a Rider King that's calloused both inside and out. Although she belongs to him in name and passion burns hot between them, this fiery human refuses to bow down.

" Did you or did you not know? " I ask, staring him in the eyes. His blue orbs that once held love now holding regret. " Answer me Justin! Did you or did you not know I'm the girl you raped and left to fate two years ago?! " " Yes." One word.One word that sends a shiver down my spine. One dreadful word that renders my mind void of any remaining common sense, forgetting all my morals... I slap him. ********** Lyka Ryan has finally found love after two years of keeping to herself. But what happens when she comes to realize the guy she is madly in love with is not who he really is ? Worst, what if she finds out he is the same guy that raped her two years ago? Does she forgive him and take him back? Or will she let her hatred for her once rapist overshadow her love for the man before her?

Ashley Carlson, a frustrated law student, found herself in the middle of the aisle. But she doesn't hate to be there. To be honest, she is very much happy that finally someone can bury her tragic past down to the core of the planet. She accidentally has to marry this rich and famous, this usual every-girl-would-die-for type of guy, Jared Wills. And she loves him. Who wouldn't right? However, will this feeling last? Can Ashley still feel the same after knowing how more tragic life with Jared can be? And after knowing about Jared's buried guilts?

"What do you want from me?" I asked the masculine figure in front of me. I couldn't see him through the shadow that seemed to enveloped him, the only things I could only make out were his shining, blood red eyes. Venomous, terrifying, blood red eyes. "You don't know what I want?" He breathes softly against my ear, sending electric shivers through my body. "N-no," I stammered. My voice shaky, my hands sweaty. My brain screamed at me, warning me of the stranger in front of me. Telling me to run, to fight, to scream. Something. He chuckled softly, his horrifying eyes twinkling with amusement of something unknown. "I want you, and what I want, I get." And with that, he bit me. --- Book 1 of the Scarlet Dreams Triology Cover by: @deviation In editing process: by RoyallyImagining